Next-gen IKEA store coming to Greater Cleveland

The former Dick’s Sporting Goods at Crocker Park in Westlake will be remodeled as a small-
format IKEA store — Greater Cleveland’s first such location for the global retailer. This is an
unofficial rendering of what the renovated store could look like (NEOtrans).
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In 2018, IKEA walked away from Cleveland after the search for a buildable site fell through. Nearly a decade later, the Swedish home and furniture supplier will return with a brand-new concept for Northeast Ohio.

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Ohio City awaits new apartments, retail

Dan Whalen led the development of Intro Cleveland, at far left, as part of Harbor Bay Ventures.
While that building opened in 2022 with top-of-the-market rents, Whalen’s and Luke Palmisano’s
Ambler apartments, at right, is expected to lease at more competitive rates (Harrison Whittaker).
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While numerous Ohio City developments are transforming historic buildings into new sources of activity, the popular Cleveland neighborhood continues to make progress on a series of new construction projects.

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Now arriving at Crocker Park — IKEA

An IKEA small-format store appears to be in the cards for Westlake’s Crocker Park. The
major new tenant for the western-suburban lifestyle center will officially be announced
Tuesday (Ingka Group). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

For days, Crocker Park’s owner Stark Enterprises has teased the opening of a new tenant at the suburban Westlake lifestyle center. And from all indications, that tenant is a retailer that Cleveland doesn’t yet have. On Tuesday, we’ll all find out for certain.

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Flexjet to add nearly 1,000 jobs

A year after this picture was taken in September 2022, Flexjet officially opened its $50 million
global headquarters at Cuyahoga County Airport in Richmond Heights. The nearly 51,500-
square-foot global operations control center is all glass and acute angles designed to look
like aircraft wings on the outside (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Two Northeast Ohio job-creation efforts that could result in 1,100 new jobs locally were supported and rewarded by the Ohio Department of Development today with the announcement of Ohio Job Creation Tax Credits.

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Midtown, Fairfax developments emerge

A 64-unit apartment building developed by Sabor Group USA rises on the west side of East
70th Street near Euclid Avenue (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

One of Cleveland’s newest Transit-Oriented Developments (TOD) has largely flown under the radar despite being located just 200 feet from Euclid Avenue and only a 3-minute walk from the nearest HealthLine Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) station. That’s because of its unusual midblock location on East 70th Street.

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East Cleveland celebrates neighborhood investment

At The Elliot, two homes built by Greenlight Building Co. straddle the border of Cleve-
land and East Cleveland (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Stakeholders and community leaders gathered Friday on Woodlawn Avenue to celebrate the completion of the $4.6 million initial phase of the Circle East district — described as a “new 30-acre neighborhood” spanning the cities of Cleveland and East Cleveland, just east of University Circle.

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Huge Unified Operations Center planned for Cleveland Clinic

Seen from Alexander Road, the nearly 250,000-square-foot Cardinal Health distribution center
is big. So is the nearly identical-in-size Great Day Improvements warehouse next door. But
they are smaller, even in total, than the Cleveland Clinic’s Unified Operations Center planned
here at the site of the former Walton Hills Ford plant, now called the Forward Innovation
Center (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A development partnership plans to build for Cleveland Clinic a massive Unified Operations Center for 526 new and relocated jobs. The relocated jobs will come from other Clinic facilities in Northeast Ohio to the 111-acre former Ford Stamping Plant in Walton Hills, according to public records.

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