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| At the northeast corner of Detroit Avenue and West 58th Street, a mixed-use building occupied by the Flight Cleveland wine bar is getting an exterior makeover (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
As new developments get underway, close to 300 residential units are now under construction around the Gordon Square Arts District — centered on the intersection of Detroit Avenue and West 65th Street in Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood.
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| Flaherty & Collins’ Depot on Detroit rises on a formerly vacant lot on the north side of Detroit Avenue in Cleveland's Cudell neighborhood (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
On Cleveland’s West Side, three Transit-Oriented Developments (TOD) are moving ahead within a 10-minute walk of a single Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) rapid transit station.
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| The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, left, is buying the Harbor Verandas, right, to control one of the last remaining sites for expansion at North Coast Harbor in Downtown Cleveland (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland’s central business district is where office buildings are getting converted into new uses, often residential. On downtown’s lakefront, however, a mostly residential building was just purchased and may get converted to offices by its new owner — someday.
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| The 13-story Naia Noir and its historic companion, The Shoreway apartments at left, tower above the West Shoreway Boulevard next to Edgewater Park. The new Naio Noir is almost topped-out. The photos in this article start at the lower levels of the new high-rise (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland’s newest lakefront high-rise is hard to miss while traveling along the West Shoreway Boulevard by Edgewater Park. Thousands pass by it daily and watched it rise since April 2025. But if you wondered what the views from it look like, NEOtrans climbed to the top to capture and share them.
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| Cedar Avenue is a busy place — for Cleveland Clinic’s real estate department. At right is the Emergency Department that will expand and erase all but the nearest row of parking spaces in the lot. So the Clinic is acquiring properties just beyond East 90th Street in the background for parking, prompting a shift in other development plans. The Clinic’s new Neurological Institute towers behind (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Dust rarely settles on Cleveland Clinic’s real estate staff. They’re always out shopping for more land to accommodate growth. And their latest acquisitions for the Main Campus are concentrated along its southern fringes on Cedar Avenue for two different reasons.
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| Lake-shipping distance from the Port of Cleveland to Wheatley Harbour in Ontario is 55 miles or two to three hours. By land, it’s more than 200 miles or at least 3.5 hours, depend- ing on border crossing delays (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The Port of Cleveland and Milo Harbour Inc. have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to initiate a new cross-lake truck ferry service between Northeast Ohio and Southern Ontario. But if you’re looking to catch a ride as a passenger, your ship has yet to come in.
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| The former Dick’s Sporting Goods at Crocker Park in Westlake will be remodeled as a small- format IKEA store — Greater Cleveland’s first such location for the global retailer. This is an unofficial rendering of what the renovated store could look like (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In 2018, IKEA walked away from Cleveland after the search for a buildable site fell through. Nearly a decade later, the Swedish home and furniture supplier will return with a brand-new concept for Northeast Ohio.
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| Dan Whalen led the development of Intro Cleveland, at far left, as part of Harbor Bay Ventures. While that building opened in 2022 with top-of-the-market rents, Whalen’s and Luke Palmisano’s Ambler apartments, at right, is expected to lease at more competitive rates (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
While numerous Ohio City developments are transforming historic buildings into new sources of activity, the popular Cleveland neighborhood continues to make progress on a series of new construction projects.
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| An IKEA small-format store appears to be in the cards for Westlake’s Crocker Park. The major new tenant for the western-suburban lifestyle center will officially be announced Tuesday (Ingka Group). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
For days, Crocker Park’s owner Stark Enterprises has teased the opening of a new tenant at the suburban Westlake lifestyle center. And from all indications, that tenant is a retailer that Cleveland doesn’t yet have. On Tuesday, we’ll all find out for certain.
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| A year after this picture was taken in September 2022, Flexjet officially opened its $50 million global headquarters at Cuyahoga County Airport in Richmond Heights. The nearly 51,500- square-foot global operations control center is all glass and acute angles designed to look like aircraft wings on the outside (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Two Northeast Ohio job-creation efforts that could result in 1,100 new jobs locally were supported and rewarded by the Ohio Department of Development today with the announcement of Ohio Job Creation Tax Credits.
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| A 64-unit apartment building developed by Sabor Group USA rises on the west side of East 70th Street near Euclid Avenue (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
One of Cleveland’s newest Transit-Oriented Developments (TOD) has largely flown under the radar despite being located just 200 feet from Euclid Avenue and only a 3-minute walk from the nearest HealthLine Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) station. That’s because of its unusual midblock location on East 70th Street.
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| At The Elliot, two homes built by Greenlight Building Co. straddle the border of Cleve- land and East Cleveland (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Stakeholders and community leaders gathered Friday on Woodlawn Avenue to celebrate the completion of the $4.6 million initial phase of the Circle East district — described as a “new 30-acre neighborhood” spanning the cities of Cleveland and East Cleveland, just east of University Circle.
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| Seen from Alexander Road, the nearly 250,000-square-foot Cardinal Health distribution center is big. So is the nearly identical-in-size Great Day Improvements warehouse next door. But they are smaller, even in total, than the Cleveland Clinic’s Unified Operations Center planned here at the site of the former Walton Hills Ford plant, now called the Forward Innovation Center (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A development partnership plans to build for Cleveland Clinic a massive Unified Operations Center for 526 new and relocated jobs. The relocated jobs will come from other Clinic facilities in Northeast Ohio to the 111-acre former Ford Stamping Plant in Walton Hills, according to public records.
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| At the southeast corner of Superior Avenue and East 12th Street, in what was the heart of Cleveland’s office district for half of a century, the new owner of 1100 Superior is trying to reinvent its property (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
After an express car wash withdrew its plans for a new Shaker Square location in response to residents’ protests, the question remains: how can developers navigate neighborhood opposition? For local developer Dan Whalen, the answer is simple — ask the neighbors.
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| At the southeast corner of Superior Avenue and East 12th Street, in what was the heart of Cleveland’s office district for half of a century, the new owner of 1100 Superior is trying to reinvent its property (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Some districts offer a mix of uses — residential, commercial or public spaces. Some buildings mix uses within their walls, often retail on the ground floor with residential or offices above. But 1100 Superior is going further — mixing uses on the same floors.
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| New renderings show the future Cleveland Amphitheater under the watchful eye of the Lorain-Carnegie Hope Memorial Bridge from which it takes design inspiration (Bedrock Cleveland, MKSK, DLR Group). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Transformational changes are underway on Cleveland’s riverfront and the City Planning Commission will soon get a look at the next major phase of construction. Renderings were released this week of the Cleveland Amphitheater, a new venue that will reinvigorate the industrial Flats into a lively entertainment district.
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| Puzzles can hinge on one important piece. For the Cleveland Clinic, that piece is this — the 8700 block of Euclid Avenue where the Cleveland Clinic police station at right and the Mellen Center at left are about to yield to the Clinic’s new Central Utility Plant (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
If you’re a health system earning $18 billion per year and you want to build a new bed tower where your aging Central Utility Plant sets, you move the utility plant. But if the place where you want to build a new utility plant has a police station and a neighboring multiple sclerosis care center, you move those uses, too.
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| The Urban Community School, at left across West 50th Street, acquired 10 parcels of land at right including several structures along Lorain Avenue (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
At first glance, the property transaction doesn’t stand out. At less than 1 acre of land, it’s not a big piece of land. And the holding company that purchased the land was created with a unremarkable name the day before the deed transfer was signed.
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| Interest in the 1.45-million-square-foot 925 Euclid Ave. is high among potential buyers of the property as it is at Millennia Companies which owns the building now and has sought to rede- velop it as The Centennial (Sandvick). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
For a large, vacant, old building needing significant repairs before it can even host new occupants in a soft market, there is a healthy amount of interest in buying The Centennial, 925 Euclid Ave. in Downtown Cleveland. The difficulty in redeveloping the building resulted in a lender foreclosing on the property.
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| A new, replacement Clark PreK-8 School opened last fall on the north side of Clark Avenue, welcoming students from the now-closed Walton Elementary School (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
As Ohio City continues to see new construction activity, momentum is edging south into the adjacent Clark-Fulton and Stockyards neighborhoods, where vacant lots are giving way to the types of dense developments that support walkability and transit ridership.
