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| At the west end of the Detroit-Superior Bridge, the long-planned Bridgeworks development site could finally start to see some visible activity in the coming weeks (GLSD). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
While the development team for the $84 million mixed-use Bridgeworks project in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood is finalizing construction permits with the city, the team decided to take a step that could accelerate the project and get it underway sooner.
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| Signs of progress are visible at the Circle East District in East Cleveland, where new homes and increased home ownership are getting a boost from a deal between two dif- ferent kinds of banks — the Cuyahoga Land Bank and First National Bank. In the back- ground on Woodlawn Avenue, historic homes are being renovated and new homes are being built (Cuyahoga Land Bank). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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| Jonathon Miceli of family-owned Miceli Dairy Products Co., welcomed visitors to the groundbreaking for an expansion of cold storage facilities at Miceli’s growing plant on Cleveland’s near-east side as his cousin and company marketing executive Maria Miceli looks on (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
When Miceli Dairy Products, 2721 E. 90th St. in Cleveland, broke ground today for the expansion of its new cold storage facilities, it also teased a follow-on project — a planned new research center plus mozzarella cheese manufacturing plant next to the Opportunity Corridor Boulevard. These additions in the coming years are anticipated to double Miceli’s current employment of 250 people.
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| A rendering of the proposed Two Cleveland Center, as seen from the north side of St. Clair Avenue next to the Galleria at Erieview. The new office building/data center was an idea publicized prematurely (Newmark). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Suggesting the construction of an office building in Downtown Cleveland, which is still recovering from the pandemic, seemed like a strange idea. And it was until the listing for it was pulled from marketing sites shortly after NEOtrans wrote about it. Turns out the proposed Two Cleveland Center was publicized prematurely.
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| This section of the Shoreway (Route 2) through Downtown Cleveland is to be reconfigured from an Interstate-like highway (left) into a boulevard with inter- sections. That will slow traffic to make the area more pedestrian- and bicycle- friendly and lower the roadway so a land bridge can be built to better connect the central business district with the lakefront (FO). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
After taking office in January, the Trump Administration began scrutinizing recently awarded federal grants. In response, local, state and federal elected officials from Northeast Ohio scrambled. Their goal was to make sure that federal grants awarded to Greater Cleveland agencies weren’t frozen or, worse, terminated.
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| Not much has changed at the long-vacant Warner Swasey factory in the six years since this streetview was captured. But a lot could change over the next six months, starting with a demolition of the sawtooth-shaped factory structures to the left of the company’s brick office building which will be kept and, if financing closes in November, renovated thereafter into affordable apartments (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
It’s been a long road for the former Warner & Swasey plant, 5701 Carnegie Ave. in Cleveland’s Midtown neighborhood, to become a useful building again. And while it doesn’t have all of its financial pieces available yet to complete its $52 million puzzle, those last five pieces have been identified and are in the process of being secured.
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| A lot of structural square footage is getting demolished next to Downtown Cleveland. So are viable structures with the potential to be converted to new uses. Instead, the potential will rest with acres of newly vacant land next to downtown that will be- come a canvas for something new to be designed. Those designs are getting underway (czoningservices.com). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Demolition crews got to work this week taking down St. Vincent Charity Medical Center, 2351 E. 22nd St,, where the southeast side of Downtown Cleveland meets the Central neighborhood. But it won’t be the only demolition in this area in the coming years.
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| Concern over being able to maintain the facilities at the Gateway sports and entertain- ment complex in Downtown Cleveland prompted a critical letter apparently sent by the Rock ntertainment Group to the Greater Cleveland Partnership over the future viability of the sin tax to maintain these facilities (Rocket Arena). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Support for the planned domed stadium in Brook Park by the Greater Cleveland Partnership (GCP), announced earlier this week, has ruffled a few feathers. And it’s not just those that were expected to be ruffled — Cuyahoga County and City of Cleveland officials, Downtown Cleveland Inc., and others. Now, it’s the parent company of the Cleveland Cavaliers who say pursuing the stadium at this time is a bad idea.
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| Wade Park Station is planned as an affordable senior housing development on Wade Park Avenue in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood. It just got a major boost in the form of 9 percent Low Income Housing Tax Credits (RDL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Two new Cleveland housing construction projects and one renovation won coveted, highly competitive 9 percent Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) from the Ohio Housing Finance Authority (OHFA) today. The awards promise a big financial boost to each of the projects which are located in the Glenville, Hough and Ohio City neighborhoods.
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| Concerns about being able to keep Cleveland’s existing stadiums in a state of good repair apparently prompted a poll of likely voters to assess their views toward ex- tending or expanding a Cuyahoga County sin tax. According to the poll results, those concerns were justified (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
One day after the region’s chamber of commerce announced its support for the construction of an enclosed stadium in Brook Park, a poll of likely voters in Cuyahoga County was leaked to NEOtrans, showing most of those voters opposed the Cleveland Browns leaving downtown for the suburbs. The poll also said that opposition was putting at risk a county sin tax to repair facilities for all of Cleveland’s major sports teams.
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| Huntington Bank Field sets on Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront. But the Greater Cleveland Partnership says it shouldn’t, and instead should be moved to Brook Park as a domed stadium (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront has had a stadium on it for 91 of the last 93 years. But that should come to an end for the betterment of the lakefront and its replacement stadium, according to the Greater Cleveland Partnership (GCP) — the metro area’s chamber of commerce. GCP also urged the closure of Burke Lakefront Airport.
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| Playhouse Square has announced several additions to Downtown Cleveland’s theater district that are “beyond the stage.” One of those includes the green kiosk on Play- house Square Plaza which will host the Something Good Social Kitchen (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A trio of new eateries in Downtown Cleveland’s theater district was announced today by Playhouse Square officials, along with two others already reported by NEOtrans in recent weeks. But one of the largest “Beyond The Stage” projects, redevelopment of the Greyhound bus station, is still in the works and was teased in the same announcement.
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| The red lands are properties owned by the city of Cleveland along its Lake Erie waterfront just east of downtown. The light-blue land at right is another publicly owned piece of land owned by the state of Ohio. In the foreground is the Forest City Yacht Club that’s been on city-owned land for nearly a century. Beyond is the 115-year-old Cleveland Public Power’s Lake Road Power Station. Few of these publicly owned properties are publicly accessible nor do they represent the highest and best uses of lakefront land (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
One year ago, the City Planning Commission “hired” Cleveland State University’s 17th Street Studios for a Masters of Urban Planning and Development (MUPD) capstone project to look at how to enhance the underutilized light-rail Waterfront Line. One of the findings was that the city of Cleveland literally owned its own ability to boost the rail line and the lakefront overall.
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| The Memphis & Pearl development in Cleveland’s downtown Old Brooklyn neighbor- hood had to be expanded to retain a federal grant for the project while retaining the historic St. Luke’s Church. But that caused a gap in the project’s funding resources that backers are now trying to fill (Desmone). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Due to funding policy changes at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) since January, backers of the Memphis & Pearl development in Cleveland’s Old Brooklyn neighborhood have had to scramble to save the project from a suddenly large, $15 million funding gap.
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| Seen from Euclid Avenue in Cleveland’s University Circle, University Hospitals’ proposed new Wolstein Center classroom and conference facility won unanimous support today from City Planning Commission’s Design Review Committee (levelHEADS). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Detailed plans for a proposed conference and classroom facility at University Hospitals’ (UH) Cleveland Medical Center were unveiled today and won preliminary approval from the City Planning Commission. But considering the commission’s compliments about the project, it would be a surprise if the commission didn’t give the project final approval in the coming weeks.
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| To build the new terminal at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, a new trans- portation center seen at left has to be built. And to build that, a new parking area at Terminal D has to come first (Corgan). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Ten days ago, Mayor Justin Bibb announced a $1.6 billion plan to construct the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport’s Terminal Modernization Development Program (TDMP). Today, more details came to light about that plan, called CLEvolution, as the City Planning Commission unanimously approved the first two steps forward in that eight-year program.
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| The Haslam Sports Group said it is no longer counting on support from Cuyahoga County to build this enclosed stadium in the Cleveland suburb of Brook Park. It is quite possible that this news is music to the ears of county and state officials who have called this $3.6 billion project financially risky (HKS). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A spokesman for the owner of the Cleveland Browns, the Haslam Sports Group (HSG), told NEOtrans that they have sent a letter today to Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne stating they will move forward without the county’s support, and saying they believe building an enclosed stadium in Brook Park is the only long-term stadium solution for the region.
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| Since it was built in 2015, the Little Italy–University Circle station on the Greater Cleve- land Regional Transit Authority’s Red Line over Mayfield Road has been a big success, attracting tens of millions of dollars of new development and more ridership. This was the scene after an Aug. 17, 2024 storm cleared the crowds during the Feast of the Assumption (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
An annual report by the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission released this week showed that Transit Oriented Development in the county reached an all-time high in 2024. But 92 percent of countywide TOD activity is occurring in the city of Cleveland. And only four of 26 communities along high-frequency transit routes and walksheds, called TOD corridors, had a TOD project in the past six years indicating a lack of suburban activity.
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| A conceptual rendering of the proposed Gateway South Cleveland soccer stadium at left with a Rapid station and rebuilt Old East 9th Street bridge over the Rapid tracks. To the right of the tracks, in a white building with a dark roof, is a structure that is either a repurposed or replaced Cleveland Black Oxide which is being acquired by soccer stadium interests (CSG). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Once again, we’re breaking the news on a pending real estate deal for a Cleveland-area sports stadium. But, unlike the deal by owners of a certain American football team for 176 acres in Brook Park, this stadium site and purpose were already well known.
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| Leasing has started for the Ten60 Bolivar apartments in Downtown Cleveland as construction is nearing its June 1st conclusion. It is the largest residential development project in downtown right now (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
If you’re looking to live in a new-build residential development in Downtown Cleveland, Ten60 Bolivar, located at 1060 Bolivar Rd., between the Gateway sports-entertainment complex and the Playhouse Square theater district, could be your only opportunity for a while. NEOtrans just got an exclusive tour of the property to show you what’s inside.
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| The new Patrick S. Parker Community Sailing Center now under construction at East 55th Street Marina in Cleveland will be first of its kind along Lake Erie in the state of Ohio (Metroparks). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The Cleveland Metroparks and its partners today broke ground on the Patrick S. Parker Community Sailing Center, a world-class community center coming to the East 55th Street Marina in Cleveland. When complete in 2026, the center’s two new structures will comprise the first community sailing center of its kind along Lake Erie in Ohio, offering stunning views of the Downtown Cleveland skyline and Lake Erie sunsets.
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| Greater Cleveland continues to struggle with an aging housing stock, much of which was built before the region’s population stopped growing in the 1960s. Now, most of its new housing stock is in the exurban counties where population growth is occurring at the expense of older, already established communities (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
New estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau show that, while population in Greater Cleveland edged up a bit for the second straight year, the metro area is still down overall for the decade so far. And the city of Cleveland saw its population shift at the same it enjoys strong increases in income tax revenues from young professionals and retired empty nesters replacing lower-income families.
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| This view from the intersection of Lorain Avenue and West 26th Street in Cleveland's Ohio City neighborhood shows the location and design of a proposed boutique hotel in the Market District (DLR). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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| By this time next year, the first of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s new light-rail train cars may be rolling off the assembly line at Siemens Mobility’s assembly line in Sacramento, CA. This was the scene several years ago when the same plant built very similar rail cars to Cleveland’s and were delivered to Calgary, Alberta in Canada (Siemens Mobility). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
There’s good news and bad news when it comes to the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s (GCRTA) new railcar program. And the good news is the result of trying to keep the bad news from getting worse.
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| This rendering of a $1.2 billion renovation of the existing Huntington Bank Field on Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront was released to and published by Scene Magazine today. NEOtrans has verified that the rendering is legitimate (Scene). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
After the first image of a renovated Huntington Bank Field on Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront was publicly released today by Scene Magazine, local officials are asking why it and other images weren’t released sooner by the owners of the Cleveland Browns so that the public could have a more informed opinion on which stadium plan to support.
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| This view is looking southwesterly along a new Cleveland Hopkins International Airport roadway with the new terminal on the right to be built where the existing “smart garage” is located today. At left is a new ground transportation center with parking for 6,000 cars, shuttle bus boarding areas and a Red Line rapid transit train station (Corgan). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Mayor Justin Bibb and Port Control Director Bryant Francis unveiled plans and action steps today for a $1.6 billion first-phase, five-step program of improvements to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in the next seven years, representing the start of more phases to come. The improvements come as Hopkins celebrates its 100th birthday this year.
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| The Nelson Block in the foreground and the Case Building next door on West 25th Street in Ohio City were acquired by new owners in recent months for renovation with new uses. Both are across the street from the Irishtown Bend Park site whose hillside is first being stabilized (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Out goes the Hulett Hotel proposal. In comes a couple of redevelopment projects intended to reinvigorate the north end of West 25th Street in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, dubbed Hingetown. It is one of the last sections of West 25th in Ohio City whose historic buildings have yet to be renovated and redeveloped. All it took was a $110 million hillside-public park project across the street to help seal the deal.
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| At long last, construction is about to get underway on the new Walz Branch of the Cleveland Public Library and, above it, Karam Senior Living affordable apartments in in Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood. It is one of several major construction projects emerging in this area (Bialosky). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
It’s a $34 million project nearly six years in the making. But after a pandemic, a sharp increase in construction costs, pursuits of additional financing and working out a complicated development partnership to build essentially two buildings in one, construction is finally in sight for the new Walz Branch Library topped by Karam Senior Living apartments.
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| The Anthony J. Celebrezze Federal Building, one of Downtown Cleveland’s largest buildings as measured in square feet, will be disposed of by the federal government. The 1.2-million-square-foot building is slightly more than half-full with about 4,000 workers on-site (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) today announced it will initiate a public sale of the 32-story Anthony J. Celebrezze (AJC) Federal Building, 1240 E 9th St, in Downtown Cleveland that could potentially save more than $430 million in total annual operating costs.
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| Newmark’s latest office market report had some gloomy data on leasing activity, espe- cially for Cleveland’s central business district, while noting some potential positives and negatives going forward (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Greater Cleveland’s office market in the first quarter of this year saw its second-lowest amount of leasing activity, as measured in square feet, in the last 16 years since the Great Recession. Only the fourth quarter of 2021, following the pandemic and the rise of remote working, saw less leasing activity locally since 2009.
