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, the

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's emerging

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. Completed in 1959, it was one of the first

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high-rises in Cleveland, along with the Illuminating Building. It is currently the 24th-tallest building in Cleveland, at .

History

It was designed by

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. Tishman Properties also of New York City was the developer. Ground was broken in March 1958 and in April 1959 it opened to the public. There is a 600-car

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attached to the tower. It was built on the site of the old

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bus station, after Greyhound built a

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on Superior Avenue a few blocks away from the East Ohio Building in 1948.

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, Cleveland's

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supplier, occupied the tower until its merger with

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. On the lobby level, East Ohio had a customer pay center and exhibits of the benefits of natural gas appliances. In addition, they had a meter showing how much natural gas was supplied to Cleveland. On November 22, 2006, the largely vacant building was bought by

-based Sovereign Partners, LLC for around $12 million. The buying group planned on making certain improvements to the building, the details were announced in early 2007. It was named to the

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on January 23, 2013.

Conversion to apartments

Plans announced March 22, 2012 indicate that the tower will be converted to 223 apartments, eliminating a huge vacancy in the central business district and meeting strong demand for new living space. It will then become the tallest fully residential building in Cleveland, Ohio. The K & D Group of

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recently signed a contract to buy the 21-story building. Apartments will fill that void by early 2014, if K & D succeeds in securing tax credits and other financing for its $65 million project. K & D said it would open the first of 223 apartments in the downtown building in July 2014 and should finish the $65 million conversion by August 2015.

References

External links

Residences at 1717
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History

Conversion to apartments

See also

References

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