CSU seeks to redevelop Wolstein Center site

The Bert L. and Iris S. Wolstein Center is a 13,610-seat indoor arena and event center loca-
ted on the Cleveland State University campus in Downtown Cleveland. A recent univer-
sity masterplan proposed demolishing the 34-year-old facility and redeveloping its 10-
acre site as the “Partnership District” (CSU). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland State University is seeking to redevelop the Wolstein Center arena site in Downtown Cleveland and today issued a request for developers to submit their qualifications to do the job. But the request for qualifications leaves it to developers to decide whether the 34-year-old arena, 2000 Prospect Ave., should stay or go.

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Cleveland’s new hot spot: BVQ District. Here’s why…

A rendering for an early phase in the multi-building Hub 27 development at the north
end of Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood. This section, between Interstate 90
and the Red Line, is the BVQ enclave, named after the streets Barber-Vega-Queen
in that area (BDCL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

There’s an underutilized 50-acre area on Cleveland’s near-West Side dubbed the BVQ District. It is surrounded by Ohio City, Tremont and the La Villa Hispana section of Clark-Fulton. All of those neighborhoods have seen, and continue to see a lot of investment. BVQ has been walled off from that activity by Interstate 90 and the Red Line tracks. But like water overtopping a dam, soon that dam is going to break.

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Tick Tock Tavern leased by Sausalito On 9th owner

The former Tick Tock Tavern space in Cleveland’s Edgewater neighborhood was
leased by Saravanan Chandrababu, owner of Downtown Cleveland’s Sausalito
on Ninth. Interior work is due to start soon as an interior demolition plan was
approved by the city (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A public record filed this week provided the first indication that the space which housed the Tick Tock Tavern in Cleveland’s Edgewater neighborhood has a new lease on life. The owner of Downtown Cleveland’s Sausalito on Ninth was notified by the city that his plan to start renovating the recently closed, eight-decade-old tavern was approved.

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Charter bus operator to offer Midwest routes

Cleveland will be linked by bus to Akron, Columbus, Toledo and Detroit with direct,
one-seat rides plus other cities through connections to other routes (GOGO).
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Starting this summer, GOGO Charters will begin offering regularly scheduled, daily bus services from Cleveland as part of a 15-city Midwest expansion. The new service promises fares as low as $10 for those who book early, similar to Megabus which operated popular routes to Cleveland prior to the pandemic.

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Cleveland soccer stadium to move forward

Looking south from the Inner Belt (Interstate 90) bridges, this revised proposal for a
Downtown Cleveland soccer stadium was announced today with the intentions of
getting it built before the October end of the 2026 Major League Soccer Next PRO
season. The view is disorienting because the downtown skyline is in the opposite
direction (CSG). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland Soccer Group (CSG) today announced plans to build a stadium to host men’s and women’s professional soccer games in Cleveland in 2026, with the proposed development of a new 10,000-seat South Gateway Stadium in Downtown Cleveland. This is intended to coincide with a new announcement in the coming weeks regarding Cleveland securing a new women’s pro soccer team.

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McCafferty site redevelopment in Ohio City revealed

An early conceptual rendering of the potential size and shape of the senior affordable
housing proposed for the McCafferty Center site, as seen at the northeast corner of
Lorain Avenue and West 44th Street in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood
(City Architecture). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Six weeks ago, city officials announced that they had picked Pennrose, LLC and its proposal to build senior affordable apartments on the current site of the Thomas F. McCafferty Health Center, 4242 Lorain Ave. in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. Now, with a Pennrose-led development team submitting to the state its application for Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) for the project, the public can see the developer’s proposed plan.

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GCRTA orders trains for Shaker-Waterfront lines

New trains for all three rail lines in the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
system have been ordered from manufacturer Siemens Mobility. The first trains could
start appearing in Cleveland for testing and training next year, but they won’t begin
 regular service until 2027 (GCRTA). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) has exercised an option to order an additional 18 new Light Rail Vehicles (LRVs) from Siemens Mobility to replace their aging fleet of trains, according to GCRTA and Siemens today. This adds to previous orders, allowing GCRTA to, at minimum, provide a base-level of service on all three of its rail transit lines by 2028.

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Staff reductions to hit Sherwin-Williams HQ

Sherwin-Williams’ new headquarters tower just west of Public Square in Downtown
Cleveland is due to open later this year. But there may be fewer employees moving
to it from the old HQ several blocks away, according to employees who say the
company is reducing JQ staff (The Sherwin-Williams Company).
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With Sherwin-Williams due to move into its new headquarters tower in Downtown Cleveland later this year, there may be fewer managers making that move. That’s according to two company sources who told NEOtrans on the condition of anonymity that Sherwin-Williams is downsizing its headquarters staff, primarily through early retirements and/or voluntary layoffs.

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Shaker Square demolition to avail housing site

An early concept for a multi-family building on the southeast corner of Cleveland’s Shaker
Square district was shared with the Landmarks Commission prior to its approval of the
demolition of a decayed retail strip facing Van Aken Boulevard at right, and Drexmore
Road at left (Paran). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Although the demolition of an historic retail strip in Cleveland’s Shaker Square district was on Landmarks Commission’s docket, much of the panel’s discussion focused on what might follow the demolition. Ultimately, the commission unanimously approved razing the two-structured Van Aken Plaza located at 2742-2782 Van Aken Blvd. for a landscaped greenspace — for now.

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Senior affordable housing deal OK’d in Cleveland Hts

A senior affordable housing development is planned for this city-owned parking lot at
the corner of Euclid Heights Boulevard and Lancashire Road in Cleveland Heights. An
apartment building stood here until it was demolished in the 1970s. Beyond is a church
and another city-owned parking lot that will be part of the development (Google).
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City officials in Cleveland Heights today announced they have entered into a purchase agreement with National Church Residences (NCR), a Columbus-based non-profit senior housing developer, to acquire two city-owned properties for a planned $22 million, 71-unit, senior affordable-rate apartment building.

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Cleveland competed for Canon — and won

By adding its logo last week to this building in Cleveland’s University Circle, Canon
Healthcare visually marked it territory — a site where it could expand south and east
with new research and manufacturing facilities in the coming years (Dwain Ross II,
Photographer, Untapped Visuals). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

When the Ohio Tax Credit Authority on Monday approved financial assistance to Canon Healthcare USA Inc. for its new headquarters in Cleveland, state officials revealed that Ohio wasn’t the only state that was focused on the Japanese-based imaging company. NEOtrans also learned details of Canon’s property lease with the Cleveland Clinic Foundation which helped secure the new HQ.

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St. Theodosius Cathedral restoration plan set

St. Theodosius Orthodox Cathedral in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood looked
like this before a devastating fire last year and could look like this again following
its pending reconstruction (Bostwick). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A team of contractors, architects and structural engineers is about to start visible efforts of what is more than just a job, but a vocation. That calling is to restore the 114-year-old St. Theodosius Cathedral in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood to its former glory, from the ashes of a devastating fire that occurred on May 28, 2024.

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Canon Healthcare buys Cleveland building for HQ

Located on the southeast corner of Cedar Avenue and East 105th Street in Cleveland’s
University Circle district is the new headquarters for Canon Healthcare USA. The
former IBM Explorys building gained its new owner’s logo last week (Canon).
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Canon Healthcare USA, Inc., a subsidiary of Canon Inc., today announced its acquisition of an established building for its headquarters, adjacent to Cleveland Clinic’s main campus in Cleveland’s University Circle district. This purchase has been in the works for some time and NEOtrans had reported recent progress toward the deal earlier this month.

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Cole Eye Institute expansion opens today

In September 2024, the expansion of the Cole Eye Institute was just starting to get its
white cladding to cover up the green construction material. The original 1999-built
Cole Eye Institute is seen at right from the intersection of Euclid Avenue and East
105th Street (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland Clinic Foundation continues to keep the ribbon-making industry in business as it cut another streamer today in opening the latest addition to its growing Main Campus near University Circle. The new building is part of a $172 million expansion and renovation of The Jeffrey and Patricia Cole Pavilion at Cleveland Clinic’s Cole Eye Institute.

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Universities worldwide compete to redesign Cleveland’s Lake Shore Power Plant site

With Lake Erie and Interstate 90 in the foreground, the background is changed from
a polluted former power plant site into a dynamic urban community between Gordon
Park and East 55th Street. Thisconcept, by a partnership of Harvard University and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was just one of 82 submitted to an international
design competition (Harvard-ULI). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

With deference to the classic movie “Casablanca,” of all the abandoned industrial sites in North America, the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Hines Student Competition picked Cleveland’s vacated Lake Shore Power Plant site as the canvas for its 2025 design competition. Four finalists were announced today in the competition that drew 82 entries from universities worldwide, with the winner to be named April 3 in Cleveland.

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Public Square info hub gets grant, design approval

A proposed programming hub for Downtown Cleveland’s Public Square was approved
today by the City Planning Commission and could appear this spring next to Superior
Avenue (LAND Studio). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Improvements to Cleveland’s Public Square took a step forward today when the City Planning Commission unanimously approved a temporary, yet robust programming hub. The hub, designed to replace tents currently used by staffers for downtown events would not only provide workers shelter and a place to store materials, but also function as a kiosk for posting event schedules and wayfinding.

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Watterson-Lake Apartments design approved

The corner of Detroit Avenue and West 74th Street in Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway
neighborhood could regain more of its urban settings in a couple of years with the
construction of the Watterson-Lake project and encourage further restorations of
 the urban fabric in the area (Stantec). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Efforts by city officials to repopulate Cleveland neighborhoods don’t always go smoothly when residents and community officials have gotten used to not having people, density and activity around for decades. But a mixed-use project intended to restore some of that urbanity got approved today by the Landmarks Commission in a contentious meeting.

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Pioneer/Jaja restaurants at INTRO set repair plans

The area outlined in red including an elevator suffered structural damage from a car
crash early in the morning Oct. 31, 2024. Also, the bollard next to the arrow sign at
left was damaged along with the sidewalk. All of those items will be restored to their
original condition by September (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Just after 3 a.m. on Halloween 2024, an Audi crashed at high speed into a section of the INTRO mixed-use complex, at 2050 Gehring Ave. in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. While the driver wasn’t seriously hurt, the damage to the structure was so severe that two restaurants, Pioneer and Jaja, affected by the crash are still closed and repairs won’t be completed until 10 months after the initial impact.

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Rebuild Cleveland, FutureHeights unite to add housing

Modular home construction in Greater Cleveland is becoming increasingly popular
with improved manufacturing quality and housing styles. Such infill housing can
be affordably built on-site in a matter of hours once the foundation is in place
(Rebuild Cleveland). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Rebuild Cleveland, LLC and FutureHeights, Inc. have embarked on an official collaboration to bring transformative infill housing development to Cleveland Heights. This partnership leverages Rebuild Cleveland’s considered approach to residential development and FutureHeights’ extensive track record of creatively engaging the community to develop exceptional housing that is responsive to the community’s needs and respectful of its architectural heritage.

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Van Aken District’s next big project starts in March

The Arcadia at the Van Aken District in Shaker Heights is scheduled to see
construction start in March with completion set for Fall 2026 (RDL).
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When one project is completed at a megaproject district, a good sign of its health is to see another project in same area start soon thereafter. That’s what is due to happen in a couple of weeks at the Van Aken District in Shaker Heights, according to a Columbus-based developer.

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Lake Shore Power Station site redo a long play

Northeast of Downtown Cleveland, a lake-fed discharge pond is left over from the
former First Energy Lake Shore Power Station that was demolished in 2017. Several
cooling ponds and associated structures are proposed to be demolished in the next
few years by a new property owner to make way for future development (IDA).
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The owner of one of Cleveland’s largest privately owned lakefront properties announced its intentions to redevelop the site. But some of its proposed uses were not welcomed by a lakefront advocacy group.

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Great Lakes Brewing IDs Scranton Peninsula project

This 2-acre site between Cuyahoga River and Carter Road on Scranton Peninsula is
proposed to become a potential waterfront entertainment venture and beer garden
for Great Lakes Brewing Company. Remnants of a former Republic Steel mill that
closed in 1973 remain on site. The middle retaining wall reportedly will be kept
 while the wall at right will be removed. In the background are two apartment
complexes under construction with downtown’s skyline beyond (KJP).
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Great Lakes Brewing Company (GLBC) officials today confirmed a report published by NEOtrans last weekend that they are pursuing development on Cleveland’s Scranton Peninsula in the Flats. The first phase of that development was described by GLBC founders Pat and Dan Conway as “a potential entertainment venture and beer garden,” in a statement they issued today.

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Ronayne ‘optimistic’ about Browns staying downtown

Although Downtown Cleveland’s existing Huntington Bank Field is five years newer
than the two professional sports facilities at the nearby Gateway Sports and Enter-
tainment Complex, renovations were chosen for them. City and county officials
also want the football stadium renovated whereas the owners of the Cleve-
land Browns want a new, enclosed stadium in suburban Brook
Park (HSG). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Active discussions between the city of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County and the owners of the Cleveland Browns are back on for the $1.2 billion renovation of the city-owned, 1999-built stadium on Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront, Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne told NEOtrans in an interview today.

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Cleveland, Lakewood projects boosted by Port

The Carriage Co., a $51.6 million mixed-use redevelopment of the former Voss
Industries plant in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, received financial
assistance today from the Port of Cleveland that will help it get renovations
work underway by spring (SA Group). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Three redevelopment projects — two on Cleveland’s west side and one in Lakewood — were awarded financial assistance today by the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority’s board of directors to advance them to construction in the coming weeks. The assistance totaled more than $97 million worth of financing, sales tax savings and bonds.

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Pinecrest bought by North Carolina firm

Looking north from Harvard Road at Interstate 271, the 640,000-square-foot Pinecrest
lifestyle center in Orange draws business primarily from the affluent eastern suburbs
of Greater Cleveland (Tanger). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Tanger, a publicly traded owner and operator of outlet and open-air retail shopping centers, has acquired Pinecrest, a 640,000-square-foot open-air, grocery-anchored, mixed-use center at Harvard Road and Interstate 271 in Greater Cleveland’s eastern suburb of Orange Village.

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UH invests $3M in housing next to League Park

The Gateway66 affordable housing development located on East 66th Street in Cleve-
land’s Hough neighborhood just got a $3 million boost from University Hospitals.
This view is looking north on East 66th at Linwood Avenue. A corner of Historic
League Park is visible at far right (PCI). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Two big actions happened in the past week to support new affordable housing next to Historic League Park in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood. One was a $3 million investment by University Hospitals in the proposed Gateway66 apartment complex. The other was a building permit application submitted to the city for that project.

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UCS’s West 47th remake to include new ballpark

The south end of West 47th Street is due to look very different by this time next year,
featuring Urban Community School’s new Little League Ballpark.But all of West
47th, seen at left in this south-looking rendering, is looking different these days
with more than $11 million worth of capital improvements underway (Kaczmar).
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For leaders of the Urban Community School (UCS), West 47th Street has been a street of dreams. But those dreams are becoming a reality in 2025, with more to come by the end of the year – including a new baseball field of dreams.

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Great Lakes Brewing picks Scranton Peninsula

On Scranton Peninsula, a Great Lakes Brewing Company tasting room and beer garden
was proposed between the Cuyahoga River and Carter Road in 2017. This is a concep-
tual image showing what that could look like and includes a concrete retaining wall
left behind from a former Republic Steel mill complex. But it is not known yet
what the company has in mind for the waterfront site (Coburn).
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There’s still a lot we don’t know about Great Lakes Brewing Company’s (GLBC) vision for Scranton Peninsula in Cleveland. But NEOtrans has learned is that there are once again plans for the independent craft brewery to make a big investment in Cleveland Flats rather than relocate to an exurban site along an interstate highway.

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University Circle tower goes back to drawing board

The conceptual rendering of East Stokes is likely to change but it isn’t publicly
known by how much. Construction costs for the proposed tower came in higher
than expected, forcing the development team to look at ways of cutting costs
and possibly increasing revenues from the planned component of the
Circle (SCB). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Design review of East Stokes, what would be University Circle’s tallest building, was moving along at a rapid clip last fall. Things were moving so quickly that the development team, led by PCP Voyager, anticipated that if City Planning Commission could approve the final plans by Thanksgiving, a spring groundbreaking of 24-story apartment tower might be possible.

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Commission OKs Bedrock’s riverfront masterplan

Proposed uses in Bedrock’s riverfront masterplan, the final version of which was
approved today by the City Planning Commission’s Design Review Committee
(MKSK). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A design review panel of Cleveland’s Planning Commission today approved Bedrock’s final masterplan for its multi-phase, $3.5 billion riverfront development. But while the vote was unanimous, commission members asked some pointed questions about how all of its components would successfully come together.

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Sherwin-Williams HQ opening delayed 7 months

The silver Sherwin-Williams headquarters tower is at center-left in this
Downtown Cleveland skyline sunset view. Work continues on the new
616-foot tower and its pavilion on Public Square, including construc-
tion repairs that will delay the grand opening ceremony by seven
months (Paul J. Heney). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

NEOtrans was first to report several weeks ago that a grand-opening ceremony for Sherwin-Williams’ new headquarters was scheduled for next month despite that a “major hiccup and flaw” in construction of the tower had to be repaired. Now, that ceremony has been pushed back by seven months, according to public records secured by NEOtrans.

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Chipotle expanding to Ohio City

The current site of Soho Chicken + Whiskey in Ohio City’s Market
District will become a new Chipotle Mexican Grill. But fans of Soho
need not despair as the popular establishment will be moving nearby
rather than closing (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

When the chains start replacing mom-n-pop businesses in a growing neighborhood, some welcome them as a validation of its success while others reject them as a weakening of a neighborhood’s uniqueness that created that success in the first place. The replacement next year of the popular Soho Chicken + Whiskey with a Chipotle Mexican Grill is the latest example of that shift in Ohio City’s Market District in Cleveland.

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Is DeWine’s stadium tax idea a good bet?

An enclosed Huntington Bank Field in suburban Brook Park could be supported by
a new sports facility and education fund proposed by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine. But
the fund would be site-agnostic, giving life to those seeking to keep the Cleveland
Browns playing their home games in Downtown Cleveland (HKS).
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Everything from helping to finance a new stadium for the Cleveland Browns to funding sports programs for low-income families could be supported by a new sports facility and education fund sought by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine in his proposed state budget. But the proposed fund doesn’t pick a stadium site for the Browns, which appears to give Downtown Cleveland site backers more of a win than it does for the owners of the pro football team.

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Canon Healthcare USA picks Cleveland for HQ

The vacant former IBM Explorys headquarters at Cedar Avenue and East 105th Street
will be acquired by Canon Healthcare USA for its new headquarters. This acquisition,
in partnership with the Cleveland Clinic and others, represents a first step toward a
lot more investment in the surrounding area, including advanced manufacturing
(Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Over the past several years, Canon Healthcare USA was considering multiple locations inside and out of Greater Cleveland for its new headquarters. While most real estate insiders believed it would land at the former IBM Explorys headquarters, 10500 Cedar Ave., in Cleveland’s University Circle, it was not a done deal. With the city’s passage of a job creation income tax credit last night, it now appears to be.

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Receiver appointed for Downtown office complex

The North Point office complex in Downtown Cleveland includes 901 Lakeside
Ave. at left, 1001 Lakeside at right, and a parking garage behind them with its
primary entrance off East 9th Street in the distance at far left (Google).
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On Friday, Judge Christopher Boyko at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio ordered the North Point office complex in Downtown Cleveland be placed in the hands of a receiver to manage the property and, more specifically, to pay its creditors. The request was made earlier in the week by Wells Fargo Bank, as trustee for the benefit of the registered holders of GS Mortgage Securities Corp.’s distressed loan collateralized by the property.

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Downtown hotel to have new operator

Proposed new signage on the front of the historic New England Building, also called
the Guardian Building, on Euclid Avenue will replace that of the current hotelier, a
Holiday Inn Express (Mira Development). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

After 26 years in business, Downtown Cleveland’s Holiday Inn Express, 629 Euclid Ave., will close. But its already got a replacement lined up in the form of an AC Hotel by Marriott, according to a developer leading the transformation.

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Ohio City apartment building planned

A locally based development team pursuing an Ohio City apartment building on
West 26th Street has received approval of its conceptual plans from a design-
review panel (GLSD). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A 109-unit market-rate apartment building planned along West 26th Street in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood recently passed its first hurdle. But it has more to come, including a rezoning, vacating an alley, design-review approvals and winning over urban neighbors who expressed fears of the multi-family development.

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Health care hub planned near downtown

Just east of Downtown Cleveland in the Midtown neighborhood is the new home
of Lake Effect Health and affiliated companies that are relocating from suburban
Brooklyn. The founder of those companies bought the building last summer and
will renovate it to offer health care services from here (Google).
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The closure of St. Vincent Charity Medical Center in 2022 has left a health care void on Cleveland near-east side. While that’s a big void to fill, an entrepreneur from the suburbs wants to start trying. And she’s already planted her flag at the northeast corner of Prospect Avenue and East 36th Street.

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Developer to rebuild after Cleveland Hts fire

Looking west down Cedar Road from the front yard of Cleveland Heights High
School, firefighters from 17 different communities joined forces Jan. 25 to
quickly contain a rapidly spreading fire at the Marquee at Cedar Lee apartments.
But it took 20 hours before the fire was completely extinguished (City of
Cleveland Heights). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The developer of the Marquee development has informed Cleveland Heights city officials that it will rebuild the structure that was destroyed by an overnight fire that began Jan. 25. The 139-unit Marquee at Cedar-Lee building fronting Cedar Road in the 13200 block, was still under construction and unoccupied at the time of the fire, which started about 7 p.m.

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New East-Side fieldhouse due at Breakthrough School

This view is of the main entrance on the south side of the proposed new fieldhouse
at Breakthrough Schools’ Woodland Hills Campus. The existing school building is
to the right. This entrance to the fieldhouse will allow community activities, such
as voting, to occur here and be separated from the classrooms during or after
 school hours (Marous). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Having affordable, comfortable places for the community to gather for events, sports and even voting can be hard to find in Cleveland’s Kinsman and Woodland Hills neighborhoods. But that could soon change for the better based on plans for a new fieldhouse at Breakthrough Schools’ Woodland Hills Campus, 9201 Crane Ave. Those plans were submitted this week to the city’s Building Department.

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Moen move blindsided city, biz development orgs

This three-decade-old corporate headquarters building for Moen was refurbished only
several years ago. Community development officials believe it is a marketable property
and hopefully will attract new users soon to fill a void in the city’s financial ability
to  provide public services (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

When the conglomerate parent of faucet and fixture-maker Moen told the world via press release on Jan. 22 that it was consolidating its various brand headquarters to suburban Chicago, it was also notifying all of the Ohio-based economic development organizations about the move for the first time.

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Hotel announced at Haslam’s District 46 in Berea

Looking southeast the proposed District 46 from above the intersection of Lou Groza
Boulevard and Front Street, the planned hotel will be at left and overlook a new com-
munity athletic field. Apartments over retail/restaurants also overlook the sides of
the field. At the field’s south end, a community recreation center will be part
of a later phase (AODK). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Although the District 46 mixed-use development in Berea didn’t win a megaproject tax credit yesterday for adding a community recreation center at the development’s south end, it isn’t slowing down the rest of the $155 million project.

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Bedrock Riverfront Wins Greater Cleveland’s only TMUD

A conceptual rendering of Bedrock’s Rock and Roll Land hotel-topped entertainment
center at right, overlooking Collision Bend in the Cuyahoga River. Later phases of
the Bedrock’s riverfront development are seen to the left (Adjaye Associates).
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It seems $100 million doesn’t go as far as it used to. At least it didn’t today when the Ohio Tax Credit Authority awarded $100 million in Transformational Mixed Use Development (TMUD) tax credits to just nine projects statewide. Northeast Ohio won two — Greater Cleveland got just one of those. And that was the last of four rounds of TMUDs authorized by the Ohio General Assembly unless some previous awards aren’t used and are made available.

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At best, federal funds for major projects on hold

Redesigning the Shoreway highway through Downtown Cleveland is a major infra-
structure project that recently was awarded millions in federal funds. The fate of that
and other funding to local infrastructure and energy projects may be in doubt due to
a 90-freeze and agency review mandated by the Trump Administration (FO).
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Millions, if not hundreds of millions of federal tax dollars awarded to local infrastructure and energy projects may be at risk from a 90-day funding freeze and review mandated earlier this week by the new Trump Administration. That possibility was raised today at the first board meeting of the year for Greater Cleveland’s metropolitan planning organization (MPO) which distributes federal funds to transportation and air quality programs.

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Cleveland Clinic to lay off 114 employees

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation is laying off employees throughout the global
health care system during rising costs in the healthcare industry (CCF).
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For the first time in years, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation is laying off 114 employees throughout the global health care system. But the number of pending layoffs in the context of the scale of the system is comparatively small and hiring in other departments continues, Clinic officials said today.

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Catanese Seafood to sail from Flats to Collinwood

For 92 years, a seafood business has operated out of this riverfront location at
Merwin Avenue and Center Street in Cleveland’s Flats. That will come to an
end when Catanese Classic Seafood relocates to Collinwood in the coming
months. Cleveland Metroparks bought this building as well as the Grain
Craft flour mill, visible in the background at left in this wide-angle view.
Soaring overhead is the Detroit-Superior Bridge (Google).
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A familiar face in Cleveland’s Flats district is packing up and heading to the city’s east side to make way for the Cleveland Metroparks’ expanding makeover of the Cuyahoga River waterfront. Catanese Classic Seafood, 1600 Merwin Ave., is making a move in the coming year to the Greater Cleveland Food Bank’s facility at 15500 S. Waterloo Rd.

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Blue Abyss inks deal with NASA Glenn

Commercial space training company Blue Abyss has signed an agreement with
NASA Glenn Research Center to provide astronaut training to the space
 agency (NASA). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In a groundbreaking move for the commercial space sector, Blue Abyss has signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Glenn Research Center. This collaboration aims to accelerate advancements in commercial space training, research, and infrastructure development, further positioning Blue Abyss as a key player in the global space industry.

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2025’s return to the office? It started in 2024

While there is hope in new office market data that the worst of the office glut is
over, real estate investors and lenders are cautious when considering support-
ing expansions, acquisitions or refinancings of office assets (Cresco).
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Although a variety of four-letter words have frequently been used to describe the office market since the pandemic, there’s a new one being uttered lately — “hope.” That word made its appearance in the latest Cleveland office market report by Newmark, one of the industry’s most respected collectors and analysts of real estate inventory market data.

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Bedford, UH reach settlement over hospital site

Bedford Hospital, now University Hospitals Bedford Outpatient Campus on
Columbus Road. As a city-owned property, it will become the subject of a
request for proposals for healthcare providers and other investors to
redevelop (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The City of Bedford has reached a settlement agreement with University Hospitals (UH) that includes the transfer of the former Bedford Hospital site and surrounding properties to the city and a $2.1 million payment. This settlement ends a two-and-a-half year legal dispute stemming from UH’s controversial August 2022 hospital closure.

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Moen moving its HQ to Chicagoland

The headquarters for Moen Inc. appears to be getting ready to hop on the highway
out of town. A press release and local sources say the longtime Cleveland-area
company will be relocating its HQ from North Olmsted to the Chicago suburb
of Deerfield, IL (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Faucet and fixture maker Moen Inc. is relocating is corporate headquarters from the western Cleveland suburb of North Olmsted to the northern Chicago suburb of Deerfield, IL by the summer of 2026, according to a press release and affected employees. It is not known how many of Moen’s 600-plus HQ employees are making the move but it appears that a significant number of them will.

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