CLEVELAND, Ohio — The City of Cleveland holds a pre-bid meeting Wednesday at 9 a.m. at the Huntington Convention Center for companies interested in the first construction package of the downtown lakefront plan, a $285 million first phase that would begin converting the Shoreway into a boulevard, according to NEOTrans reporting published by Cleveland Magazine.
Phase One covers the Shoreway conversion from roughly West Ninth Street to about 1,000 feet east of East Ninth Street, along with related infrastructure and a land bridge, NEOTrans reported for Cleveland Magazine. A pedestrian bridge over the lakefront railroad tracks and a Lake Erie Plaza north of the Great Lakes Science Center are also planned before the current stadium is demolished, according to the report.
“We have the resources to make meaningful progress,” Mayor Justin Bibb said, according to the NEOTrans report in Cleveland Magazine. The city cites more than $150 million in federal and state grants toward the work, the report said…