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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.
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| With its current home in Downtown Cleveland in the distance, Gray Media Group has picked this site on Brecksville Road in suburban Independence for its new television studios and offices (LoopNet). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Before the end of 2027 when its lease expires at Reserve Square, 1717 E. 12th St., Gray Media Group’s Cleveland offices and studios will leave downtown for a new spot in suburban Independence. That’s according to four sources — three of whom spoke to NEOtrans on the condition of anonymity.
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| Officials break ground today for the new Cosm immersive, dome-shaped theater in Down- town Cleveland’s Gateway District. At left is Huron Road and Rocket Arena. The construc- tion site was a surface parking lot that has been considered for mixed-use development for more than a decade (Rock Entertainment). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cosm, an immersive technology and entertainment venue, officially saw construction start today with a formal groundbreaking ceremony attended by city, county and state officials plus CEOs of major locally based employers like Sherwin-Williams, Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland Cliffs.
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| Looking northeasterly, the new East 22nd Street overpass of Interstate 90 will provide a more seamless connection between Downtown Cleveland and the Central neighborhood in the Cam- pus District. This is part of the six-year rebuild of the 70-year-old Central Interchange with Interstate 77 and downtown streets (ODOT). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
On the plus side, one of the region’s biggest megaprojects got underway today when officials from the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), city of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County and others threw spades of dirt in a groundbreaking ceremony for the Interstate 90 Central Interchange Project in Downtown Cleveland.
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| Not every office tower in Downtown Cleveland is in distress and hurting for tenants. The 45-story 200 Public Square skyscraper is seeing the fruits of its investments in making a more attractive property (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Bad news has surrounded the nation’s office market ever since the global pandemic hit in 2020. It doesn’t matter if the property is in the suburbs, the mother city or downtown. Leasing is down, vacancies are up, many buildings are in fiscal distress and remote working has put landlords on the defensive.
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| CWRU’s under-construction Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building is now the largest structure on Case Quad (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
As Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) approaches completion on its $300 million Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB), the new research center is giving its central Case Quad a sleek, modern look.
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| The 25-story courthouse tower on Ontario Street in Downtown Cleveland will be renovated for $150 million according to a new agreement reached today. At left is the Cleveland Divi- sion of Police headquarters, owned by the county, which may be disposed of or retained de- pending on a strategic master plan requested in a separate action today (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne, County Council, and Judge Michael Shaughnessy, the administrative and presiding Judge for the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, announced they have reached a tentative agreement on a path forward for capital improvements to county courthouse facilities downtown.
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| Demolition of the vacated Martin Luther King Jr. Branch Library is due to yield a podium of ground-floor retail and structured parking topped by a multi-story hotel, seen in the city-approved masterplan behind Fenway Manor and the new MLK Library. The new library is on the first two floors of Library Lofts (City Architecture). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
If the City Planning Commission’s Design Review Committee gives its blessing on Friday, the vacated, former Martin Luther King Jr. Branch of the Cleveland Public Library at 1962 Stokes Blvd. will be coming down. It appears to be a sign of the times in a rapidly growing University Circle.
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| Schematic design for the planned second phase of The Park apartments on an undeveloped parcel located between Lamoille and Brevier avenues in Tremont’s Lincoln Heights district (Horton Harper). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Although The Park apartments, 1851 Brevier Ave. in the Lincoln Heights section of Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood, hasn’t leased out yet, the response to it has progressed far enough that its developers have decided to pursue a second phase of the project.
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| Singer Steel on Random Road in Cleveland’s Little Italy could soon enter a new chapter in its history — that of a residential and parking complex. The residential would be developed where the factory stands and the parking would be alongside the Red Line rapid transit, the power lines for which are visible at left (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In November 2024, real estate developer TurnDev acquired the old Singer Steel site-turned-parking facility at 2100 Random Rd. in Cleveland’s Little Italy neighborhood. A year later, it acquired more land. And now, the Beachwood-based developer and its architect have revealed their plans for the combined 2.8-acre property.
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| Stokes East apartment tower may see construction start this year and soon rise to approach the height of its neigh- bor, The Artisan, University Circle’s tallest building (SCB). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
With all of the job growth happening around University Circle and the latest expansion news at Cleveland Clinic, it’s probably not a surprise that another high-rise apartment tower in that area is moving toward the start of construction.
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| The Cleveland Clinic InterContinental Hotel on Carnegie Avenue at East 100th Street may be replaced with an inpatient hospital bed tower. But the hotel isn’t disappearing. It’s relo- cating nearby. And it’s one of several major developments planned by the Clinic for its Main Campus near University Circle (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
By this time next year, after the Cleveland Clinic’s largest-ever building is due to open with 2,000 additional employees, there should be a lot more clarity that’s publicly available on Ohio’s largest employer’s next expansive plans for its Main Campus near Cleveland’s University Circle.
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| The former Holiday Inn Express has closed and will be reopened as an AC Marriott Hotel, Downtown Cleveland’s first. Built in 1896, the New England Building was the headquar- ters of the National City Bank until it relocated in 1980 to the tower at right and was absorbed by PNC. There are also two floors of condominiums at the top of this historic structure (apartments.com). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Two significant development projects won financing from the Port of Cleveland yesterday — with one project in Downtown Cleveland and the other in suburban Brecksville.
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| Incredibly, the 10-story apartment tower 9410 Hough looks brand-new after a $47-million redevelopment and includes the new-construction PCC Hub at right where supportive community services are provided (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Today, developers Northern Real Estate Urban Ventures and SLSCO hosted a ribbon cutting celebration for the reopening of 9410 Hough at its namesake address in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood. It officially marked the revival of a forlorn building that was left for dead and held back its surrounding neighborhood.
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| The No. 19A bus from downtown to Southgate Transit Center in Maple Heights stops on Broadway Avenue at Harvard Road after passing the 140-year-old Holy Name Roman Catholic Church. While much of Broadway’s urban fabric in Cleveland is gone, GCRTA and the city are hoping developing the Broadway corridor with bus rapid transit here will help revive it (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In 2008, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s (GCRTA) first bus rapid transit (BRT) line was the HealthLine east of downtown on Euclid Avenue to University Circle and East Cleveland.
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| Bearing the name AmTrust Financial, 800 Superior was among the early risers on Downtown Cleveland’s office tower canyon of East 9th Street that developed from the 1960s to the 1980s (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
An affiliate of the Kassouf family is reportedly buying the 800 Superior office tower and its connected parking garage at its namesake address in Downtown Cleveland. That makes the third downtown property with a decayed garage in as many years that Kassouf has checked off its shopping list.
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| Proposed to rise just north of the Lorain-Carnegie Hope Memorial Bridge, seen at upper-left, is a new outdoor amphitheater sought by Bedrock Real Estate and Live Nation. The Cuya- hoga River is just beyond Stones Levee Road to the lower-right (Bedrock). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The developer and operator of a proposed riverfront amphitheater in Downtown Cleveland submitted their preliminary, conceptual plans for the project to the city, revealing the proposed layout and amenities of the planned venue.
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| A splash of color on new apartment buildings is planned with the larger one sought for the north side of Payne Avenue in Cleveland’s Asiatown where the vacated Dave’s Super- market stands. A second building is planned for the south side of Payne (MA Design). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
With funding in hand, a development plan to reactivate the site of the first Dave’s Supermarket is entering the City of Cleveland’s design review process. And so far, the early reviews of a proposed mixed-use development at 3301 and 3338 Payne Ave. in the city’s Asiatown district are positive.
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| These stores along the south side of St. Clair Avenue near East 17th Street at the edge of Downtown Cleveland are to be razed to add generators behind a new screen wall for the gray data center behind (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Amid the growing controversies surrounding the expansion of data centers in Ohio, Downtown Cleveland’s largest data center is about to get bigger. And, as part of that expansion, it’s evicting small businesses and proposing to demolish a row of storefronts along a major downtown street.
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| Three public hearings are scheduled next week for Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority riders to learn about proposed reductions to bus and rail services due in August (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) has scheduled public hearings on proposed service reductions to address a financial crunch. But as NEOtrans first reported last month, those cuts will be less than transit agency officials first feared.
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| A new Eagle Avenue ramp between the Gateway District and the Cuyahoga riverfront is well underway (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Along the Cuyahoga riverfront, several components of Bedrock’s $3.5 billion masterplan are taking shape in Downtown Cleveland. Furthest along is the Cleveland Clinic Global Peak Performance Center — home to the future practice facility for the Cleveland Cavaliers NBA team.
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| On the west side of Fulton Road near West 30th Street, a pair of townhomes are planned to fill the front of a deep lot (Contexture Design Studio). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, plans to erect two townhomes on a historic stretch of Fulton Road are progressing. The townhomes would fill a gap between two early 20th-century structures where a gravel parking lot currently stands in front of a small single-family home.
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| Of the three proposed buildings in the expansion of the Cleveland Business Park, the building at left would be the first one built specifically for a tenant with whom the developer says it has a deep interest but not yet a signed lease. Cleveland Hopkins International Airport is seen at upper-right next to Interstates 71 and 480 (LBI). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A proposed light-industrial/warehouse development in Cleveland, off Rocky River Drive near Hopkins International Airport, has advanced quickly toward final approval by the city. Part of the reason why is that a major tenant will anchor the 650,000-square-foot, three-building project and wants to move forward.
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| The 123-year-old landmark Rockefeller Building in Downtown Cleveland hasn’t been treated very well in recent years but its fortunes could be changing for the better very soon (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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| Top-fuel drag racing could come to the Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront thanks to a new company Shore-to-Roar-to-Shore that responded to a request for qualifications from Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration regarding the reuse of Burke Lakefront Air- port (WikiCommons). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In response to a recent request for qualifications (RFQ), Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration has awarded Shore-to-Roar-to-Shore LLC a bid to repurpose the 450-acre, city-owned Burke Lakefront Airport as a drag strip for professional top-fuel dragster and funny-car racing.
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| On Prospect Avenue at East 9th Street in Downtown Cleveland, renovation of the former Medical Mutual headquarters at the Rose Building is currently underway as part of Project Scarlet. (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
As Downtown Cleveland faces a wave of foreclosures and a slowdown in ground-up developments, a collection of major renovation projects are quietly renewing hope for the future of the central business district.
