Music Settlement breaks ground on $12M expansion

This rendering illustrates the south façade of the planned Mandel Music House. Its design
was revised to use a lighter color to visually transition between the addition and a historic
home (Perspectus). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

On Friday, The Music Settlement (TMS) held an official groundbreaking for a $12 million expansion of its campus in University Circle. The project will restore and expand the historic Gries House, 1560 Mistletoe Dr., into the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Music House.

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Next TOD project planned on Red Line

The Lorain West Apartments are proposed to be located on its namesake street near the
Lorain-West 65th Red Line rail station. (RDL). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

One by one, the many used-car dealerships along Lorain Avenue on Cleveland’s West Side are going away. For the most part, they are getting replaced with new multifamily housing developments and that’s what’s proposed to happen again.

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St. Luke’s Church begins interior demo at Memphis & Pearl

At Memphis Avenue and Pearl Road, the demolition of two historic commercial buildings could
make way for a mixed-use development featuring 84 apartments over ground-level retail
(Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

At the center of Cleveland’s Old Brooklyn neighborhood, $2.34 million in interior demolition work is set to begin for Memphis & Pearl — a $42.3 million mixed-use development that could add 84 apartments next to retail uses in a renovated St. Luke’s Church.

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Part 2: The Yellow Brick Road of Cleveland’s East Side

A significant research laboratory is planned by the Cleveland Clinic and other partners at the
southeast corner of Opportunity Corridor Boulevard and East 79th Street where a fading
neighborhood stood until recently. At left is the elevated Norfolk Southern railroad, along-
side which the East Side Trail is proposed. This is an unofficial rendering but is based
on conceptual parameters for the project (Google/ChatGPT/NEOtrans).
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Elton John once sang “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” when his songwriter Bernie Taupin bid adieu to city living in his ambitious, fast life, trading it for the quiet lifestyle of tending to a rural farm. Cleveland is heading in the opposite direction by welcoming the start of a new journey.

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CHEERS project advances to permitting phase

Expansion of Gordon Park into Lake Erie, including the creation of an offshore island, called
the Cleveland Harbor Eastern Embayment Resilience Strategy, or CHEERS project, has
$22.1 million in hand or pending for this multi-decade effort (Cleveland Metroparks).
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Cleveland Metroparks and the Port of Cleveland announced a major milestone in advancing the Cleveland Harbor Eastern Embayment Resilience Strategy (CHEERS), as U.S. Rep. Shontel Brown, D-11, presented $1.1 million in federal funding to support the next phase of the project.

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Part 1: East Side to host ‘Cleveland’s largest-ever industrial redevelopment’

An unofficial rendering of what the Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Engineering Co. factory at 7000
Central Ave. in Cleveland’s Central neighborhood could look like after a planned $25.7 million
renovation. The plant’s reactivation with a new manufacturer will be announced at a press con-
ference next week (TacoSlayerAerial, ChatGPT). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Parts of Cleveland’s East Side offer scenes right out of a post-apocalyptic action movie. Actually, a pre-apocalyptic action movie — the opening scenes of the 2012 movie The Avengers — was filmed here. Another story will begin here next week when local and state leaders join Mayor Justin Bibb in making what he calls “an historic announcement.”

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More details emerge on Cleveland data center

This is an image of a three-building data center totaling about 300,000 square feet next to an
interstate highway. It is set in a city neighborhood south of a major downtown area. The
image was created, ironically, using artificial intelligence hosted at multiple, massive
data centers (ChatGPT). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A 150-megawatt, $1.6 billion data center planned for Cleveland’s Slavic Village is in a race to get its plans approved before City Council can pass a moratorium on building more data centers in Cleveland, according to sources familiar with the project.

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Library to join another mixed-use project

The proposed commercial tenant to occupy the ground floor, behind the red facade of Asia-
Town’s newest development will be the Cleveland Public Library. It will open a satellite
location in the neighborhood (MA Design). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland Public Library (CPL) will open a new satellite location in the city’s AsiaTown neighborhood in a couple of years, at the Mingyue Place apartment complex, according to community officials. If that apartment complex’s name doesn’t ring a bell, it’s because it doesn’t exist yet.

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$1.6B data center planned in Cleveland

Shaded in red, the 35-acre Morabito site between Interstate 77 at left and East 55th Street at
right in Cleveland’s Slavic Village is proposed to host a hyperscale data center (Google).
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Set between Cleveland’s Slavic Village and the industrial valley in the coming years could be the city’s largest-ever data center. While at this early stage, it has generated many questions, its backers say the large site and nearby presence of industrial-scale electrical power and water resources should answer many of those questions.

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More than tortillas are rising on W. 65th

Looking north along West 65th Street in Cleveland’s Stockyards neighborhood, Tortilleria La
Bamba y mercado is proposed to built if a permit situation can be resolved. Across the street
to the left, another retail development is planned that would add an Ollie’s Bargain Outlet
store (Onyx Creative). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Along the southern portion of West 65th Street in Cleveland’s Stockyards neighborhood, a new round of private investment is set to reactivate the area with jobs and shopping activity — just as city officials had hoped years ago.

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New women’s pro soccer team named

Site of the planned new Gateway South soccer stadium, a proposed new Greater Cleveland
Regional Transit Authority light-rail station and other nearby venues. Also shown is the crest
and logo of the new men’s soccer team (CSG). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland Soccer Group (CSG) today unveiled Cleveland Astra, the brand identity for our new professional women’s soccer club. Merchandise is available online today and season ticket deposits are open. Cleveland Astra will kick off in spring 2028, compete in Women’s Premier Soccer League (WPSL) Pro and play in a Downtown Cleveland soccer stadium.

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City green-lining investment in East Side

Lots of construction, from infrastructure to the redevelopment of abandoned industries, are
evident in this view looking east on Carnegie Avenue from East 55th Street. But more is
needed on Cleveland’s near-East Side to return abandoned properties back to pro-
ductive use (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

An expanded tax base is a result of economic development. On that score, Cleveland’s near-East Side doesn’t produce much in the way of tax revenue while its old infrastructure, city services and social programs are in need of lots of resources. So the city is going to do something to equalize that imbalance.

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New housing for Central neighborhood

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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Clinic’s big new lab on Opportunity Corridor

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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New construction, renovations foster Superior walkability

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).
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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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CWRU gets $125M, largest gift in Ohio history

A rendering of the interior of Case Western Reserve University’s proposed new Jack,
Joseph and Morton Mandel Humanities Building on Bellflower Road (CWRU).
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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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New Huntington Bank Field officially starts construction

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).
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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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Hub 27 boosts affordable housing construction on Near West Side

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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Rockefeller Building secured by K&D

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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Cleveland has Ohio’s highest apartment rents

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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