AmTrust to relocate most downtown office workers to Mayfield Hts.

AmTrust Financial will be vacating the red-bricked 800 Superior and moving north up
East 9th Street to the darker, glassy AECOM Building to the upper-right of its current
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NEOtrans has learned that AmTrust Financial is vacating its current Downtown Cleveland offices and moving most of its 600 jobs to the suburbs. One result of this big shake-up of office properties is that the 23-story 800 Superior building downtown will be left mostly empty by year’s end.

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Capitol Theatre upgrade projected

Being able to show the latest movies in the best possible resolution will help the
Capitol Theatre compete for more films and more customers (NEOtrans).
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Northwest Neighborhoods CDC (NWN) was awarded a $50,000 Community Development Supplemental Grant (CDSG) from Cuyahoga County to fund a new digital projector in Auditorium No. 1 at the 105-year-old Capitol Theatre.

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Suburb to milk ideas for dairy’s redevelopment

The most significant remaining portion of the Hillside Dairy in Cleveland Heights is this long
structure along the west side Warrensville Road, between Mayfield and Noble roads in an
area called the Mayfield Triangle (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The reason why the city is leading it is because the Mayfield Triangle, a roughly 6.3-acre swath of land bound by Mayfield, Noble and Warrensville Center roads, is owned principally by the city. And, in Ohio, municipal governments determine how land is used in their jurisdictions.

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W. 130th gets infusion of new life

Fresh fruits and vegetables are difficult to find in a food desert, but thanks to the
opening of Pure Supermarket, the middle of the Bellaire-Puritas neighborhood
has been nourished (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

When a pharmacy closes, what was a neighborhood asset often becomes a liability, and sometimes a long-term one that drags it down. But the reverse is happening at the corner of West 130th Street and Bellaire Avenue on Cleveland’s West Side.

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Clinic’s $1.3 billion expansion is just the beginning

Cleveland Clinic’s largest-ever building, the 1-million-square-foot Neurological Institute,
approaches completion across East 89th Street (Harrison Whittaker).
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Since announcing it in 2022, the Cleveland Clinic has neared completion on a massive, $1.3 billion expansion plan. But with a new hotel, inpatient bed tower, lab research facilities, and Level I Trauma Center planned, its next round of expansion projects could be even bigger.

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O’Malley wants state audit of county jail contracting

Cuyahoga County’s Central Services Campus, also called the new corrections center
to be located in suburban Garfield Heights, could hit another snag if a special audit
by the state of contracting for the project occurs (Cuyahoga County).
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Despite an agreement hailed a week ago by Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne and presiding county Common Pleas Court Judge Michael Shaughnessy to move forward on the new, $889 million jail complex, county Prosecutor Michael O’Malley said, in effect — “not so fast.”

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Central continues to transform with completion of Sankofa Village

Construction of all phases of the $115 million Sankofa Village in Cleveland’s Central neigh-
borhood is now complete. The redevelopment of the former Cedar Extension public housing
site with affordable, mixed-income housing deconcentrates poverty with comfortable
housing (Pennrose). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Redevelopment partners celebrated this week the grand opening of Sankofa Village IV, completing the 236-unit, $115 million Cedar Extension Transformation Plan in the Central neighborhood of Cleveland. The final phase added 50 high-quality, affordable rental homes to the 17-acre former Cedar Extension site of public housing.

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