Cleveland’s waterfronts: The New Year’s story

As Cleveland sheds 2025 for 2026, many of the development
stories are unfolding along its waterfronts (NEOtrans).
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A $1.1 billion Neurological Institute on Cleveland Clinic’s Main Campus will be structurally completed. Downtown’s new 616-foot-tall Sherwin-Williams headquarters tower, part of the coatings company’s $860 million “Building Our Future” initiative, will see its ribbon cut. And construction is due to start on the Haslam Sports Group’s $2.4 billion enclosed stadium in Brook Park.

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Progressive HQ goes to auction

Progressive Insurance’s first headquarters building in Mayfield Village
remains unsold after nearly two years on the market (LoopNet).
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One of Northeast Ohio’s largest for-sale office properties will soon be put up for bid. Progressive Insurance’s first headquarters campus it constructed in the eastern suburbs is scheduled for a Feb. 2, 2026 auction.

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Senior apartments planned for Slavic Village

A new senior apartment complex is planned in the vacant lot at left, across
Waterman Avenue from Hyacinth Park in Cleveland’s Slavic Village
(Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In the early 2000s, the Hyacinth Lofts were developed in the old Cleveland School Book Depository, offering hope for a revival of the Slavic Village enclave named after an historic St. Hyacinth Roman Catholic Church. Then the foreclosure crisis hit, devastating this once working-class, ethnic neighborhood.

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Miami University picks Cleveland Innovation District site

This 70-year-old building on Carnegie Avenue, recently called Cleveland Clinic’s DD Build-
ing for back-office functions, was acquired, modernized and repositioned as a for-lease office
space by CedarTech and Cumberland Development. Miami University will occupy the
fourth floor of this building (Cresco). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Miami University and Cleveland Clinic revealed in public records filings that they will make a $1 million investment to build out the university’s new location in Cleveland to boost healthcare education, quantum computing and healthcare research, plus workforce development.

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Clinic, IHG to upgrade hotel to voco Suites

The InterContinental Suites Hotel Cleveland at Cleveland Clinic is about to get upgraded
to voco Suites, IHG Hotels & Resorts’ global brand offering resort-style amenities (IHG).
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Many who stay at the InterContinental Suites Hotel Cleveland at Cleveland Clinic, 8800 Euclid Ave.,in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood, are visiting for an extended period, such as for medical testing and long-term treatments. So as long as they’re here, they’re now going to get a resort-style stay.

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Next Superior renovation is partial, for now

Formerly the offices of Thomas J. Unik Insurance and built as the Grossman Paper Box
Company, this building on Superior Avenue on the east side of Downtown Cleveland
is being partially renovated to make it more marketable for sale and eventual
redevelopment (Cresco). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

An historic, four-story commercial building on the east end of Downtown Cleveland has gone on the market. And, at the same time, renovations to the building are about to begin, at least partially. Those two seemingly disconnected actions have a connection — making the property more marketable.

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Hotel land sale may boost GCRTA station developments

Stark Enterprises, which owns the La Quinta Inn By Wydnham at left, will buy the land it
is leasing from the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority. The transit agency owns
property here for its Puritas-West 150th Red Line station, visible at right (Google).
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A land sale recently approved by the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) went largely unnoticed beyond the agency, as did the creation of a fund where the sale proceeds will be deposited. But when combined, both could have long-term implications for the cash-strapped transit agency which is considering significant service cuts.

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$300M CWRU project at heart of growing University Circle

The Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Building rises on the Case Quad
(Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In the three years since Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) first announced plans for a new Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB), the $300 million donor-supported project has seen substantial progress.

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Brook Park stadium access public meeting Jan. 14

Major changes are proposed to the Interstate 71-Snow Road interchange in suburban Brook
Park to handle traffic to and from the Haslam Sports Group’s planned enclosed stadium
nearby (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA) and the City of Brook Park, will host a public meeting next month to provide residents, businesses, visitors and other stakeholders with an opportunity to learn more about and engage in an open discussion on regional transportation and traffic pattern considerations associated with the new enclosed stadium in Brook Park.

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Home on the Opportunity Corridor?

Six triplexes like these are planned a short distance from the Opportunity Corridor in one
direction and Karamu House Theatre in the other by a developer that’s already investing
in housing renovations near Cleveland’s University Circle (Young Design Studio).
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Developing in a neighborhood where much of the neighborhood is gone has its plusses and minuses. On the upside, it’s a chance to reboot the community without upsetting existing neighbors because there aren’t many left. And in this case, one of them is a member of the development team so there’s little chance of a NIMBY backlash.

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Lakefront master developer is chosen

This lakefront development masterplan, created in the last three years, will be updated
to include the redevelopment of the 25 acres on which Huntington Bank Field, seen
as a white box here (FO). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A company with a great deal of development experience in Greater Cleveland, including having a hand in the relocation of the Cleveland Browns to suburban Brook Park, was named today as the master developer of Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront that encompasses the current Browns stadium site.

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Ten Cuyahoga County developments win Ohio historic preservation credits

West Side Market stands at the center of the bustling Market District in Cleveland’s
Ohio City neighborhood. And its continued renovation got a $5 million boost today
in the form of Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credits (NEOtrans).
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Ten redevelopment projects in Cuyahoga County were awarded historic preservation tax credits today by the Ohio Department of Development. In total, those represent nearly one-third of all winning projects statewide and two Cleveland projects won the $5 million maximum of historic credits.

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Euclid seeks redo of former church site

A small portion of the former St. Robert Church property is visible here at the corner of
Lakeshore Boulevard and East 238th Street in Euclid. The property wraps around the
house at far-right and extends south 1,000 feet to Elmwood Drive (Google).
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One of Euclid’s largest undeveloped properties may not lay fallow much longer. After the former St. Robert Bellamine Church, located at 23802 Lake Shore Blvd., closed 15 years ago, the site is finally being put on a path to redemption.

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Canon Healthcare USA HQ comes into focus

At just seven years ago, the former IBM Explorys building is still young. But new owner
Canon Healthcare USA has big changes in store for the structure to accommodate the
imaging business and its equipment (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. 

After nearly a year since it acquired an office building in Cleveland’s University Circle and two years since it announced a partnership with Cleveland Clinic, Canon Healthcare USA has now revealed that it is moving forward with modifications to that office building for its headquarters.

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Clinic to coach healthy cooking at new kitchen

A rendering of the planned new teaching kitchen at the Langston Hughes Community
Health and Education Center in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood (RPMI).
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A large number of a hospital’s patients are treated for avoidable health problems, with many of those traced to what we eat. For many of us, we didn’t learn enough about healthy foods or how to prepare them. Or we simply forgot in our grab-n-go, fast-food culture.

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Richmond mall redo, Old Brooklyn bank jobs get Port financing

Belle Oaks, a planned mixed-use redevelopment of the former Richmond Town Square
shopping mall in Richmond Heights, got port financing to advance its development
(Bialosky). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority Board of Directors today approved $55 million in bonds for apartments and retail space at the site of the former Richmond Mall in Richmond Heights and $6 million in bonds for new housing planned for Cleveland’s Old Brooklyn neighborhood.

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Rockefeller buyer has big plans for site

The Rockefeller Building was the tallest building in Cleveland when the first phase of it was
built in 1905. It was added onto at left in 1910 and remained an office building until several
years ago. While its redevelopment has been elusive, there is some light at the end of the
tunnel or, in this case, ramp (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

We may be only a few weeks away from learning more details about a possible sale of Downtown Cleveland’s historic Rockefeller Building. But the grapevine is already buzzing as to what might happen after a sale is closed.

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Circle North fuels Glenville momentum

The second phase of NRP’s Churchill Gateway project rises on Churchill Avenue in Cleve-
land’s Glenville neighborhood (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Five years ago, NEOtrans reported that a development boom in Glenville’s Circle North district had reached nearly “every block.” Despite an economic environment which had slowed construction activity, that momentum seems to be making a comeback.

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Why Hopkins Airport may regain hub

Cleveland Hopkins International Airport has the most international travelers of any non-hub
or non-focus-city airport east of the Mississippi River. Yet this is Cleveland’s only nonstop
transatlantic flight, a near-daily Aer Lingus round trip to Dublin, Ireland. In the background
is Concourse D which, as of next year, will have been abandoned for as long as the 12 years
it was in use (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Eleven years ago, United ended its hub operation at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, leaving the 1999-built Terminal D vacant and relinquishing some of the airport’s remaining gates to expansion by low-fare airlines.

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Lakewood developments come into focus

The façade of Westline apartments nears completion on Detroit Ave (Harrison Whittaker).
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In October, NEOtrans’ inaugural Progress Pics article featured exclusive construction photos of Lakewood’s Westline apartments.

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Filling the lakefront void left by the Browns

The North Coast Yard is a pop-up park created on city-owned lakefront land, north of
Huntington Bank Field and next to the Steamship William G. Mather Museum. Al-
though temporary, its recreational uses are are the types of public-space programming
that can be expected in a redevelopment of Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront after
the stadium is demolished (NCWDC). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Among the objectives in redeveloping Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront is to fill the physical and economic void to be left by Huntington Bank Field and their main attraction, the Cleveland Browns. That was one of the insights shared by the chief of the North Coast Waterfront Development Corp. (NCWDC) at yesterday’s Planning Commission meeting.

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Warner & Swasey revival is a go

A building that was left for dead many times over the past four decades displayed a hopeful
message for the first time in a long time last night under a full moon. A timetable for its
recovery was projected onto the long-vacant Warner & Swasey building on Carnegie
Avenue (MidTown Cleveland). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Warner & Swasey co-developers Pennrose and MidTown Cleveland today announced the closing of the last gap in the financing for the $64 million redevelopment of the historic factory, located at 5701 Carnegie Ave. in Cleveland’s MidTown neighborhood.

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Tremont hillside mixed-use vision at risk

As seen from the Interstate 90-Inner Belt bridge, the Tremont hillside land above the
Cuyahoga River includes a flat “shelf” where the dump truck and piles of aggregate
are located. It was the site of a railroad yard for 125 years and is proposed to be re-
developed with mixed uses (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A potentially massive mixed-use development at the north end of Cleveland’s vibrant Tremont neighborhood, next to the Towpath Trail and overlooking the Cuyahoga River, may be on hold for a while. Instead, if there is a hillside development here, it could be mostly commercial — at least for the foreseeable future.

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Hotel planned for historic grain mill in Flats

As seen from a passing ship, the former Cereal Food Processors/Grain Craft mill sets between
the Cuyahoga River and Merwin Avenue. The brick building is called the Main Mill while the
wooden portion at right is called Elevator A. Behind are the larger concrete silos, called
Elevator C. All will be retrofitted with hotel rooms and ground-floor hotel uses inclu-
ding a restaurant. The metal garage at left will be demolished (NEOtrans).
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Roughly $10.3 million in federal historic tax credits were awarded to a proposed $61.6 million redevelopment of an abandoned 19th-century riverfront flour mill in Cleveland’s Flats into a hotel and supportive uses. And up to $5 million in state historic tax credits may be added by the end of the year.

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Cleveland Council OKs Browns settlement

Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront could look very different in a decade or less, following City
Council’s approval of a settlement that lets the Cleveland Browns leave for suburban Brook
Park and pays for the stadium’s demolition. In a couple of weeks, we may hear what replaces
the stadium and surrounding parking lots (FO). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

With a 13-2 vote tonight, Cleveland City Council authorized a proposed settlement agreement between Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration and the Haslam Sports Group (HSG), owners of the Cleveland Browns football team. The deal involved some last-minute negotiations as it wasn’t even on council’s agenda earlier today.

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Cavs’ practice facility marks start of riverfront transformation

The Cleveland Clinic Global Peak Performance Center will host practice facilities for
the Cleveland Cavaliers (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In 2021, Detroit-based developer Bedrock first announced its plans to develop a long-neglected portion of the Cuyahoga riverfront with 35 acres of mixed-use development and green space. While the project was originally planned to be completed in phases over two to three decades, company executives now believe they can deliver it within 5-10 years.

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Heights developments reach new heights

Gateway North will offer 351 beds for John Carroll University students atop a Trader Joe’s
grocery store at the entrance to the college in University Heights (Ian McDaniel).
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This snowy edition of Progress Pics highlights the multiple developments under construction around the eastern suburbs. In total, several hundred residential units are set to open next year in Cleveland Heights, University Heights, Shaker Heights and Richmond Heights alone.

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Cleveland among fastest warming cities in USA

Enjoying outdoor events later the season has become possible in Cleveland due to climate change.
Here, the St. Ignatius High School soccer team plays at Cleveland State University’s Krenzler
Field on a sunny, mild October day (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Despite the snowy Thanksgiving holiday, Cleveland’s status as a climate refuge got a warm review thanks to new data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In the last decade, only three U.S. cities’ climates warmed faster than Cleveland’s, according to the new data.

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Haslam-Cleveland lakefront deal delayed

Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront looks very different without anything there but green-
fields — be it a pro football stadium, a Shoreway bridge across the railroad tracks, or
parking lots encroaching on a big city’s waterfront. But this is what it could look like
by the early 2030s. The question of what will replace these longtime features will
be answered next month (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

One deadline has passed. Another is about to. And a third is coming up. But by the end of the year, Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration hopes to have a much more coherent vision of Downtown Cleveland lakefront development whose private-sector investment could exceed $1 billion — with a capital B.

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Apartments arriving ‘soon’ at RTA station

With additional financial support in place, financing is near to closing for the Depot on
Detroit apartments, just west of the West Boulevard-Cudell transit station on Cleve-
land’s West Side (City Architecture). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Like any new large new development with multiple sources of public and private financing, Depot on Detroit is taking a long time to get rolling. But at long last, there is a light at the end of the tunnel and it isn’t a train.

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CSU Fenn Tower, Hall renovations to start

A lot of construction will be happening here in the coming years. Not only is the 22-story
Fenn Tower to be renovated, but the brutalist Science Building at left will be expanded
with a new addition facing Euclid Avenue and Fenn Hall redeveloped to add a Bio-
medical Discovery Complex. Behind the Science Building is the four-story
Fenn Hall (CSU). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland State University (CSU) today announced the renovation of two of its most historic buildings. Fenn Tower, one of the campus’s most recognizable landmarks, and Fenn Hall, home to many of CSU’s STEM-related teaching and research labs are the focus of more than $100 million of planned investment.

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E. 185th car dealership site reboot in works

In the early 1980s, Jackshaw Chevy had already been in business on East 185th Street for
nearly 30 years. Dealership buildings and lots for cars and trucks were on both sides of
the street. While the building at left still stands, the one at far right was razed exactly
one decade ago (reprinted with permission of EuclidEvolution.blogspot.com).
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For more than 75 years, there was a Chevrolet car dealership at the north end of East 185th Street, where the cities of Cleveland and Euclid meet. And for the last 17 years, there’s been stop-n-go efforts to revitalize those vacant lots with no success. But that could change with a new approach underway.

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Downtown Cleveland may lose HQ

It’s an uncertain time for older office buildings in Downtown Cleveland. The latest to
 face uncertainty is 800 Superior, which is home to AmTrust Financial Services'
operational headquarters and hundreds of employees — but possibly
not for long (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

With its lease running out at the end of next year, a major employer in Downtown Cleveland is searching for answers. The questions are — to stay put and aid in the rebirth of a decaying property? To relocate to another downtown building? Or to move to one of many vacant, modern office buildings in the suburbs?

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East 89th rises amidst Fairfax’s renaissance

Two of six new Victorian-style apartment buildings on East 89th Street designed
to mimic historic Cleveland homes (Harrison Whittaker).
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In May 2022, NEOtrans broke the news that Timothy L. Tramble, Sr., president and CEO of the St. Luke’s Foundation, planned to build 48 housing units on East 89th Street through his firm We Rise Development LLC.

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Erieview Tower residential advances

Once the second-tallest building in Downtown Cleveland, Erieview Tower is getting
a makeover and a partial conversion to residential and hotel uses that will include a
freshening up of its black and dark-green exterior (Google).
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With interior demolition work wrapping up, the Erieview Tower redevelopment team is now getting ready to update the building’s life safety infrastructure and convert the tower’s midsection to residential.

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Cleveland RTA riders face big service cuts

   

A budget crunch at the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority could mean
service cuts starting next year, just as the transit agency is about to take possession
 of its first new trains since the Reagan Administration (contributed photo).
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Due to higher operating costs, especially in healthcare for its employees, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) plans to make significant cuts to bus and rail services in 2026, cutting a lifeline to jobs, education and medical services.

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Progress Pics: the Shoreway Tower

A tower crane was being erected in place two weeks ago to build a similarly tall Shoreway
Tower apartments. This was the view from Edgewater Park. The Shoreway Apartments, at
left, were the result of an going redevelopment of a 19th-century industrial district into a
mix of uses, The Shoreway Tower is the next step in that redevelopment (NEOtrans).
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For the first time ever, a tower crane has risen along Cleveland’s lakefront near Edgewater Park on the city’s West Side. It marks the spot and the approximate height of a new, luxury apartment tower that will rise next to it over the next 15 months or so.

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Report: Cleveland ranks 2nd in USA in redeveloping closed schools

At a sprawling 11 acres in the heart of a Hough neighborhood getting rediscovered, the site
of the now-closed Martin Luther King Jr. High School could be one of Cleveland’s largest
mixed-use redevelopments. Seen here in 2016, MLK High was still four years away from
closure due to declining enrollment (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

While Cleveland is not unique among major cities in having a declining school population, it is proving to be adept at adapting. It is turning what would otherwise be a potential problem of blighted, vacant school buildings and lands that would drag down neighborhoods into redevelopment opportunities that might lift them up.

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Progress Pics: Cleveland Clinic advances on largest-ever building

Construction crews shuffle between floors at the Cleveland Clinic’s new Neurological
Institute (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Cleveland Clinic is pushing closer to completion on a collection of new facilities across three different buildings. On Carnegie Avenue between East 89th and 90th streets, the 1-million-square-foot Neurological Institute has topped out with façade work nearly complete.

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Downtown AC Hotel construction to start

Renovations will start in about two months to convert the Holiday Inn Express in Down-
town Cleveland into the first AC Hotel by Marriott located in the city’s central business
district. This entrance on Euclid Avenue will be closed for the duration of the con-
struction work (SA Group). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Condominium owners and other tenants of the historic New England Building, 629 Euclid Ave., got word this week that renovations will start soon to convert just over half of the building from a Holiday Inn Express into an AC Hotel by Marriott. This will be the first AC Hotel in Downtown Cleveland.

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Warner & Swasey, Westinghouse redevelopments get Port financing

The five-story Warner & Swasey building at left and the eight-story Westinghouse
building at right are east- and west-side redevelopment stories that preserve Cleve-
land’s historical identity for new roles in the city’s post-industrial future
 (GLSD, AODK). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority’s Board of Directors today approved financing actions supporting two of Cleveland’s long-proposed major redevelopment projects. And it also approved a land transfer today to advance the Irishtown Bend Park in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood.

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Progress Pics: Lakewood Common fills ‘The Pit’

The former Lakewood Hospital site is cleared in preparation for the Lakewood
Common mixed-use development, from the corner of Detroit Avenue and Belle
Avenue (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Though the $119 million Lakewood Common project celebrated its groundbreaking in late September, the former Lakewood Hospital site has remained dormant for more than a month.

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Tech firm expands in Downtown Cleveland

Data integration firm NE2NE expanded into new offices on the third floor of Downtown
Cleveland’s Caxton Building on Huron Road, seen here from its intersection with
Prospect Avenue. (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Growing technology company NE2NE today announced the opening of its new headquarters in the historic Caxton Building, 812 Huron Rd., in Downtown Cleveland. This move marks a significant milestone in the young company’s journey and a renewed commitment to fostering community and innovation in its hometown.

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Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame and Museum gets new home

A grand-opening ceremony will be held next week for the Urban Community School’s
new Roundstone Athletic Center on West 47th Street on the city’s West Side
 (Kaczmar). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

After more than a year of construction, the Urban Community School today announced that it is scheduled to open the Roundstone Athletic Center (RAC) with a ceremony at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 21.

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River Recycling plant to be rebuilt

Although difficult to see from Bradley Road in summer time, River Recycling Industries,
Inc. will be more visible this winter, especially as demolition and reconstruction work
take place following a destructive fire in September (Google).
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A start-from-scratch rebuilding project was launched today following a late-September fire at River Recycling Industries, Inc., 4195 Bradley Rd., in Cleveland’s Old Brooklyn neighborhood. The fire ignited multiple rounds of live bullets that were among spent casings to be recycled along with a propane tank that exploded.

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Progress Pics: Ohio City adding hundreds of homes

A 29-unit new-construction apartment building rises on the north side of Franklin Avenue
at West 32nd Street. It is the first phase of the Franklin Yard development that includes
historic redevelopment of a Victorian-era mansion and an early 20th-century
YWCA (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

High construction costs, tariff uncertainties, and changes to city tax abatement policy have brewed skepticism that current development momentum can continue — especially in urban neighborhoods like Ohio City.

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Ambitious Metroparks riverfront plans to progress

The Historic Coast Guard Pier and Station at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River was under
renovation this past summer as evidenced by the crane and barge on site with Downtown
Cleveland in the hazy background. The Coast Guard Pier and Station renovation is one of
the Cleveland Metroparks’ many downtown waterfront projects under way (NEOtrans).
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There’s no slowing down the Cleveland Metroparks next year — at least according to updates recently shared with the public. Several projects are under way or proposed that will drastically change the downtown Cleveland riverfront over the next five years. New details and lingering questions paint a picture of what comes next for the Cuyahoga River.

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Wade Park Station wins final OK

Wade Park Station senior apartments are planned next to an elevated railroad line and
the Red Line rapid transit tracks at the corner of Wade Park Avenue and Lakeview
Road (RDL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A Central Ohio developer was awarded millions of dollars worth of tax credits based a conceptual plan for a senior apartment complex called Wade Park Station, located where Cleveland’s University Circle and Glenville neighborhoods meet East Cleveland.

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County to spend $865K on new HHS offices

Not only has the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections moved to the former Plain Dealer
Plaza, but so will some Health & Human Services offices. While costing money up front,
the moves are expected to save money in the long run (Google).
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While Cuyahoga County officials contemplate how to address a $20+ million budget shortfall in each of the next two years, the county and its real estate contractors are planning to spend $865,000 to renovate office space at the former Plain Dealer (PD) Plaza, 1801 Superior Ave. in Downtown Cleveland.

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Bridgeworks demolition plan approved by city

Former Cuyahoga County Engineer’s offices and garage await their fate at the west end
of the Detroit-Superior Bridge. It appears that a demolition permit is due to be issued
soon to clear these structures so a seven-story apartment building can be constructed
(NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

There is a saying in real estate deal-making that “November is the month where we ask — are we doing this or not?” The reason is that many in the real estate business want to get deals closed and projects under way before the end of the year.

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