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| In 2022, the first of two 24-story apartment towers at Circle Square in Cleveland’s University Circle was under construction. Today, the second tower next door is just getting underway a few steps from the HealthLine bus rapid transit (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Five regional organizations joined forces today to announce the launch of Cuyahoga TOD, a long-term, collaborative effort to advance transit-oriented development (TOD) in Cuyahoga County communities.
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| Next to the Interstate 90 Inner Belt bridges in Downtown Cleveland, a group of Cornell University urban planning students were given a tour of the site of the proposed Gateway South soccer stadium by Cleveland Soccer Group’s Gina Prodan Kelly, closest to the camera, and CSG CEO Michael Murphy, standing next-closest (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A group of Cornell University urban planning students came to Cleveland this week with a scholarly objective — learn about potential soccer facilities and suggest how they can link with their surroundings, including public transit. They left with ideas for and discoveries about Cleveland that could result in more than an academic exercise.
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| Judy McGlinchy, left, and Craig Astler presented “monumental” ideas for redeveloping Downtown Cleveland’s North Coast Harbor at a public meeting last week at Merwin’s Wharf in the Flats (Paul Heney). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
With the Cleveland Browns leaving the city for Brook Park in the next few years, plans for what’s next on the lakefront are heating up. Architectural firm MVRDV, based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, is expected to unveil an update of the entire lakefront plans in the next month or two, on behalf of the nonprofit North Coast Waterfront Development Corporation.
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| Many visitors arrive to Cleveland’s Shaker Square on transit vehicles, such as this GCRTA Blue Line train which originated at Tower City in Downtown Cleveland (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
It’s no secret that Cleveland’s complicated and restrictive zoning code stifles new construction, hinders neighborhood walkability, and renders countless existing buildings noncompliant. Yet it remains to be seen how well its emerging Form-Based Code can resolve these issues.
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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.
