Cleveland State University is a metropolitan campus located in the heart of downtown
Cleveland. This public educational institution offers affordable quality academic programs
with more than 200 major fields of study for approximately 16,000 students. Quality
parking is important in the University’s success and was a key component in the selection
for this project.
The parking garage is a 5-level 400-stall concrete structure with post-tensioned slabs
supported from post-tensioned beams framing in to reinforced cast-in-place concrete
columns. Since the garage was strategically located between the University’s historic Mather
Mansion, the Physical Education Building, the Recreation Center and the depressed “Inner
Belt” Expressway, the project required unique foundation and construction coordination.
The garage also includes a pedestrian bridge, which connects the garage to the adjacent
Recreation Center. The bridge structure is steel-framed with concrete slab supported
with composite steel deck. A pair of architecturally exposed hollow rectangular steel
trusses provide the main structural support, which in turn are supported from the garage,
the Recreation Center and from a single steel column located between the ends of the
bridge.