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| Puritas Senior Apartments rises behind single-family homes on West 145th Street in Cleveland’s Jefferson neighborhood (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
As the new year opens to a snowy start, a flurry of local construction activity is bringing four ongoing senior apartment projects totaling over 200 units closer to completion. A fifth, the 55-unit Hough Senior Living, has started site preparation after closing on financing.
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| The largest single property that’s about to transfer to a new owner is the Van Aken Crossing Apartments spread among three buildings on Van Aken Boulevard and the light-rail transit Blue Line near Shaker Square in Cleveland (LoopNet). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Ownerships of a total of 177 apartments spread among nine buildings clustered together in two locations on the east and west sides of Cleveland are about to transfer to out-of-state buyers, public records show. While it’s too early to say what that may mean for the futures of those properties and their neighborhoods, they bear watching.
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| Hough Senior Living, on Hough Avenue at East 89th Street, is one of many significant developments moving forward in this neighborhood, once a national posterchild of urban decay (HD+S). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In less than one week, NEOtrans has shared news of multiple significant developments in Hough making progress with a fifth project now moving forward. But the West side need not feel left out, as Cleveland-based CHN Housing Partners announced a west-side project closed its financing this week, too.
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| The Cleveland Clinic’s new Neurological Institute on Carnegie Avenue will, among other services, help the Clinic gain a Level 1 trauma center as early as 2028. But the 1-million- square-foot neuro building is expected to open in February 2027 (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Expansion of the Cleveland Clinic’s Main Campus Emergency Department and the addition of its new Neurological Institute may help Greater Cleveland gain its third Level 1 trauma center as early as 2028 and relieve pressure on the region’s existing Level 1 centers. But not everyone agrees to the need.
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| A new office building and production facility on Woodland Avenue near the Opportunity Corridor for Reese Consumer Health will allow the company to take advantage of growth opportunities (Bialosky). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Last year, Cleveland-based Reese Pharmaceutical rebooted its business and changed its name to Reese Consumer Health. Next year, the company plans to change its headquarters-production location. And in subsequent years, it hopes those efforts will expand its business and add new jobs.
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| Property owner The Cleveland Foundation has reached a letter of intent with Signet Real Estate Group to develop land at the northeast corner of Euclid Avenue and East 71st Street in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood. This is an early conceptual rendering of what is envisioned here (TCF). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The Cleveland Foundation says it wants to do for East 71st Street at Euclid Avenue what it has done for East 66th Street — transform it. From the foundation’s perspective, that requires demolishing a structure from the city’s industrial past. And the Cleveland Foundation will reveal this Friday a vision of that next transformation.
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| The former Westinghouse plant on West 58th Street awaits a $59.3 million redevelop- ment (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood, a slew of residential and mixed-use developments are set to transform the area south of Edgewater Park.
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| Now 20 years in the making, this vacant lot on Chester avenue, between East 81st and 82nd streets in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood, is finally seeing construction on a major new residential development (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Each new year is a chance to start anew, and three major projects along Chester Avenue in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood are taking that opportunity by starting construction. But none is bigger than a project that’s been 20 years in the making.
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| From across Lorain Avenue, Ohio City’s landmark West Side Market undergoes $50 million in renovations (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
While new construction is often the most visible sign of development activity in a neighborhood, a trio of renovation projects is restoring historic structures in the heart of Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood with new retail spaces and modern amenities.
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| The decommissioning of the old rail fleet – including these Tokyu heavy-rail vehicles on the Cuyahoga Viaduct near Downtown Cleveland – will be a visible reminder of the several improvements under way at the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority to better support Greater Cleveland (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
For a transit agency facing upcoming budget deficits in 2026, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) struck a hopeful tone at the first committee meeting of the year. But due to rising costs of healthcare and static ridership numbers, others are sounding the alarm for immediate change to avoid collapse.
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| The former Medical Mutual headquarters is going under the knife to be converted from office building to a mix of residential, hotel and ground-floor restaurant-retail uses. Side- walks on Prospect Avenue and East 9th Street were closed off and streets narrowed to allow work to begin (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A clear sign of a project getting underway is when street barriers and fencing go up around that project’s site. In this case, it’s the vacated Medical Mutual of Ohio headquarters, 2060 E. 9th St. in Downtown Cleveland, that’s about to see work get started.
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| Saravanan “Babu” Chandrababu oversees renovations to the former Tick Tock Tavern that will convert it into Safar and open at the end of this month. With a Cleveland-Lakewood map mural in the background, the Legacy bar shown here will offer traditional American foods while two other rooms will offer a fusion of Indian foods in a fine-dining and speak- easy lounge setting (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Two journeys are represented at the site of the former Tick Tock Tavern that saw its nearly eight-decade-long run end in December 2024. One is that of the tavern and the other is of its new owner Saravanan “Babu” Chandrababu.
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| The first new rapid transit trains in Cleveland since the Reagan Administration are due to arrive here in June. But the general public won’t be able to ride them in regular service until the following summer (Siemens Mobility). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Among 45 U.S. cities with urban rail transit systems, Greater Cleveland has the nation’s the oldest train fleet. The first tangible evidence of that changing will arrive in June when the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) is expected to receive its first new rapid transit railcars since 1985.
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| This 19th-century mansion on Cedar Avenue in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood faces demolition as the adjacent Gardens of Fairfax Healthcare Center is about to expand under new ownership (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A nursing home complex is proposed for a major expansion but requires the demolition of two historic homes, including a 19th-century mansion designed by a famous local architect. A permit application for the mansion’s demolition was submitted to the City of Cleveland last month and is still pending.
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| 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). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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 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). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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 Insurance’s first headquarters building in Mayfield Village remains unsold after nearly two years on the market (LoopNet). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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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| 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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| 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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| 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). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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.
