1717 East Ninth Building

Skyscraper in Downtown Cleveland February 2025 January 2025 1717 East Ninth Building East Ohio Building.jpg 250px Ohio 1717 E. 9th Building yes Tishman Building East Ohio Gas Building East Ohio Building completed High-rise International Residential Nine-Twelve District 1717 East 9th Street Cleveland, Ohio United States 41.5021394 -81.6879576 type:landmark inline,title Residences at 1717(K & D Properties) 1958 1959 1959 Sovereign Partners, LLC 275 ft 275 ft 21 346,500 sqft Emery Roth & Sons Tishman Realty & Construction Co. Tishman Properties 600-car parking garage, attached yes The East Ohio Building Cleveland, Ohio 1959 Emery Roth & Sons International 2013 1 23 12001212https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/weekly-list-2013-national-register-of-historic-places.pdf Weekly list of actions taken on properties: 01/22/13 through 01/25/13 February 1, 2013 National Park Service February 23, 2013 1717 East Ninth Building, also known as the East Ohio Building, is a skyscraper in Downtown Cleveland, the U.S. state of Ohio's emerging Nine-Twelve District. Completed in 1959, it was one of the first modernist high-rises in Cleveland, along with the Illuminating Building, standing at 275 ft off us. History It was designed by Emery Roth and Sons of New York City. 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 parking garage attached to the tower. It was built on the site of the old Greyhound bus station, after Greyhound built a new bus terminal on Superior Avenue a few blocks away from the East Ohio Building in 1948. East Ohio Gas, Cleveland's natural gas supplier, occupied the tower until its merger with Richmond, Virginia-based Dominion Resources. 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 New York City-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."Downtown Building Sold" https://web.archive.org/web/20160303201825/http://www.cleveland.com/business/plaindealer/index.ssf?%2Fbase%2Fbusiness%2F1164489362289130.xml&coll=2 2016-03-03 The Plain Dealer, Business week in review, November 26, 2006. Accessed November 26, 2006. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places on January 23, 2013. Conversion to apartments In March 2012, the K & D Group of Willoughby, Ohio announced that it had signed a contract to buy the 21-story tower and planned to convert it to 223 apartments, making it the tallest fully residential building in Cleveland. As reported in 2012 and 2013, K & D then planned, contingent on tax credits and other financing, to open the first of 223 apartments in July 2014 and to finish the $65 million conversion by August 2015.http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2012/03/kd_group_plans_to_buy_redevelo.html K&D Group plans to buy, remake East Ohio Building in downtown Cleveland as 223 apartments by 2014 McFee Michelle Jarboe March 22, 2012 The Plain Dealer 12 December 2012https://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20130911/FREE/130919945/kd-group-ready-to-convert-former-east-ohio-gas-building-to-apartments K&D Group ready to convert former East Ohio Gas Building to apartments September 11, 2013 Crain's Cleveland Business See also List of tallest buildings in Cleveland References External links Residences at 1717 Emporis: 1717 East Ninth Building Category:Emery Roth buildings Category:Residential skyscrapers in Cleveland Category:Apartment buildings in Cleveland Category:Office buildings completed in 1959 Category:Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio Category:National Register of Historic Places in Cleveland, Ohio