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| From the central green in Valor Acres, the rest of the $678 million mixed-use development takes shape in Brecksville (Ian McDaniel). CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
While billions-worth of development is underway to revitalize downtown Cleveland and adjacent neighborhoods, billions more in mixed-use developments are rising in communities throughout Cuyahoga County.
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| A Clean Express Auto Wash stands on Broadview Road in Parma in a well-landscaped setting. But vocal opposition to building one next to Cleveland’s historic Shaker Square emerged at a design review committee meeting today (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
It may be one of the nicest-designed, best-landscaped and best-operated car wash operations you can find, but Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb, his chief of development, City Council members and a committee of the City Landmarks Commission said a proposed car wash doesn’t belong next to Shaker Square.
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| Seen from the corner of Cedar Avenue and East 93rd Street, this massing shows the scale, shape and location for Cleveland Clinic’s planned 120,000-square-foot expansion of the Maria & Sam Miller Emergency Services Building. If the City Planning Commission agrees with this concept, the details of the design will be filled in (Cleveland Clinic). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland Clinic and its facility planning consultants are seeking approval next week from the Cleveland Planning Commission for conceptual designs for its expanded Emergency Department, called Building E, 9105 Cedar Ave., in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood.
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| Good Night John Boy recently moved to this building on the riverfront, an upgrade among several happening all around the Flats East Bank (Ian McDaniel). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
When the sudden closings of several long-term tenants punctuated the end of the 2025 season, many were quick to declare Flats East Bank in Cleveland “dead” once again.
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| Cosm Cleveland rises at the northeast corner of Huron Road and East 4th Street in Downtown Cleveland’s Gateway District (Harrison Whittaker). |
In Downtown Cleveland’s Gateway District, Cosm’s vertical construction is moving along — fast. The massive “shared reality” entertainment venue, being developed as part of Bedrock’s Rock Block, would stream sports events on a nearly 100-foot, 12k-resolution LED dome.
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| Within its existing building shell at right, which is as long as the new Sherwin-Williams head- quarters is tall, the Cleveland H5 Data Center plans to expand its capacity on Rockwell Avenue downtown (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Plans were submitted today for the expansion of an existing data center in Downtown Cleveland that could be affected by the city’s proposed moratorium on data centers. Unlike a newly proposed data center that was rejected by the city last month, this latest project involves expanding within the walls of an existing structure.
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| Across the Rocky River, a tower crane for Fairview Hospital’s North Campus expansion rises above the Lorain Road Viaduct (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Once described as “a slice of suburbia in the city,” Cleveland’s Kamm’s Corners neighborhood might be the last place one would expect a $150 million construction project large enough to require a tower crane. But that’s exactly what’s underway at Fairview Hospital’s 169,521-square-foot North Campus expansion.
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| Site plan for the proposed Shaker Square car wash. North is at the top of the image, with the southeast commercial quadrant of Shaker Square visible at upper left (Kimley Horn). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Shaker Square, although faded from its peak decades ago, remains Greater Cleveland’s seminal example of transit-oriented community design in which the rapid transit system, pedestrian activity, and vertically mixed uses are juxtaposed to support each other.
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| At the northeast corner of Miller Road and Innovation Parkway, the Cleveland Clinic plans to build this medical office building (Perspectus). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
New structures and uses keep getting added to the mixed-use lifestyle center Valor Acres at Miller and Brecksville roads in suburban Brecksville. The latest will be a Cleveland Clinic outpatient care facility, due to open in late 2027.
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| At the northeast corner of Detroit and St. Charles avenues is the former Lakewood Center West, now converted into Lakewood Lofts. In the parking garage seen behind, 70 spaces are set aside for tenants of the lofts (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Downtown Lakewood is steadily turning from an office district into a residential one. The latest example of that metamorphosis is perhaps the quietest conversion of a seven-story suburban office building in Greater Cleveland’s history.
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| The development team of The Thomas apartments and their future successors posed at a groundbreaking ceremony today in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood (NEOtrans). |
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| Transit oriented development isn’t limited to rail station areas. It can also be built along high- frequency bus lines like Cleveland Clinic’s North Campus expansion of Fairview Hospital where Cleveland meets Fairview Park (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Most municipalities in Cuyahoga County were built-out decades ago, limiting opportunities to offer newer, more competitive housing and build a stronger tax base without raising taxes. The few remaining places for development are infill sites for which many communities lack zoning to develop them.
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| Where Steve Barry Buick’s showroom stood on the north side of Detroit Avenue at Brockley Avenue in Lakewood now is a 66-unit apartment building with a yet-to-be-leased ground- floor retail space (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Until the first decade of this century, Detroit Avenue in Lakewood had a half-dozen car dealerships along it. Today, they’re all gone after having closed or moved to exurban highway interchanges.
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| The Slavic Village Neighborhood Plan represents the culmination of a series of outreach events involving diverse members of the community (Slavic Village Development). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
On Friday, City Planning Commission approved not one, but two transformative plans developed alongside each other for Cleveland’s Slavic Village — which hasn’t seen a comprehensive neighborhood plan in almost two decades.
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| Construction on a single-family infill home by Cleveland Bricks wraps up on East 84th Street north of Chester Avenue (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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| A conceptual rendering of a film studio proposed in Euclid. This graphic shows the administra- tive offices and one of the film/sound stages but three more stages are planned as additions to the right (Christopher A. Lobas & Associates). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Getting ready for its close-up is a mid-sized film studio campus planned by an experienced filmmaker in the Cleveland suburb of Euclid. The goal for the filmmaker, Northeast Ohio native and Ingalls & Co. CEO James Ingalls II, is to transform Greater Cleveland into “a premier cinematic hub.”
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| Only five ORRIS townhomes front Center Ridge Road in Rocky River. The other 20 units are set behind in a large lot near shopping, schools and parks (TKG). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A collection of new luxury rental townhomes is now open and move-in ready at ORRIS, 22601 Center Ridge Rd., Rocky River. Developed by The Krueger Group (TKG), this phase-two expansion of the ORRIS development adds 25 townhomes to offer single-family living in a maintenance-free rental setting.
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| Officials gathered yesterday for the ceremonial groundbreaking for the renovation and mixed-use repurposing of the long-vacant Warner & Swasey factory in Cleveland’s Midtown district. But the actual site preparations began months before (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Although site preparations have been underway since winter, now the repair, recovery and rebuilding work begins on the redevelopment of the long-vacant Warner & Swasey factory, 5701 Carnegie Ave., in Cleveland’s MidTown neighborhood.
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| Bus and train rides in Cleveland can often be slowed by riders fumbling for change while boarding and paying fares. That’s especially true during busy times like at the Red Line Little Italy station during the annual Feast of the Assumption in August (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Boarding Greater Cleveland’s buses and trains will be quicker and simpler for customers after several fare payment-related changes are implemented after years of advocacy and planning.
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| A conceptual rendering depicts a reworked South Rockefeller Park, including a pro- posed closure of Stearns Road and two-way conversion of MLK Jr. Drive (Sasaki). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
On Friday, University Circle’s 10-year master plan for land use and public realm improvements won unanimous approval from City Planning Commission. The plan, titled Connecting the Circle, aims to transform the city’s second-largest employment center into a “Connected Civic Commons.”
