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| Want to love Downtown Cleveland more? Spend more time experiencing more of it, says Downtown Cleveland Inc. (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Downtown Cleveland, Inc. (DCI) says that the biggest thing wrong with the city’s central business district is that not enough people are familiar with it. If more people visited it more often, DCI said people would enjoy it more. And DCI has a survey of perceptions to back up its argument.
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| Looking south across a basketball court at Cudell Commons, construction of Marion C. Selzter Elementary School moves ahead (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland’s Edgewater, Cudell, and West Boulevard neighborhoods are currently facing a small wave of development, ranging from renovations to new construction. But the path to groundbreaking has been easier for some projects than others.
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| As previously reported by NEOtrans, AmTrust will split up its office presence in Greater Cleveland. Its downtown offices will move to the AECOM Building seen here where it make a large investment to update and enhance its space (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Even as AmTrust takes steps to divide up its Downtown Cleveland offices into suburban and downtown locations, the financial services company is about to make a major investment into its new downtown offices at the AECOM Building, 1300 E. 9th St., according to plans filed with the city this week.
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| With a working title of the Lorain Avenue Redevelopment, a new building offering affordable housing atop a new office for Ohio City Inc. will replace the aging, nearly vacant McCafferty Health Center, providing more housing choices in a neighborhood with high rents (City Architecture). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Three Cleveland developments won competitive, highly coveted tax credits that will help push each of those new housing projects toward construction. In total, the trio will add 165 affordable residential units. But one of them is actually the construction of 40 new houses that offer an opportunity at home ownership.
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| Union at Cleveland Harbor would offer affordable housing along Cleveland’s Lakefront, near the East 55th Street marina and Gordon Park (RDL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Despite having 17 miles of shoreline, developments along Cleveland’s Lake Erie waterfront don’t happen that often due to a lack of developable land. But one got closer to construction today after financing for it was approved by the state, according to a press release.
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| Cuyahoga County’s first lakefront high-rise in over 50 years has risen to more than half of its planned height beside J Roc-developed The Shore- way (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In March, NEOtrans announced that Cuyahoga County’s first lakefront high-rise in over half a century had begun construction next to Edgewater Park. The apartment tower, branded Naia Noir, will also be the first high-rise constructed in Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood.
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| Classrooms, offices and a dormitory for the Cleveland Institute of Music as well for Case Western Reserve University students is at 1609 Hazel Dr. in Cleveland’s University Circle. But the southern and, to the right in this September 2022 streetview, western exterior wall panels will have to be replaced due to “defective workmanship” according to a pending legal complaint (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Less than six years old, the Cleveland Institute of Music’s (CIM) new building called 1609 Hazel at its namesake address in Cleveland’s University Circle, has suffered extensive water damage due to alleged poor construction. And the bill for pending repairs just came in — $1.7 million, according to public records filed with the city.
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| Data centers are growing in number while many office buildings are fading. In Downtown Cleveland, the Sterling Building on Euclid Avenue has become a 250,000-square-foot hub for technology, cloud computing and cybersecurity services (LoopNet). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
As Cleveland considers a moratorium on the addition of new data centers until it can update its zoning code to better address them, and as a statewide ban on larger data centers is pending, the Cleveland Building and Construction Trades Council said it wants the emotion taken out of the debate.
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| On the south side of Sumner Avenue, next to St. Maron Church at left, is a piece of the land the church’s diocese just acquired to provide parking for the church and to earn revenue from visitors to the Gateway sports and entertainment complex visible at right (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
An historic church in Downtown Cleveland’s Gateway District won its case before the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) today to use a newly purchased property at 1212-1260 Sumner Ave. as a surface parking lot for up to 90 vehicles.
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| A week before Christmas, the West Side Market was the site of a press conference in which it was awarded a $5 million Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit to support renovations totaling more than $71.33 million. Yesterday, it got an Ohio Brownfield grant to do site work to prepare for those renovations (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Although each county in Ohio was limited to $1 million in Ohio Brownfield Remediation grants in this round of funding awards, Cuyahoga County made the most of it despite its voracious appetite for such grants as it repositions its former, massive industrial base in the post-industrial era.
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| As more companies embrace artificial intelligence to automate more jobs, more data centers will appear around the world. The question Cleveland is grappling with as more data center development plans arrive here is to how to effectively regulate them (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
It’s a race against time between the City of Cleveland and developers seeking to construct new data centers. On one side is the city which has an outdated zoning code it has been wanting to update for years, with data centers being the latest new land use to add to the mix.
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| A three-building data center campus is planned in Cleveland’s Slavic Village and could look like this unofficial rendering created by NEOtrans. The developer, Lakeland Equity Group, said it spend heavily to add electric grid infrastructure to accommodate the facility (NEOtrans/ChatGPT). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Today’s sudden rejection of a building application for a new $1.6 billion data center in Cleveland’s Slavic Village caught the project’s development team by surprise. But city sources and records revealed the application was rejected because it was incomplete.
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| Two single-family homes designed by AODK are under construction at the Carter Road Subdivision, where Scranton Peninsula meets Duck Island in Cleveland (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood is one of the most desirable in the city — and its tight housing market reflects that. But with a handful of developments now wrapping up, it may be the perfect time for those considering a move to the area.
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| Officials gathered today to announce the Midline Priority Investment Area, a major rede- velopment initiative of Cleveland’s near-East Side, amid the backdrop of old, decayed industrial sites that will be razed to make way for new jobs and opportunity (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland’s largest industrial redevelopment in its history, dubbed the Midline Priority Investment Area, was announced today as an effort to transform the city’s near-East Side into a job hub and community greenway.
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| The six-story Hanover House and the lobby for The Vibe development are seen here next to the Ohio City Firehouse in Cleveland’s Hingetown enclave (Vocon). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
With financing approved, the developer of Ohio City’s largest new-construction project in four years has an eye toward fall for a groundbreaking date of The Vibe, 2828 Clinton Ave., in Cleveland’s Hingetown enclave.
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| From the outside, the 1970s windowless bunker Woodling Gym is unidentifiable. It’s doubtful that anyone who hasn’t attended or competed against Cleveland State University would know where it is. But this view of Woodling, from between Chester and Euclid Avenues looking west towards the 1970s iconic Rhodes Tower, provides some orientation (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A request from Cleveland State University (CSU) has gone out in search of qualified design teams to transform the 53-year-old Woodling Gymnasium, 2420 Chester Ave., into a modern, competitive facility. The request notes that the project budget for Woodling’s transformation could range from $30 million to $60 million.
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| This rendering illustrates the south façade of the planned Mandel Music House. Its design was revised to use a lighter color to visually transition between the addition and a historic home (Perspectus). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
On Friday, The Music Settlement (TMS) held an official groundbreaking for a $12 million expansion of its campus in University Circle. The project will restore and expand the historic Gries House, 1560 Mistletoe Dr., into the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Music House.
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| The Lorain West Apartments are proposed to be located on its namesake street near the Lorain-West 65th Red Line rail station. (RDL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
One by one, the many used-car dealerships along Lorain Avenue on Cleveland’s West Side are going away. For the most part, they are getting replaced with new multifamily housing developments and that’s what’s proposed to happen again.
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| At Memphis Avenue and Pearl Road, the demolition of two historic commercial buildings could make way for a mixed-use development featuring 84 apartments over ground-level retail (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
At the center of Cleveland’s Old Brooklyn neighborhood, $2.34 million in interior demolition work is set to begin for Memphis & Pearl — a $42.3 million mixed-use development that could add 84 apartments next to retail uses in a renovated St. Luke’s Church.
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| A significant research laboratory is planned by the Cleveland Clinic and other partners at the southeast corner of Opportunity Corridor Boulevard and East 79th Street where a fading neighborhood stood until recently. At left is the elevated Norfolk Southern railroad, along- side which the East Side Trail is proposed. This is an unofficial rendering but is based on conceptual parameters for the project (Google/ChatGPT/NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Elton John once sang “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” when his songwriter Bernie Taupin bid adieu to city living in his ambitious, fast life, trading it for the quiet lifestyle of tending to a rural farm. Cleveland is heading in the opposite direction by welcoming the start of a new journey.
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| Expansion of Gordon Park into Lake Erie, including the creation of an offshore island, called the Cleveland Harbor Eastern Embayment Resilience Strategy, or CHEERS project, has $22.1 million in hand or pending for this multi-decade effort (Cleveland Metroparks). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland Metroparks and the Port of Cleveland announced a major milestone in advancing the Cleveland Harbor Eastern Embayment Resilience Strategy (CHEERS), as U.S. Rep. Shontel Brown, D-11, presented $1.1 million in federal funding to support the next phase of the project.
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| An unofficial rendering of what the Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Engineering Co. factory at 7000 Central Ave. in Cleveland’s Central neighborhood could look like after a planned $25.7 million renovation. The plant’s reactivation with a new manufacturer will be announced at a press con- ference next week (TacoSlayerAerial, ChatGPT). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Parts of Cleveland’s East Side offer scenes right out of a post-apocalyptic action movie. Actually, a pre-apocalyptic action movie — the opening scenes of the 2012 movie The Avengers — was filmed here. Another story will begin here next week when local and state leaders join Mayor Justin Bibb in making what he calls “an historic announcement.”
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| This is an image of a three-building data center totaling about 300,000 square feet next to an interstate highway. It is set in a city neighborhood south of a major downtown area. The image was created, ironically, using artificial intelligence hosted at multiple, massive data centers (ChatGPT). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A 150-megawatt, $1.6 billion data center planned for Cleveland’s Slavic Village is in a race to get its plans approved before City Council can pass a moratorium on building more data centers in Cleveland, according to sources familiar with the project.
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| Set on the northeast corner of Huron Road and East 4th Street in Downtown Cleveland, Cosm’s multiple-daily shared reality offerings are expected to attract three quarters of a million visitors per year (Rossetti). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The Port of Cleveland’s Board of Directors today approved major development finance initiatives that will support transformative projects across Northeast Ohio, reinforcing the region’s continued momentum in housing, entertainment, infrastructure, and public service investment.
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| The proposed commercial tenant to occupy the ground floor, behind the red facade of Asia- Town’s newest development will be the Cleveland Public Library. It will open a satellite location in the neighborhood (MA Design). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland Public Library (CPL) will open a new satellite location in the city’s AsiaTown neighborhood in a couple of years, at the Mingyue Place apartment complex, according to community officials. If that apartment complex’s name doesn’t ring a bell, it’s because it doesn’t exist yet.
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| Shaded in red, the 35-acre Morabito site between Interstate 77 at left and East 55th Street at right in Cleveland’s Slavic Village is proposed to host a hyperscale data center (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Set between Cleveland’s Slavic Village and the industrial valley in the coming years could be the city’s largest-ever data center. While at this early stage, it has generated many questions, its backers say the large site and nearby presence of industrial-scale electrical power and water resources should answer many of those questions.
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| Looking north along West 65th Street in Cleveland’s Stockyards neighborhood, Tortilleria La Bamba y mercado is proposed to built if a permit situation can be resolved. Across the street to the left, another retail development is planned that would add an Ollie’s Bargain Outlet store (Onyx Creative). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Along the southern portion of West 65th Street in Cleveland’s Stockyards neighborhood, a new round of private investment is set to reactivate the area with jobs and shopping activity — just as city officials had hoped years ago.
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| Site of the planned new Gateway South soccer stadium, a proposed new Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority light-rail station and other nearby venues. Also shown is the crest and logo of the new men’s soccer team (CSG). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland Soccer Group (CSG) today unveiled Cleveland Astra, the brand identity for our new professional women’s soccer club. Merchandise is available online today and season ticket deposits are open. Cleveland Astra will kick off in spring 2028, compete in Women’s Premier Soccer League (WPSL) Pro and play in a Downtown Cleveland soccer stadium.
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| Lots of construction, from infrastructure to the redevelopment of abandoned industries, are evident in this view looking east on Carnegie Avenue from East 55th Street. But more is needed on Cleveland’s near-East Side to return abandoned properties back to pro- ductive use (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
An expanded tax base is a result of economic development. On that score, Cleveland’s near-East Side doesn’t produce much in the way of tax revenue while its old infrastructure, city services and social programs are in need of lots of resources. So the city is going to do something to equalize that imbalance.
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| Rendering of the proposed Olde Cedar mixed-income multifamily homes in Cleve- land’s Central neighborhood (CMHA). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) sought to kick off the first phase of redeveloping Olde Cedar in the Central neighborhood with a visit to the Cleveland City Planning Commission on Friday.
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| The southeast corner of Opportunity Corridor Boulevard and East 79th Street isn’t much to look at right now. That’s why it’s a good development site. It’s a large, relatively clean and mostly undeveloped site in the heart of the city and it’s almost entirely owned by the city of Cleveland and other public entities (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A sale closed this week for the largest property acquired among many needed to accommodate a proposed, significant laboratory-research facility sought by the Cleveland Clinic and other project partners. It is but one piece of a major expansion of facilities by the Clinic that NEOtrans first reported last month.
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| Looking west along Superior Avenue, the Cleveland Division of Police’s new headquarters is visible just left of center. The underutilized street is set to be transformed into a multi-modal transportation corridor with the Superior Midway (Harrison Whittaker). CLCK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
As soon as this summer, one of Cleveland’s most prominent streets could see a bike- and pedestrian-friendly overhaul with construction of the Superior Midway. But walkable neighborhoods need destinations — and several developments are creating just that.
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| A rendering of the interior of Case Western Reserve University’s proposed new Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Humanities Building on Bellflower Road (CWRU). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
As Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) celebrates its bicentennial, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation has made a $125 million commitment gift to the university. Not only is it the largest gift in the foundation’s history, CWRU says it’s likely the biggest gift ever to higher education in Ohio.
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| At today’s groundbreaking ceremony, officials discuss the new Huntington Bank Field in suburban Brook Park. From left is play-by-play radio announcer for the Cleveland Browns Andrew Siciliano, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, and Cleveland Browns majority owner Jimmy Haslam (contributed). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The Haslam Sports Group (HSG) alongside a joint venture of AECOM Hunt, Turner Construction Company and architect HKS officially broke ground today for the new Huntington Bank Field, the future home of the Cleveland Browns starting with the 2029 National Football League (NFL) season.
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| Site prep begins for Hub 27’s phase one apartment building which will add 53 units of work- force housing in the BVQ District (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
On Cleveland’s near-West Side, the Clark-Fulton neighborhood is getting an infusion of affordable housing with the first phase of Hub 27 under construction in the BVQ (Barber-Vega-Queen avenues) District and continued progress at the Walton Senior Apartments on Clark Avenue.
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| The 17-story Rockefeller Building on Superior Avenue in Downtown Cleveland has a new opportunity facing it as K&D Group took title to the property today (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
As first reported by NEOtrans earlier this month, K&D Group said it would seek $6 million worth of “make-safe” repairs to Downtown Cleveland’s vandalized Rockefeller Building after it took title to it. But it began shoring up the Gilded Age edifice on the very day the sale closed.
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| The Collins Apartments on Carter Road is one of two major developments to open in the past year on Scranton Peninsula in Cleveland’s Flats. But it wasn’t enough to meet Greater Cleveland’s demand for more multifamily units (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A new report released today by international real estate firm Colliers shows that multifamily development in Greater Cleveland isn’t keeping up with demand. The result is that average rents in the Cleveland area are now the highest of any metro area in the state.
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| A rendering of the proposed Cuyahoga County Central Services Campus in Garfield Heights, as seen from Transportation Boulevard. More of the jail exists behind the tree and the publicly accessible and office-oriented portion (Cuyahoga County). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
With a vote by a Justice Center steering committee today, Cuyahoga County Council got the recommendation it needed to formally and legally approve construction tomorrow on a new $894.26 million Central Services Campus corrections center in suburban Garfield Heights.
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| The Women Religious Archives Collaborative Heritage Center started rising in Cleve- land’s Campus District after the nearby St. Vincent Charity Medical Center closed its doors (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
University Circle and Ohio City might be Cleveland’s most recognizable development hotspots. But in the southern Campus District, which straddles the Central neighborhood and eastern edge of downtown, a handful of large-scale demolitions and relocations are setting up more than 50 acres for redevelopment next door to the central business district.
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| Revival Residential’s Ambler Apartments rise on West 26th Street (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, the spring season is well underway — and so are numerous apartment complexes, ranging from ground-up construction projects to residential conversions of historic buildings.
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| Before Mother Nature reclaims it, funding is being secured to reactivate the former Wellman-Seaver-Morgan factory on Cleveland’s East Side for a new commercial end user (Taco Slayer Aerial). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A clearer picture is emerging of the planned redevelopment of the large, historic Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Engineering Co. manufacturing plant, 7000 Central Ave., where Cleveland’s Fairfax and Central neighborhoods meet.
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| AmTrust Financial will be vacating the red-bricked 800 Superior and moving north up East 9th Street to the darker, glassy AECOM Building to the upper-right of its current home (CBRE). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
NEOtrans has learned that AmTrust Financial is vacating its current Downtown Cleveland offices and moving most of its 600 jobs to the suburbs. One result of this big shake-up of office properties is that the 23-story 800 Superior building downtown will be left mostly empty by year’s end.
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| Being able to show the latest movies in the best possible resolution will help the Capitol Theatre compete for more films and more customers (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Northwest Neighborhoods CDC (NWN) was awarded a $50,000 Community Development Supplemental Grant (CDSG) from Cuyahoga County to fund a new digital projector in Auditorium No. 1 at the 105-year-old Capitol Theatre.
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| The most significant remaining portion of the Hillside Dairy in Cleveland Heights is this long structure along the west side Warrensville Road, between Mayfield and Noble roads in an area called the Mayfield Triangle (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The reason why the city is leading it is because the Mayfield Triangle, a roughly 6.3-acre swath of land bound by Mayfield, Noble and Warrensville Center roads, is owned principally by the city. And, in Ohio, municipal governments determine how land is used in their jurisdictions.
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| Fresh fruits and vegetables are difficult to find in a food desert, but thanks to the opening of Pure Supermarket, the middle of the Bellaire-Puritas neighborhood has been nourished (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
When a pharmacy closes, what was a neighborhood asset often becomes a liability, and sometimes a long-term one that drags it down. But the reverse is happening at the corner of West 130th Street and Bellaire Avenue on Cleveland’s West Side.
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| Cleveland Clinic’s largest-ever building, the 1-million-square-foot Neurological Institute, approaches completion across East 89th Street (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Since announcing it in 2022, the Cleveland Clinic has neared completion on a massive, $1.3 billion expansion plan. But with a new hotel, inpatient bed tower, lab research facilities, and Level I Trauma Center planned, its next round of expansion projects could be even bigger.
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| Cuyahoga County’s Central Services Campus, also called the new corrections center to be located in suburban Garfield Heights, could hit another snag if a special audit by the state of contracting for the project occurs (Cuyahoga County). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Despite an agreement hailed a week ago by Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne and presiding county Common Pleas Court Judge Michael Shaughnessy to move forward on the new, $889 million jail complex, county Prosecutor Michael O’Malley said, in effect — “not so fast.”
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| Construction of all phases of the $115 million Sankofa Village in Cleveland’s Central neigh- borhood is now complete. The redevelopment of the former Cedar Extension public housing site with affordable, mixed-income housing deconcentrates poverty with comfortable housing (Pennrose). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Redevelopment partners celebrated this week the grand opening of Sankofa Village IV, completing the 236-unit, $115 million Cedar Extension Transformation Plan in the Central neighborhood of Cleveland. The final phase added 50 high-quality, affordable rental homes to the 17-acre former Cedar Extension site of public housing.
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| This aerial rendering illustrates the planned redevelopment of the razed Woodhill Homes site, once all phases are complete (City Architecture). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Once a deteriorating public housing complex on Cleveland’s East Side, Woodhill Homes will soon be transformed into a mixed-income neighborhood complete with parks and a renovated community center, according to schematic plans approved by City Planning Commission on Friday.
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| An outdoor wellness center with a funny name and Scandinavian-style spas and hot tubs is planned for Scranton Peninsula in the Flats, across the Cuyahoga River from Tower City and Bedrock Real Estate’s $3.5-billion riverfront development (Saunagoose). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A new health and wellness concept is coming to Scranton Peninsula in the Flats in downtown Cleveland. Taking inspiration from the Scandinavian winter ritual of the sauna, The Saunagoose will continue a string of developments on previously-vacant industrial land.
