GCRTA’s choices: victim or solution

Although University Circle is Greater Cleveland’s fastest growing
   employment district and one of its fastest growing residential areas,
its transit offerings haven’t changed much in decades. The HealthLine
offers less frequent and slower buses than before 2008 and has
only one rail line which skirts the district (NEOtrans).
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If the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) was a human being, it might look like the Black Knight from the 1975 movie “Monty Python and The Holy Grail” after being confronted by King Arthur. In the British comedy, the king had hacked off the knight’s arms and legs, yet the knight continued to fight, claiming “It’s just a flesh wound.”

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Camelot Bakery OK’d for city’s West Side

Camelot Bakery is proposed to be built in phases at the intersection
of Madison Avenue and West 105th Street in Cleveland’s Cudell
neighborhood, replacing their existing, cramped building on the
same site. This is an updated rendering showing a new color palette
and glass-block windows along the first floor of the Madison frontage.
The bus in the background is shown on West 105th Street (Meraki).
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It’s the kind of success story just about everyone cheers for and it’s a story that Cleveland needs more of. It’s the story of a husband-and-wife team growing a business they started, outgrowing their first building in Cleveland to the point they need a new one — and are staying in Cleveland.

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Progressive HQ goes to auction

Progressive Insurance’s first headquarters building in Mayfield Village
remains unsold after nearly two years on the market (LoopNet).
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One of Northeast Ohio’s largest for-sale office properties will soon be put up for bid. Progressive Insurance’s first headquarters campus it constructed in the eastern suburbs is scheduled for a Feb. 2, 2026 auction.

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Senior apartments planned for Slavic Village

A new senior apartment complex is planned in the vacant lot at left, across
Waterman Avenue from Hyacinth Park in Cleveland’s Slavic Village
(Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In the early 2000s, the Hyacinth Lofts were developed in the old Cleveland School Book Depository, offering hope for a revival of the Slavic Village enclave named after an historic St. Hyacinth Roman Catholic Church. Then the foreclosure crisis hit, devastating this once working-class, ethnic neighborhood.

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Miami University picks Cleveland Innovation District site

This 70-year-old building on Carnegie Avenue, recently called Cleveland Clinic’s DD Build-
ing for back-office functions, was acquired, modernized and repositioned as a for-lease office
space by CedarTech and Cumberland Development. Miami University will occupy the
fourth floor of this building (Cresco). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Miami University and Cleveland Clinic revealed in public records filings that they will make a $1 million investment to build out the university’s new location in Cleveland to boost healthcare education, quantum computing and healthcare research, plus workforce development.

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Clinic, IHG to upgrade hotel to voco Suites

The InterContinental Suites Hotel Cleveland at Cleveland Clinic is about to get upgraded
to voco Suites, IHG Hotels & Resorts’ global brand offering resort-style amenities (IHG).
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Many who stay at the InterContinental Suites Hotel Cleveland at Cleveland Clinic, 8800 Euclid Ave.,in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood, are visiting for an extended period, such as for medical testing and long-term treatments. So as long as they’re here, they’re now going to get a resort-style stay.

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Next Superior renovation is partial, for now

Formerly the offices of Thomas J. Unik Insurance and built as the Grossman Paper Box
Company, this building on Superior Avenue on the east side of Downtown Cleveland
is being partially renovated to make it more marketable for sale and eventual
redevelopment (Cresco). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

An historic, four-story commercial building on the east end of Downtown Cleveland has gone on the market. And, at the same time, renovations to the building are about to begin, at least partially. Those two seemingly disconnected actions have a connection — making the property more marketable.

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Hotel land sale may boost GCRTA station developments

Stark Enterprises, which owns the La Quinta Inn By Wydnham at left, will buy the land it
is leasing from the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority. The transit agency owns
property here for its Puritas-West 150th Red Line station, visible at right (Google).
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A land sale recently approved by the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) went largely unnoticed beyond the agency, as did the creation of a fund where the sale proceeds will be deposited. But when combined, both could have long-term implications for the cash-strapped transit agency which is considering significant service cuts.

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$300M CWRU project at heart of growing University Circle

The Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Building rises on the Case Quad
(Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In the three years since Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) first announced plans for a new Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB), the $300 million donor-supported project has seen substantial progress.

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Brook Park stadium access public meeting Jan. 14

Major changes are proposed to the Interstate 71-Snow Road interchange in suburban Brook
Park to handle traffic to and from the Haslam Sports Group’s planned enclosed stadium
nearby (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA) and the City of Brook Park, will host a public meeting next month to provide residents, businesses, visitors and other stakeholders with an opportunity to learn more about and engage in an open discussion on regional transportation and traffic pattern considerations associated with the new enclosed stadium in Brook Park.

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Home on the Opportunity Corridor?

Six triplexes like these are planned a short distance from the Opportunity Corridor in one
direction and Karamu House Theatre in the other by a developer that’s already investing
in housing renovations near Cleveland’s University Circle (Young Design Studio).
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Developing in a neighborhood where much of the neighborhood is gone has its plusses and minuses. On the upside, it’s a chance to reboot the community without upsetting existing neighbors because there aren’t many left. And in this case, one of them is a member of the development team so there’s little chance of a NIMBY backlash.

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Lakefront master developer is chosen

This lakefront development masterplan, created in the last three years, will be updated
to include the redevelopment of the 25 acres on which Huntington Bank Field, seen
as a white box here (FO). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A company with a great deal of development experience in Greater Cleveland, including having a hand in the relocation of the Cleveland Browns to suburban Brook Park, was named today as the master developer of Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront that encompasses the current Browns stadium site.

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Ten Cuyahoga County developments win Ohio historic preservation credits

West Side Market stands at the center of the bustling Market District in Cleveland’s
Ohio City neighborhood. And its continued renovation got a $5 million boost today
in the form of Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credits (NEOtrans).
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Ten redevelopment projects in Cuyahoga County were awarded historic preservation tax credits today by the Ohio Department of Development. In total, those represent nearly one-third of all winning projects statewide and two Cleveland projects won the $5 million maximum of historic credits.

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Euclid seeks redo of former church site

A small portion of the former St. Robert Church property is visible here at the corner of
Lakeshore Boulevard and East 238th Street in Euclid. The property wraps around the
house at far-right and extends south 1,000 feet to Elmwood Drive (Google).
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One of Euclid’s largest undeveloped properties may not lay fallow much longer. After the former St. Robert Bellamine Church, located at 23802 Lake Shore Blvd., closed 15 years ago, the site is finally being put on a path to redemption.

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Canon Healthcare USA HQ comes into focus

At just seven years ago, the former IBM Explorys building is still young. But new owner
Canon Healthcare USA has big changes in store for the structure to accommodate the
imaging business and its equipment (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. 

After nearly a year since it acquired an office building in Cleveland’s University Circle and two years since it announced a partnership with Cleveland Clinic, Canon Healthcare USA has now revealed that it is moving forward with modifications to that office building for its headquarters.

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Clinic to coach healthy cooking at new kitchen

A rendering of the planned new teaching kitchen at the Langston Hughes Community
Health and Education Center in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood (RPMI).
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A large number of a hospital’s patients are treated for avoidable health problems, with many of those traced to what we eat. For many of us, we didn’t learn enough about healthy foods or how to prepare them. Or we simply forgot in our grab-n-go, fast-food culture.

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Richmond mall redo, Old Brooklyn bank jobs get Port financing

Belle Oaks, a planned mixed-use redevelopment of the former Richmond Town Square
shopping mall in Richmond Heights, got port financing to advance its development
(Bialosky). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority Board of Directors today approved $55 million in bonds for apartments and retail space at the site of the former Richmond Mall in Richmond Heights and $6 million in bonds for new housing planned for Cleveland’s Old Brooklyn neighborhood.

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Rockefeller buyer has big plans for site

The Rockefeller Building was the tallest building in Cleveland when the first phase of it was
built in 1905. It was added onto at left in 1910 and remained an office building until several
years ago. While its redevelopment has been elusive, there is some light at the end of the
tunnel or, in this case, ramp (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

We may be only a few weeks away from learning more details about a possible sale of Downtown Cleveland’s historic Rockefeller Building. But the grapevine is already buzzing as to what might happen after a sale is closed.

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Circle North fuels Glenville momentum

The second phase of NRP’s Churchill Gateway project rises on Churchill Avenue in Cleve-
land’s Glenville neighborhood (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Five years ago, NEOtrans reported that a development boom in Glenville’s Circle North district had reached nearly “every block.” Despite an economic environment which had slowed construction activity, that momentum seems to be making a comeback.

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Why Hopkins Airport may regain hub

Cleveland Hopkins International Airport has the most international travelers of any non-hub
or non-focus-city airport east of the Mississippi River. Yet this is Cleveland’s only nonstop
transatlantic flight, a near-daily Aer Lingus round trip to Dublin, Ireland. In the background
is Concourse D which, as of next year, will have been abandoned for as long as the 12 years
it was in use (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Eleven years ago, United ended its hub operation at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, leaving the 1999-built Terminal D vacant and relinquishing some of the airport’s remaining gates to expansion by low-fare airlines.

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