New Shaker Square apartments stir again

The Van Aken Plaza at the east end of the Shaker Square commercial district is coming
down. After 85 years, the venerable shopping center along Van Aken Boulevard, south
of the two-story office building at right, will be demolished for future development,
possibly a a modern, competitive, multi-family building atop ground-floor retail
spaces (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Development projects in Shaker Square and elsewhere in Greater Cleveland that have languished in recent years are showing signs of life again. That new energy is thanks in part to new state funding that was awarded to make their development sites ready for construction and renovation.

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Downtown Heinen’s store to be reconfigured

Heinen’s Downtown Cleveland grocery store is being simplified for
customers by placing everything on the first floor (Michael Collier).
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Work is underway to reconfigure what many have called America’s most beautiful grocery store. The work represents the most significant renovations to the Downtown Cleveland Heinen’s store, 900 Euclid Ave., since it opened in 2015.

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Ex-Leisy Brewery site back on the market again

The former Leisy Brewery property on Vega Avenue at Fulton Road at the south-
west corner of Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood was envisioned as a residen-
tial redevelopment site by its current owner and others. But due to internal issues,
the owner is selling the property only 18 months after buying it (The Sweda
Group). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Only 18 months after buying the former Leisy Brewery property, 3400 Vega Ave. in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, an affiliate of Sanctus Capital LLC of Westlake has put the site back on the market again. It’s the second former brewery this year that was put up on the market in this part of town. Across Fulton Road, the closed Platform Brewery was put up for sale in May.

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Land Bank, Loiter Cafe call truce in East Cleveland

The Mickey’s Building in the Circle East section of East Cleveland is back on track
as the Cuyahoga Land Bank and tenant Loiter Cafe announced they ended their
legal battle and will work together on improving the neighborhood (RDL).
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Cuyahoga Land Bank and Loiter Cafe and Marketplace are pleased to announce that they have settled their dueling lawsuits concerning the Mickey’s Building, 12550 Euclid Ave., in East Cleveland. The land bank and Loiter said they realized an amicable solution was achievable and in everyone’s best interest.

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Haslam’s Brook Park, Berea developments progress

Starting tonight at a city of Berea Planning Commission meeting, property owner
Haslam Sports Group, developer DiGeronimo Companies and architect AODK Archi-
tecture are seeking a project design-specific rezoning for a Cleveland Browns-themed
mixed-use development (Architecture, Design, & 3D Renderings by AODK Archi-
tecture). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A small but strategic piece of land that was in the way of the Haslam Sports Group’s (HSG) proposed stadium for its Cleveland Browns football team in suburban Brook Park has sold. Its sale gets it out of the way and into the fold of the overall property transaction for the roofed stadium. And in neighboring Berea, where HSG and its partners plan a Browns-themed mixed-use development, site plans are getting their first airing tonight as part of a rezoning request.

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Cleveland riverside neighborhood opens for tours

The Collins Apartments, at left, are built on a former steel mill site along Carter
Road in the Flats. The new development features 15 townhomes and two multi-
family buildings and are now open to hard-hat tours by prospective tenants.
More developments are rising on Scranton Peninsula across and down
the street (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

For much of the past 50 years, Scranton Peninsula, across the curving Cuyahoga River from Downtown Cleveland, had become an increasingly desolate place. It saw its two largest industrial employers — Northern Ohio Lumber and Republic Steel’s Upson Nut Division — depart, leaving the 75-acre peninsula scarred and mostly vacant.

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Barons-Greyhound Lease at Brookpark station OK’d

A Barons bus rolls past the old Cuyahoga County Courthouse in Downtown Cleve-
land Barons and Greyhound bus operations will move in the Summer 2025 from
downtown to an unused parking lot at the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit
Authority’s Brookpark Rapid transit station on the city’s far-west side (KJP).
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With the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s (GCRTA) board of trustees unanimously approving a lease with Barons Bus Inc. today, the intercity bus carrier and its partner Greyhound have started on a timetable to relocate out of the historic Downtown Cleveland Greyhound station, 1465 Chester Ave.

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