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| Before Mother Nature reclaims it, funding is being secured to reactivate the former Wellman-Seaver-Morgan factory on Cleveland’s East Side for a new commercial end user (Taco Slayer Aerial). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A clearer picture is emerging of the planned redevelopment of the large, historic Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Engineering Co. manufacturing plant, 7000 Central Ave., where Cleveland’s Fairfax and Central neighborhoods meet.
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| AmTrust Financial will be vacating the red-bricked 800 Superior and moving north up East 9th Street to the darker, glassy AECOM Building to the upper-right of its current home (CBRE). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
NEOtrans has learned that AmTrust Financial is vacating its current Downtown Cleveland offices and moving most of its 600 jobs to the suburbs. One result of this big shake-up of office properties is that the 23-story 800 Superior building downtown will be left mostly empty by year’s end.
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| Being able to show the latest movies in the best possible resolution will help the Capitol Theatre compete for more films and more customers (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Northwest Neighborhoods CDC (NWN) was awarded a $50,000 Community Development Supplemental Grant (CDSG) from Cuyahoga County to fund a new digital projector in Auditorium No. 1 at the 105-year-old Capitol Theatre.
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| The most significant remaining portion of the Hillside Dairy in Cleveland Heights is this long structure along the west side Warrensville Road, between Mayfield and Noble roads in an area called the Mayfield Triangle (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The reason why the city is leading it is because the Mayfield Triangle, a roughly 6.3-acre swath of land bound by Mayfield, Noble and Warrensville Center roads, is owned principally by the city. And, in Ohio, municipal governments determine how land is used in their jurisdictions.
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| Fresh fruits and vegetables are difficult to find in a food desert, but thanks to the opening of Pure Supermarket, the middle of the Bellaire-Puritas neighborhood has been nourished (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
When a pharmacy closes, what was a neighborhood asset often becomes a liability, and sometimes a long-term one that drags it down. But the reverse is happening at the corner of West 130th Street and Bellaire Avenue on Cleveland’s West Side.
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| Cleveland Clinic’s largest-ever building, the 1-million-square-foot Neurological Institute, approaches completion across East 89th Street (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Since announcing it in 2022, the Cleveland Clinic has neared completion on a massive, $1.3 billion expansion plan. But with a new hotel, inpatient bed tower, lab research facilities, and Level I Trauma Center planned, its next round of expansion projects could be even bigger.
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| Cuyahoga County’s Central Services Campus, also called the new corrections center to be located in suburban Garfield Heights, could hit another snag if a special audit by the state of contracting for the project occurs (Cuyahoga County). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Despite an agreement hailed a week ago by Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne and presiding county Common Pleas Court Judge Michael Shaughnessy to move forward on the new, $889 million jail complex, county Prosecutor Michael O’Malley said, in effect — “not so fast.”
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| Construction of all phases of the $115 million Sankofa Village in Cleveland’s Central neigh- borhood is now complete. The redevelopment of the former Cedar Extension public housing site with affordable, mixed-income housing deconcentrates poverty with comfortable housing (Pennrose). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Redevelopment partners celebrated this week the grand opening of Sankofa Village IV, completing the 236-unit, $115 million Cedar Extension Transformation Plan in the Central neighborhood of Cleveland. The final phase added 50 high-quality, affordable rental homes to the 17-acre former Cedar Extension site of public housing.
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| This aerial rendering illustrates the planned redevelopment of the razed Woodhill Homes site, once all phases are complete (City Architecture). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Once a deteriorating public housing complex on Cleveland’s East Side, Woodhill Homes will soon be transformed into a mixed-income neighborhood complete with parks and a renovated community center, according to schematic plans approved by City Planning Commission on Friday.
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| An outdoor wellness center with a funny name and Scandinavian-style spas and hot tubs is planned for Scranton Peninsula in the Flats, across the Cuyahoga River from Tower City and Bedrock Real Estate’s $3.5-billion riverfront development (Saunagoose). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A new health and wellness concept is coming to Scranton Peninsula in the Flats in downtown Cleveland. Taking inspiration from the Scandinavian winter ritual of the sauna, The Saunagoose will continue a string of developments on previously-vacant industrial land.
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| With its current home in Downtown Cleveland in the distance, Gray Media Group has picked this site on Brecksville Road in suburban Independence for its new television studios and offices (LoopNet). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Before the end of 2027 when its lease expires at Reserve Square, 1717 E. 12th St., Gray Media Group’s Cleveland offices and studios will leave downtown for a new spot in suburban Independence. That’s according to four sources — three of whom spoke to NEOtrans on the condition of anonymity.
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| Officials break ground today for the new Cosm immersive, dome-shaped theater in Down- town Cleveland’s Gateway District. At left is Huron Road and Rocket Arena. The construc- tion site was a surface parking lot that has been considered for mixed-use development for more than a decade (Rock Entertainment). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cosm, an immersive technology and entertainment venue, officially saw construction start today with a formal groundbreaking ceremony attended by city, county and state officials plus CEOs of major locally based employers like Sherwin-Williams, Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland Cliffs.
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| Looking northeasterly, the new East 22nd Street overpass of Interstate 90 will provide a more seamless connection between Downtown Cleveland and the Central neighborhood in the Cam- pus District. This is part of the six-year rebuild of the 70-year-old Central Interchange with Interstate 77 and downtown streets (ODOT). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
On the plus side, one of the region’s biggest megaprojects got underway today when officials from the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), city of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County and others threw spades of dirt in a groundbreaking ceremony for the Interstate 90 Central Interchange Project in Downtown Cleveland.
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| Not every office tower in Downtown Cleveland is in distress and hurting for tenants. The 45-story 200 Public Square skyscraper is seeing the fruits of its investments in making a more attractive property (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Bad news has surrounded the nation’s office market ever since the global pandemic hit in 2020. It doesn’t matter if the property is in the suburbs, the mother city or downtown. Leasing is down, vacancies are up, many buildings are in fiscal distress and remote working has put landlords on the defensive.
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| CWRU’s under-construction Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building is now the largest structure on Case Quad (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
As Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) approaches completion on its $300 million Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB), the new research center is giving its central Case Quad a sleek, modern look.
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| The 25-story courthouse tower on Ontario Street in Downtown Cleveland will be renovated for $150 million according to a new agreement reached today. At left is the Cleveland Divi- sion of Police headquarters, owned by the county, which may be disposed of or retained de- pending on a strategic master plan requested in a separate action today (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne, County Council, and Judge Michael Shaughnessy, the administrative and presiding Judge for the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, announced they have reached a tentative agreement on a path forward for capital improvements to county courthouse facilities downtown.
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| Demolition of the vacated Martin Luther King Jr. Branch Library is due to yield a podium of ground-floor retail and structured parking topped by a multi-story hotel, seen in the city-approved masterplan behind Fenway Manor and the new MLK Library. The new library is on the first two floors of Library Lofts (City Architecture). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
If the City Planning Commission’s Design Review Committee gives its blessing on Friday, the vacated, former Martin Luther King Jr. Branch of the Cleveland Public Library at 1962 Stokes Blvd. will be coming down. It appears to be a sign of the times in a rapidly growing University Circle.
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| Schematic design for the planned second phase of The Park apartments on an undeveloped parcel located between Lamoille and Brevier avenues in Tremont’s Lincoln Heights district (Horton Harper). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Although The Park apartments, 1851 Brevier Ave. in the Lincoln Heights section of Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood, hasn’t leased out yet, the response to it has progressed far enough that its developers have decided to pursue a second phase of the project.
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| Singer Steel on Random Road in Cleveland’s Little Italy could soon enter a new chapter in its history — that of a residential and parking complex. The residential would be developed where the factory stands and the parking would be alongside the Red Line rapid transit, the power lines for which are visible at left (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In November 2024, real estate developer TurnDev acquired the old Singer Steel site-turned-parking facility at 2100 Random Rd. in Cleveland’s Little Italy neighborhood. A year later, it acquired more land. And now, the Beachwood-based developer and its architect have revealed their plans for the combined 2.8-acre property.
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| Stokes East apartment tower may see construction start this year and soon rise to approach the height of its neigh- bor, The Artisan, University Circle’s tallest building (SCB). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
With all of the job growth happening around University Circle and the latest expansion news at Cleveland Clinic, it’s probably not a surprise that another high-rise apartment tower in that area is moving toward the start of construction.
