Thursday, January 1, 2026

Camelot Bakery OK’d for city’s West Side

Camelot Bakery is proposed to be built in phases at the intersection
of Madison Avenue and West 105th Street in Cleveland’s Cudell
neighborhood, replacing their existing, cramped building on the
same site. This is an updated rendering showing a new color palette
and glass-block windows along the first floor of the Madison frontage.
The bus in the background is shown on West 105th Street (Meraki).
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It’s the kind of success story just about everyone cheers for and it’s a story that Cleveland needs more of. It’s the story of a husband-and-wife team growing a business they started, outgrowing their first building in Cleveland to the point they need a new one — and are staying in Cleveland.

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Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Cleveland’s waterfronts: The New Year’s story

As Cleveland sheds 2025 for 2026, many of the development
stories are unfolding along its waterfronts (NEOtrans).
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A $1.1 billion Neurological Institute on Cleveland Clinic’s Main Campus will be structurally completed. Downtown’s new 616-foot-tall Sherwin-Williams headquarters tower, part of the coatings company’s $860 million “Building Our Future” initiative, will see its ribbon cut. And construction is due to start on the Haslam Sports Group’s $2.4 billion enclosed stadium in Brook Park.

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Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Progressive HQ goes to auction

Progressive Insurance’s first headquarters building in Mayfield Village
remains unsold after nearly two years on the market (LoopNet).
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One of Northeast Ohio’s largest for-sale office properties will soon be put up for bid. Progressive Insurance’s first headquarters campus it constructed in the eastern suburbs is scheduled for a Feb. 2, 2026 auction.

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Monday, December 29, 2025

Senior apartments planned for Slavic Village

A new senior apartment complex is planned in the vacant lot at left, across
Waterman Avenue from Hyacinth Park in Cleveland’s Slavic Village
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In the early 2000s, the Hyacinth Lofts were developed in the old Cleveland School Book Depository, offering hope for a revival of the Slavic Village enclave named after an historic St. Hyacinth Roman Catholic Church. Then the foreclosure crisis hit, devastating this once working-class, ethnic neighborhood.

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Friday, December 26, 2025

Miami University picks Cleveland Innovation District site

This 70-year-old building on Carnegie Avenue, recently called Cleveland Clinic’s DD Build-
ing for back-office functions, was acquired, modernized and repositioned as a for-lease office
space by CedarTech and Cumberland Development. Miami University will occupy the
fourth floor of this building (Cresco). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Miami University and Cleveland Clinic revealed in public records filings that they will make a $1 million investment to build out the university’s new location in Cleveland to boost healthcare education, quantum computing and healthcare research, plus workforce development.

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Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Clinic, IHG to upgrade hotel to voco Suites

The InterContinental Suites Hotel Cleveland at Cleveland Clinic is about to get upgraded
to voco Suites, IHG Hotels & Resorts’ global brand offering resort-style amenities (IHG).
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Many who stay at the InterContinental Suites Hotel Cleveland at Cleveland Clinic, 8800 Euclid Ave.,in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood, are visiting for an extended period, such as for medical testing and long-term treatments. So as long as they’re here, they’re now going to get a resort-style stay.

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Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Next Superior renovation is partial, for now

Formerly the offices of Thomas J. Unik Insurance and built as the Grossman Paper Box
Company, this building on Superior Avenue on the east side of Downtown Cleveland
is being partially renovated to make it more marketable for sale and eventual
redevelopment (Cresco). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

An historic, four-story commercial building on the east end of Downtown Cleveland has gone on the market. And, at the same time, renovations to the building are about to begin, at least partially. Those two seemingly disconnected actions have a connection — making the property more marketable.

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