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Suit centers on height of Crocker Park’s next building BY STAN BULLARD

Bigness has defined most parts of Crocker Park, the 120-acre mixed-use project in Westlake designed to be a mini downtown with a network of streets serving storefronts below buildings five and six stories tall, with a few exceptions. A tiny grass-covered parcel fronting on Crocker Road with a trio of Crocker Park buildings on its other sides, including the American Greetings headquarters, was envisioned as a site for a six-floor building. However, developer Stark Enterprises of Cleveland wants to put an Erie Bank branch on part of the parcel, designed to look like a two-story building. It would also have a surface parking lot, while See CROCKER PARK on Page 24

St. Vincent campus is still taking shape Filling space left by inpatient closure will be ongoing engagement process BY LYDIA COUTRÉ

The health campus and services that will fill the space left by the closure of inpatient services at St. Vincent Charity Medical Center is still taking shape. Sisters of Charity Health System, St. Vincent’s parent organization, announced in September that the downtown Cleveland hospital will cease operations as a traditional acute care hospital on Nov. 15, resulting in the elimination of 978 positions. In shifting to outpatient care as an ambulatory health services provider, it will focus on social determinants of health and serving community needs in Cleveland, and specifically, the city’s Central neighborhood. See CAMPUS on Page 25

NO MORE DIGGING FOR SPARE QUARTERS Cleveland looks toward a plan to modernize, redesign street parking BY KIM PALMER

“It’s one of those things where you might think people Beginning in the summer of 2023, the are not that concerned about streets of Cleveland will begin to see the re- parking meters, but it can be moval and replacement of more than 2,000 frustrating when you want to antiquated, coin-only parking meters — park but don’t have any quarpart of City Hall’s street parking moderniza- ters,” she said. Teeuwen, who had three tion plan. decades of experiDetails of the strategy have yet ence in civil engito be finalized, but earlier this neering and month, Cleveland Mayor Justin public adminisBibb’s administration released an tration before 85-page request for proposal joining the Bibb (RFP) looking for a vendor “to administration, modernize the operations of (the said the procity’s) entire on-street parking posed budget for management system.” the parking modAccording to the language of the ernization plan RFP, “The city intends to transition Teeuwen ranges from $3 from the coin-only individual parking meters to … (ones that accept) on- million to $4 million. It’s a street parking transaction payments at pay cost the city estimates will be recouped within four stations and via mobile payment app.” The upgrade has been a long time coming years through more efficient and has been met with almost universal collection of parking paysupport, said Bonnie Teeuwen, the city of ments. Cleveland’s chief operating officer, who will help oversee the vendor selection. See PARKING on Page 24

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“IT’S ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE YOU MIGHT THINK PEOPLE ARE NOT THAT CONCERNED ABOUT PARKING METERS, BUT IT CAN BE FRUSTRATING WHEN YOU WANT TO PARK BUT DON’T HAVE ANY QUARTERS.” — Bonnie Teeuwen, the city of Cleveland’s chief operating officer

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