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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University Circle moves ahead with 10-year master plan

A conceptual rendering depicts a reworked South Rockefeller Park, including a pro-
posed closure of Stearns Road and two-way conversion of MLK Jr. Drive (Sasaki).
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On Friday, University Circle’s 10-year master plan for land use and public realm improvements won unanimous approval from City Planning Commission. The plan, titled Connecting the Circle, aims to transform the city’s second-largest employment center into a “Connected Civic Commons.”

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Flats demo OK’d for new amphitheater

The Hope Memorial Bridge — home to the Guardians of Traffic pylons — overlooks the site
of the future Riverfront Amphitheater and the existing warehouse at 401 Stones Levee Rd. in
the Flats (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Developers from Bedrock Cleveland and Rock Entertainment Group (REG) on Friday received approval from the City of Cleveland Planning Commission (CPC) to demolish a warehouse at 401 Stones Levee Rd. in the Flats. The demolition clears the way for the group behind billions in riverfront development to proceed with the next phase of revitalization and activation.

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Westinghouse redevelopment to start

An early conceptual rendering for the redevelopment of the former Westinghouse plant along
the West Shoreway includes many features of the final, approved project including retaining
the façade of the foundry at left for new construction behind and redevelopment of the tower
at right with apartments (AODK). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A ride along the West Shoreway from Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood to Edgewater Park will soon be a tour of multiple, major residential construction projects within sight of the roadway and more developments just a few blocks south of it. The latest to join the cavalcade of new multifamily housing will be the Westinghouse redevelopment.

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Could it be? Bridgeworks is about to start?

It’s a rendering that’s led almost every article about Bridgeworks, the elusive but promising
mixed-use development proposed at the northeast corner of the Detroit-Superior Bridge and
West 25th Street near downtown. But there is activity swirling about the project, perhaps
 more so now than in years (Geis). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

It looks like it’s finally happening. After more than seven years of project development, multiple redesigns, financing shortfalls, and occasionally dim prospects, demolition, site preparation and construction of Bridgeworks is due to start in the middle of June.

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Lorain Station Historic District gets two wins

A rendering of the exterior improvements planned for the former grocery store that became
the Cuyahoga County Westshore Professional Center. It will now become the West Side
Community Resource Center (GCFB). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A streetscape grant was approved for the Lorain Station Historic District this week, shortly after construction plans were submitted to the city for repurposing a former grocery store in this district into a West Side Community Resource Center that will provide needed services in a more attractive setting.

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A dozen Cleveland schools are offered for redevelopment

Collinwood High School is easily the largest and perhaps the most iconic of 12 Cleveland
schools to be offered for redevelopment in this latest round. The Collinwood Railroaders
graduated its last senior class last week after more than a century of graduations. Its
next use is unknown (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) and the City of Cleveland are offering up to buyers and developers 12 school properties for redevelopment, with a few surprises on the list. They include two school buildings built in the last 20 years and several historic, iconic structures.

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Downtown Cleveland: experience drives perception

Want to love Downtown Cleveland more? Spend more time experiencing more of it,
says Downtown Cleveland Inc. (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Downtown Cleveland, Inc. (DCI) says that the biggest thing wrong with the city’s central business district is that not enough people are familiar with it. If more people visited it more often, DCI said people would enjoy it more. And DCI has a survey of perceptions to back up its argument.

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Edgewater, West Blvd grapple with new development

Looking south across a basketball court at Cudell Commons, construction of Marion C. Selzter
Elementary School moves ahead (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland’s Edgewater, Cudell, and West Boulevard neighborhoods are currently facing a small wave of development, ranging from renovations to new construction. But the path to groundbreaking has been easier for some projects than others.

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AmTrust to put $14M in downtown offices

As previously reported by NEOtrans, AmTrust will split up its office presence
in Greater Cleveland. Its downtown offices will move to the AECOM
Building seen here where it make a large investment to update
and enhance its space (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Even as AmTrust takes steps to divide up its Downtown Cleveland offices into suburban and downtown locations, the financial services company is about to make a major investment into its new downtown offices at the AECOM Building, 1300 E. 9th St., according to plans filed with the city this week.

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Cleveland housing developments get funded, neighborhoods lifted

 With a working title of the Lorain Avenue Redevelopment, a new
building offering affordable housing atop a new office for Ohio City Inc.
will replace the aging, nearly vacant McCafferty Health Center, providing
more housing choices in a neighborhood with high rents (City Architecture).
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Three Cleveland developments won competitive, highly coveted tax credits that will help push each of those new housing projects toward construction. In total, the trio will add 165 affordable residential units. But one of them is actually the construction of 40 new houses that offer an opportunity at home ownership.

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Lakefront apartment complex wins financing

Union at Cleveland Harbor would offer affordable housing along Cleveland’s
Lakefront, near the East 55th Street marina and Gordon Park (RDL).
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Despite having 17 miles of shoreline, developments along Cleveland’s Lake Erie waterfront don’t happen that often due to a lack of developable land. But one got closer to construction today after financing for it was approved by the state, according to a press release.

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Naia Noir tops Detroit-Shoreway developments

Cuyahoga County’s first lakefront high-rise in over 50 years has risen to
more than half of its planned height beside J Roc-developed The Shore-
way (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In March, NEOtrans announced that Cuyahoga County’s first lakefront high-rise in over half a century had begun construction next to Edgewater Park. The apartment tower, branded Naia Noir, will also be the first high-rise constructed in Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood.

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Music Institute dorm starts on bad note

Classrooms, offices and a dormitory for the Cleveland Institute of
Music as well for Case Western Reserve University students is at 1609 Hazel
Dr. in Cleveland’s University Circle. But the southern and, to the right in this
September 2022 streetview, western exterior wall panels will have to be
replaced due to “defective workmanship” according
to a pending legal
complaint (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Less than six years old, the Cleveland Institute of Music’s (CIM) new building called 1609 Hazel at its namesake address in Cleveland’s University Circle, has suffered extensive water damage due to alleged poor construction. And the bill for pending repairs just came in — $1.7 million, according to public records filed with the city.

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Cleveland Trades Council urges data center regulations, not ban

Data centers are growing in number while many office buildings are fading.
In Downtown Cleveland, the Sterling Building on Euclid Avenue has become
a 250,000-square-foot hub for technology, cloud computing and cybersecurity
services (LoopNet). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

As Cleveland considers a moratorium on the addition of new data centers until it can update its zoning code to better address them, and as a statewide ban on larger data centers is pending, the Cleveland Building and Construction Trades Council said it wants the emotion taken out of the debate.

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City loses another fight against spread of downtown parking lots

On the south side of Sumner Avenue, next to St. Maron Church at left, is a piece of the land
the church’s diocese just acquired to provide parking for the church and to earn revenue
from visitors to the Gateway sports and entertainment complex visible at right (Google).
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An historic church in Downtown Cleveland’s Gateway District won its case before the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) today to use a newly purchased property at 1212-1260 Sumner Ave. as a surface parking lot for up to 90 vehicles.

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Cuyahoga gets its $1M brownfield allocation

A week before Christmas, the West Side Market was the site of a press conference in
which it was awarded a $5 million Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit to support
renovations totaling more than $71.33 million. Yesterday, it got an Ohio Brownfield
grant to do site work to prepare for those renovations (NEOtrans).
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Although each county in Ohio was limited to $1 million in Ohio Brownfield Remediation grants in this round of funding awards, Cuyahoga County made the most of it despite its voracious appetite for such grants as it repositions its former, massive industrial base in the post-industrial era.

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Cleveland’s proposed Data Center moratorium in a race against time, technology

As more companies embrace artificial intelligence to automate more jobs, more data centers
will appear around the world. The question Cleveland is grappling with as more data center
development plans arrive here is to how to effectively regulate them (NEOtrans).
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It’s a race against time between the City of Cleveland and developers seeking to construct new data centers. On one side is the city which has an outdated zoning code it has been wanting to update for years, with data centers being the latest new land use to add to the mix.

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Data center rejection prompts reaction

A three-building data center campus is planned in Cleveland’s Slavic Village and could
look like this unofficial rendering created by NEOtrans. The developer, Lakeland Equity
Group, said it spend heavily to add electric grid infrastructure to accommodate the
facility (NEOtrans/ChatGPT). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Today’s sudden rejection of a building application for a new $1.6 billion data center in Cleveland’s Slavic Village caught the project’s development team by surprise. But city sources and records revealed the application was rejected because it was incomplete.

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Tremont, Duck Island developments near completion

Two single-family homes designed by AODK are under construction at the Carter Road
Subdivision, where Scranton Peninsula meets Duck Island in Cleveland (Harrison
Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood is one of the most desirable in the city — and its tight housing market reflects that. But with a handful of developments now wrapping up, it may be the perfect time for those considering a move to the area.

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Midline redevelopment district announced

Officials gathered today to announce the Midline Priority Investment Area, a major rede-
velopment initiative of Cleveland’s near-East Side, amid the backdrop of old, decayed
industrial sites that will be razed to make way for new jobs and opportunity (NEOtrans).
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Cleveland’s largest industrial redevelopment in its history, dubbed the Midline Priority Investment Area, was announced today as an effort to transform the city’s near-East Side into a job hub and community greenway.

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The Vibe financing OK’d, Fall start ID’d

The six-story Hanover House and the lobby for The Vibe development are seen here
next to the Ohio City Firehouse in Cleveland’s Hingetown enclave (Vocon).
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With financing approved, the developer of Ohio City’s largest new-construction project in four years has an eye toward fall for a groundbreaking date of The Vibe, 2828 Clinton Ave., in Cleveland’s Hingetown enclave.

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CSU’s Woodling transformation may hit $60M

From the outside, the 1970s windowless bunker Woodling Gym is unidentifiable. It’s doubtful
that anyone who hasn’t attended or competed against Cleveland State University would know
where it is. But this view of Woodling, from between Chester and Euclid Avenues looking
west towards the 1970s iconic Rhodes Tower, provides some orientation (Google).
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A request from Cleveland State University (CSU) has gone out in search of qualified design teams to transform the 53-year-old Woodling Gymnasium, 2420 Chester Ave., into a modern, competitive facility. The request notes that the project budget for Woodling’s transformation could range from $30 million to $60 million.

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Music Settlement breaks ground on $12M expansion

This rendering illustrates the south façade of the planned Mandel Music House. Its design
was revised to use a lighter color to visually transition between the addition and a historic
home (Perspectus). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

On Friday, The Music Settlement (TMS) held an official groundbreaking for a $12 million expansion of its campus in University Circle. The project will restore and expand the historic Gries House, 1560 Mistletoe Dr., into the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Music House.

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Next TOD project planned on Red Line

The Lorain West Apartments are proposed to be located on its namesake street near the
Lorain-West 65th Red Line rail station. (RDL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

One by one, the many used-car dealerships along Lorain Avenue on Cleveland’s West Side are going away. For the most part, they are getting replaced with new multifamily housing developments and that’s what’s proposed to happen again.

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St. Luke’s Church begins interior demo at Memphis & Pearl

At Memphis Avenue and Pearl Road, the demolition of two historic commercial buildings could
make way for a mixed-use development featuring 84 apartments over ground-level retail
(Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

At the center of Cleveland’s Old Brooklyn neighborhood, $2.34 million in interior demolition work is set to begin for Memphis & Pearl — a $42.3 million mixed-use development that could add 84 apartments next to retail uses in a renovated St. Luke’s Church.

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Part 2: The Yellow Brick Road of Cleveland’s East Side

A significant research laboratory is planned by the Cleveland Clinic and other partners at the
southeast corner of Opportunity Corridor Boulevard and East 79th Street where a fading
neighborhood stood until recently. At left is the elevated Norfolk Southern railroad, along-
side which the East Side Trail is proposed. This is an unofficial rendering but is based
on conceptual parameters for the project (Google/ChatGPT/NEOtrans).
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Elton John once sang “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” when his songwriter Bernie Taupin bid adieu to city living in his ambitious, fast life, trading it for the quiet lifestyle of tending to a rural farm. Cleveland is heading in the opposite direction by welcoming the start of a new journey.

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CHEERS project advances to permitting phase

Expansion of Gordon Park into Lake Erie, including the creation of an offshore island, called
the Cleveland Harbor Eastern Embayment Resilience Strategy, or CHEERS project, has
$22.1 million in hand or pending for this multi-decade effort (Cleveland Metroparks).
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Cleveland Metroparks and the Port of Cleveland announced a major milestone in advancing the Cleveland Harbor Eastern Embayment Resilience Strategy (CHEERS), as U.S. Rep. Shontel Brown, D-11, presented $1.1 million in federal funding to support the next phase of the project.

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Part 1: East Side to host ‘Cleveland’s largest-ever industrial redevelopment’

An unofficial rendering of what the Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Engineering Co. factory at 7000
Central Ave. in Cleveland’s Central neighborhood could look like after a planned $25.7 million
renovation. The plant’s reactivation with a new manufacturer will be announced at a press con-
ference next week (TacoSlayerAerial, ChatGPT). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Parts of Cleveland’s East Side offer scenes right out of a post-apocalyptic action movie. Actually, a pre-apocalyptic action movie — the opening scenes of the 2012 movie The Avengers — was filmed here. Another story will begin here next week when local and state leaders join Mayor Justin Bibb in making what he calls “an historic announcement.”

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More details emerge on Cleveland data center

This is an image of a three-building data center totaling about 300,000 square feet next to an
interstate highway. It is set in a city neighborhood south of a major downtown area. The
image was created, ironically, using artificial intelligence hosted at multiple, massive
data centers (ChatGPT). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A 150-megawatt, $1.6 billion data center planned for Cleveland’s Slavic Village is in a race to get its plans approved before City Council can pass a moratorium on building more data centers in Cleveland, according to sources familiar with the project.

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Cosm, Belle Oaks get Port financing

Set on the northeast corner of Huron Road and East 4th Street in Downtown Cleveland, Cosm’s
multiple-daily shared reality offerings are expected to attract three quarters of a million visitors
per year (Rossetti). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Port of Cleveland’s Board of Directors today approved major development finance initiatives that will support transformative projects across Northeast Ohio, reinforcing the region’s continued momentum in housing, entertainment, infrastructure, and public service investment.

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Library to join another mixed-use project

The proposed commercial tenant to occupy the ground floor, behind the red facade of Asia-
Town’s newest development will be the Cleveland Public Library. It will open a satellite
location in the neighborhood (MA Design). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland Public Library (CPL) will open a new satellite location in the city’s AsiaTown neighborhood in a couple of years, at the Mingyue Place apartment complex, according to community officials. If that apartment complex’s name doesn’t ring a bell, it’s because it doesn’t exist yet.

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$1.6B data center planned in Cleveland

Shaded in red, the 35-acre Morabito site between Interstate 77 at left and East 55th Street at
right in Cleveland’s Slavic Village is proposed to host a hyperscale data center (Google).
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Set between Cleveland’s Slavic Village and the industrial valley in the coming years could be the city’s largest-ever data center. While at this early stage, it has generated many questions, its backers say the large site and nearby presence of industrial-scale electrical power and water resources should answer many of those questions.

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More than tortillas are rising on W. 65th

Looking north along West 65th Street in Cleveland’s Stockyards neighborhood, Tortilleria La
Bamba y mercado is proposed to built if a permit situation can be resolved. Across the street
to the left, another retail development is planned that would add an Ollie’s Bargain Outlet
store (Onyx Creative). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Along the southern portion of West 65th Street in Cleveland’s Stockyards neighborhood, a new round of private investment is set to reactivate the area with jobs and shopping activity — just as city officials had hoped years ago.

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New women’s pro soccer team named

Site of the planned new Gateway South soccer stadium, a proposed new Greater Cleveland
Regional Transit Authority light-rail station and other nearby venues. Also shown is the crest
and logo of the new men’s soccer team (CSG). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland Soccer Group (CSG) today unveiled Cleveland Astra, the brand identity for our new professional women’s soccer club. Merchandise is available online today and season ticket deposits are open. Cleveland Astra will kick off in spring 2028, compete in Women’s Premier Soccer League (WPSL) Pro and play in a Downtown Cleveland soccer stadium.

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City green-lining investment in East Side

Lots of construction, from infrastructure to the redevelopment of abandoned industries, are
evident in this view looking east on Carnegie Avenue from East 55th Street. But more is
needed on Cleveland’s near-East Side to return abandoned properties back to pro-
ductive use (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

An expanded tax base is a result of economic development. On that score, Cleveland’s near-East Side doesn’t produce much in the way of tax revenue while its old infrastructure, city services and social programs are in need of lots of resources. So the city is going to do something to equalize that imbalance.

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New housing for Central neighborhood

Rendering of the proposed Olde Cedar mixed-income multifamily homes in Cleve-
land’s Central neighborhood (CMHA). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) sought to kick off the first phase of redeveloping Olde Cedar in the Central neighborhood with a visit to the Cleveland City Planning Commission on Friday.

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Clinic’s big new lab on Opportunity Corridor

The southeast corner of Opportunity Corridor Boulevard and East 79th Street isn’t much to
look at right now. That’s why it’s a good development site. It’s a large, relatively clean and
mostly undeveloped site in the heart of the city and it’s almost entirely owned by the city of
Cleveland and other public entities (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A sale closed this week for the largest property acquired among many needed to accommodate a proposed, significant laboratory-research facility sought by the Cleveland Clinic and other project partners. It is but one piece of a major expansion of facilities by the Clinic that NEOtrans first reported last month.

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New construction, renovations foster Superior walkability

Looking west along Superior Avenue, the Cleveland Division of Police’s new headquarters is
visible just left of center. The underutilized street is set to be transformed into a multi-modal
transportation corridor with the Superior Midway (Harrison Whittaker).
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As soon as this summer, one of Cleveland’s most prominent streets could see a bike- and pedestrian-friendly overhaul with construction of the Superior Midway. But walkable neighborhoods need destinations — and several developments are creating just that.

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CWRU gets $125M, largest gift in Ohio history

A rendering of the interior of Case Western Reserve University’s proposed new Jack,
Joseph and Morton Mandel Humanities Building on Bellflower Road (CWRU).
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As Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) celebrates its bicentennial, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation has made a $125 million commitment gift to the university. Not only is it the largest gift in the foundation’s history, CWRU says it’s likely the biggest gift ever to higher education in Ohio.

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New Huntington Bank Field officially starts construction

At today’s groundbreaking ceremony, officials discuss the new Huntington Bank Field
in suburban Brook Park. From left is play-by-play radio announcer for the Cleveland
Browns Andrew Siciliano, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, NFL Commissioner Roger
Goodell, and Cleveland Browns majority owner Jimmy Haslam (contributed).
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The Haslam Sports Group (HSG) alongside a joint venture of AECOM Hunt, Turner Construction Company and architect HKS officially broke ground today for the new Huntington Bank Field, the future home of the Cleveland Browns starting with the 2029 National Football League (NFL) season.

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Hub 27 boosts affordable housing construction on Near West Side

Site prep begins for Hub 27’s phase one apartment building which will add 53 units of work-
force housing in the BVQ District (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

On Cleveland’s near-West Side, the Clark-Fulton neighborhood is getting an infusion of affordable housing with the first phase of Hub 27 under construction in the BVQ (Barber-Vega-Queen avenues) District and continued progress at the Walton Senior Apartments on Clark Avenue.

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Rockefeller Building secured by K&D

The 17-story Rockefeller Building on Superior Avenue in Downtown Cleveland has a
new opportunity facing it as K&D Group took title to the property today (NEOtrans).
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As first reported by NEOtrans earlier this month, K&D Group said it would seek $6 million worth of “make-safe” repairs to Downtown Cleveland’s vandalized Rockefeller Building after it took title to it. But it began shoring up the Gilded Age edifice on the very day the sale closed.

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Cleveland has Ohio’s highest apartment rents

The Collins Apartments on Carter Road is one of two major developments to open in
the past year on Scranton Peninsula in Cleveland’s Flats. But it wasn’t enough to
meet Greater Cleveland’s demand for more multifamily units (NEOtrans).
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A new report released today by international real estate firm Colliers shows that multifamily development in Greater Cleveland isn’t keeping up with demand. The result is that average rents in the Cleveland area are now the highest of any metro area in the state.

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County’s biggest-ever project gets OK’d

A rendering of the proposed Cuyahoga County Central Services Campus in Garfield
Heights, as seen from Transportation Boulevard. More of the jail exists behind the
tree and the publicly  accessible and office-oriented portion (Cuyahoga County).
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With a vote by a Justice Center steering committee today, Cuyahoga County Council got the recommendation it needed to formally and legally approve construction tomorrow on a new $894.26 million Central Services Campus corrections center in suburban Garfield Heights.

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Cleveland’s fastest-changing neighborhood isn’t where you think

The Women Religious Archives Collaborative Heritage Center started rising in Cleve-
land’s Campus District after the nearby St. Vincent Charity Medical Center closed its
doors (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

University Circle and Ohio City might be Cleveland’s most recognizable development hotspots. But in the southern Campus District, which straddles the Central neighborhood and eastern edge of downtown, a handful of large-scale demolitions and relocations are setting up more than 50 acres for redevelopment next door to the central business district.

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Ohio City residential developments advance

Revival Residential’s Ambler Apartments rise on West 26th
Street (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, the spring season is well underway — and so are numerous apartment complexes, ranging from ground-up construction projects to residential conversions of historic buildings.

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Wellman-Seaver-Morgan plant reactivation plan revealed

Before Mother Nature reclaims it, funding is being secured to reactivate the former
Wellman-Seaver-Morgan factory on Cleveland’s East Side for a new commercial
end user (Taco Slayer Aerial). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A clearer picture is emerging of the planned redevelopment of the large, historic Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Engineering Co. manufacturing plant, 7000 Central Ave., where Cleveland’s Fairfax and Central neighborhoods meet.

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AmTrust to relocate most downtown office workers to Mayfield Hts.

AmTrust Financial will be vacating the red-bricked 800 Superior and moving north up
East 9th Street to the darker, glassy AECOM Building to the upper-right of its current
home (CBRE). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

NEOtrans has learned that AmTrust Financial is vacating its current Downtown Cleveland offices and moving most of its 600 jobs to the suburbs. One result of this big shake-up of office properties is that the 23-story 800 Superior building downtown will be left mostly empty by year’s end.

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