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Cleveland planning commission approves design for humanities building at Case Western Reserve University

Aug. 6, 2024
The university will have to tear down a vacant fraternity house to make room for the project.

The Cleveland City Planning Commission has approved a conceptual design for Case Western Reserve University’s new Humanities Building and cleared the way for demolishing a vacant fraternity house to make way for it. 

Cleveland Magazine reports that the university is looking at a 100,000- to 150,000-square-foot building, according to Michael Bruder, the university's assistant vice president for planning, design and construction.

The fraternity house property will be used as a parking lot until the university can raise the tens of millions of dollars needed to construct the Humanities Building. 

Case Western bought the fraternity house in 2022 for $340,000, county records show. The vacant house is not historical or a local landmark, nor is it in a historic district, university officials say.

 

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Mike Kennedy | Senior Editor

Mike Kennedy has been writing about education for American School & University since 1999. He also has reported on schools and other topics for The Chicago Tribune, The Kansas City Star, The Kansas City Times and City News Bureau of Chicago. He is a graduate of Michigan State University.

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