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| Stokes East apartment tower may see construction start this year and soon rise to approach the height of its neigh- bor, The Artisan, University Circle’s tallest building (SCB). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
With all of the job growth happening around University Circle and the latest expansion news at Cleveland Clinic, it’s probably not a surprise that another high-rise apartment tower in that area is moving toward the start of construction.
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| The Cleveland Clinic InterContinental Hotel on Carnegie Avenue at East 100th Street may be replaced with an inpatient hospital bed tower. But the hotel isn’t disappearing. It’s relo- cating nearby. And it’s one of several major developments planned by the Clinic for its Main Campus near University Circle (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
By this time next year, after the Cleveland Clinic’s largest-ever building is due to open with 2,000 additional employees, there should be a lot more clarity that’s publicly available on Ohio’s largest employer’s next expansive plans for its Main Campus near Cleveland’s University Circle.
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| The former Holiday Inn Express has closed and will be reopened as an AC Marriott Hotel, Downtown Cleveland’s first. Built in 1896, the New England Building was the headquar- ters of the National City Bank until it relocated in 1980 to the tower at right and was absorbed by PNC. There are also two floors of condominiums at the top of this historic structure (apartments.com). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Two significant development projects won financing from the Port of Cleveland yesterday — with one project in Downtown Cleveland and the other in suburban Brecksville.
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| Incredibly, the 10-story apartment tower 9410 Hough looks brand-new after a $47-million redevelopment and includes the new-construction PCC Hub at right where supportive community services are provided (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Today, developers Northern Real Estate Urban Ventures and SLSCO hosted a ribbon cutting celebration for the reopening of 9410 Hough at its namesake address in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood. It officially marked the revival of a forlorn building that was left for dead and held back its surrounding neighborhood.
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| The No. 19A bus from downtown to Southgate Transit Center in Maple Heights stops on Broadway Avenue at Harvard Road after passing the 140-year-old Holy Name Roman Catholic Church. While much of Broadway’s urban fabric in Cleveland is gone, GCRTA and the city are hoping developing the Broadway corridor with bus rapid transit here will help revive it (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In 2008, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s (GCRTA) first bus rapid transit (BRT) line was the HealthLine east of downtown on Euclid Avenue to University Circle and East Cleveland.
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| Bearing the name AmTrust Financial, 800 Superior was among the early risers on Downtown Cleveland’s office tower canyon of East 9th Street that developed from the 1960s to the 1980s (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
An affiliate of the Kassouf family is reportedly buying the 800 Superior office tower and its connected parking garage at its namesake address in Downtown Cleveland. That makes the third downtown property with a decayed garage in as many years that Kassouf has checked off its shopping list.
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| Proposed to rise just north of the Lorain-Carnegie Hope Memorial Bridge, seen at upper-left, is a new outdoor amphitheater sought by Bedrock Real Estate and Live Nation. The Cuya- hoga River is just beyond Stones Levee Road to the lower-right (Bedrock). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The developer and operator of a proposed riverfront amphitheater in Downtown Cleveland submitted their preliminary, conceptual plans for the project to the city, revealing the proposed layout and amenities of the planned venue.
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| A splash of color on new apartment buildings is planned with the larger one sought for the north side of Payne Avenue in Cleveland’s Asiatown where the vacated Dave’s Super- market stands. A second building is planned for the south side of Payne (MA Design). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
With funding in hand, a development plan to reactivate the site of the first Dave’s Supermarket is entering the City of Cleveland’s design review process. And so far, the early reviews of a proposed mixed-use development at 3301 and 3338 Payne Ave. in the city’s Asiatown district are positive.
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| These stores along the south side of St. Clair Avenue near East 17th Street at the edge of Downtown Cleveland are to be razed to add generators behind a new screen wall for the gray data center behind (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Amid the growing controversies surrounding the expansion of data centers in Ohio, Downtown Cleveland’s largest data center is about to get bigger. And, as part of that expansion, it’s evicting small businesses and proposing to demolish a row of storefronts along a major downtown street.
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| Three public hearings are scheduled next week for Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority riders to learn about proposed reductions to bus and rail services due in August (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) has scheduled public hearings on proposed service reductions to address a financial crunch. But as NEOtrans first reported last month, those cuts will be less than transit agency officials first feared.
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| A new Eagle Avenue ramp between the Gateway District and the Cuyahoga riverfront is well underway (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Along the Cuyahoga riverfront, several components of Bedrock’s $3.5 billion masterplan are taking shape in Downtown Cleveland. Furthest along is the Cleveland Clinic Global Peak Performance Center — home to the future practice facility for the Cleveland Cavaliers NBA team.
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| On the west side of Fulton Road near West 30th Street, a pair of townhomes are planned to fill the front of a deep lot (Contexture Design Studio). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, plans to erect two townhomes on a historic stretch of Fulton Road are progressing. The townhomes would fill a gap between two early 20th-century structures where a gravel parking lot currently stands in front of a small single-family home.
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| Of the three proposed buildings in the expansion of the Cleveland Business Park, the building at left would be the first one built specifically for a tenant with whom the developer says it has a deep interest but not yet a signed lease. Cleveland Hopkins International Airport is seen at upper-right next to Interstates 71 and 480 (LBI). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A proposed light-industrial/warehouse development in Cleveland, off Rocky River Drive near Hopkins International Airport, has advanced quickly toward final approval by the city. Part of the reason why is that a major tenant will anchor the 650,000-square-foot, three-building project and wants to move forward.
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| The 123-year-old landmark Rockefeller Building in Downtown Cleveland hasn’t been treated very well in recent years but its fortunes could be changing for the better very soon (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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| Top-fuel drag racing could come to the Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront thanks to a new company Shore-to-Roar-to-Shore that responded to a request for qualifications from Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration regarding the reuse of Burke Lakefront Air- port (WikiCommons). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In response to a recent request for qualifications (RFQ), Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration has awarded Shore-to-Roar-to-Shore LLC a bid to repurpose the 450-acre, city-owned Burke Lakefront Airport as a drag strip for professional top-fuel dragster and funny-car racing.
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| On Prospect Avenue at East 9th Street in Downtown Cleveland, renovation of the former Medical Mutual headquarters at the Rose Building is currently underway as part of Project Scarlet. (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
As Downtown Cleveland faces a wave of foreclosures and a slowdown in ground-up developments, a collection of major renovation projects are quietly renewing hope for the future of the central business district.
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| On Aug. 5, 2025, this smoky fire broke out in a second-floor apartment above the Red Chimney Restaurant in Cleveland’s Slavic Village neighborhood. The building is structurally but not economically salvageable, so it will be demolished before summer (Tony Brancatelli). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
If the beloved Red Chimney Restaurant was a luxury establishment in a vibrant, thriving neighborhood, the economics might favor its rebuilding following an Aug. 5, 2025 fire that was confined to a second-floor apartment at the back of the building where the blaze began.
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| The Cleveland Clinic Main Campus’ existing Emergency Department on Cedar Avenue does not have trauma rating. The Clinic and the Mandel Foundation would like to change that (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland Clinic’s Community Bridge to Care Initiative announced receiving a $50 million grant today from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Supporting Foundation. That grant will, among other things, help the health care system expand its Emergency Department and possibly gain a Level I trauma rating at its Main Campus.
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| Triton at the Flats is Silver Hills' first project in its home town. Its next project looks to be taller and more 'senior' (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A clearer picture is emerging of Silver Hills’ proposed mixed-use development at 8014 Euclid Ave. in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood after a project description was recently submitted to the city. NEOtrans broke the news of Silver Hills’ latest Cleveland development more than two weeks ago.
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| In Downtown Cleveland, multiple buildings in receivership can be seen from Euclid Avenue and East 12th Street, starting with the reddish Statler Arms apartments. Not only is it in foreclosure, but so is 925 Euclid at left and Reserve Square, seen in the distance at right. Recently, LIV Cleveland, originally the Chesterfield Apartments next to Reserve Square, was in fore- closure, too (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
When a company expands in an already busy market, the inference is that the company expects the market to get even busier. Unfortunately, that may be the case with the commercial property market where foreclosures keep coming and more receivers are getting appointed by courts to hire real estate brokers.
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| There’s a lot to unpack in this photo at East 24th Street and Central Avenue. First is the Nurses Home arched doorway, a survivor from multiple demolitions of St. Vincent Charity Hospital, leaving a vacant lot at far left. In the center beyond the fence are piles of rubble from another demolition, that of the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Justice Center. And at far right is a corner of the 22-acre Olde Cedar public housing and may be demolished, too. Downtown Cleveland is in the distance (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Mega-redevelopment sites are emerging all around Downtown Cleveland. There’s the 50-acre lakefront site that includes the to-be-demolished Huntington Bank Field. There’s the nearly 40-acre Bedrock Riverfront site. There’s the 62-acre ex-Lake Shore Power Plant site just east of downtown. And there’s the 450-acre site that now contains Burke Lakefront Airport.
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| Road and rail construction in Cuyahoga County will benefit from state funding approved this week by the Ohio Department of Transportation’s Transportation Review Advisory Council. In 2020, the Opportunity Corridor Boulevard was getting built above while the light-rail tracks of the Blue and Green Lines were getting rebuilt west of Shaker Square (GCRTA). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
On Wednesday, the Ohio Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) Transportation Review Advisory Council (TRAC) released its latest list of construction commitments for transportation infrastructure throughout the state. Over $60 million is allocated to four projects in Cuyahoga county expected to begin construction within the year.
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| Employees are settling into Sherwin-Williams’ new headquarters tower, fronted by its pavilion on Cleveland’s Public Square. And like any new building, they’re still working out the kinks as evidenced by the HVAC contractor’s van parked out front (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
On any given day, you’re bound to see a contractor’s truck or a repair van parked outside of Sherwin-Williams’ brand-new headquarters on the northwest side of Public Square, in Downtown Cleveland.
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| The Immaculate Conception Church, at left, has stood on Superior Avenue at East 41st Street for nearly 150 years. Its future is now uncertain. Its rectory and school is at right (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Immaculate Conception Church, 4129 Superior Ave, opened its doors to a young, Irish immigrant-heavy parish in 1878 on Cleveland’s near-east side. But with later generations of its parish having fled to the suburbs over the ensuing decades, services at the early English Gothic structure are due to end May 24, 2026, possibly forever.
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| Burke Lakefront Airport could be repurposed into a lakefront recreation area offered with several design options offering differing amenities in different locations on the huge, 400-acre site (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The City of Cleveland and the North Coast Waterfront Development Corporation (NCWDC) today released plan options and economic impact findings for a recreation-focused, low-density redevelopment concept for Burke Lakefront Airport.
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| Depot on Detroit breaks ground to the west of GCRTA’s West Blvd-Cudell rapid transit station, served by Airport-Downtown-Windermere Red Line trains (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Construction activity on Cleveland’s West Side is ramping up inside the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Zone — defined by the city as the land within a quarter mile (about a five-minute walk) of a high-frequency transit station. Developments within the zone are exempt from parking mandates, reducing construction costs and encouraging transit ridership.
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| Some changes are healthy, but the proposed service reductions to Greater Cleveland Re- gional Transit Authority bus and rail routes may hurt some riders while forcing others to walk a little farther to another route (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Last fall, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) warned that its worsening budget situation would mean some potentially significant service cuts starting this year. But at a GCRTA board meeting today, staff said they are making other budget cuts that would lessen those service reductions.
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| CSA Group’s new head office and labs will relocate to a site along Brecksville Road at Valor Acres in suburban Brecksville. In the background in this rendering is Sherwin- Williams’ new Morikis Global Technology Center (DiGeronimo). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
CSA Group, a global provider of testing, inspection and certification services, announced today that it will relocate and expand its U.S. Head Office to Valor Acres – a mixed-use, lifestyle center in suburban Brecksville.
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| Construction cranes could return over Downtown Cleveland or major renovation projects continue with the renewal of the state’s Transformational Mixed Use Development tax credit (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A financial incentive originally designed to spur new construction in Downtown Cleveland has instead helped other Ohio downtowns. But with the Transformational Mixed Use Development (TMUD) tax credit program renewed by the Ohio General Assembly, there is a renewed chance for the program to benefit its birthplace.
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| Naia Noir rises above the Shoreway next to Edgewater Park (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood, a pair of residential developments featuring modern apartments has begun construction. The projects are each adjacent to an urban park — offering the benefits of urban living with seamless access to outdoor green space.
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| The design of Ironwood Flats was inspired by neighboring, historic houses in Cleveland’s Slavic Village with gables and different colored sections to break up the massing of the building (RDL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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| Still standing proudly at the corner of East 9th Street and Euclid Avenue in Downtown Cleveland, 925 Euclid’s prominence got taken down a few notches by being put up for auction alongside auto parts stores, fast food joints and other retail properties (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
When it was built in 1924, 925 Euclid was one of the largest office buildings on the planet and had the largest bank lobby in the world. Now it’s being offered for sale among the likes of auto parts stores, fast food joints and other retail properties whose owners could no longer manage or financially support them.
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| Birthing Beautiful Communities constructs its new facility at Chester Avenue and East 65th Street in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In 2022, NEOtrans reported on a wave of Hough construction projects which added a total of nearly 300 homes across four projects (Park Lamont, The Lumos, Addis View Apartments, and Gordon Crossing). Now, a flurry of groundbreakings — both residential and non-residential — are continuing that trend.
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| Avelo Airlines is expanding to Cleveland starting in June with two new routes using Boeing 737-800 aircraft (AveloAir.com). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Shortly after low-fare carriers Frontier Airlines announced service reductions and Spirit Airlines announced it was ceasing its remaining service to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, a new low-fare airline is stepping in to fill the void with two new routes.
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| The Rockefeller Building has another opportunity for a reprieve from the wrecking ball if a public-private partnership can bring funding and plans together to save the historic downtown structure (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
K&D Group confirmed that it, along with the city and county land banks, are joining forces to acquire and redevelop the historic Rockefeller Building, 614 W. Superior Ave., in Downtown Cleveland. According to those who have been involved in the project, it may be one of the last, best hopes to save the building.
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| Overlooking the West Shoreway and Edgewater Park, just west of Downtown Cleveland, the development project formerly known as the Shoreway Tower has been branded Naia Noir (J-Roc, EAO). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
It has a new brand, a Web site, a wait list and a place already cemented in Greater Cleveland’s history. But what Naia Noir doesn’t have are modern competitors. In fact, after scouring our Lake Erie waterfront and Cuyahoga County records, NEOtrans contends that this is the first lakefront residential high-rise built in Cuyahoga County in 53 years.
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| Living at 55 is an affordable senior housing complex planned at the site of where Sterle’s Country House stood for decades. The site is seen here at the northeast corner of East 55th Street and Prosser Avenue on Cleveland’s near-east side (City Architecture). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
After a brief pause, the next chapter for a block of East 55th Street, between Bonna and Prosser avenues, is proposed to begin. That block, in Cleveland’s St. Clair-Superior neighborhood, held Frank Sterle’s Slovenian Country House for 68 years — an icon in Cleveland’s Slovenian and Croatian communities.
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| The St. Agnes Church bell tower on Euclid Avenue once called parishioners to services. Now it is calling residents to the site in the form of a proposed new apartment building. But the bigger draw is Cleveland Clinic’s growing Main Campus, just two blocks to the east (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A potentially large, mixed-use residential-retail development is in the early stages of planning, to be located just west of the Cleveland Clinic’s Main Campus. The site, 8000 Euclid Ave., notes a familiar, yet neglected city-designed landmark — the former bell tower of St. Agnes Church in the Fairfax neighborhood.
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| University Hospitals’ former customer services center off Northfield and Harvard roads in Highland Hills will be repurposed as a pathology lab in a $68.4 million project (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The Port of Cleveland Board of Directors today approved two projects designed to strengthen Northeast Ohio’s economy, create jobs, and revitalize strategic properties in the region.
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| A newly renovated Shooters in Cleveland’s Flats is scheduled to reopen March 19 under new ownership (Initiative PR). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Shooters, an iconic Cleveland waterfront restaurant and bar, is scheduled to reopen under new ownership March 18 following a $1 million renovation and reimagining of the longtime establishment on the Flats West Bank, 1148 Main Ave.
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| Proposed for the northwest corner of Cedar Avenue and East 90th Street, Bikur Cholim’s Cleveland Comfort House would be next to Cleveland Clinic’s Main Campus and near University Hospitals’ Cleveland Medical Center (studioTECHNE). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Care by medical staff is only part of the recovery for the sick and the injured. The rest is personal care by loved ones, which is shown to make a big difference in helping patients recover more quickly, said Ari Jaffe, a board member at Bikur Cholim of Cleveland.
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| This highly visible but long-vacant multi-family home on East 105th Street in Glenville, just north of the Veterans Administration Hospital, is about to get some long lost love with a major rehabilitation project (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Today, there were two blessings. One was a ceremonial blessing of a flagship development that’s just getting started in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood by new real estate developer Tiffany Hollinger.
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| Plans for demolishing the Wolstein Center arena and replacing it with a 15,000-seat soccer stadium and supportive development in Downtown Cleveland appear to be on hold after the city opted to support a competing plan for a soccer stadium in the Gateway South area (CSU, USL Cleveland). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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| This rendering shows the proposed reactivation of the Meet Me Here park across from Rocket Arena with the new Cosm venue, now under construction, directly behind. Ontario Street is across the bottom and Huron Road is the intersecting street (REG, MKSK). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE |
Plans for a re-imagining of the “Meet Me Here” park in Downtown Cleveland were fast-tracked by the City of Cleveland planning commission on Friday. The expedited process is now more clear given that developers seek to open it in time for the 10th Anniversary of the Cavaliers’ 2016 National Basketball Association (NBA) Championship.
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| With River Roots’ drink in hand, Chef Michael Symon pours over plans with River Roots co-founder and operations director Tom Gray for River Roots Barrel Co. Whiskey Bar and Brewery, to be located on Columbus Road in Cleveland’s Flats (Instagram @ChefSimon). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Celebrity chef Michael Symon announced he is partnering with a local, new-start whiskey distiller in its planned move to Cleveland’s Flats. NEOtrans reported nearly a year ago that River Roots Barrel Company was making a move to the Columbus Road peninsula along the Cuyahoga River.
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| The northwest corner of Rocky River Drive and Cleveland Parkway, north of Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, is the site of the first planned building in Scannell Pro- perties’ expansion of the Cleveland Business Park. The two houses in the background are not part of the project (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A major new light-industrial, warehousing, life sciences-type development project planned near Cleveland Hopkins International Airport will be larger and more immediate than first reported last month by NEOtrans. The project appears more immediate because there is a prospective tenant that is already shaping the plan.
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| Signs on Detroit Avenue advertise the under-construction Lakewood Common development (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Last fall, NEOtrans reported that CASTO’s $119 million mixed-use development had begun construction on its first building in Downtown Lakewood. In this week’s installment of Progress Pics, we’re excited to share exclusive construction photos as work advances on the first of five floors.
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| After the Adelbert Gym is renovated and expanded, including this new lobby addition to the front entrance, it will be renamed DiSanto Arena in honor of the DiSanto family’s philanthropic gift to Case Western Reserve University (OSPORTS). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Adelbert Gym, 2128 Adelbert Rd., one of Case Western Reserve University’s (CWRU) most historic buildings, will soon undergo a transformative renovation, made possible primarily by recent contributions totaling $7.9 million from two generous trustees.
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| Master Chrome, a fixture on Cleveland’s near West Side since 1950, is coming down over the next month or two. The state of Ohio may seize the property and ultimately list it for sale so the 0.57-acre property can be returned to productive use (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Fencing went up yesterday around the former site of Master Chrome, a polluted brownfield industry, 5709 Herman Ave., in Cleveland’s Gordon Square neighborhood. And in the next month or two, its vine-covered building is coming down. After that, any contaminated materials and soil will be removed. Then the property’s future will be decided.
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| The for-sale Fridrich Bicycle shop in Cleveland’s Ohio City is actually five structures on three parcels plus four more parcels that are vacant. The entire site is about 1 acre with large warehouses that were added onto the original 19th century buildings along Lorain Avenue (The Acclaimed Realty). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
It’s not unusual when buildings are sold by the owners who built them. But it is very unusual when those buildings are 143 years old.