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| Rendering of the proposed Olde Cedar mixed-income multifamily homes in Cleve- land’s Central neighborhood (CMHA). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) sought to kick off the first phase of redeveloping Olde Cedar in the Central neighborhood with a visit to the Cleveland City Planning Commission on Friday.
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| The southeast corner of Opportunity Corridor Boulevard and East 79th Street isn’t much to look at right now. That’s why it’s a good development site. It’s a large, relatively clean and mostly undeveloped site in the heart of the city and it’s almost entirely owned by the city of Cleveland and other public entities (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A sale closed this week for the largest property acquired among many needed to accommodate a proposed, significant laboratory-research facility sought by the Cleveland Clinic and other project partners. It is but one piece of a major expansion of facilities by the Clinic that NEOtrans first reported last month.
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| Looking west along Superior Avenue, the Cleveland Division of Police’s new headquarters is visible just left of center. The underutilized street is set to be transformed into a multi-modal transportation corridor with the Superior Midway (Harrison Whittaker). CLCK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
As soon as this summer, one of Cleveland’s most prominent streets could see a bike- and pedestrian-friendly overhaul with construction of the Superior Midway. But walkable neighborhoods need destinations — and several developments are creating just that.
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| A rendering of the interior of Case Western Reserve University’s proposed new Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Humanities Building on Bellflower Road (CWRU). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
As Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) celebrates its bicentennial, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation has made a $125 million commitment gift to the university. Not only is it the largest gift in the foundation’s history, CWRU says it’s likely the biggest gift ever to higher education in Ohio.
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| At today’s groundbreaking ceremony, officials discuss the new Huntington Bank Field in suburban Brook Park. From left is play-by-play radio announcer for the Cleveland Browns Andrew Siciliano, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, and Cleveland Browns majority owner Jimmy Haslam (contributed). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The Haslam Sports Group (HSG) alongside a joint venture of AECOM Hunt, Turner Construction Company and architect HKS officially broke ground today for the new Huntington Bank Field, the future home of the Cleveland Browns starting with the 2029 National Football League (NFL) season.
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| Site prep begins for Hub 27’s phase one apartment building which will add 53 units of work- force housing in the BVQ District (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
On Cleveland’s near-West Side, the Clark-Fulton neighborhood is getting an infusion of affordable housing with the first phase of Hub 27 under construction in the BVQ (Barber-Vega-Queen avenues) District and continued progress at the Walton Senior Apartments on Clark Avenue.
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| The 17-story Rockefeller Building on Superior Avenue in Downtown Cleveland has a new opportunity facing it as K&D Group took title to the property today (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
As first reported by NEOtrans earlier this month, K&D Group said it would seek $6 million worth of “make-safe” repairs to Downtown Cleveland’s vandalized Rockefeller Building after it took title to it. But it began shoring up the Gilded Age edifice on the very day the sale closed.
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| The Collins Apartments on Carter Road is one of two major developments to open in the past year on Scranton Peninsula in Cleveland’s Flats. But it wasn’t enough to meet Greater Cleveland’s demand for more multifamily units (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A new report released today by international real estate firm Colliers shows that multifamily development in Greater Cleveland isn’t keeping up with demand. The result is that average rents in the Cleveland area are now the highest of any metro area in the state.
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| A rendering of the proposed Cuyahoga County Central Services Campus in Garfield Heights, as seen from Transportation Boulevard. More of the jail exists behind the tree and the publicly accessible and office-oriented portion (Cuyahoga County). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
With a vote by a Justice Center steering committee today, Cuyahoga County Council got the recommendation it needed to formally and legally approve construction tomorrow on a new $894.26 million Central Services Campus corrections center in suburban Garfield Heights.
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| The Women Religious Archives Collaborative Heritage Center started rising in Cleve- land’s Campus District after the nearby St. Vincent Charity Medical Center closed its doors (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
University Circle and Ohio City might be Cleveland’s most recognizable development hotspots. But in the southern Campus District, which straddles the Central neighborhood and eastern edge of downtown, a handful of large-scale demolitions and relocations are setting up more than 50 acres for redevelopment next door to the central business district.
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| Revival Residential’s Ambler Apartments rise on West 26th Street (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, the spring season is well underway — and so are numerous apartment complexes, ranging from ground-up construction projects to residential conversions of historic buildings.
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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.
