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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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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| 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). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| The Urban Community School, at left across West 50th Street, acquired 10 parcels of land at right including several structures along Lorain Avenue (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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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| 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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| 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). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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 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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| 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). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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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| 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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| 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). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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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| 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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| 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). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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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| An historic mansion at 3117 Franklin Blvd. is being converted into apartments as part of the Franklin Yards development (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| This parking lot at the southeast corner of West 9th Street and St. Clair Avenue in Down- town Cleveland will remain a parking lot for the foreseeable future despite it gaining a new owner (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Last week, NEOtrans reported that one of the last large “parking craters” remaining in Downtown Cleveland’s central business district has a buyer. This week, we confirmed who the buyer is and what they plan to do with it.
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| A conceptual rendering of a shared-use path along West Boulevard linking several of Cleve- land’s west-side neighborhoods (contributed). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
State and local officials announced this week that the State of Ohio awarded $100,000 to the City of Cleveland to develop plans for a shared-use path for cyclists, joggers, pedestrians and others living in or visiting the city’s West Boulevard, Cudell, Clifton-Baltic and Edgewater neighborhoods.
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| Formerly known as the Rose Building, Project Scarlet also includes the smaller, neighboring Sloane Building that is amassing financing for its conversion from office building to mixed- use complex, including residential, hotel and ground-floor retail along East 9th Street in Downtown Cleveland (Diamond Signs & Graphics). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Although Project Scarlet is in Downtown Cleveland and Valor Acres is in suburban Cleveland, the two developments have something in common. They both won $7 million in Transformational Mixed-Use Development (TMUD) tax credits from the State of Ohio today.
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| Like waiting for a bus, a levy to avoid transit service cuts and fund a modest expansion of public transportation in Cuyahoga County is due to arrive soon. The only question is when (City of Cleveland). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A half-percent sales tax increase to fund a modest expansion of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) and prevent more service cuts starting next year is going on the ballot in Cuyahoga County. The only question is when. And that will be decided by the GCRTA board July 7.
