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| Although each of West Park Shopping Center’s three largest retail spaces shown here have the same placeholder signage, in reality only the largest retail space at left is vacant. That will soon change as a new fitness center will occupy it (Onyx Creative). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A filing submitted to the City of Cleveland today revealed the identity of a new tenant that will fill the largest space at the West Park Shopping Center on Lorain Avenue at West 150th Street.
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| The nation’s largest manufacturer of gasoline-powered automobiles at the start of 20th century was the Winton Motor Carriage Co. on Berea Road north of Madison Avenue in Cleveland’s Cudell neighborhood. Most of the original factory still stands, and now it has a new owner with a plan. Note the test track around the perimeter of the plant (The Motor World-Wikimedia). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
One of Cleveland’s most historic industrial properties is no longer on the to-be-demolished list after it was acquired by a Greater Cleveland-based developer. That property is the four-parcel, 7.3-acre former Winton Motor Carriage Works, 10300-10630 Berea Rd. in Cleveland’s Cudell neighborhood.
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| Reese Consumer Health has signed on as the anchor tenant for the Gateway 55 light- industrial development on East 55th Street in Cleveland’s Slavic Village (Bowen). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Reese Consumer Health, a 120-year-old family-owned, Cleveland-based company that planned to consolidate and expand its facilities earlier this year at a new structure on Woodland Avenue, will instead land at another location.
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| The new East Stokes tower is named for its location. It’s on the east side of Stokes Boulevard at Chester Avenue. The sign on Stokes says this short section of the street south of Chester to Reserve Court is closed for 450 days as of Sept. 21. It’s the next tower in the Circle Square development; the tallest is The Artisan seen at far right. In the distance is the 20-story One University Circle (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Sometimes it’s hard to keep track of all the construction happening in and near Cleveland’s University Circle. And for those who don’t travel to or through here very often, you may be surprised to see the next big construction project is already making lots of progress as these photos from yesterday show.
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| With two 23-story towers, the 1-million-square-foot, mixed-use Reserve Square at the east end of Downtown Cleveland has been the subject of a federal foreclosure case since July 2025 (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration filed a legal action this week in federal court to intervene in a foreclosure lawsuit involving the Reserve Square property in Downtown Cleveland. City Law Director Mark Griffin said the intervention was necessary to protect downtown and to make sure that Reserve Square’s residents have safe accommodations.
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| On a 12-acre site in Cleveland’s Euclid-Green neighborhood, hosting 265,000 square feet of industrial structures, the former Meyer Products snowplow factory will be leased to new users. At the same time, a long-term vision for repurposing the site with advanced manufacturing and/ or distribution facilities will be formulated (CBRE). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A local investor partnership comprised of Reuven Dessler and Rico Pietro acquired a large factory complex in Cleveland’s Euclid-Green neighborhood for a simple reason — it was too good of a deal to pass up.
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| The $678 million Valor Acres development in Brecksville has begun welcoming hundreds of new residents to the southern edge of Cuyahoga County (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The finished touches are being added to Valor Acres, a $678 million mixed-use lifestyle development in Brecksville. In this edition of Progress Pics, we take a walkthrough of the main street activity known as Downtown at Valor Acres, which is now open to pedestrians.
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| Collinwood High School is the largest school building that was awarded a new end-user as a result of a city-led request for proposals process. A local and a national firm won the opportunity to redevelop this large, historic school property (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
New end users of nine closed schools were identified by the City of Cleveland today to reactivate those properties with new uses including senior affordable housing, social services, retail/community event space, and other projects.
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| A trio of 19th-century buildings, including the former Arhaus Furniture headquarters, on Old River Road on Cleveland’s Flats East Bank are for sale and could benefit from emerging developments nearby (CRESCO). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Three of the most historic buildings on Cleveland’s Flats East Bank are now available for sale. And now might be an opportune time for them to get repositioned and redeveloped with other nearby properties getting new directions, too.
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| From the corner of Detroit and Belle avenues, the first building at CASTO’s Lakewood Common development in Downtown Lakewood has topped out (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
While Lakewood lacks the undeveloped greenfield sites that allow outer-ring suburbs to accommodate growth through sprawl, building expansions and infill projects on vacant lots are allowing the historic streetcar suburb to grow its housing supply to meet new demand.
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| The Mandel Community Trail runs along the north side of North Marginal Road and the Shore- way highway, connecting Downtown Cleveland at East 9th Street and Gordon Park at East 55th Street. Much of the lakefront here is only worth passing through, not visiting, featuring barbed wire and Burke Lakefront Airport on the right (Noah Belli). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Today, officials and community partners celebrated the opening of the Mandel Community Trail, a $12 million, 2.7-mile off-road connection along Cleveland’s east-side lakefront between Downtown Cleveland at East 9th Street and Gordon Park at East 55th Street.
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| Downtown Cleveland’s second-largest building, as measured in square feet, is 925 Euclid. A court-appointed receiver of this foreclosed property declined to seek a stalking horse bidder prior to a scheduled auction in November (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A court-appointed receiver of Downtown Cleveland’s second-largest building has opted not to select a stalking horse bidder prior to a scheduled auction to satisfy a foreclosure action.
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| Cleveland State University is offering to sell or lease its vacated Joseph E. Cole Center for Continuing Education on Chester Avenue. The 68-year-old building is located east of the Inner Belt highway, putting it just outside its main campus downtown (CSU). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
On the same day that Cleveland State University (CSU) celebrated completing the renovation of historic Fenn Tower, another aging property at the east end of its Downtown Cleveland main campus awaits a new, unknown fate.
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| California-based health-tech firm Kinomatic has moved into the Hoyt Block at West St. Clair Avenue and West 6th Street in Downtown Cleveland’s Warehouse District. It’s the company’s first expansion beyond the Golden State (LoopNet). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In its first expansion outside of California, health-tech firm Kinomatic leased office space in Downtown Cleveland’s Warehouse District and has plans for growing and leasing a lot more space here.
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| The high-rise The Artisan apartments is about to be joined by another 24-story tower on the lot where the construction fencing is going up. Constructing it is the same development team as The Artisan which leased out in one year despite top-of-the-market rents. It’s the next crane-inducing construc- tion project in booming University Circle (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Construction of high-rise apartment towers are indicative of more than just strength in a housing market. It’s often indicative of strengths of employment and amenities in the immediate vicinity, supported by a walkable setting.
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| The Allen Theater at left is the home of the Cleveland Play House. In the distance is Cleveland State University. A alliance between the two will capitalize on their proximity and align their programs (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland Play House (CPH) and Cleveland State University (CSU) announced an alliance they called “transformational” that will deepen the relationship between America’s first professional regional theatre and Cleveland’s only public urban research university.
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| The historic Mayfield Theater has begun renovation work on the south side of Mayfield Road in Cleveland’s Little Italy (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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| Swagelok built this 119,000-square-foot headquarters building and innovation center in 2020 at the southwest corner of Solon and Cochran roads in suburban Solon, adding 400 new jobs. But that was just a precursor of more hiring to come (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Solon-based Swagelok announced this week that it is planning a major expansion this year and next. That expansion will start by hiring 1,200 people this year with more due to be added in 2027. And most of that hiring will occur in Northeast Ohio, company officials said.
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| The old Van Auken Akins Architects, rebranded in 2024 as DVA Architecture, is moving to new digs in the Halle Building but staying in Downtown Cleveland’s Playhouse Square district (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A growing, rebranded architectural firm can seem a little more fresh when it sheds its old digs and moves into new offices, especially when it gets the chance to design them. So when the opportunity arose to gain a new address, DVA Architecture LLC decided to draw.
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| University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center won its largest-ever federal grant for pediatric emergency preparedness (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center announced today that it was awarded a five-year, $56.25 million cooperative agreement from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) – $11.25 million annually – to lead the newly established Pediatric Prevention Network (PPN). It is the largest grant UH has ever received and marks a major national investment in pediatric emergency preparedness.
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| It may look like a park from the air, but the amount of greenspace on Cleveland’s near-East Side is the result of abandonment — something the city is trying to reverse by investing in infrastructure, creating job-ready sites and sponsoring new, affordable housing construction. This view looks west toward downtown, down Payne Avenue, from east of east of East 55th Street (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine yesterday announced $14 million in grants to support the creation of workforce housing in 10 counties. Cleveland got one of the larger grants which Mayor Justin Bibb welcomed as a recognition of the city’s efforts.
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| As seen from the Wade Lagoon in front of the Cleveland Art Museum, the new East Stokes \mixed-use tower will be near some of University Circle’s most notable attractions, as well as its many growing employers (SCB). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In a booming area like University Circle, it just doesn’t seem right not to have at least one construction crane looming over it. Fortunately, that visual injustice is about to be righted in the coming months with another major, crane-inducing project.
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| A light-rail train from Shaker Heights pulls out from Tower City Center downtown onto the Cuyahoga Valley viaduct where it will switch tracks and return east. If a transit levy passes in May, light-rail trains from Shaker Heights could continue expand service west of downtown to the airport (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s (GCRTA) General Manager and CEO India Birdsong Terry accepted the recommendation from GCRTA’s staff and decided to delay a second round of service cuts until after the planned May special election in 2027.
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| This East 115th Street residential neighborhood in Cleveland’s University Circle will stick around a little longer but could eventually succumb to the expansion of University Hospitals’ Main Campus based on feedback from a city design review panel (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The historic East 115th Street residential neighborhood in Cleveland’s University Circle may have gotten a stay of execution today thanks to a city design-review panel. But that doesn’t mean people are going to start moving back into any of the homes or apartments soon — if ever.
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| The Allium, a mixed-use redevelopment of the former Southland shopping center in suburban Middleburg Heights, was awarded $50 million in financing from the Port of Cleveland (Dimit). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
For the first time in a while, the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority Board of Directors today approved financing for three development projects that didn’t include one in the city of Cleveland. Instead, its aid will support new housing, retail, hospitality and job creation in Middleburg Heights, Strongsville and Richmond Heights.
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| The addition of this outdoor terrace to Case Western Reserve University’s new Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building will be one of the most visible features resulting from a large gift from the Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation (CWRU). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation has committed $15 million to support Case Western Reserve University’s (CWRU) Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB), 10900 Euclid Ave., a new research facility designed to advance collaboration and discovery across disciplines.
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| On a snowy Feb. 27, 2015, a Green Line light-rail train gets ready to board passengers at the Green Road station which is ADA-compliant. So are the Warrensville and Lee stations along Shaker Boulevard in Shaker Heights (Kevin Goodman). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In 1990, the federal Americans with Disabilities Act became law. It was civil rights legislation which prescribed that no one could be excluded from a public facility or public transportation because of their physical abilities.
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| Every structure visible in this northward looking view from Cornell Road in University Circle, freom from the brick Foley Building at left, to 12 houses on East 115th Street including the street, to the Fayne Apartments at right, are proposed to be removed from this scene in the coming years by University Hospitals for temporary parking lots (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
University Hospitals will seek a recommendation tomorrow morning from a city design-review committee to demolish 12 historic homes it owns along East 115th Street in Cleveland’s University Circle district. Two neighboring buildings, one with offices and the other with 44 apartments, may also join them soon on the take-down list.
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| Downtown Cleveland’s fifth-tallest building, the 62-year-old Erieview Tower, now has the resources for major renovations to begin for converting it from offices to mixed-use (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Despite prior declarations by Erieview Tower’s redevelopment team that it was moving forward with its project, an investment bank that was tasked with delivering the financing finally confirmed today its fiscal resources are now in place.
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| Cleveland Clinic’s to-be expanded Emergency Department on Cedar Avenue at East 90th Street in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood will push out its parking to nearby blocks currently occupied by homes. The demolitions will start next week (Cleveland Clinic). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Way back in the good old days of the early 2000s, $230 million would be enough money to afford building a landmark 50-plus-story skyscraper. Today, with inflation and a very specialized building to construct, that same amount of money will achieve a structure of far less scale.
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| Built around The Treehouse Pub in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood, a new apartment complex that borrows on the pub’s name could see construction start by the end of this year (GLSD). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Sometimes a proposed development in Cleveland sees a flurry of public activity when it’s first announced, then fades into the background for months or even years, then suddenly pops back up again when everything finally comes together for that project.
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| They don’t make ’em like this anymore. So it would have been a veritable sin to lose this High Victorian Gothic architectural gem from Cleveland’s landscape. Fortunately, the former Catholic School has found a new use as senior housing after a $28 million renovation (CHN Housing Partners). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In the late 2010s, the former St. Michael School, 3146 Scranton Rd., where Cleveland’s South Tremont neighborhood meets Clark-Fulton, appeared destined for a fall from grace.
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| Construction and even landscaping was completed by July for a pair of new Cleveland Clinic research buildings along Cedar Avenue in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood. Those buildings officially opened today (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland Clinic today celebrated the opening of two new state-of-the-art research buildings, part of the largest research investment in the health system’s 105-year history.
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| A brand-new Van Aken-Warrensville Rapid Station, under construction on Tuttle Road in Shaker Heights, will feature a heated indoor waiting area and public restrooms (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Between new railcars, upgraded stations, rebuilt tracks, and Transit-Oriented Development (TOD), the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s (GCRTA) Blue and Green lines are benefitting from hundreds of millions of dollars in investment that could reshape the future of the city’s least-used rail transit lines.
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| The former Union Trust Bank Building in Downtown Cleveland could become a technology hub instead of a primarily residential redevelopment if plans by its owner and an emerging develop- ment team pan out (Gordon Brothers). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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| The new Cleveland Hopkins International Airport’s Ground Transportation Center is seen at left, on the current site of the Orange Lot. To the right is the airport’s new terminal headhouse, proposed to be built on the existing site of the Smart Garage (CCG). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland’s Planning Commission’s Design Review Committee is set to hear and see a presentation Friday on conceptual plans for the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport’s new Ground Transportation Center (GTC). But even for a conceptual plan, it is short on many details that may come later as plans are refined.
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| The former Union Trust Bank Building at 925 Euclid Ave. had the world’s largest bank lobby when it was built in 1924. The future of this lobby and the massive office building surround- ing it is in doubt as the property is on course to a November auction (CPL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A federal judge today rejected giving more time to the owner of a massive office building at 925 Euclid Ave. in Downtown Cleveland to secure financing that would end a foreclosure proceeding against it. With that rejection, the property is about to enter a court-monitored sale process toward a Nov. 3 auction.
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| Wrapped like a present, train No. 401, the first of 54 Siemens Mobility S-200 light-rail cars for the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, arrived this morning at the Port of Cleveland. Here it will start its life over the coming decades, taking Greater Clevelanders to and from work, school, sporting events and many other journeys (GCRTA). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Just after sunset Friday, the first new light-rail train acquired by the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) in more than 40 years arrived by freight train at CSX Transportation’s Collinwood Yard. Today, CSX moved Siemens Mobility train No. 401 to the Port of Cleveland for delivery to GCRTA via a newly built transfer track.
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| Parties involved in pending foreclosure case against the owners of 925 Euclid Ave. in Down- town Cleveland could decide Monday if an affiliate of Millennia Companies will get more time to retain and redevelop the 1.45-million-square-foot building (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A federal court will likely decide on Monday whether to give the owner of the huge, former Union Trust Bank Building, 925 Euclid Ave. in Downtown Cleveland, more time to resolve a foreclosure action against it. Or the court could instruct the owner, an affiliate of the Millennia Companies, to get in line with other potential bidders to get the property in November.
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| Construction could begin next year on a 166,000-square-foot light-industrial facility called Gateway 55 on East 55th Street, just south of the Opportunity Corridor Boulevard in Cleveland’s Slavic Village (Cresco). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
With tenants in mind and a locally resurgent manufacturing market behind it, the long-proposed Gateway 55 light-industrial development is moving forward in the northern part of Slavic Village on Cleveland’s near-East Side.
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| Foote Printing’s 55,000-square-foot building on East 55th Street just north of the Opportunity Corridor turned 100 years old this year and gained a merger partner in Brothers Printing (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Two family-run, Cleveland-based printers that have been in business for a combined 230 years have decided to unite that experience into a single company.
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| All homes pictured were built within the past year as part of CHN Housing Partners’ lease- to-own Parkside Homes development, intended to promote homeownership. Located on Parkview Avenue in Cleveland’s Buckeye-Shaker neighborhood, the homes replaced a strip of vacant lots (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
According to a new housing market report by Homes.com, Greater Cleveland home prices continue to rise faster than the national average despite growing inventory. In July, only six of the 40 largest US housing markets saw faster annual sales price growth than Cleveland.
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| The 35-story PNC Center on East 9th Street and Euclid Avenue in Downtown Cleveland is about to get more full. Not only are parts of it now up for lease, but PNC will soon relocate more office workers into the building from satellite locations it leases in Greater Cleveland (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
When a big company like PNC Bank owns a large, underutilized office property and occupies leased office properties in the same metropolitan area, something’s got to give. The giver is reportedly PNC’s satellite offices. And the receiver is PNC Center in Downtown Cleveland.
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| The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame expansion, as seen from Bar 32 atop the Hilton Cleveland Downtown (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland’s most ambitious lakefront proposals are still in the planning phases: a 450-acre park project which could take shape if Burke Lakefront Airport shuts down, and a 52-acre stadium site masterplan, expected in October. But a handful of lakefront projects are already making waves.
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| CHN Housing Partners has been actively developing dozens of “infill” homes on existing vacant lots in recent years. Although this has been happening primarily on Cleveland’s East Side with its Parkside and Home Homes, seen above. Now their work will extend to the city’s West Side (CHN). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
CHN Housing Partners (CHN) announced it received an Ohio Low Income Housing Tax Credit (OLIHTC) award and a 4-percent Low Income Housing Tax Credit allocation from the Ohio Housing Finance Agency (OHFA) for its planned construction of Near West Side Homes.
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| CHN Housing Partners and EDEN build Emerald Senior on the south side of Superior Avenue (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
As Glenville’s stock of older — and largely historic — buildings continues to shrink, new construction is rushing to fill some of the lost supply. Much of that development aims to cater to specific needs, such as for seniors, veterans, or individuals with disabilities.
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| Transit buses are an ever-present feature around the Cleveland State University campus in Downtown Cleveland. About 40 percent of CSU students take advantage of its U-Pass public transit program which is again being targeted for termination by university officials (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
As Cleveland State University (CSU) students prepared return to classes in Downtown Cleveland for the Fall Semester starting this Monday, some were surprised to learn that its U-Pass for discounted rides on public transportation was no longer available.
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| Officials from the Northeast Ohio Medical University, University Hospitals, Cleveland Foundation and other civic leaders brandished scissors to cut the ribbon on NEOMED-UH’s Cleveland Health Innovation Center at the Cleveland Foundation’s Warren E. Anderson MidTown Collaboration Center (Photo by Andrea Hallgren). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) and University Hospitals (UH) joined with community leaders, partners, educators and health care professionals yesterday to celebrate the opening of NEOMED’s first Cleveland location.
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| A south-looking aerial view of the proposed Cleveland Browns Stadium Station for rapid transit trains. The under-construction Huntington Bank Field is at upper-left and the Berea Freeway is at right. Across the freeway is Hopkins International Airport (Bowen). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
It’s not everyday that new light-rail stations are built from scratch in Greater Cleveland. But when a $3.6 billion mixed-use entertainment district appears along Ohio’s most-used passenger rail line, a new station is hard to pass up.
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| At left is the conceptual design for Bikur Cholim’s Cleveland Comfort House fronting East 90th Street as viewed from Cedar Avenue. Cleveland Clinic’s Emergency Department is at right. Its expansion and need for more parking led the Clinic and Bikur Cholim to trade land. Now, the Cleveland Comfort House is planned to rise on Chester Avenue at East 93rd Street (studioTECHNE). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In the next few weeks, demolition work to take down five structures could get underway to avail land for the Cleveland Clinic’s expanding Emergency Department, 9105 Cedar Ave., at its Main Campus in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood.
