After decades of discussions and nearly five years of planning, a developer finally is ready to build homes, stores and restaurants along Euclid Avenue in University Circle. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

For the last quarter century, the Cleveland Botanical Garden went all out for its biennial Flower Show, the largest outdoor garden show in North America. Click here to read more.

 

Contact: Lisa Lentz

Communications Associate

440-423-2051, llent@hawken.edu

 

 

Gates Mills, OH - The Hawken community will gather on Sunday afternoon, August 29, 2010 to celebrate one of the most momentous occasions in the school’s recent history. Marking a return to the school’s geographical roots, The Sally & Bob Gries Center for Experiential and Service Learning, located at 10823 Magnolia Drive, will be at the forefront of innovative education. Serving as an extension campus for lower, middle and upper school students, the Center will enable students to connect with some of the greatest cultural organizations, research laboratories, hospitals and service agencies in the world for meaningful learning experiences.

 

The opening will mark the culmination of several years of programmatic planning for The Readiness Initiative, Hawken’s 21st century manifestation of our founder’s vision. The implementation of an innovative upper school schedule, which will include a combination of rotation and variable length periods along with two multi-week “intensive” blocks per year that resemble college “J terms”, will help facilitate immersion experiences in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Students will also utilize the extension campus for experiential and service learning opportunities designed to support curricular development and community engagement.

 

In addition to a ribbon cutting ceremony, the celebration will include tours of the newly renovated building, which features numerous improvements including classrooms with up-to-date technology; green reuse of woodwork, doors, cabinetry and lighting fixtures; and new energy efficient windows.

 

In addition to a 2:00 p.m. speaker event and a 3:00 ribbon cutting ceremony and community open house, faculty and students will be on hand to discuss their work with University Circle partners and some of the innovative courses planned for the upcoming school year.

 

"I would like to congratulate Hawken School on the opening of the Sally & Bob Gries Center," said Chris Ronayne, president of University Circle Inc. "I hope that the students, faculty, and staff are inspired and enriched by their experiences in University Circle."

 

Hawken School is an independent, nonsectarian, coed day school of approximately 960 students, grades pre-K through 12, located on two campuses in the eastern suburbs of Cleveland. Founded in 1915, Hawken is recognized as one of the premier college preparatory schools in the nation with a diverse student body participating in a challenging program of academics, arts, and athletics that prepares them to meet the challenges of tomorrow's world.

 

 

Steven Litt

Plain Dealer Reporter

 

The new Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, for which designs will be made public today at a meeting of the Euclid Corridor Design Review Committee, is the latest manifestation of a familiar story: Yet another cultural institution is attempting to brand itself with an architecturally spectacular building-as-logo. Click here to read more.

 

 

The Hawken community will gather on Sunday afternoon, August 29, 2010 to celebrate one of the most momentous occasions in the school's recent history. Click here to read more.  

 

 

 

The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland took decisive steps Tuesday toward realizing its long-held dream of building an architecturally dramatic new home in University Circle. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

 

 

The George Gund Foundation has pushed the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland closer to its dream of building a new home in University Circle with a $500,000 grant and a $2 million loan. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

 

"We also wanted a centerpiece for the 'Prairie'" so standing tall amidst the perennials and foliage is another construct that deserves equal attention. David Deming, President of Cleveland Institute of Art, has created a one-of-a-kind sculpture while still maintaining the essence of creativity that allows it to stand alone."

 

 

 

A piece of Northeast Ohio history is about to be unpacked and brought back to life. Click here to listen to the full story.

 

 

Every Wednesday until August 25, Wade Oval in Cleveland’s University Heights will be home to an evening concert. They start at 6 o’clock in the evening and run until 9 o’clock. Click here to read more.

 

 

A big part of Cleveland's future lies in neighborhoods that will flourish around existing gems like those in University Circle and downtown where residents can walk to work, the bus stop, cultural events and entertainment. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

This year's theme for the Cleveland Museum of Art's 21st Parade the Circle is "Zounou Younou Hèrè, Une Porte S’Ouvre, A Door Opens."

 

 

A $20-million gift from an already familiar name at Case Western Reserve University will bring a new student center to campus. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

 

The Temple Tifereth Israel in Cleveland, a beloved but aging and underused icon, faced an uncertain future ever since its congregation built a new campus in suburban Beachwood in 1971.

 

The uncertainty just ended. Click here to read more.

 

 

Five Beachwood High School seniors are working on an ambitious project with the goal of trying to reverse the “brain drain” in Cleveland. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

You have to admire a developer willing, if not eager, to build attractive new urban housing on a difficult site next to a major railroad overpass in Cleveland. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

What's the benefit of having a top-notch public high school in Cleveland focused on medicine? Click here to read more.

 

 

 

A recent sneak peek inside Euclid Avenue's newest hospital building reveals that patients there are going to have some pretty spectacular views to go along with what we're sure is going to be pretty fine care. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

Paul Scarbrough probably has spent more time enhancing the sound of music in University Circle than anyone in recent history. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

 

Ideastream® Reporter

 

You've probably heard of "buy local campaigns," the idea that supporting local businesses like coffee shops, bookstores and farmers can help the economy. But in this week's edition of upside/downside, we're talking about the benefits of buying local on a really large scale. The Cleveland Foundation is targeting a number of the largest businesses in the University Circle Neighborhood with the idea that if they do more business with local companies, it could really benefit the community. Now that University Hospitals, the Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University are on board, a number of worker owned cooperatives are springing up to help meet this new demand. ideastream®'s Eric Wellan spoke with Lillian Kuri, a program officer with the Cleveland Foundation. To listen, click here.

 

 

 

 

Northeast Ohio's already established reputation as a player in the biomedical and health-care fields got even more recognition on Friday as state leaders named new centers of excellence at 14 Ohio universities. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

This time, it could be different for East Cleveland. Click here to read more.

 

 

The Cleveland School District is close to adding a fourth charter school to its portfolio. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

 

From Cleveland to Tempe, economic developers are convincing institutions with big spending power to shift more dollars to small businesses in their communities. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

A world premiere adaptation of Jane Austen's romantic comedy Emma by Artistic Director Michael Bloom takes the stage at The Cleveland Play House. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

Evalyn Gates, a well-known physicist, author, educator, and advocate of increasing the ranks of women in science, is the new executive director of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

 

 

The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, long a foil to the bigger, richer, and more conservative Cleveland Museum of Art, is on the verge of a breakthrough. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

It's been a long time coming. For decades, art museums treated African-American artists literally like minority players in the world of art.Click here to read more.

 

 

 

Established as a reactive grant maker, the McGregor Foundation now is taking an active lead in helping local organizations create more affordable housing for seniors. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

A 95-year-old streetcar that once traveled along Euclid Avenue to the turnaround at East 107th Street -- giving University Circle its name -- is coming home.Click here to read more.

 

 

 

By Tom Breckenridge
Plain Dealer Reporter

A maker and marketer of drugs and dietary supplements plans to open a University Circle-area plant employing up to 40 people, officials say. Click here to read more.

 

Click here to watch the video on wkyc.com

 

 

 

It was the worst possible timing. 

 

In October 2008, construction finally ended along one of Cleveland's most essential avenues. Click here to read more.

 

 

People are skating on the rink in University Circle. And tonight, Public Square will be illuminated in the annual display of holiday lights. Click here to read more.

 

So far, Evergreen Laundry in the Glenville neighborhood has hired ten workers. Its goal is to hire 50. Click here to read more.

Even if Cleveland's temperature tops out in the low 50s today, as predicted, it will be no less perfect a day for ice skating -- outdoors.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

By Roxanne Washington
Plain Dealer Reporter

"Mature" Clevelanders fondly recall when downtown at Christmastime was magical, with sightseeing of a dazzling tree at Sterling Lindner department store and moving figurines in the windows of Halle's and Higbee's.

Those days are gone, but this holiday season adults can reminisce, and children can experience awe, at WinterShow, put on by Cleveland Botanical Garden and University Circle Inc. Click here to read more.

 

 

University Circle Inc. has won $20 million in New Markets Tax Credits, an award that will help the nonprofit development corporation stimulate development in Cleveland's cultural center and its surrounding neighborhoods. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

“YOU Gotta Be Tough” was a popular T-shirt slogan worn by Clevelanders during the 1970s, a grim period marked by industrial decline, large-scale population flight, and an urban environment so toxic the Cuyahoga River actually caught on fire. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

 

The need for a parkway from East 55th Street to University Circle to spawn economic and community development has grown even greater in the four years the proposal has lain fallow because of a lack of money. Click here to read more.

 

 

 

CONTACT

Sheila Obrycki

216-707-5035 office

e-mail: scorrigan@universitycircle.org

 

Cleveland, OH (August 4, 2009) – University Circle Inc. (UCI) installed a major gateway sign welcoming visitors to University Circle and highlighted several improvements that have been made along its great main street Euclid Avenue. As part of its Bring Back Euclid Avenue campaign, UCI has been making dramatic improvements along Euclid Avenue. The new gateway sign marks the capstone of the first phase of a successful campaign that includes the opening of the Circle's first Visitor Center, renovations to the historic Circle Place, and rebuilding of the University Circle East plaza. The new signage will help visitors throughout the region and beyond easily find themselves in University Circle.

 

“One of the greatest obstacles to University Circle’s awareness as the region’s top eds, meds, and arts destination has always been the issue of getting here and getting around,” said Chris Ronayne, president of UCI. “With our updated and simplified wayfinding system we’ve solved that problem. The next step is transforming the old perception.”

 

Drivers, bicyclists, and pedestrians are now directed by eye-catching, easy-to-read signs dotting the landscape that mark the district’s boundaries and unify it into an aesthetically cohesive, signature place. As the first developer to invest in new housing in University Circle in decades, Don Gest sees the new signage vital to University Circle’s growth as a premier destination in the region. “UCI’s work on Euclid

Avenue and throughout the district has made investing in University Circle a no-brainer,” Gest said. “The new signs look great and serve a much needed purpose of getting people where they need to go.”

 

As part of UCI’s Bring Back Euclid Avenue campaign, the new wayfinding system was 100 percent privately funded through the Kent H. Smith Euclid Gateway Vision challenge grant. Partnering with Studio Graphique and Wagner Electric Sign Company on the fabrication, the new system replaces the outdated and often illegible purple signs that have confounded many in University Circle for the past twenty years.

 

The design and planning was based on preferred routes by the area’s major institutions making the system a current and useful companion to popular forms of directions like Mapquest and Google. Rachel Downey, principal of Studio Graphique, said, “UCI wanted a program that was innovative, artistic and memorable. We are excited to have accomplished that while designing a wayfinding system that serves function first

and helps people navigate the area.” Organized into three tiers, the signs vary in type and size according to their location and are therefore sympathetic to their context, whether for car or pedestrian-heavy traffic.

 

With business booming and activity unhindered while University Hospitals’ new cancer center is built, construction at the University East plaza finishes this fall, and major renovations are fully underway at Circle Place, newcomers and returning visitors will find that Euclid Avenue is back when they find themselves more easily in University Circle.