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| Downtown Cleveland’s newest residential offering is now available for leasing — The Bulkley Residences at Playhouse Square (PHS). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The stage is set for the debut of The Bulkley Residences in Downtown Cleveland’s Playhouse Square District. Its 84 apartments have layouts spanning four floors of the nine-story historic Bulkley Building, 1501 Euclid Ave. in the heart of Playhouse Square.
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| If a majority of Ohio’s Congressional delegation gets its way, the NASA Glenn Research Center next to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport would be the new home of NASA headquarters. The Trump Administration will have the final decision (NASA). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Both of Ohio’s U.S. senators and 11 of its 15 Congressional representatives urged in a joint letter yesterday to Vice President J.D. Vance and NASA Director Jared Isaacman to relocate the space agency’s 2,500-employee headquarters to Ohio, specifically to Cleveland, after its Washington DC HQ lease expires in 2028.
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| A transaction that expands the reach of two Ohio-based construction companies — Baker Construction and Cleveland Cement Contractors — was completed last week and announced this week (CCC). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
As part of an ongoing effort to expand the company’s presence across the U.S, Baker Construction of Monroe in Southwest Ohio announced this week that it will be purchasing the equipment assets from Cleveland Cement Contractors, a Brooklyn Heights-based full-service concrete contractor.
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| This single-level building at the corner of Abbey and Gehring avenues in Ohio City’s Market District will be home to a new Starbucks coffee shop at the near corner. To the right will be four retail spaces for small businesses. Renovations are under way (LDA). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A shift to more chain businesses is under way in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. In February, NEOtrans was first to report that Chipotle is opening a store on West 25th Street in the neighborhood’s Market District. Now, we’ve confirmed that Starbucks has leased a spot near the West Side Market and across Abbey Avenue from the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s (GCRTA) Red Line rail station.
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| Waiting for a new future is the east end of Wade Park Avenue where it intersects with Lakeview Road at the border of Cleveland and East Cleveland. That’s where the old Hough Bakery plant still stands in the background, awaiting a new owner. At right is the plant’s former employee parking lot where townhomes were approved several years ago. And just past the house at left is where senior apartments are planned (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A Central Ohio developer is proposing a senior affordable housing complex across the street from the long-vacant Hough Bakery plant, which appears to be a part of renewed interest in redeveloping this area. The site, in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood is also across the street from East Cleveland’s Circle East District.
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| Sitting vacant and rotting since 1985, the former Warner & Swasey factory on Carnegie Avenue at East 55th Street in Cleveland's Midtown neighborhood may finally be within months of being revived with affordable housing and commercial spaces (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A coalition of developers from throughout the state of Ohio assembled at Cleveland City Hall Friday to discuss the transformation of the abandoned Warner & Swasey building in Midtown Cleveland. A project seven years in the making, representatives from developer Pennrose LLC's Cincinnati office, architect Moody Nolan of Columbus and Midtown Cleveland Inc. sought schematic approval for the adaptive reuse project.
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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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| 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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| 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). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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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| 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 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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| 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). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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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| 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). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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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| 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). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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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| 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). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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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| 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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| 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). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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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| 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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| 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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| 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). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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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| 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). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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.
