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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.
