Cleveland data center plans to expand

Within its existing building shell at right, which is as long as the new Sherwin-Williams head-
quarters is tall, the Cleveland H5 Data Center plans to expand its capacity on Rockwell
Avenue downtown (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Plans were submitted today for the expansion of an existing data center in Downtown Cleveland that could be affected by the city’s proposed moratorium on data centers. Unlike a newly proposed data center that was rejected by the city last month, this latest project involves expanding within the walls of an existing structure.

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Kamm’s gets a tower crane

Across the Rocky River, a tower crane for Fairview Hospital’s North Campus expansion rises
above the Lorain Road Viaduct (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Once described as “a slice of suburbia in the city,” Cleveland’s Kamm’s Corners neighborhood might be the last place one would expect a $150 million construction project large enough to require a tower crane. But that’s exactly what’s underway at Fairview Hospital’s 169,521-square-foot North Campus expansion.

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Car wash planned at Shaker Square

Site plan for the proposed Shaker Square car wash. North is at the top of the image, with
the southeast commercial quadrant of Shaker Square visible at upper left (Kimley Horn).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Shaker Square, although faded from its peak decades ago, remains Greater Cleveland’s seminal example of transit-oriented community design in which the rapid transit system, pedestrian activity, and vertically mixed uses are juxtaposed to support each other.

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Clinic plans outpatient site at Valor Acres

At the northeast corner of Miller Road and Innovation Parkway, the Cleveland Clinic plans
to build this medical office building (Perspectus). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

New structures and uses keep getting added to the mixed-use lifestyle center Valor Acres at Miller and Brecksville roads in suburban Brecksville. The latest will be a Cleveland Clinic outpatient care facility, due to open in late 2027.

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New Lakewood apartments open quietly

At the northeast corner of Detroit and St. Charles avenues is the former Lakewood Center
West, now converted into Lakewood Lofts. In the parking garage seen behind, 70 spaces
are set aside for tenants of the lofts (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Downtown Lakewood is steadily turning from an office district into a residential one. The latest example of that metamorphosis is perhaps the quietest conversion of a seven-story suburban office building in Greater Cleveland’s history.

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The Thomas gets underway in Tremont

The development team of The Thomas apartments and their future successors posed at
a groundbreaking ceremony today in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood (NEOtrans).

It’s a project that has gone under the radar amid the many others on Cleveland’s near-West Side. But today, a development team assembled to break ground for The Thomas apartments, 2422 W. 7th St. in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood.

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Countywide zoning sought to aid development

Transit oriented development isn’t limited to rail station areas. It can also be built along high-
frequency bus lines like Cleveland Clinic’s North Campus expansion of Fairview Hospital
where Cleveland meets Fairview Park (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Most municipalities in Cuyahoga County were built-out decades ago, limiting opportunities to offer newer, more competitive housing and build a stronger tax base without raising taxes. The few remaining places for development are infill sites for which many communities lack zoning to develop them.

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