Bedrock is proposing an eight-story garage in the Gateway District — a structure the real estate developer is pitching as more of an art piece than a utilitarian box.
Conceptual drawings submitted to Cleveland’s planning department show the 550-space garage stretching between Prospect Avenue and Huron Road, north of Rocket Arena. But those early images don’t convey what the garage will look like, once it’s screened with more than 135,000 tiles designed to shift in the wind.
On Thursday morning, a city design review committee gave the proposal an initial recommendation — with some caveats. It was the first of many layers of public review the project will go through before the developer can break ground.
The garage is part of a broader makeover of the high-profile block by Bedrock, the Detroit-based real estate arm of Cleveland Cavaliers’ owner Dan Gilbert’s Rock family of businesses…