Friday, February 28, 2025

Staff reductions to hit Sherwin-Williams HQ

Sherwin-Williams’ new headquarters tower just west of Public Square in Downtown
Cleveland is due to open later this year. But there may be fewer employees moving
to it from the old HQ several blocks away, according to employees who say the
company is reducing JQ staff (The Sherwin-Williams Company).
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With Sherwin-Williams due to move into its new headquarters tower in Downtown Cleveland later this year, there may be fewer managers making that move. That’s according to two company sources who told NEOtrans on the condition of anonymity that Sherwin-Williams is downsizing its headquarters staff, primarily through early retirements and/or voluntary layoffs.

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Shaker Square demolition to avail housing site

An early concept for a multi-family building on the southeast corner of Cleveland’s Shaker
Square district was shared with the Landmarks Commission prior to its approval of the
demolition of a decayed retail strip facing Van Aken Boulevard at right, and Drexmore
Road at left (Paran). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Although the demolition of an historic retail strip in Cleveland’s Shaker Square district was on Landmarks Commission’s docket, much of the panel’s discussion focused on what might follow the demolition. Ultimately, the commission unanimously approved razing the two-structured Van Aken Plaza located at 2742-2782 Van Aken Blvd. for a landscaped greenspace — for now.

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Thursday, February 27, 2025

Senior affordable housing deal OK’d in Cleveland Hts

A senior affordable housing development is planned for this city-owned parking lot at
the corner of Euclid Heights Boulevard and Lancashire Road in Cleveland Heights. An
apartment building stood here until it was demolished in the 1970s. Beyond is a church
and another city-owned parking lot that will be part of the development (Google).
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City officials in Cleveland Heights today announced they have entered into a purchase agreement with National Church Residences (NCR), a Columbus-based non-profit senior housing developer, to acquire two city-owned properties for a planned $22 million, 71-unit, senior affordable-rate apartment building.

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Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Cleveland competed for Canon — and won

By adding its logo last week to this building in Cleveland’s University Circle, Canon
Healthcare visually marked it territory — a site where it could expand south and east
with new research and manufacturing facilities in the coming years (Dwain Ross II,
Photographer, Untapped Visuals). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

When the Ohio Tax Credit Authority on Monday approved financial assistance to Canon Healthcare USA Inc. for its new headquarters in Cleveland, state officials revealed that Ohio wasn’t the only state that was focused on the Japanese-based imaging company. NEOtrans also learned details of Canon’s property lease with the Cleveland Clinic Foundation which helped secure the new HQ.

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Tuesday, February 25, 2025

St. Theodosius Cathedral restoration plan set

St. Theodosius Orthodox Cathedral in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood looked
like this before a devastating fire last year and could look like this again following
its pending reconstruction (Bostwick). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

A team of contractors, architects and structural engineers is about to start visible efforts of what is more than just a job, but a vocation. That calling is to restore the 114-year-old St. Theodosius Cathedral in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood to its former glory, from the ashes of a devastating fire that occurred on May 28, 2024.

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Monday, February 24, 2025

Canon Healthcare buys Cleveland building for HQ

Located on the southeast corner of Cedar Avenue and East 105th Street in Cleveland’s
University Circle district is the new headquarters for Canon Healthcare USA. The
former IBM Explorys building gained its new owner’s logo last week (Canon).
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Canon Healthcare USA, Inc., a subsidiary of Canon Inc., today announced its acquisition of an established building for its headquarters, adjacent to Cleveland Clinic’s main campus in Cleveland’s University Circle district. This purchase has been in the works for some time and NEOtrans had reported recent progress toward the deal earlier this month.

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Cole Eye Institute expansion opens today

In September 2024, the expansion of the Cole Eye Institute was just starting to get its
white cladding to cover up the green construction material. The original 1999-built
Cole Eye Institute is seen at right from the intersection of Euclid Avenue and East
105th Street (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland Clinic Foundation continues to keep the ribbon-making industry in business as it cut another streamer today in opening the latest addition to its growing Main Campus near University Circle. The new building is part of a $172 million expansion and renovation of The Jeffrey and Patricia Cole Pavilion at Cleveland Clinic’s Cole Eye Institute.

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