Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Euclid seeks redo of former church site

A small portion of the former St. Robert Church property is visible here at the corner of
Lakeshore Boulevard and East 238th Street in Euclid. The property wraps around the
house at far-right and extends south 1,000 feet to Elmwood Drive (Google).
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One of Euclid’s largest undeveloped properties may not lay fallow much longer. After the former St. Robert Bellamine Church, located at 23802 Lake Shore Blvd., closed 15 years ago, the site is finally being put on a path to redemption.

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Monday, December 15, 2025

Canon Healthcare USA HQ comes into focus

At just seven years ago, the former IBM Explorys building is still young. But new owner
Canon Healthcare USA has big changes in store for the structure to accommodate the
imaging business and its equipment (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. 

After nearly a year since it acquired an office building in Cleveland’s University Circle and two years since it announced a partnership with Cleveland Clinic, Canon Healthcare USA has now revealed that it is moving forward with modifications to that office building for its headquarters.

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Saturday, December 13, 2025

Clinic to coach healthy cooking at new kitchen

A rendering of the planned new teaching kitchen at the Langston Hughes Community
Health and Education Center in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood (RPMI).
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A large number of a hospital’s patients are treated for avoidable health problems, with many of those traced to what we eat. For many of us, we didn’t learn enough about healthy foods or how to prepare them. Or we simply forgot in our grab-n-go, fast-food culture.

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Thursday, December 11, 2025

Richmond mall redo, Old Brooklyn bank jobs get Port financing

Belle Oaks, a planned mixed-use redevelopment of the former Richmond Town Square
shopping mall in Richmond Heights, got port financing to advance its development
(Bialosky). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority Board of Directors today approved $55 million in bonds for apartments and retail space at the site of the former Richmond Mall in Richmond Heights and $6 million in bonds for new housing planned for Cleveland’s Old Brooklyn neighborhood.

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Rockefeller buyer has big plans for site

The Rockefeller Building was the tallest building in Cleveland when the first phase of it was
built in 1905. It was added onto at left in 1910 and remained an office building until several
years ago. While its redevelopment has been elusive, there is some light at the end of the
tunnel or, in this case, ramp (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

We may be only a few weeks away from learning more details about a possible sale of Downtown Cleveland’s historic Rockefeller Building. But the grapevine is already buzzing as to what might happen after a sale is closed.

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Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Circle North fuels Glenville momentum

The second phase of NRP’s Churchill Gateway project rises on Churchill Avenue in Cleve-
land’s Glenville neighborhood (Harrison Whittaker). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Five years ago, NEOtrans reported that a development boom in Glenville’s Circle North district had reached nearly “every block.” Despite an economic environment which had slowed construction activity, that momentum seems to be making a comeback.

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Why Hopkins Airport may regain hub

Cleveland Hopkins International Airport has the most international travelers of any non-hub
or non-focus-city airport east of the Mississippi River. Yet this is Cleveland’s only nonstop
transatlantic flight, a near-daily Aer Lingus round trip to Dublin, Ireland. In the background
is Concourse D which, as of next year, will have been abandoned for as long as the 12 years
it was in use (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Eleven years ago, United ended its hub operation at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, leaving the 1999-built Terminal D vacant and relinquishing some of the airport’s remaining gates to expansion by low-fare airlines.

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