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| The city said the Westinghouse buildings, the 1915 tower in the background and the 1880s foundry in the foreground, are in an unsafe condition and need to repaired soon or the city will do it and bill the property owner (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Last spring, everything looked rosy with the pending $81.5 million redevelopment of the former Westinghouse plant near Edgewater Park into mixed uses.
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| Everything visible in this scene on July 30 at West 3rd and Summit streets in Downtown Cleveland is scheduled to be removed in five years. That includes the narrow West 3rd bridge over the railroad tracks, the Shoreway bridge overhead, and Huntington Bank Field. Geotechnical crews are seen here collecting test soil samples for that coming change (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The timetable for the remake of Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront is starting to come together. That includes not only the start of demolition of infrastructure for the new Shoreway boulevard but also for the clearance of Huntington Bank Field to offer a development-ready site.
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| Nine commercial condos are being made available in the first phase of development by L7 Group LLC in Westlake (GPI Design). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In a market filled with for-rent options, a commercial condominium development hopes to offer a new choice for new-start and growing office and industrial users in Greater Cleveland.
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| Marous Development Group’s Chester 82 development will add 131 apartments on the north side of Chester Avenue in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood celebrated the groundbreaking of its latest residential development just last week. However, several projects which got underway earlier this year have seen major construction progress into the autumn season.
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| Proposed to be built along the water’s edge north of where the Huntington Bank Field now stands is this continuous boardwalk, park and vertical the development. The taller development is located at the west end of the site, farthest from Burke Lakefront Airport so if the airport remains, these structures can be built (MVRDV-DLR Group). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Today, the City of Cleveland released updated, post-stadium lakefront plans. On Wednesday, the city is hosting a pre-bid meeting where construction companies and other potential vendors can get information on building the first big pieces of the lakefront’s redevelopment.
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| Cleveland West Veterans Housing nears structural completion at the corner of Neville Avenue and West 73rd Street in the West Boulevard neighborhood (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Compared to other west-side hotspots, Cleveland’s Cudell and West Boulevard neighborhoods have been relatively quiet on the development front. Yet, four construction projects currently underway seem to be fueling a mini building boom.
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| Two train stations owned by the City of Shaker Heights up for sale or long-term lease. At upper left is the Coventry Station on Shaker Boulevard and the light-rail Green Line. The other is Lynnfield Station on Van Aken Boulevard and the light-rail Blue Line (CRESCO). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Admit it. You’ve always wanted to buy a train station — if not to live in, then certainly from which to run your small business. If so, now you’ve got that chance thanks to a new offering by the City of Shaker Heights.
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| The ribbon was cut last night for the new Roger E. Susi Interdisciplinary Research Building, seen here from the Case Quad commons at Case Western Reserve University. But construc- tion will continue for the next month. Faculty, students and research teams will start relocating in December from throughout campus to the new building (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Yesterday was the ribbon cutting ceremony. Today was the media tours. Tomorrow the future starts for Case Western Reserve University’s (CWRU) new Roger E. Susi Interdisciplinary Research Building, 10900 Euclid Ave., in Cleveland’s University Circle.
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| In August, construction was wrapping up for the second time on the 139-unit second phase of The Marquee at Cedar Lee (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The first call came in at about 7:30 p.m. on a frigid Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. Cleveland Heights’ under-construction second phase of The Marquee at Cedar Lee, about 75 percent completed, was on fire.
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| This view of the proposed new Gateway District-Rock Block garage shows two development sites that would be aided by it. The first is at the bottom where a mixed-use development is planned. The other is in the background where the Great Day Improvements Garage, formerly the Gateway East Garage, now stands (Perspectus). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
While a proposed new parking garage for Downtown Cleveland’s Gateway District isn’t intended to structurally support a vertical development above it, the new garage is intended to support new developments next to it, according to two sources who spokes to NEOtrans on the condition of anonymity.
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| A new levy for public transportation in Cuyahoga County offers hope to transit riders and those who would like better, more frequent transit options to be available to them rather than dependency on more cars and parking (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Potential new bus services and even rail extensions were offered as possibilities if the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) puts a larger sales tax levy on the countywide ballot in 2027 and voters support it.
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| An aerial rendering illustrates how the Gateway66 mixed-income housing development would activate the intersection of East 66th Street and Linwood Avenue (PCI). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Today, Cleveland-based Frontline Development Group and Woda Cooper Companies, Inc. formally broke ground on Gateway66, a two-building, 80-unit mixed-income housing development spanning both sides of East 66th Street just north of historic League Park in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood.
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| This view looking north on East 115th Street in University Circle could change dramatically once University Hospitals is given final permission to demolish houses in the background and the apartment building in the foreground for parking (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Two of Northeast Ohio’s prominent institutions are learning first-hand what it means to deal with growth in one of the state’s hottest job centers. While it’s a good problem to have, the ways of solving it require a look at transportation demand management strategies in a space-limited district.
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| This area next to Cleveland’s Ohio City Red Line station, especially the transit authority-owned land to the left, has been considered for transit-oriented development for nearly a decade. A renewed effort has begun to achieve that (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The third time may be the charm for a potential transit-oriented development (TOD) site in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood — in part because it’s the first time a new TOD coalition is initiating it.
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| Walton Senior Apartments adds 52 units of affordable housing for seniors on the north side of Clark Avenue near Fulton Road (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood has seen its historic, pedestrian-oriented commercial district slowly give way to suburban-style retail and drive-through restaurants.
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| American Interiors Cleveland Showroom will relocate to The Carriage Co. in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood from the North Point Tower in Downtown Cleveland (CRESCO). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A fast-growing American Interiors Cleveland Showroom is relocating from Downtown Cleveland to a larger, more visible location at The Carriage Co., 2168 W. 25th St., a major redevelopment nearing completion at the south end of the Market District.
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| MidTown’s newest mid-rise, The 70th Apartments, fills the site of a demolished warehouse on East 70th Street (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
While Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood and overlapping MidTown district have lost much of their historic architecture over the decades, new developments are expanding their housing stock and employment base.
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| A 119-unit apartment building, planned on Random Road in Cleveland’s Little Italy neighborhood, is just beginning its journey through the city’s design-review process. So these early conceptual renderings may be modified in the coming weeks and months (Vocon). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
One of the largest development sites left in Cleveland’s Little Italy neighborhood has a new plan for its reuse and NEOtrans is first to publish images of what the proposed new project could look like. The project would satisfy housing demand from strong job growth in neighboring University Circle.
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| Ferrante Village’s first three homes could soon rise on West 14th Street in Tremont. The houses are currently listed for sale for $1.5 million (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
This week, construction crews broke ground on the first phase of Ferrante Village, a six-home single-family development planned on Tremont’s West 14th Street. It joins a handful of residential projects boosting new construction in the neighborhood — which has quieted since a 107-unit apartment building opened last year at The Park.
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| Nobility Court on Noble Road in Cleveland Heights officially opened today with a ribbon-cutting ceremony led by Mayor Jim Petras (Side Car PR). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Although Greater Cleveland is known as an affordable metro area to live in, the costs of living keep going up — especially for housing and transportation. And that’s where a development like Nobility Court, 2228 Noble Rd. in Cleveland Heights, comes to the rescue.
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| This aerial view rendering shows Cleveland Hopkins International Airport’s two new concourses, replacing the existing three, along with the previously released rendering of the new terminal headhouse and, at lower left, new ground transportation center. This is still a conceptual plan and could change depending on funding, economy and travel market (Corgan). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport could in the coming years go from its current 46 active departure gates divided among three terminal concourses to 40 gates spread roughly equally among two new concourses. And the rental car facility would be returned to the airport grounds for the first time since 1998.
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| Across Lorain Avenue from the Urban Community School’s Urban Squash Cleveland building, at left, is the Seamus-O Building at East 47th Street in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. The Seamus-O Building and several additional parcels sold to a company led by local businessman David Ferrante and attorney Adam Rosen (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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| The historic arch which once adorned the entrance to the Euclid Beach amusement park has been restored and relocated to a new pocket park away from vehicle traffic (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
On the heels of their latest lakefront trail opening, Cuyahoga County and Cleveland Metroparks are already at work on their next trail extension in Cleveland’s Collinwood neighborhood — joining a series of lakefront recreation projects that have already sparked comparisons with Edgewater Park’s transformation of the near-West Side.
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| A peek through the construction fencing around this 1980-built office building on Center Ridge Road in Rocky River reveals a construction trailer and site preparations for the first west-suburban Cleveland location of Akron Children’s Hospital (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Site preparation plus interior and exterior demolition got underway this week for Akron Children’s Hospital’s $30 million renovation and repurposing of the 46-year-old Plaza West office building at 20220 Center Ridge Rd. in suburban Rocky River into an outpatient pediatrics care center.
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| A model home for another 10 to be built on East 67th Street in Cleveland’s St. Clair-Superior neighborhood is already being marketed. The Port of Cleveland is financially supporting the construction of these for-sale, owner-occupied houses (Knez Homes). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The Port of Cleveland Board of Directors on Thursday approved financial support for two projects that will bring new housing, jobs and investment to two Northeast Ohio communities.
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| In 2022, the first of two 24-story apartment towers at Circle Square in Cleveland’s University Circle was under construction. Today, the second tower next door is just getting underway a few steps from the HealthLine bus rapid transit (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Five regional organizations joined forces today to announce the launch of Cuyahoga TOD, a long-term, collaborative effort to advance transit-oriented development (TOD) in Cuyahoga County communities.
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| Next to the Interstate 90 Inner Belt bridges in Downtown Cleveland, a group of Cornell University urban planning students were given a tour of the site of the proposed Gateway South soccer stadium by Cleveland Soccer Group’s Gina Prodan Kelly, closest to the camera, and CSG CEO Michael Murphy, standing next-closest (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A group of Cornell University urban planning students came to Cleveland this week with a scholarly objective — learn about potential soccer facilities and suggest how they can link with their surroundings, including public transit. They left with ideas for and discoveries about Cleveland that could result in more than an academic exercise.
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| Judy McGlinchy, left, and Craig Astler presented “monumental” ideas for redeveloping Downtown Cleveland’s North Coast Harbor at a public meeting last week at Merwin’s Wharf in the Flats (Paul Heney). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
With the Cleveland Browns leaving the city for Brook Park in the next few years, plans for what’s next on the lakefront are heating up. Architectural firm MVRDV, based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, is expected to unveil an update of the entire lakefront plans in the next month or two, on behalf of the nonprofit North Coast Waterfront Development Corporation.
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| Many visitors arrive to Cleveland’s Shaker Square on transit vehicles, such as this GCRTA Blue Line train which originated at Tower City in Downtown Cleveland (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
It’s no secret that Cleveland’s complicated and restrictive zoning code stifles new construction, hinders neighborhood walkability, and renders countless existing buildings noncompliant. Yet it remains to be seen how well its emerging Form-Based Code can resolve these issues.
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| Although each of West Park Shopping Center’s three largest retail spaces shown here have the same placeholder signage, in reality only the largest retail space at left is vacant. That will soon change as a new fitness center will occupy it (Onyx Creative). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A filing submitted to the City of Cleveland today revealed the identity of a new tenant that will fill the largest space at the West Park Shopping Center on Lorain Avenue at West 150th Street.
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| The nation’s largest manufacturer of gasoline-powered automobiles at the start of 20th century was the Winton Motor Carriage Co. on Berea Road north of Madison Avenue in Cleveland’s Cudell neighborhood. Most of the original factory still stands, and now it has a new owner with a plan. Note the test track around the perimeter of the plant (The Motor World-Wikimedia). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
One of Cleveland’s most historic industrial properties is no longer on the to-be-demolished list after it was acquired by a Greater Cleveland-based developer. That property is the four-parcel, 7.3-acre former Winton Motor Carriage Works, 10300-10630 Berea Rd. in Cleveland’s Cudell neighborhood.
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| Reese Consumer Health has signed on as the anchor tenant for the Gateway 55 light- industrial development on East 55th Street in Cleveland’s Slavic Village (Bowen). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Reese Consumer Health, a 120-year-old family-owned, Cleveland-based company that planned to consolidate and expand its facilities earlier this year at a new structure on Woodland Avenue, will instead land at another location.
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| The new East Stokes tower is named for its location. It’s on the east side of Stokes Boulevard at Chester Avenue. The sign on Stokes says this short section of the street south of Chester to Reserve Court is closed for 450 days as of Sept. 21. It’s the next tower in the Circle Square development; the tallest is The Artisan seen at far right. In the distance is the 20-story One University Circle (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Sometimes it’s hard to keep track of all the construction happening in and near Cleveland’s University Circle. And for those who don’t travel to or through here very often, you may be surprised to see the next big construction project is already making lots of progress as these photos from yesterday show.
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| With two 23-story towers, the 1-million-square-foot, mixed-use Reserve Square at the east end of Downtown Cleveland has been the subject of a federal foreclosure case since July 2025 (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration filed a legal action this week in federal court to intervene in a foreclosure lawsuit involving the Reserve Square property in Downtown Cleveland. City Law Director Mark Griffin said the intervention was necessary to protect downtown and to make sure that Reserve Square’s residents have safe accommodations.
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| On a 12-acre site in Cleveland’s Euclid-Green neighborhood, hosting 265,000 square feet of industrial structures, the former Meyer Products snowplow factory will be leased to new users. At the same time, a long-term vision for repurposing the site with advanced manufacturing and/ or distribution facilities will be formulated (CBRE). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A local investor partnership comprised of Reuven Dessler and Rico Pietro acquired a large factory complex in Cleveland’s Euclid-Green neighborhood for a simple reason — it was too good of a deal to pass up.
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| The $678 million Valor Acres development in Brecksville has begun welcoming hundreds of new residents to the southern edge of Cuyahoga County (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The finished touches are being added to Valor Acres, a $678 million mixed-use lifestyle development in Brecksville. In this edition of Progress Pics, we take a walkthrough of the main street activity known as Downtown at Valor Acres, which is now open to pedestrians.
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| Collinwood High School is the largest school building that was awarded a new end-user as a result of a city-led request for proposals process. A local and a national firm won the opportunity to redevelop this large, historic school property (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
New end users of nine closed schools were identified by the City of Cleveland today to reactivate those properties with new uses including senior affordable housing, social services, retail/community event space, and other projects.
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| A trio of 19th-century buildings, including the former Arhaus Furniture headquarters, on Old River Road on Cleveland’s Flats East Bank are for sale and could benefit from emerging developments nearby (CRESCO). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Three of the most historic buildings on Cleveland’s Flats East Bank are now available for sale. And now might be an opportune time for them to get repositioned and redeveloped with other nearby properties getting new directions, too.
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| From the corner of Detroit and Belle avenues, the first building at CASTO’s Lakewood Common development in Downtown Lakewood has topped out (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
While Lakewood lacks the undeveloped greenfield sites that allow outer-ring suburbs to accommodate growth through sprawl, building expansions and infill projects on vacant lots are allowing the historic streetcar suburb to grow its housing supply to meet new demand.
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| The Mandel Community Trail runs along the north side of North Marginal Road and the Shore- way highway, connecting Downtown Cleveland at East 9th Street and Gordon Park at East 55th Street. Much of the lakefront here is only worth passing through, not visiting, featuring barbed wire and Burke Lakefront Airport on the right (Noah Belli). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Today, officials and community partners celebrated the opening of the Mandel Community Trail, a $12 million, 2.7-mile off-road connection along Cleveland’s east-side lakefront between Downtown Cleveland at East 9th Street and Gordon Park at East 55th Street.
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| Downtown Cleveland’s second-largest building, as measured in square feet, is 925 Euclid. A court-appointed receiver of this foreclosed property declined to seek a stalking horse bidder prior to a scheduled auction in November (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A court-appointed receiver of Downtown Cleveland’s second-largest building has opted not to select a stalking horse bidder prior to a scheduled auction to satisfy a foreclosure action.
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| Cleveland State University is offering to sell or lease its vacated Joseph E. Cole Center for Continuing Education on Chester Avenue. The 68-year-old building is located east of the Inner Belt highway, putting it just outside its main campus downtown (CSU). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
On the same day that Cleveland State University (CSU) celebrated completing the renovation of historic Fenn Tower, another aging property at the east end of its Downtown Cleveland main campus awaits a new, unknown fate.
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| California-based health-tech firm Kinomatic has moved into the Hoyt Block at West St. Clair Avenue and West 6th Street in Downtown Cleveland’s Warehouse District. It’s the company’s first expansion beyond the Golden State (LoopNet). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In its first expansion outside of California, health-tech firm Kinomatic leased office space in Downtown Cleveland’s Warehouse District and has plans for growing and leasing a lot more space here.
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| The high-rise The Artisan apartments is about to be joined by another 24-story tower on the lot where the construction fencing is going up. Constructing it is the same development team as The Artisan which leased out in one year despite top-of-the-market rents. It’s the next crane-inducing construc- tion project in booming University Circle (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Construction of high-rise apartment towers are indicative of more than just strength in a housing market. It’s often indicative of strengths of employment and amenities in the immediate vicinity, supported by a walkable setting.
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| The Allen Theater at left is the home of the Cleveland Play House. In the distance is Cleveland State University. A alliance between the two will capitalize on their proximity and align their programs (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland Play House (CPH) and Cleveland State University (CSU) announced an alliance they called “transformational” that will deepen the relationship between America’s first professional regional theatre and Cleveland’s only public urban research university.
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| The historic Mayfield Theater has begun renovation work on the south side of Mayfield Road in Cleveland’s Little Italy (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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| Swagelok built this 119,000-square-foot headquarters building and innovation center in 2020 at the southwest corner of Solon and Cochran roads in suburban Solon, adding 400 new jobs. But that was just a precursor of more hiring to come (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Solon-based Swagelok announced this week that it is planning a major expansion this year and next. That expansion will start by hiring 1,200 people this year with more due to be added in 2027. And most of that hiring will occur in Northeast Ohio, company officials said.
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| The old Van Auken Akins Architects, rebranded in 2024 as DVA Architecture, is moving to new digs in the Halle Building but staying in Downtown Cleveland’s Playhouse Square district (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A growing, rebranded architectural firm can seem a little more fresh when it sheds its old digs and moves into new offices, especially when it gets the chance to design them. So when the opportunity arose to gain a new address, DVA Architecture LLC decided to draw.
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| University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center won its largest-ever federal grant for pediatric emergency preparedness (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center announced today that it was awarded a five-year, $56.25 million cooperative agreement from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) – $11.25 million annually – to lead the newly established Pediatric Prevention Network (PPN). It is the largest grant UH has ever received and marks a major national investment in pediatric emergency preparedness.
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| It may look like a park from the air, but the amount of greenspace on Cleveland’s near-East Side is the result of abandonment — something the city is trying to reverse by investing in infrastructure, creating job-ready sites and sponsoring new, affordable housing construction. This view looks west toward downtown, down Payne Avenue, from east of east of East 55th Street (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine yesterday announced $14 million in grants to support the creation of workforce housing in 10 counties. Cleveland got one of the larger grants which Mayor Justin Bibb welcomed as a recognition of the city’s efforts.
