Rocket Mortgage to shrink, relocate

The 250 West Huron building, known more commonly as the Ritz Carlton Cleveland hotel, is
more than just a hotel. It also has four floors of offices which are gaining a new tenant. This
is the southwestern corner of the building at Huron Road and West 3rd Street (Google).
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Five years ago, Rocket Mortgage looked to be growing into a major presence in Downtown Cleveland’s office market. The company was growing so fast here it seemed plausible that it might even anchor a new tower for local offices of Rock Ventures’ companies, such as the one Bedrock proposed in its riverfront development.

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Cosm tops out in Gateway District

Cosm, a new “shared-reality” sports entertainment destination, tops out on the north side of Huron
Road in the Gateway District (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

On Friday, Cosm celebrated the structural completion of a new 100-foot, 12k-resolution LED dome in Downtown Cleveland’s Gateway District. The “shared-reality” entertainment venue, developed by Bedrock, will stream sports games and events for live audiences.

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Bedrock paves way for next riverfront phases

From West 3rd Street in the Flats, the Cleveland Clinic Global Peak Performance Center looms in
front of the downtown skyline (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Along Downtown Cleveland’s riverfront, construction work is ramping up — both figuratively and literally — on the next stages of Bedrock’s $3.5 billion downtown masterplan.

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Sherwin-Williams pursues HQ2

A second Sherwin-Williams headquarters tower, this time featuring multiple levels of structured
parking in its base, is being pursued next to the first, taller, glassy headquarters tower that officially
opened in May. This is an unofficial rendering of that second tower but is is based on preliminary
programming reported to NEOtrans (Methodicle). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In the weeks preceding Sherwin-Williams’ ceremonial ribbon cutting May 11 for its new 36-story headquarters tower in Downtown Cleveland, the company’s executives took notice. They could see how employees were filling out its new HQ campus and, in suburban Brecksville, its new Morikis Global Technology Center.

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Shaker Square redesign advances

The Shaker Square Vision Plan would activate green spaces on either side of Shaker Boulevard,
adding infrastructure for pedestrians and events (Agency). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The oldest planned shopping center in Ohio, Cleveland’s Shaker Square, is set to see a major redesign in an effort to bring new activity to businesses and public spaces. Approved today by City Planning Commission, the Shaker Square Vision Plan follows a series of upgrades and store openings helping to revitalize the square.

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CWRU, Clinic projects come close to completion

Looking north on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, CWRU’s Interdisciplinary Science an
 Engineering Building has nearly finished its exterior façade (Harrison Whittaker).
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Cleveland’s downtown may possess its historic core and central business district, but several massive developments are solidifying Greater University Circle’s status as one of the most important job centers in Northeast Ohio.

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‘Urgent’ Progressive Field repairs sought

Major repairs are needed at the aging Progressive Field — projects not included in its recently
concluded $200+ million renovation — for which funding may not be immediately available.
For example, elevators need to be replaced including those inside the two elevator towers
 visible in this common postcard-like scene of Progressive Field at the corner of Ontario
Street and Carnegie Avenue (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Significant, urgent repair projects are to be pursued in the coming months at Progressive Field in Downtown Cleveland while questions linger as to whether there is enough funding to pay for them.

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Cleveland schools to be demolished

Willson Middle School on East 55th Street is among the Cleveland school buildings to be demo-
lished. It was among multiple properties the school district and city had hoped to preserve and
renovate for new uses (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

While Cleveland has been lauded for attracting investors to redevelop closed school buildings, things don’t always go as community officials hope. So unfortunately eight mostly historic school buildings are to be demolished, with three facing imminent demolition.

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Owner of 925 Euclid wins more time

A wide-angle lens makes 925 Euclid appear less dominating than the 1.45-million-square-foot
structure looks in person. The financing needed to return this building to productive use is
also just as imposing (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

With hours to go before a July 30 deadline to settle its debts or lose its property in the wind-up to a potential Nov. 3 auction, the owner of 925 Euclid Ave. won a third option — an extended deadline.

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New asphalt plant planned in Cleveland

Encircled in red, the proposed site for a new asphalt plant is at the south end of Cleveland’s Slavic
Village, next to Interstate 77, Newburgh Heights and Cuyahoga Heights. Downtown Cleveland
is seen in the distance to the north (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Akron-based Kenmore Construction Co. has two big jobs in front of it. One is the multiyear reconstruction of Downtown Cleveland’s Central Interchange on Interstate 90 for $329 million. The other is to build a new asphalt plant for up to $20 million so it can pave the interchange’s new lanes and ramps.

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A $120M opportunity to remake Cleveland

Disappearing under Mother Nature’s blanket is Cleveland’s industrial past, seen here at the for-
mer Cleveland Cooperative Stove Co. on East 67th Street south of Central Avenue. But it's not
turning over to developable land fast enough to benefit residents in a timely manner. That's
where Ohio Brownfield remediation funding comes into play to clear and clean properties so
they can be returned to productive use (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Returning vacant, polluted industrial sites to productive use in Cleveland and other established communities is typically not cost-effective for private investors to tackle. Yet leaving them rotting and fallow is not an option either.

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Cleveland Clinic drone delivery takes off

Cleveland Clinic is the nation’s first health care system to make deliveries of prescription medi-
cations via drone (Courtesy of Cleveland Clinic). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland Clinic is now delivering certain medications to patients’ homes via drones, marking the start of the first long-term deployment of a prescription drug drone delivery program by a U.S. health system.

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Gordon Square building spree accelerates

At the northeast corner of Detroit Avenue and West 58th Street, a mixed-use building occupied
by the Flight Cleveland wine bar is getting an exterior makeover (Harrison Whittaker).
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As new developments get underway, close to 300 residential units are now under construction around the Gordon Square Arts District — centered on the intersection of Detroit Avenue and West 65th Street in Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood.

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West Blvd-Cudell TOD advances

Flaherty & Collins’ Depot on Detroit rises on a formerly vacant lot on the north side
of Detroit Avenue in Cleveland's Cudell neighborhood (Harrison Whittaker).
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On Cleveland’s West Side, three Transit-Oriented Developments (TOD) are moving ahead within a 10-minute walk of a single Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) rapid transit station.

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Rock Hall buys Harbor Verandas

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, left, is buying the Harbor Verandas, right, to
control one of the last remaining sites for expansion at North Coast Harbor in Downtown
Cleveland (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland’s central business district is where office buildings are getting converted into new uses, often residential. On downtown’s lakefront, however, a mostly residential building was just purchased and may get converted to offices by its new owner — someday.

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Views from Cleveland’s newest lakefront high-rise

The 13-story Naia Noir and its historic companion, The Shoreway apartments at left, tower
above the West Shoreway Boulevard next to Edgewater Park. The new Naio Noir is almost
topped-out. The photos in this article start at the lower levels of the new high-rise
(NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland’s newest lakefront high-rise is hard to miss while traveling along the West Shoreway Boulevard by Edgewater Park. Thousands pass by it daily and watched it rise since April 2025. But if you wondered what the views from it look like, NEOtrans climbed to the top to capture and share them.

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Clinic pursues Cedar Avenue properties

Cedar Avenue is a busy place — for Cleveland Clinic’s real estate department. At right is the
Emergency Department that will expand and erase all but the nearest row of parking spaces
in the lot. So the Clinic is acquiring properties just beyond East 90th Street in the background
for parking, prompting a shift in other development plans. The Clinic’s new Neurological
Institute towers behind (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Dust rarely settles on Cleveland Clinic’s real estate staff. They’re always out shopping for more land to accommodate growth. And their latest acquisitions for the Main Campus are concentrated along its southern fringes on Cedar Avenue for two different reasons.

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Cross-lake ferry service floated

Lake-shipping distance from the Port of Cleveland to Wheatley Harbour in Ontario is 55
miles or two to three hours. By land, it’s more than 200 miles or at least 3.5 hours, depend-
ing on border crossing delays (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Port of Cleveland and Milo Harbour Inc. have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to initiate a new cross-lake truck ferry service between Northeast Ohio and Southern Ontario. But if you’re looking to catch a ride as a passenger, your ship has yet to come in.

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Next-gen IKEA store coming to Greater Cleveland

The former Dick’s Sporting Goods at Crocker Park in Westlake will be remodeled as a small-
format IKEA store — Greater Cleveland’s first such location for the global retailer. This is an
unofficial rendering of what the renovated store could look like (NEOtrans).
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In 2018, IKEA walked away from Cleveland after the search for a buildable site fell through. Nearly a decade later, the Swedish home and furniture supplier will return with a brand-new concept for Northeast Ohio.

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Ohio City awaits new apartments, retail

Dan Whalen led the development of Intro Cleveland, at far left, as part of Harbor Bay Ventures.
While that building opened in 2022 with top-of-the-market rents, Whalen’s and Luke Palmisano’s
Ambler apartments, at right, is expected to lease at more competitive rates (Harrison Whittaker).
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While numerous Ohio City developments are transforming historic buildings into new sources of activity, the popular Cleveland neighborhood continues to make progress on a series of new construction projects.

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Now arriving at Crocker Park — IKEA

An IKEA small-format store appears to be in the cards for Westlake’s Crocker Park. The
major new tenant for the western-suburban lifestyle center will officially be announced
Tuesday (Ingka Group). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

For days, Crocker Park’s owner Stark Enterprises has teased the opening of a new tenant at the suburban Westlake lifestyle center. And from all indications, that tenant is a retailer that Cleveland doesn’t yet have. On Tuesday, we’ll all find out for certain.

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Flexjet to add nearly 1,000 jobs

A year after this picture was taken in September 2022, Flexjet officially opened its $50 million
global headquarters at Cuyahoga County Airport in Richmond Heights. The nearly 51,500-
square-foot global operations control center is all glass and acute angles designed to look
like aircraft wings on the outside (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Two Northeast Ohio job-creation efforts that could result in 1,100 new jobs locally were supported and rewarded by the Ohio Department of Development today with the announcement of Ohio Job Creation Tax Credits.

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Midtown, Fairfax developments emerge

A 64-unit apartment building developed by Sabor Group USA rises on the west side of East
70th Street near Euclid Avenue (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

One of Cleveland’s newest Transit-Oriented Developments (TOD) has largely flown under the radar despite being located just 200 feet from Euclid Avenue and only a 3-minute walk from the nearest HealthLine Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) station. That’s because of its unusual midblock location on East 70th Street.

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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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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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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).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

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).
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

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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