Huge Unified Operations Center planned for Cleveland Clinic

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

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

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East Cleveland celebrates neighborhood investment

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

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

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Shaker Square development site ID’d

At the southeast corner of Superior Avenue and East 12th Street, in what was the heart of
Cleveland’s office district for half of a century, the new owner of 1100 Superior is trying
to reinvent its property (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

After an express car wash withdrew its plans for a new Shaker Square location in response to residents’ protests, the question remains: how can developers navigate neighborhood opposition? For local developer Dan Whalen, the answer is simple — ask the neighbors.

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Downtown tower gives new meaning to ‘mixed use’

At the southeast corner of Superior Avenue and East 12th Street, in what was the heart of
Cleveland’s office district for half of a century, the new owner of 1100 Superior is trying
to reinvent its property (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Some districts offer a mix of uses — residential, commercial or public spaces. Some buildings mix uses within their walls, often retail on the ground floor with residential or offices above. But 1100 Superior is going further — mixing uses on the same floors.

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Cleveland Amphitheater headlines riverfront’s next act

New renderings show the future Cleveland Amphitheater under the watchful eye of
the Lorain-Carnegie Hope Memorial Bridge from which it takes design inspiration
(Bedrock Cleveland, MKSK, DLR Group). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Transformational changes are underway on Cleveland’s riverfront and the City Planning Commission will soon get a look at the next major phase of construction. Renderings were released this week of the Cleveland Amphitheater, a new venue that will reinvigorate the industrial Flats into a lively entertainment district.

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Cleveland Clinic’s Main Campus slide puzzle

Puzzles can hinge on one important piece. For the Cleveland Clinic, that piece is this — the
8700 block of Euclid Avenue where the Cleveland Clinic police station at right and the
Mellen Center at left are about to yield to the Clinic’s new Central Utility Plant (Google).
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If you’re a health system earning $18 billion per year and you want to build a new bed tower where your aging Central Utility Plant sets, you move the utility plant. But if the place where you want to build a new utility plant has a police station and a neighboring multiple sclerosis care center, you move those uses, too.

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School buys more development land

The Urban Community School, at left across West 50th Street, acquired 10 parcels
of land at right including several structures along Lorain Avenue (Google).
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At first glance, the property transaction doesn’t stand out. At less than 1 acre of land, it’s not a big piece of land. And the holding company that purchased the land was created with a unremarkable name the day before the deed transfer was signed.

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Buyer interest in 925 Euclid is high

Interest in the 1.45-million-square-foot 925 Euclid Ave. is high among potential buyers of the
property as it is at Millennia Companies which owns the building now and has sought to rede-
velop it as The Centennial (Sandvick). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

For a large, vacant, old building needing significant repairs before it can even host new occupants in a soft market, there is a healthy amount of interest in buying The Centennial, 925 Euclid Ave. in Downtown Cleveland. The difficulty in redeveloping the building resulted in a lender foreclosing on the property.

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Clark-Fulton, Stockyards rebuild with new infill

A new, replacement Clark PreK-8 School opened last fall on the north side of Clark Avenue,
welcoming students from the now-closed Walton Elementary School (Harrison Whittaker).
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As Ohio City continues to see new construction activity, momentum is edging south into the adjacent Clark-Fulton and Stockyards neighborhoods, where vacant lots are giving way to the types of dense developments that support walkability and transit ridership.

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PNC has big plans for Downtown Cleveland

PNC Center, a 35-story, 46-year-old office tower in Downtown Cleveland is undergoing major
renovations and is activating its four-story annex at left, including adding several ground-floor
retail spaces along Euclid Avenue (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

It’s perhaps the best news for Downtown Cleveland’s troubled office market since 2020 when Sherwin-Williams announced it would build a new headquarters here. PNC Bank today confirmed to NEOtrans it will spend big on improving its own skyscraper — including adding new storefronts along Euclid Avenue.

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There is life after foreclosure Downtown

A good story is happening at the Fifth Third Bank tower in Downtown Cleveland after
the property fell into foreclosure under the prior owner. Building improvements and
new tenants are offering a new outlook for the 35-year-old building (LoopNet).
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Fifth Third Bank tower shows there is life after foreclosure. Ownership of the 28-story tower, built in 1991 at 600 Superior Ave. in Downtown Cleveland, transferred in 2024 from Hertz Investment Group to its lender, an affiliate of Prime Group Finance of San Francisco.

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Office market recovery to take ‘years’

The corner of Euclid Avenue and East 9th Street was the heart of Cleveland’s office market. In
the 1980s, nearly 60,000 office jobs were located within two blocks. Today, of the 10 built-as-
office-buildings of eight stories or taller seen here, three are vacant, three others were conver-
ted to residential/hotel uses, and four remain as occupied office buildings. The PNC Bank
Plaza at center is a healthy outlier (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Newmark’s market reports are well-regarded in the real estate industry. Their data is typically dry, yet spot-on. And they almost always avoid drama in their analyses. But their second-quarter 2026 office market report for Greater Cleveland added some unusually colorful adjectives to their data.

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Soccer stadium partners with Rock Entertainment Group

The proposed Cleveland soccer stadium in the Gateway South District offers branding, sponsor-
ship and marketing opportunities that Rock Entertainment Group will help realize (CSG).
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Cleveland Soccer Group (CSG) today announced that Rock Entertainment Group (REG) – the organization behind the Cleveland Cavaliers, Rocket Arena and Cleveland’s incoming WNBA franchise – will lead the naming rights and entitlement sales process for South Gateway Stadium, CSG’s planned 10,000-seat venue on the south side of downtown Cleveland.

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Demolition for Bridgeworks starts

Workers and their heavy equipment began taking down the former Cuyahoga County Engineers’
buildings at the west end of the Detroit-Superior Bridge in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood
(NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Demolition crews started working this week to raze the former Cuyahoga County Engineers’ garage and lab complex at the northeast corner of the Detroit-Superior Bridge and West 25th Street for the long-planned, multi-family Bridgeworks development.

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NE Ohio wins big, $160M advanced manufacturing grant

Case Western Reserve University of Cleveland led the Northeast Ohio
Strengthening Manufacturing for American Resilience through
Technology. One place where this new effort could be supported is the
university’s new $300 million Interdisciplinary Science & Engineer-
ing Building which is nearing completion (Harrison Whittaker).
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Hundreds of regions competed for a large, prestigious grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to boost advanced manufacturing. But it was a 70-member coalition from Northeast Ohio that came out on top today.

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Renovations helping to preserve historic Ohio City

An historic mansion at 3117 Franklin Blvd. is being converted into apartments
as part of the Franklin Yards development (Harrison Whittaker).
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A neglected building can drag down an entire block, but restoring an obsolete structure can do the exact opposite, creating renewed activity that cascades to nearby businesses. In Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, a wave of renovation projects could serve as a model for preserving the city’s dwindling stock of historic buildings.

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Westwood in Rocky River fetches $28.7M

 The L-shaped Westwood Town Center on Center Ridge Road in suburban
Rocky River has a new owner (JLL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A popular, well-leased, strip-shopping center in Cleveland’s western suburbs was just sold by a local firm to a larger, national company based in New York City.

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Vacant lots may grow useful again

Too much of Cleveland’s East Side looks like this — rural. From nearly 100,000 residents
in the 1960s to fewer than 20,000 today turned this crowded area into an urban prairie.
This is East 65th Street at Luther Avenue, where the Hough neighborhood meets St Clair-
Superior (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Taken together, Cleveland’s Hough and St. Clair-Superior neighborhoods aren’t that big of area. But its large amount of vacant land weighs heavily on the City of Cleveland.

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Complete lakefront master plan due in October

After 2029, when Huntington Bank Field closes and stops hosting major events that require
hosting a huge surge of cars, the stadium will be razed and new lakefront uses will replace it.
Those proposed uses could make their first appearance in plans to be released in October
(NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Representatives from the North Coast Waterfront Development Corporation (NCWDC) gave Cleveland city planners an update on the lakefront master plan on Friday. As the process nears completion, the first tangibles of a new public realm are taking shape.

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Filling downtown’s grocery gap

The grand, former Cleveland Trust rotunda at Euclid Avenue and East 9th Street has housed
a Heinen’s grocery store for 11 years. But from the outside it’s difficult to tell what’s inside,
if it’s open or how to get in. Once inside, the floor layouts are difficult for a grocery store
to use and its merchandise unsuitable for an urban clientele, observers say (NEOtrans).
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With the Downtown Cleveland Heinen’s grocery store, 900 Euclid Ave., set to close at the end of this month after 11 years in business, city, county and civic leaders are undertaking a two-pronged response to fill the void in the short- and long-term.

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Two Downtown towers sell for $4.25M – total

Downtown Cleveland’s Ohio Savings Plaza on East 9th Street and its little brother Park Plaza
to the east both sold to the Kassouf family albeit under different corporate identities. And they
sold for bargain price (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Rumors had swirled for weeks but no one was willing to confirm it — until yesterday when the sale of the Ohio Savings Plaza and Park Plaza office buildings hit public records.

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Three big Cleveland developments advance

In University Circle, the $140 million Stokes East Tower will rise 24 stories next to the Wade
Park Lagoon and add to the residential inventory of one of the fastest-growing employment
districts in Ohio (SCB). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. 

Three major Cleveland development projects totaling nearly $300 million in value won financing today from the Port of Cleveland. Together, the trio of projects will add 536 housing units, 121 hotel rooms and more than 23,000 square feet of commercial space.

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NEO fund to boost biz, job sites

Greater Cleveland has gained some major employers in its transition from an economy that was
dependent on manufacturing. But that doesn’t mean it has given up on manufacturing. It does
mean that it needs more tools to attract employers of all kinds and in existing communities
that the region’s labor pool can access (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Once upon a time, Cleveland was the nation’s center of industrial innovation and small, new-start businesses that resulted from it. Perhaps you’ve heard of a few of them — Standard Oil, General Electric Lighting, Sherwin-Williams, TRW, Cleveland-Cliffs, Lincoln Electric, Parker Hannifin to name a few.

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‘The old Master Chrome building is down’

Master Chrome had only months of visible business activity left when this screenshot was
captured in active in June 2019. It was allegedly adding to pollutants to the site that took a
team of people at the state, county and city governments to demolish, clean up and con-
tinue to monitor (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Master Chrome was just a small industry on a small lot. Its structure didn’t even measure 10,000 square feet. The land on which it set was barely more than half an acre.

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GCRTA delays levy decision to September

A Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority bus rolls by St. Ignatius High School bearing
mixed messages. So is the authority’s board, saying transit funding is important but lacks the
immediacy to avoid service cuts (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The future of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) didn’t get much clearer at a special board meeting held today. But the transit agency’s trustees did vote unanimously to support a compromise action that could put a sales tax levy on the ballot in May 2027. The board is due to finalize its decision in September.

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Slavic Village CDC hires new director

Mark Rantala was named the new executive director of the nonprofit Slavic
Village Development (SVD). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Already with a week on the job at the new executive director of Slavic Village Development (SVD) in its namesake Cleveland neighborhood, Mark Rantala has been out and about, engaging with the community.

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Next Lakewood developments take shape

Lakewood Common, a mixed-use development on the south side of Detroit Avenue
in Downtown Lakewood, will include apartments over retail (Harrison Whittaker).
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As the two-building Westline development on Detroit Avenue starts to fill up, Lakewood won’t need to wait long for its next major mixed-use project. In fact, an even larger, $119 million development has nearly topped out less than a mile away at the former Lakewood Hospital site.

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Warehouse District lot buyer revealed

This parking lot at the southeast corner of West 9th Street and St. Clair Avenue in Down-
town Cleveland will remain a parking lot for the foreseeable future despite it gaining
a new owner (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Last week, NEOtrans reported that one of the last large “parking craters” remaining in Downtown Cleveland’s central business district has a buyer. This week, we confirmed who the buyer is and what they plan to do with it.

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West Blvd shared use path advances

A conceptual rendering of a shared-use path along West Boulevard linking several of Cleve-
land’s west-side neighborhoods (contributed). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

State and local officials announced this week that the State of Ohio awarded $100,000 to the City of Cleveland to develop plans for a shared-use path for cyclists, joggers, pedestrians and others living in or visiting the city’s West Boulevard, Cudell, Clifton-Baltic and Edgewater neighborhoods.

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Greater Cleveland gets 2 TMUDs

Formerly known as the Rose Building, Project Scarlet also includes the smaller, neighboring
Sloane Building that is amassing financing for its conversion from office building to mixed-
use complex, including residential, hotel and ground-floor retail along East 9th Street in
Downtown Cleveland (Diamond Signs & Graphics). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Although Project Scarlet is in Downtown Cleveland and Valor Acres is in suburban Cleveland, the two developments have something in common. They both won $7 million in Transformational Mixed-Use Development (TMUD) tax credits from the State of Ohio today.

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GCRTA levy to appear on ballot

Like waiting for a bus, a levy to avoid transit service cuts and fund a modest expansion
of public transportation in Cuyahoga County is due to arrive soon. The only question
is when (City of Cleveland). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A half-percent sales tax increase to fund a modest expansion of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) and prevent more service cuts starting next year is going on the ballot in Cuyahoga County. The only question is when. And that will be decided by the GCRTA board July 7.

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Housing maker finds home in Midline

While this modular home factory is an extra-clean example of such a facility, a long-aban-
doned factory on Cleveland’s East Side will be significantly renovated for this manufac-
turing purpose (SRF). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

 

The first manufacturer to locate in Cleveland’s new Midline Priority Investment Area on the city’s near-East Side was named today. It followed last week’s award of historic tax credits for the revival of the historic Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Engineering plant, 7000 Central Ave. where Cleveland’s Fairfax and Central neighborhoods meet.

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Euclid, Solon to land new biz, 115 jobs

Since this streetview was taken in 2022, the south end of the Bluestone Business Center 2 has
a new tenant, a distribution center for retailer Target. The far end will host a new manufacturer,
Monteferro USA. This building previously hosted an Amazon flex distributor (Google).
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Two companies plan to hire 115 employees, generating nearly $7 million in new payroll while investing nearly $700,000 in renovating facilities for their businesses in two Greater Cleveland communities.

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Cleveland landmark to fall

Demolition crews are starting to dismantle the 107-year-old FirstEnergy Brooklyn Service
Center on Ridge Road in Cleveland. It was constructed by FirstEnergy predecessor Cleve-
land Electric Illuminating Co. (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A large, familiar landmark that has stood along Ridge Road at the south end of Cleveland’s Stockyards neighborhood since 1919 won’t be standing much longer.

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Shaker Hts, Brook Park win TOD grants

A decade ago, before the pandemic spurred remote working, an office building and plaza were
planned at this city-owned lot at the northwest corner of Warrensville Road and, at lower left,
Chagrin Boulevard, at the end of the light-rail Blue Line. This design was also panned by
transit advocates who complained it would block a Blue Line extension south or east-
ward for decades (RMS). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Two of Cleveland’s first-ring suburbs served by rail transit won federal grants this week. The awards will help them develop construction-ready plans in partnership with real estate firms for transit-oriented developments at several sites next to their rail services.

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Downtown Heinen’s to close after 11 years

Often described by visitors as the most beautiful grocery store in America, the Heinen’s
store and its former Cleveland Trust Bank rotunda will have to find a new use after July
31 (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Northeast Ohio-based Heinen’s grocery stores announced today that their iconic location in Downtown Cleveland will close permanently on July 31. A new use for the for space, described by many visitors and shoppers as the nation’s most beautiful grocery store, has apparently not been found.

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Warehouse District buyer, project emerges

A parking lot at the corner of West 9th Street and St. Clair Avenue in Downtown Cleveland’s
Warehouse District may indeed be the subject of a vertical development based on the workers
in the background drilling for core samples at locations around the lot this week (NEOtrans).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A large parking lot in Downtown Cleveland’s Warehouse District that’s been up for sale twice since 2019 apparently is now under a purchase agreement with a buyer who seems interested in developing it.

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Cuyahoga’s lucky seven win $18.5M

According to plans filed with the city, the owner of the 54-year-old 1100 Superior, Brady
Sullivan Properties, is converting floors 3-5, 9, and 13-15 from office spaces to 160 apart-
ments. It just won a maximum historic tax credit from the state to help finance its
work (CBRE). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Ohio Department of Development Director Lydia Mihalik today announced more than $86 million in historic tax credits to support the preservation and revitalization of dozens of historic buildings across the state. Of that, nearly $18.5 million was awarded to seven projects in Cuyahoga County.

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GCRTA weighs sales tax hike to avoid deeper service cuts

Some Cleveland streets, such as the northern portion of West 25th Street in Ohio City, see very
frequent bus service because more than one route is combined here. But without a new source of
revenue there will be fewer buses which means fewer connections and thus fewer destinations
and jobs will be accessible by transit (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s (GCRTA) Board of Trustees learned today the bus and rail agency is facing one of three potential futures. While there are solutions to all three, GCRTA staff said only two would offer some benefits in addressing costs that are spiraling out of control.

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More housing to rise on West Side

Four townhouses could see construction in the coming weeks at the corner of Lake Avenue and
West 83rd Street in Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood. It’s one of many west-side pro-
jects sought by developer Insight Holdings (Insight). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A variety of new housing products are due to start arriving over the next year on Cleveland’s West Side. Not only are they a mix of for-sale and for-rent housing, they are of different styles and located in different neighborhoods.

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Major east-side projects reach new Heights

Crews are nearly done framing 141 new apartments at Arcadia, just across the street
from the transit-oriented Van Aken District in Shaker Heights (Ian McDaniel).
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With summer in full swing, momentum grows on completing several high-profile construction projects around the east side Heights. Hundreds of new apartments and hundreds of millions of dollars in investment are underway to construct more walkable and transit-oriented districts.

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Clinic’s car-dependency collides with community

In less than a dozen years, stunning growth has changed East 105th Street, where Cleve-
land’s University Circle and Fairfax neighborhoods meet. Transportation access to this
booming area has improved but still lags Downtown Cleveland’s even though Uni-
versity Circle’s employment and population are quickly catching up (Google).
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Each morning, the red lines appear on the traffic app’s map. The lines, along with their yellow brethren, make for a colorful mosaic along the otherwise green-shaded grid of neighborhood streets surrounding the Cleveland Clinic. But that’s the only attractive thing about them. No one wants these indicators of traffic congestion — not city officials, Clinic officials, neighbors or commuters.

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Car wash biz withdraws Shaker Square plan

Proposed design concept for the Shaker Square car wash (SBA).
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Clean Express Auto Wash, a Cleveland-area express car wash operator and a brand of Express Wash Concepts, issued a statement today today that it has withdrawn its application for a proposed car wash location in Cleveland’s Shaker Square.

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Another big site added to the Midline

The former American Sugar Refining Co. plant on Carnegie Avenue in Midtown closed early
last year, was sold last month and in the coming weeks will be demolished for an as-yet uniden-
tified end user. The 10.3-acre property has joined many others in the Midline redevelopment
district to be reactivated once again (CRESCO). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Another big piece of land has been added to the Midline redevelopment district on the city’s near-East Side. And officials are wasting no time in clearing the site for future development.

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Massive mixed-use projects rise in Cuyahoga County

From the central green in Valor Acres, the rest of the $678 million mixed-use development
takes shape in Brecksville (Ian McDaniel). CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

While billions-worth of development is underway to revitalize downtown Cleveland and adjacent neighborhoods, billions more in mixed-use developments are rising in communities throughout Cuyahoga County.

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City Hall to fight Shaker Square car wash

A Clean Express Auto Wash stands on Broadview Road in Parma in a well-landscaped setting.
But vocal opposition to building one next to Cleveland’s historic Shaker Square emerged at a
design review committee meeting today (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

It may be one of the nicest-designed, best-landscaped and best-operated car wash operations you can find, but Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb, his chief of development, City Council members and a committee of the City Landmarks Commission said a proposed car wash doesn’t belong next to Shaker Square.

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Clinic seeks OK of Emergency Dept expansion

Seen from the corner of Cedar Avenue and East 93rd Street, this massing shows the scale,
shape and location for Cleveland Clinic’s planned 120,000-square-foot expansion of the
Maria & Sam Miller Emergency Services Building. If the City Planning Commission
agrees with this concept, the details of the design will be filled in (Cleveland Clinic).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland Clinic and its facility planning consultants are seeking approval next week from the Cleveland Planning Commission for conceptual designs for its expanded Emergency Department, called Building E, 9105 Cedar Ave., in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood.

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Flats find new life with wave of openings

Good Night John Boy recently moved to this building on the riverfront, an upgrade
among several happening all around the Flats East Bank (Ian McDaniel).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

When the sudden closings of several long-term tenants punctuated the end of the 2025 season, many were quick to declare Flats East Bank in Cleveland “dead” once again.

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Cosm goes vertical downtown

Cosm Cleveland rises at the northeast corner of Huron Road and East 4th Street
in Downtown Cleveland’s Gateway District (Harrison Whittaker).

In Downtown Cleveland’s Gateway District, Cosm’s vertical construction is moving along — fast. The massive “shared reality” entertainment venue, being developed as part of Bedrock’s Rock Block, would stream sports events on a nearly 100-foot, 12k-resolution LED dome.

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Cleveland data center plans to expand

Within its existing building shell at right, which is as long as the new Sherwin-Williams head-
quarters is tall, the Cleveland H5 Data Center plans to expand its capacity on Rockwell
Avenue downtown (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Plans were submitted today for the expansion of an existing data center in Downtown Cleveland that could be affected by the city’s proposed moratorium on data centers. Unlike a newly proposed data center that was rejected by the city last month, this latest project involves expanding within the walls of an existing structure.

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