Phase 2 awaits: Innovation Square, Fairfax Market

Looking north on East 105th Street toward the Cleveland Clinic’s main campus, the
Aura at Innovation Square is in the foreground and the Medley at Fairfax Market just
beyond represent the first phase of their developments. But their second phases
may not be imminent (LoopNet). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Two mixed-market-rate apartment developments that just opened along East 105th Street in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood have phase-two projects proposed. But construction on the pair of follow-on projects may not occur for a year or more as lending remains tight and leasing activity has been uneven. But things could accelerate next year after interest rates fall and hiring starts for thousands of permanent jobs at several large Cleveland Clinic buildings under construction nearby.

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Cleveland’s Greyhound/Barons Bus station futures

Likely to be the new home for the foreseeable future of Greyhound’s
and Barons Bus’ Cleveland arrivals and departures is the Stephanie
Tubbs Jones Transit Center. But the long-term station site may be
a planned multi-modal transportation center on downtown’s lake-
front (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

While city-to-city bus services have vacated traditional downtown stations for remote, curbside boarding locations in Ohio cities like Cincinnati, Columbus and Dayton, Cleveland travelers may be spared that treatment in a plan being worked out with the city. But city planners and advocates say the long-term station site may be a new multimodal transportation center linking all modes of intercity and intracity transportation elsewhere in Downtown Cleveland.

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Fairview Hospital unveils North Campus options

In this massing — an image intended to show only the location and scale of
proposed structures — Cleveland Clinic shows how a new Medical Office
Building (MOB) and Cancer Center north of Lorain Avenue might overlook
the Rocky River valley and extend east with two floors below a new multi-
level parking garage (CannonDesign). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

At a community meeting this evening at Fairview Hospital, Cleveland Clinic Foundation officials showed five design options for developing a new clinical building containing the Moll Cancer Center and medical offices plus a new parking garage on Fairview Hospital’s North Campus, north of Lorain Avenue. While there were some variations in the scale and shaping of the clinical building, the greatest difference between the options was where and how to construct a new parking garage or three.

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Rezoning recommended for Ohio City project

Facing Lorain Avenue could be a 45 West, a new development by My Place
Group, if Cleveland City Council approved a rezoning recommended by City
Planning Commission. Among other features, the project includes a new five-
story apartment building and a 159-year-old house on Lorain renovated as a
proposed retail space (Vocon). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In February 2023, the first of many public meetings were held for a medium-sized development called 45 West proposed by Cleveland-based My Place Group on Lorain Avenue at West 45th Street in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. More than a year later, a rezoning request was recommended by the City Planning Commission to City Council to allow the project to move forward.

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Cleveland skyscraper’s new owner plans upgrades

Downtown Cleveland’s third-tallest skyscraper and the fourth-tallest in Ohio,
200 Public Square’s deed of ownership officially transferred last week to an
affiliate of Namdar Realty. The new owner has hired a building manager and
plans improvements to the building, although some were already underway
by the prior owner (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Purchase of Downtown Cleveland’s third-tallest skyscraper last week was officially confirmed today by the skyscraper’s new owner. A partnership of Namdar Realty Group and Mason Asset Management, both of Long Island, NY, also said they have a formed a five-year capital plan to improve 200 Public Square and hired a new building manager to carry out that plan. Enhancing the retail offerings in the tower’s atrium for office tenants and nearby residential buildings is part of its goal.

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County courthouse to have new address?

The days of going to the 1976-built, 26-story Justice Center tower in Downtown
Cleveland to attend a hearing at Cleveland Municipal Court or the Cuyahoga
County Court of Common Pleas appear to be numbered. Also at the Justice Cen-
ter is the Cleveland Division of Police, seen at left, and the two jail blocks
behind it. Those three buildings may be demolished after the police and jails
leave. If the courthouse tower survives, it will like have a new purpose
(Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. 

A Cuyahoga County committee has reportedly rejected all but one of the proposals that could have kept a Consolidated Courthouse at the current site of Downtown Cleveland’s existing Justice Center. NEOtrans has learned that, of the four surviving proposals, one involves a complicated, time-consuming double-move of courthouse functions from the current site and back again. If rejected, it would end a five-decade run of the Justice Center site as a law enforcement, adjudication and penal facility and set the stage for its redevelopment.

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Playhouse Square arrives at Greyhound Station

Downtown Cleveland’s landmark-designated Greyhound station will repor-
tedly be redeveloped by the Playhouse Square Foundation as a performing
arts venue but could also combine dining and other nightlife, a source said.
Ultimately, the move was made by the foundation to expand Cleveland's
theater district (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Playhouse Square Foundation this week closed a deal to acquire the Greyhound station in Downtown Cleveland to expand the theater district northward and convert the station into an entertainment/dining venue, according to a source familiar with the transaction. While Playhouse Square officials were mum on their plans, a spokesperson told NEOtrans that Greyhound bus operations will be relocated on a schedule that works for them and their customers.

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