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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.
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| The Cleveland Clinic InterContinental Hotel on Carnegie Avenue at East 100th Street may be replaced with an inpatient hospital bed tower. But the hotel isn’t disappearing. It’s relo- cating nearby. And it’s one of several major developments planned by the Clinic for its Main Campus near University Circle (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
By this time next year, after the Cleveland Clinic’s largest-ever building is due to open with 2,000 additional employees, there should be a lot more clarity that’s publicly available on Ohio’s largest employer’s next expansive plans for its Main Campus near Cleveland’s University Circle.
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| The former Holiday Inn Express has closed and will be reopened as an AC Marriott Hotel, Downtown Cleveland’s first. Built in 1896, the New England Building was the headquar- ters of the National City Bank until it relocated in 1980 to the tower at right and was absorbed by PNC. There are also two floors of condominiums at the top of this historic structure (apartments.com). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Two significant development projects won financing from the Port of Cleveland yesterday — with one project in Downtown Cleveland and the other in suburban Brecksville.
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| Incredibly, the 10-story apartment tower 9410 Hough looks brand-new after a $47-million redevelopment and includes the new-construction PCC Hub at right where supportive community services are provided (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Today, developers Northern Real Estate Urban Ventures and SLSCO hosted a ribbon cutting celebration for the reopening of 9410 Hough at its namesake address in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood. It officially marked the revival of a forlorn building that was left for dead and held back its surrounding neighborhood.
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| The No. 19A bus from downtown to Southgate Transit Center in Maple Heights stops on Broadway Avenue at Harvard Road after passing the 140-year-old Holy Name Roman Catholic Church. While much of Broadway’s urban fabric in Cleveland is gone, GCRTA and the city are hoping developing the Broadway corridor with bus rapid transit here will help revive it (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In 2008, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s (GCRTA) first bus rapid transit (BRT) line was the HealthLine east of downtown on Euclid Avenue to University Circle and East Cleveland.
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| Bearing the name AmTrust Financial, 800 Superior was among the early risers on Downtown Cleveland’s office tower canyon of East 9th Street that developed from the 1960s to the 1980s (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
An affiliate of the Kassouf family is reportedly buying the 800 Superior office tower and its connected parking garage at its namesake address in Downtown Cleveland. That makes the third downtown property with a decayed garage in as many years that Kassouf has checked off its shopping list.
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| Proposed to rise just north of the Lorain-Carnegie Hope Memorial Bridge, seen at upper-left, is a new outdoor amphitheater sought by Bedrock Real Estate and Live Nation. The Cuya- hoga River is just beyond Stones Levee Road to the lower-right (Bedrock). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The developer and operator of a proposed riverfront amphitheater in Downtown Cleveland submitted their preliminary, conceptual plans for the project to the city, revealing the proposed layout and amenities of the planned venue.
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| A splash of color on new apartment buildings is planned with the larger one sought for the north side of Payne Avenue in Cleveland’s Asiatown where the vacated Dave’s Super- market stands. A second building is planned for the south side of Payne (MA Design). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
With funding in hand, a development plan to reactivate the site of the first Dave’s Supermarket is entering the City of Cleveland’s design review process. And so far, the early reviews of a proposed mixed-use development at 3301 and 3338 Payne Ave. in the city’s Asiatown district are positive.
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| These stores along the south side of St. Clair Avenue near East 17th Street at the edge of Downtown Cleveland are to be razed to add generators behind a new screen wall for the gray data center behind (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Amid the growing controversies surrounding the expansion of data centers in Ohio, Downtown Cleveland’s largest data center is about to get bigger. And, as part of that expansion, it’s evicting small businesses and proposing to demolish a row of storefronts along a major downtown street.
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| Three public hearings are scheduled next week for Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority riders to learn about proposed reductions to bus and rail services due in August (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) has scheduled public hearings on proposed service reductions to address a financial crunch. But as NEOtrans first reported last month, those cuts will be less than transit agency officials first feared.
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| A new Eagle Avenue ramp between the Gateway District and the Cuyahoga riverfront is well underway (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Along the Cuyahoga riverfront, several components of Bedrock’s $3.5 billion masterplan are taking shape in Downtown Cleveland. Furthest along is the Cleveland Clinic Global Peak Performance Center — home to the future practice facility for the Cleveland Cavaliers NBA team.
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| On the west side of Fulton Road near West 30th Street, a pair of townhomes are planned to fill the front of a deep lot (Contexture Design Studio). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, plans to erect two townhomes on a historic stretch of Fulton Road are progressing. The townhomes would fill a gap between two early 20th-century structures where a gravel parking lot currently stands in front of a small single-family home.
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| Of the three proposed buildings in the expansion of the Cleveland Business Park, the building at left would be the first one built specifically for a tenant with whom the developer says it has a deep interest but not yet a signed lease. Cleveland Hopkins International Airport is seen at upper-right next to Interstates 71 and 480 (LBI). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A proposed light-industrial/warehouse development in Cleveland, off Rocky River Drive near Hopkins International Airport, has advanced quickly toward final approval by the city. Part of the reason why is that a major tenant will anchor the 650,000-square-foot, three-building project and wants to move forward.
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| The 123-year-old landmark Rockefeller Building in Downtown Cleveland hasn’t been treated very well in recent years but its fortunes could be changing for the better very soon (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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| Top-fuel drag racing could come to the Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront thanks to a new company Shore-to-Roar-to-Shore that responded to a request for qualifications from Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration regarding the reuse of Burke Lakefront Air- port (WikiCommons). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In response to a recent request for qualifications (RFQ), Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration has awarded Shore-to-Roar-to-Shore LLC a bid to repurpose the 450-acre, city-owned Burke Lakefront Airport as a drag strip for professional top-fuel dragster and funny-car racing.
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| On Prospect Avenue at East 9th Street in Downtown Cleveland, renovation of the former Medical Mutual headquarters at the Rose Building is currently underway as part of Project Scarlet. (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
As Downtown Cleveland faces a wave of foreclosures and a slowdown in ground-up developments, a collection of major renovation projects are quietly renewing hope for the future of the central business district.
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| On Aug. 5, 2025, this smoky fire broke out in a second-floor apartment above the Red Chimney Restaurant in Cleveland’s Slavic Village neighborhood. The building is structurally but not economically salvageable, so it will be demolished before summer (Tony Brancatelli). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
If the beloved Red Chimney Restaurant was a luxury establishment in a vibrant, thriving neighborhood, the economics might favor its rebuilding following an Aug. 5, 2025 fire that was confined to a second-floor apartment at the back of the building where the blaze began.
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| The Cleveland Clinic Main Campus’ existing Emergency Department on Cedar Avenue does not have trauma rating. The Clinic and the Mandel Foundation would like to change that (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Cleveland Clinic’s Community Bridge to Care Initiative announced receiving a $50 million grant today from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Supporting Foundation. That grant will, among other things, help the health care system expand its Emergency Department and possibly gain a Level I trauma rating at its Main Campus.
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| Triton at the Flats is Silver Hills' first project in its home town. Its next project looks to be taller and more 'senior' (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A clearer picture is emerging of Silver Hills’ proposed mixed-use development at 8014 Euclid Ave. in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood after a project description was recently submitted to the city. NEOtrans broke the news of Silver Hills’ latest Cleveland development more than two weeks ago.
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| In Downtown Cleveland, multiple buildings in receivership can be seen from Euclid Avenue and East 12th Street, starting with the reddish Statler Arms apartments. Not only is it in foreclosure, but so is 925 Euclid at left and Reserve Square, seen in the distance at right. Recently, LIV Cleveland, originally the Chesterfield Apartments next to Reserve Square, was in fore- closure, too (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
When a company expands in an already busy market, the inference is that the company expects the market to get even busier. Unfortunately, that may be the case with the commercial property market where foreclosures keep coming and more receivers are getting appointed by courts to hire real estate brokers.
