The first office building, One Chagrin Highlands, was completed on Auburn Drive in 1999. ensued, stalling construction of the long-promised headquarters. A two-year legal battle between the city and Figgie Intl. WHITE to sour on Chagrin Highlands in 1994. suffered severe financial losses, resulting in a scaled-down headquarters plan that led Mayor MICHAEL R.
Despite striking a deal, the project languished in the 1990s. not to approve the incorporation until Cleveland approved renewing its lease of the SHAKER LAKES to the suburb, an action that in turn required mollifying Cleveland African American city council members who perceived racial overtones in Shaker’s refusal to dismantle street barricades it erected, ostensibly for traffic control, along its border with Cleveland in the 1970s. This move had to overcome a threat by SHAKER HTS. to permit the City of Cleveland to garner income-tax revenues expected to be generated by the Figgie-Jacobs development. of the unincorporated remainder of the Warrensville Twp. The launch of Chagrin Highlands depended on the incorporation of Highland Hills Village (1990) and annexation by Beachwood and Warrensville Hts. Figgie had moved its Willoughby headquarters to Richmond, Virginia, in 1982 to jumpstart a similar corporate park there. property into a corporate park anchored by a new world headquarters building for Figgie. Jacobs Group announced a plan to transform the city’s Warrensville Twp. (later renamed Scott Technologies) and the Richard E. The ensuing decade saw unsuccessful attempts by Beachwood and Warrensville Hts. PERK succeeded Stokes as mayor in 1971, he scrapped Warren’s Ridge in favor of leasing the city-owned land to a private developer for commercial or industrial use, with revenues used to underwrite new housing in the inner city. Had Warren’s Ridge been developed, it might have echoed Cleveland’s Progressive Era societal improvement experiments on its suburban fringe. The plan faced hurdles such as zoning and deed restrictions, as well as concerns among neighboring suburban residents and officials about the plan’s potential impact on roads, schools, and sewers. Warren’s Ridge drew inspiration from prominent new towns such as Columbia, Maryland, and Reston, Virginia, and the Stokes administration viewed it as an opportunity to overcome decades of suburban opposition to the prospect of minority and low-income residents.
Per federal regulations, it would have had to include one-third low-income housing. Warren’s Ridge was envisioned as a master-planned community with 8,150 housing units for 25,000 people. STOKES planned to seek federal funding under the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 to create a “new town in town” called Warren’s Ridge on 865 acres of the city’s land in Warrensville Twp. In 1970 the MAYORAL ADMINISTRATION OF CARL B. In 1955 one of seven NIKE MISSILE BASES in the county was built at Harvard and Richmond Roads and operated until 1963. Other facilities included the Highland Park Cemetery, Highland Park Golf Course, County Infirmary (later Highland View Hospital), and Warrensville Sanatorium (later Sunny Acres Tuberculosis Hospital) (see CUYAHOGA COUNTY HOSPITAL SYSTEM). Chagrin Highlands occupies a portion of the former COOLEY FARMS, a nationally known model assemblage of penal, recuperative, and rehabilitative facilities including the CLEVELAND WORKHOUSE that operated on over 2,000 acres of rural land that the City of Cleveland acquired in WARRENSVILLE TWP. Planned as a corporate park, Chagrin Highlands now encompasses offices, medical facilities, hotels, and retail businesses. Portions of Chagrin Highlands lie in BEACHWOOD, HIGHLAND HILLS VILLAGE, ORANGE, and WARRENSVILLE HTS. CHAGRIN HIGHLANDS is a 630-acre multiuse property in the vicinity of Harvard and Richmond Roads near I-271, 12 miles southeast of Cleveland.
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