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Woodhill Center East Groundbreaking, (PRINT) Pg 1B, Call & Post

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 20:51:25 GMT

Woodhill Homes Project Partners - Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) -The City of Cleveland - Cleveland City Council - Lument - Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing (OCCH) - Ohio Housing Financing Agency (OHFA)

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Cleveland sets up contest for $34.5 million in housing gap financing.

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 16:38:26 GMT

The city of Cleveland is taking a novel, competitive approach to picking housing projects that will receive gap financing - loans or grants that fill cracks in tricky capital stacks.

TV20 News Update 01.31.23: Topic #1 Woodhill Homes Groundbreaking

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 22:23:27 GMT

TV20 News Update 01.31.23

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“A groundbreaking ceremony was held on January 27 for Woodhill Homes Phase II”

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 22:20:47 GMT

Residents highlight poor conditions of building as Cleveland City Council President Blaine Griffin promises help

Go to you tube (In one video, which is 11 months old, the Morelands Group is holding a press conference to discuss the deplorable conditions of apartments on South Moreland, and a year later -nothing has been done to help the residents)

Woodhill Center East Groundbreaking Ceremony ( TV20 LIVE Coverage)-

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:14:08 GMT

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Construction begins on affordable housing in Cleveland’s Buckeye-Woodhill neighborhood

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 17:43:43 GMT

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Positive changes are coming soon to Cleveland’s East Side with the city’s Buckeye-Woodhill neighborhood getting the chance to rebuild.

Friday kicked off the beginning of construction on Phase II of the Woodhill Homes project for the Buckeye-Woodhill neighborhood.

Woodhill Homes Announces Financial Closing and Start of Construction

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 17:48:59 GMT

The Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA), the City of Cleveland, and The Community Builders (TCB) are pleased to announce the financial closing and start of construction on Woodhill Homes, Woodhill Center East, a $33.4 million development located in Cleveland, Ohio.

Next Woodhill Homes Phase Starts

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 17:54:23 GMT

Buckeye-Woodhill construction starts

Marous Brothers Construction is moving equipment onto the site today and are quickly beginning construction on Woodhill Center East, a $33.4 million development located at 11305 Woodland Ave.

BBC Makes Significant Progress in Greater Buckeye in Just 3 Years pg. 10

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 18:05:21 GMT

New Owners Quick to Improve Shaker Square

P lans for the renewal of the holiday season spruce-up remained a workin-progress by the new ownership of the historic square, rescued from foreclosure over the summer

Positive momentum: Local CDC puts Buckeye neighborhood plan into motion

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 18:09:27 GMT

In August, Cleveland’s City Planning Commission approved a new master plan designed to lift the Buckeye neighborhood from the swamp of disinvestment, structural racism, and population loss it has dwelled within for years.

The Cleveland Observer October 2022: (PRINT) pg. 11

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 18:13:51 GMT

Midterm Elections With Long-Term Consequences the early 1990s. A Republican loss in the Senate race could signal a change in voting attitudes for the state.

Social Sciences’ Amy T. Khare discussed concentrated poverty on Cleveland’s east side

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 18:18:15 GMT

A place to call home: Cleveland’s Black community is hit hardest in affordable housing search

Freshwater Cleveland: Amy T. Khare, research assistant professor and the research director at the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities, discussed the ongoing need to address..

Cleveland City Council approves nearly $5M toward Woodhill neighborhood transformation

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 22:52:57 GMT

CLEVELAND — Cleveland City Council passed legislation on Monday night that provides a nearly $5 million loan to help develop the Woodhill Center East affordable housing development.

Matthew Schmidt, the director of Modernization and Development for the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority, said he is excited about what this will do for the community.

Cleveland expected to approve spending $5 million in stimulus money on affordable housing project

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 22:50:51 GMT

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland City Council is expected to approve $5 million in COVID-19 stimulus funding for an affordable housing project that has been in the works for years.

If approved during a Monday meeting, Cleveland would spend $4,919,291 of its American Rescue Plan Act funds on the Woodhill Homes affordable housing project that aims to aid the city’s Buckeye-Woodhill neighborhood.

A place to call home: Cleveland's Black community is hit hardest in affordable housing search

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 20:11:32 GMT

This is part one of a two-part series on affordable housing in Cleveland and how it relates to racism as a public health crisis.

Ja'Kaila Banks has faced a lifetime of obstacles in her 20 years of life. One of her biggest challenges is just finding a place to lay her head at night.

My Changing Neighborhood - Episode 1: The House With the Birdbath

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 20:13:10 GMT

In the first season of Inside the Bricks, I focused on a neighborhood on the brink of a complete rebuild. The neighborhood was Woodhill Homes, on Cleveland's East Side.

As I was wrapping up that season, I started thinking about my own neighborhood, Gordon Square, on the other side of town.

Construction of Woodhill Station West got underway week of July 11th: (PRINT) Page 2, The SHAD Connection

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 20:16:52 GMT

Shaker Square Purchase Deal Finalized

Cleveland Neighborhood Progress (CNP) and Burten, Bell, Carr Development Inc. (BBC) have inked a deal to purchase Shaker Square.

First phase implementation of Woodhill Homes project in Ohio begins

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 22:29:04 GMT

Woodhill Station West development, the first phase of the US$ 250M Woodhill Homes project in Ohio has commenced. Starting with this initial phase, the project will transform an empty lot in the Buckeye-Woodhill community into 120 affordable apartments. This construction phase marks the first step toward implementing the Buckeye-Woodhill Transformation Plan for the six-phased housing project.

Woodhill Station West Officially Closes, Starts Construction and Unveils a New Website

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 22:27:06 GMT

Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA), the City of Cleveland, and The

Community Builders (TCB) are pleased to announce the financial closing and start of construction for Woodhill

Homes, Woodhill Station West, a $46.4 million development representing the first phase of the Buckeye-Woodhill Choice Neighborhoods Implementation in Cleveland, Ohio. Located at 9511 Buckeye Rd., this phase of the Buckeye-Woodhill Transformation Plan will convert an empty lot into 120 quality affordable apartments for families and revitalize the Buckeye-Woodhill community. Marous Brothers Construction moved equipment

First phase of six-year Woodhill Homes project starts with 120-unit apartments

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 20:26:10 GMT

Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA), the City of Cleveland, and Boston-based The Community Builders (TCB) have officially started construction on Woodhill Station West—the first phase of the new Woodhill Homes, a six-phase, six-year $250 million development project.

The Buckeye-Woodhill Transformation Plan came out of a 2018 strategy that includes activities and strategies for housing, people, and the broader Buckeye-Woodhill neighborhood.

Woodhill Station West Officially Closes, Starts Construction and Unveils a New Website

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 20:41:36 GMT

Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA), the City of Cleveland, and The Community Builders (TCB) are pleased to announce the financial closing and start of construction for Woodhill Homes, Woodhill Station West, a $46.4 million development representing the first phase of the Buckeye-Woodhill Choice Neighborhoods Implementation in Cleveland, Ohio.

New Woodhill Homes breaks ground in Cleveland, but residents can't move right in as planned

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 20:43:01 GMT

After nearly a year of delays, construction began this week on the new version of Woodhill Homes, the public housing neighborhood on Cleveland’s East Side that won a $35 million federal rebuilding grant in 2021.

The delays mean that most of the neighborhood's 900 residents will have to move more than once if they want to live in a newly constructed unit, according to the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority and its partners

Construction launches on Buckeye-Woodhill Transformation Project on Buckeye Road

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 20:44:22 GMT

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Construction has begun in the Buckeye-Woodhill community on new housing in a historically neglected neighborhood.

The Woodhill Homes Choice Transformation Project is now underway with the first phase beginning construction on Monday across the street from the Buckeye-Woodhill RTA station on Buckeye Road at the site of the former Buckeye-Woodland Elementary School.

Woodhill Station West starts construction

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 20:46:15 GMT

Work starts 8+ months after groundbreaking

When the Porta-Potties show up at a new construction site, you know it’s for real. In the 9500 block of Buckeye Road in Cleveland’s Buckeye-Woodhill neighborhood, the construction equipment showed up today, too. They’re there to be a part of building the $46.4 million Woodhill Station West development that will bring 120 apartments offering modern housing and on-site amenities mostly to residents of the aging Woodhill Homes public housing complex just north of here. However 30 of the apartments will be offered to anyone who meets income guidelines.

City Council approves two major projects on southeast side

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 20:48:35 GMT

A rendering of Woodhill Station West Phase 1. Image courtesy Cleveland City Council.

Editor’s note: Michelle B. Jackson is a community journalist with The Land who advocated for the legislation to rescue Shaker Square. Learn more about writing for The Land here.

Two transformative development projects in Cleveland’s long-neglected Buckeye-Shaker and Woodhill neighborhoods were greenlighted by Cleveland City Council at its meeting on Monday, April 11. The Woodhill Station West Homes and purchase of Shaker Square by two Cleveland nonprofits are aimed at boosting majority Black communities too often left out of development.

HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge visits Cleveland for Choice Neighborhoods groundbreaking

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 14:42:35 GMT

Fudge previously served Ohio's 11th Congressional District before she was selected to work in President Biden's administration.

CLEVELAND — Editor's note: Video in the player at the top of this story was originally published on March 11, 2021, as Marcia Fudge was confirmed as the new HUD Secretary.

U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Marcia L. Fudge is coming back to Cleveland on Friday for a Choice Neighborhoods groundbreaking in the Buckeye Woodhill neighborhood., the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced .

National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities’ Mark Joseph speaks at Woodhill Homes groundbreaking ceremony

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 00:23:08 GMT

Mark Joseph, founding director of the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities, gave a speech at a groundbreaking ceremony at the Buckeye-Woodhill neighborhood following a Choice Neighborhoods Initiative grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Debbie Wilber, assistant director and research associate of the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, was instrumental in securing the grant for the community. Read more about it.

Cleveland's Woodhill Homes breaks ground on first phase of redevelopment

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:32:37 GMT

Congratulations Resolution for Woodhill Homes Groundbreaking

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 00:40:05 GMT

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Cleveland Planning Commission approves second phase of plan to replace aging Buckeye-Woodhill public housing complex

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 14:37:48 GMT

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland City Planning Commission on Friday gave its OK to the second phase of a large housing plan in the Buckeye-Woodhill neighborhood that will replace the second-oldest public housing complex in the city and build apartments and townhouses around it.

Under Biden's new budget offer, 'Choice Neighborhood' grants for affordable housing could be expanded to more cities

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 14:56:46 GMT

One of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's signature programs could see one of its biggest expansions since its creation a decade ago, as part of the Biden Administration's new budget offer promising to deliver the biggest one-time investments in affordable housing in U.S. history.

HUD's Choice Neighborhoods program is different from more traditional housing projects that focus solely on building and repairing affordable housing units or expanding voucher programs. Under the latest initiative, cities and communities are able to apply for grants that do wide-scale revitalization efforts .

BROWN, SECRETARY FUDGE CELEBRATE BUCKEYE WOODHILL CHOICE NEIGHBORHOODS RIBBON CUTTING IN CLEVELAND

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 14:49:43 GMT

CLEVELAND, OH — TODAY, U.S. Senator and Chair of the Banking Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, Sherrod Brown (D-OH), joined Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Marcia Fudge for a ceremonial ribbon cutting for the #WoodhillUpNext Transformation Plan in Cleveland’s Buckeye-Woodhill neighborhood.

Earlier this year, HUD awarded the City of Cleveland and the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority a $35 million Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant. The grant aims to fund a comprehensive change in the Buckeye-Woodhill neighborhood over the next five to seven years, through making improvements in areas including housing and street improvements .

Cleveland's Woodhill Homes breaks ground on first phase of redevelopment

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 14:47:34 GMT

The Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) and a group of partners broke ground Friday on the first building in the long-planned redevelopment of the Woodhill Homes public housing neighborhood.

The building, near the intersection of Woodhill and Buckeye roads about a mile from the current Woodhill Homes site, will contain 120 apartments on a former public school site across from an RTA rapid transit station .

New apartments, retail, parks coming soon to Cleveland’s Buckeye-Woodhill neighborhood

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 15:50:18 GMT

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Changes are coming to the Buckeye-Woodhill neighborhood on Cleveland’s East Side.

Thanks to a $35 million grant awarded to CMHA by HUD, there will soon be new housing opportunities and more in the neighborhood, according to a news release.

Friday marks the groundbreaking ceremony for the Buckeye-Woodhill Choice Neighborhood Transformation, according to the release.

An outdoor celebration with remarks by HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge and additional local leaders is set to take place at 1 p.m. at 9512 Buckeye Road .

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia L. Fudge coming to Cleveland Friday

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 15:55:29 GMT

CLEVELAND — U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Marcia Fudge will be coming to Cleveland on Friday for a Choice Neighborhoods groundbreaking in the city’s Buckeye Woodhill neighborhood.

In May 2021, HUD awarded the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority and the city of Cleveland a $35 million Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant .

Project to replace 80-year-old Woodhill Homes heads to final approval

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 16:00:14 GMT

A new apartment and townhome project that will renovate and repurpose one of Cleveland’s oldest public housing developments just got a few steps closer to joining Buckeye-Woodhill neighborhood.

Woodhill Center East, which is part of a project will replace the existing 80-year-old Woodhill Homes with updated public housing, low-income, and market-rate units, is heading back to the Cleveland Planning Commission with no additional comments for approval from the Southeast Design Review Committee.

Cleveland-based City Architecture represented the project before the review committee.

New podcast 'Inside the Bricks' about Woodhill Homes is essential Cleveland listening

marketing@tcbinc.org (Miyareth Borja) — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 00:35:48 GMT

Ideastream’s new podcast “Inside the Bricks: Woodhill Homes” shares “stories from one of the nation’s earliest public housing neighborhoods as it faces a complete rebuild.” It’s also a must-listen for any Clevelander, as co-hosts Justin Glanville and Jeanette Marbley share surprising, sometimes funny, sometimes painful truths about our city while examining the relationship between neighborhoods, public housing and social change. Recently, The Land caught up with Glanville to talk about the new podcast, what he’s learned, and what he’s listening to. Read More