yeah some of those renders are old or just massing guesses, nothing official as yet (i thought that was a really nifty looking amazon hq2 pitch tho, wasn't it? oh well).
speculation is sw is a rather conservative company, as evidenced by its current status rather hidden away in the terminal tower complex and along the river behind it. so while this is its coming out party after buying up rival valspar, there likely will be no supertall. guesses are 5-600' feet for the actual hq tower on the prime jacobs lot on public square, but who knows as yet?
i believe that the city made a pitch to keep the r&d, but they couldn't find a spot( its currently located along the riverfront below the terminal tower complex and its called the breen center). i find this hard to believe, but along with 500k sq ft sw also wanted room to expand that someday, and additionally it needs to be mostly a flat campus for that sort of thing, so maybe all that was the issue. i dk, but at least r&d stays in the county.
here is some very current info on the package sw may get from the city:
Cleveland City Council introduces $100M package of incentives for Sherwin-Williams’ new downtown headquarters
Updated Feb 24, 8:15 PM; Posted Feb 24, 8:07 PM
The package includes a grant toward construction of a $300-million headquarters and years of significant tax relief for the corporation.
In exchange, Cleveland would retain more than 3,100 jobs with the potential for more, fill a parking lot at the west end of Public Square with a headquarters befitting a Fortune 500 company and secure the Sherwin-Williams' presence in Cleveland for generations.
more:
https://www.cleveland.com/cityhall/2...dquarters.html
this is about the a-ha moment when cle pinned it down:
https://www.cleveland.com/cityhall/2...he-moment.html