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| A rendering of Union at Cleveland Harbor from the northeast (Annex Group). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
On Friday, City Planning Commission unanimously approved a planned 209-unit lakefront apartment development at the north end of Cleveland’s Goodrich-Kirtland Park neighborhood. The project, Union at Cleveland Harbor, is being developed by the Annex Group of Indiana and designed by RDL Architects of Beachwood.
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| The 95,000-square-foot Midtown Collaboration Center opened at Euclid Avenue and East 66th Street in May 2025 and is nearly full. The addition of NEOMED here will further boost its diverse offering of innovative, community-building tenants (Cleveland Foundation). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Another healthcare innovator is about to call Cleveland home. But this time it’s a healthcare change agent that’s been in Northeast Ohio for more than 50 years.
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| A rendering of Cosm Cleveland, across Huron Road from Rocket Arena downtown (Bedrock). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
City Planning Commission today voted unanimously to approve the design of Cosm Cleveland, a shared reality sports entertainment destination planned to fill a large parking crater in Downtown Cleveland’s Gateway District.
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| An aerial, northwest-looking view of the 8400 Lake development once all phases are built out. The site is near Don’s Lighthouse Grille. Lake Avenue is to the lower left and the Norfolk Southern railroad tracks along the lakefront are seen at the top right with an Amtrak passenger train on it (Horton Harper Architects). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
An aerial, northwest-looking view of the 8400 Lake development once all phases are built out. The site is near Don’s Lighthouse Grille. Lake Avenue is to the lower left and the Norfolk Southern railroad tracks along the lakefront are seen at the top right with an Amtrak passenger train on it (Horton Harper Architects). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.
Sometimes it’s good to be the first. Sometimes it’s not. A two-phase, 72-unit apartment development planned at 8400 Lake Ave. in Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood probably falls somewhere in between the two extremes as it was the first large project to be submitted and approved under the city’s pilot Form-Based Zoning Code.
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| Rendering of the Cleveland Clinic’s “East Garage” proposed at the northeast corner of Carnegie Avenue and East 105th Street. A skywalk pedestrian bridge over East 105th is planned. The Clinic is planning two big garages at its Main Campus that straddles the University Circle and Fairfax neighborhoods of Cleveland. The East Garage will be sought first (Cleveland Clinic). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
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| Built more than 120 years ago by and for the Winton Motor Carriage Co., once the largest maker of gas-powered cars in the world, this vacant manufacturing plant on Berea Road near West 110th Street in Cleveland is due to be demolished for future development (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
A potentially large industrial redevelopment site is about to open up in Cleveland’s Cudell neighborhood, in a historic industrial district where there’s been a decent amount of commercial investment and expansion planning lately.
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| Large apartment buildings like Gateway North at John Carroll University are rising all over the eastern suburbs of Cleveland (Contributed). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In Northeast Ohio, construction tends to hibernate in the winter months as snow and freezing temperatures take over. But despite winter storms and a record-setting deep freeze, there has been movement on several residential projects throughout the Heights.
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| A single-family infill home by Knez Homes on Bailey Avenue in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
While revitalization efforts since the 1990s have transformed Cleveland’s Ohio City into a vibrant urban destination, the demolition of vacant, abandoned, and fire damaged homes has scarred some blocks with empty lots.
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| After the former Lake Shore Power Station was leveled in 2017 and its site cleaned in the last two years, the 62-acre property outlined in red is now on the market. What happened next will decide the long-term future of one of what may be the most consequential development sites in Greater Cleveland (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
While the 50-acre Downtown Cleveland lakefront redevelopment has most of the attention right now, an even larger lakefront redevelopment site has just hit the market. And its future re-use will influence the fate of the lakefront east of downtown for decades to come.
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| One of Downtown Cleveland’s most famous buildings is in limbo after buyer interest in the Rockefeller Building has faded due to repairs needed to the structure and a softening residential market (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The future of the Rockefeller Building, 614 W. Superior Ave., one of Downtown Cleveland’s most famous and historic buildings, is in limbo after all of its existing interested buyers reportedly walked away in recent weeks. Interest in the property has faded despite $70 million in public incentives that have been amassed and remain available to redevelop the property.
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| The massive Belle Oaks Marketplace redevelopment of the former Richmond Town Square Mall in suburban Richmond Heights got a big boost yesterday with new financing from the Port of Cleveland (Bialosky). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The Port of Cleveland Board of Directors yesterday approved a series of major actions that provided $82 million in financing for redevelopments across Northeast Ohio, enhancements to regional public safety infrastructure, and continued progress under the Port’s federally funded clean energy initiatives.
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| The Row on Garden is the two identical-looking buildings at left along Garden Avenue. They are intended as a step-down in scale from the larger buildings along Pearl Road at right which are part of the same development by ALMiCO Group (Brandt). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
It’s been more than two years of back and forth with the city, but a proposed residential development in Cleveland’s Brooklyn Centre neighborhood finally got approved today by the Cleveland Landmarks Commission.
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| Kamm’s Medical Building rises behind City Dental Care on Lorain Avenue in the Kamm’s Corners neighborhood of Cleveland (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In Kamm’s Corners, construction on the first phase of a $150 million North Campus redevelopment at Cleveland Clinic’s Fairview Hospital is now underway. It joins several other projects across West Park, including the 19-unit Parker Townhomes and the mixed-use Kamm’s Medical Building.
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| The former Heidtman Steel in Cleveland’s industrial valley was acquired and then closed by Worthington Industries. It will gain new life with two industrial owners, each acquiring 50 percent of the property (Cresco). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
One year ago, Worthington Industries Inc. shut down its Samuel Coil Processing plant at 4600 Heidtman Parkway in Cleveland’s industrial valley. Today, Cushman & Wakefield-CRESCO announced that the plant has sold to two companies that are sharing the ownership equally.
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| Although Scannell Properties hasn’t released any renderings of its proposed expansion of the Cleveland Business Park near Hopkins International Airport, this is a conceptual building design used by Scannell for its other light-industrial and warehouse projects around the country (Scannell). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM |
Although it’s still early on, plans are coming together for a major light-industrial and/or warehouse real estate development near Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. The roughly $75 million project is proposed to offer up to four new buildings totaling 700,000 square feet set on about 34 acres of city-owned land along Rocky River Drive.
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| Year-in-review reports like Downtown Cleveland Inc.’s State of Downtown offers an oppor- tunity to reflect on the past year’s achievements and challenges and what to look for and pursue in the coming year CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Multiple forces are likely to affect Cleveland’s central business district in 2026, according to the nonprofit development corporation Downtown Cleveland Inc. (DCI). It’s a setting that has housed Cleveland’s fastest-growing residential neighborhood this century while also suffering the loss of office jobs to remote working, intensified by the 2020 pandemic.
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| The largest structures on Cleveland Clinic’s Main Campus aren’t medical buildings. They’re parking garages and two more are planned to see construction start this year (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
The largest single structure built by the Cleveland Clinic isn’t a medical building like the new, 1-million-square-foot Neurological Institute on Carnegie Avenue. Instead, it’s the 1.56-million-square-foot parking garage immediately west of it. And there will be another garage of similar size added just west of that.
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| Following its pending sale, there is a new future for the Variety Theater, its ground-floor retail spaces and second-floor apartments. But what that future holds remains to be seen (LDA Architects). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In the 36 years following the Variety Theater’s closure, a parade of owners have sought things for the 99-year-old venue — new uses, money and luck. Sadly, each of those have been beyond the grasp of each proprietor. Now, another owner is bringing another opportunity to change the theater’s fortunes.
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| Two historic buildings on Lorain Avenue in Cleveland’s Kamms Corners neighborhood are about to unite in ownership for the first time. At left is a 151-year-old building at the south- west corner of Lorain and Rocky River Drive built by Oswald Kamms. At right is the Public House, built 100 year ago (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
In this edition of Seeds and Sprouts, business expansions are happening with the Public House in Kamms, National Foods Packaging in Cudell, and A to Z Furniture in Kirtland-Goodrich. Meanwhile a Downtown warming shelter for the homeless is coming and a Hopkins Airport cargo building is going away.
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| On East 91st Street in Cleveland's Hough neighborhood, Parkside Homes fills two lots that sat vacant for more than a decade (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
As older Cleveland homes continue to age beyond repair, reactivating a vacant or abandoned property can feel like taking one step forward while the neighborhood takes two steps back. In Glenville, Hough, and Buckeye-Shaker, CHN Housing Partners is reversing that momentum — filling empty lots by the dozen.
