Housing maker finds home in Midline

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

 

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

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Euclid, Solon to land new biz, 115 jobs

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

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Cleveland landmark to fall

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

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

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Shaker Hts, Brook Park win TOD grants

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

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

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Downtown Heinen’s to close after 11 years

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

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

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Warehouse District buyer, project emerges

A parking lot at the corner of West 9th Street and St. Clair Avenue in Downtown Cleveland’s
Warehouse District may indeed be the subject of a vertical development based on the workers
in the background drilling for core samples at locations around the lot this week (NEOtrans).
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A large parking lot in Downtown Cleveland’s Warehouse District that’s been up for sale twice since 2019 apparently is now under a purchase agreement with a buyer who seems interested in developing it.

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Cuyahoga’s lucky seven win $18.5M

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

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

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GCRTA weighs sales tax hike to avoid deeper service cuts

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

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

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More housing to rise on West Side

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

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

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Major east-side projects reach new Heights

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

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Clinic’s car-dependency collides with community

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

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Car wash biz withdraws Shaker Square plan

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

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Another big site added to the Midline

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

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

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Massive mixed-use projects rise in Cuyahoga County

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

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

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City Hall to fight Shaker Square car wash

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

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

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Clinic seeks OK of Emergency Dept expansion

Seen from the corner of Cedar Avenue and East 93rd Street, this massing shows the scale,
shape and location for Cleveland Clinic’s planned 120,000-square-foot expansion of the
Maria & Sam Miller Emergency Services Building. If the City Planning Commission
agrees with this concept, the details of the design will be filled in (Cleveland Clinic).
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Cleveland Clinic and its facility planning consultants are seeking approval next week from the Cleveland Planning Commission for conceptual designs for its expanded Emergency Department, called Building E, 9105 Cedar Ave., in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood.

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Flats find new life with wave of openings

Good Night John Boy recently moved to this building on the riverfront, an upgrade
among several happening all around the Flats East Bank (Ian McDaniel).
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When the sudden closings of several long-term tenants punctuated the end of the 2025 season, many were quick to declare Flats East Bank in Cleveland “dead” once again.

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Cosm goes vertical downtown

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

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

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Cleveland data center plans to expand

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

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

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Kamm’s gets a tower crane

Across the Rocky River, a tower crane for Fairview Hospital’s North Campus expansion rises
above the Lorain Road Viaduct (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Once described as “a slice of suburbia in the city,” Cleveland’s Kamm’s Corners neighborhood might be the last place one would expect a $150 million construction project large enough to require a tower crane. But that’s exactly what’s underway at Fairview Hospital’s 169,521-square-foot North Campus expansion.

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Car wash planned at Shaker Square

Site plan for the proposed Shaker Square car wash. North is at the top of the image, with
the southeast commercial quadrant of Shaker Square visible at upper left (Kimley Horn).
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Shaker Square, although faded from its peak decades ago, remains Greater Cleveland’s seminal example of transit-oriented community design in which the rapid transit system, pedestrian activity, and vertically mixed uses are juxtaposed to support each other.

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Clinic plans outpatient site at Valor Acres

At the northeast corner of Miller Road and Innovation Parkway, the Cleveland Clinic plans
to build this medical office building (Perspectus). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

New structures and uses keep getting added to the mixed-use lifestyle center Valor Acres at Miller and Brecksville roads in suburban Brecksville. The latest will be a Cleveland Clinic outpatient care facility, due to open in late 2027.

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New Lakewood apartments open quietly

At the northeast corner of Detroit and St. Charles avenues is the former Lakewood Center
West, now converted into Lakewood Lofts. In the parking garage seen behind, 70 spaces
are set aside for tenants of the lofts (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Downtown Lakewood is steadily turning from an office district into a residential one. The latest example of that metamorphosis is perhaps the quietest conversion of a seven-story suburban office building in Greater Cleveland’s history.

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The Thomas gets underway in Tremont

The development team of The Thomas apartments and their future successors posed at
a groundbreaking ceremony today in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood (NEOtrans).

It’s a project that has gone under the radar amid the many others on Cleveland’s near-West Side. But today, a development team assembled to break ground for The Thomas apartments, 2422 W. 7th St. in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood.

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Countywide zoning sought to aid development

Transit oriented development isn’t limited to rail station areas. It can also be built along high-
frequency bus lines like Cleveland Clinic’s North Campus expansion of Fairview Hospital
where Cleveland meets Fairview Park (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Most municipalities in Cuyahoga County were built-out decades ago, limiting opportunities to offer newer, more competitive housing and build a stronger tax base without raising taxes. The few remaining places for development are infill sites for which many communities lack zoning to develop them.

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Lakewood’s latest car dealership swap

Where Steve Barry Buick’s showroom stood on the north side of Detroit Avenue at Brockley
Avenue in Lakewood now is a 66-unit apartment building with a yet-to-be-leased ground-
floor retail space (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Until the first decade of this century, Detroit Avenue in Lakewood had a half-dozen car dealerships along it. Today, they’re all gone after having closed or moved to exurban highway interchanges.

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Slavic Village eyes transformation

The Slavic Village Neighborhood Plan represents the culmination of a series of outreach
events involving diverse members of the community (Slavic Village Development).
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On Friday, City Planning Commission approved not one, but two transformative plans developed alongside each other for Cleveland’s Slavic Village — which hasn’t seen a comprehensive neighborhood plan in almost two decades.

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Housing, health hold hope for Hough

Construction on a single-family infill home by Cleveland Bricks wraps up on East 84th Street
north of Chester Avenue (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

While Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood has been the target of redevelopment efforts for decades, new momentum from public and private players could accelerate the area’s comeback.

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Film studio campus planned for Euclid

A conceptual rendering of a film studio proposed in Euclid. This graphic shows the administra-
tive offices and one of the film/sound stages but three more stages are planned as additions to
the right (Christopher A. Lobas & Associates). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Getting ready for its close-up is a mid-sized film studio campus planned by an experienced filmmaker in the Cleveland suburb of Euclid. The goal for the filmmaker, Northeast Ohio native and Ingalls & Co. CEO James Ingalls II, is to transform Greater Cleveland into “a premier cinematic hub.”

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ORRIS townhomes open in Rocky River

Only five ORRIS townhomes front Center Ridge Road in Rocky River. The other
20 units are set behind in a large lot near shopping, schools and parks (TKG).
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A collection of new luxury rental townhomes is now open and move-in ready at ORRIS, 22601 Center Ridge Rd., Rocky River. Developed by The Krueger Group (TKG), this phase-two expansion of the ORRIS development adds 25 townhomes to offer single-family living in a maintenance-free rental setting.

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Warner & Swasey groundbreaking arrived

Officials gathered yesterday for the ceremonial groundbreaking for the renovation and
mixed-use repurposing of the long-vacant Warner & Swasey factory in Cleveland’s
Midtown district. But the actual site preparations began months before (NEOtrans).
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Although site preparations have been underway since winter, now the repair, recovery and rebuilding work begins on the redevelopment of the long-vacant Warner & Swasey factory, 5701 Carnegie Ave., in Cleveland’s MidTown neighborhood.

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GCRTA makes big fare changes

Bus and train rides in Cleveland can often be slowed by riders fumbling for change while
boarding and paying fares. That’s especially true during busy times like at the Red Line
Little Italy station during the annual Feast of the Assumption in August (NEOtrans).
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Boarding Greater Cleveland’s buses and trains will be quicker and simpler for customers after several fare payment-related changes are implemented after years of advocacy and planning.

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