New GCRTA rail station at Browns stadium may kick off in 2028

A south-looking aerial view of the proposed Cleveland Browns Stadium Station for rapid transit
trains. The under-construction Huntington Bank Field is at upper-left and the Berea Freeway is
at right. Across the freeway is Hopkins International Airport (Bowen).
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It’s not everyday that new light-rail stations are built from scratch in Greater Cleveland. But when a $3.6 billion mixed-use entertainment district appears along Ohio’s most-used passenger rail line, a new station is hard to pass up.

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Cleveland Clinic land swap with Bikur Cholim aids Emergency Dept. expansion

At left is the conceptual design for Bikur Cholim’s Cleveland Comfort House fronting East 90th
Street as viewed from Cedar Avenue. Cleveland Clinic’s Emergency Department is at right. Its
expansion and need for more parking led the Clinic and Bikur Cholim to trade land. Now, the
Cleveland Comfort House is planned to rise on Chester Avenue at East 93rd Street
(studioTECHNE). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In the next few weeks, demolition work to take down five structures could get underway to avail land for the Cleveland Clinic’s expanding Emergency Department, 9105 Cedar Ave., at its Main Campus in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood.

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Greyhound Station to look like 1948 again

The unique lines of Downtown Cleveland’s historic Greyhound station are about to get
a freshening up to prepare the facility for its next role as a venue in Playhouse Square
(Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Work is due to start in a couple of weeks on preparing the vacated, historic Downtown Cleveland Greyhound station, 1465 Chester Ave., for its next role. That role is to become a leading actor in the future of the Playhouse Square district’s experiential economy.

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MetroHealth to update Emergency Dept.

The Emergency Department at MetroHealth’s Medical Center dates from 2004 and needs to be
renovated, not only to update its appearance but also to provide larger spaces for new diag-
nostics and interventional equipment (MetroHealth). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Possibly by the end of this year, major changes are coming to MetroHealth’s Emergency Department (ED) at its main campus in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood, 2500 Metrohealth Dr. A renovation project costing up to $9 million will get underway amid the goings-on of a busy Level I trauma center.

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GCRTA levy fear: derailment by apathy

Next month, the first new railcars in more than 40 years for the Greater Cleveland Regional
Transit Authority will arrive for extensive testing and training. On July 14, railcar No. 403
awaits its ride to Cleveland with other railcars at the Siemens Mobility factory in
Sacramento, CA (GCRTA). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In a recent one-hour interview with Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) General Manager India Birdsong Terry, she revealed to NEOtrans one of her biggest fears with the transit agency’s upcoming sales tax levy vote — its first in more than five decades.

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Cleveland leads Ohio job growth in 2026

Signs of a good economy in the first half of 2026 in Greater Cleveland are well-documented in a new report by PNC Financial Services Group (Contributed). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Ask anyone two years ago which Ohio city had the strongest labor market and the answer was simple: Columbus. Years of economic investment bolstered by a rapid influx of residents has produced one of the nation’s fastest-evolving cities, located in Central Ohio. Ask that same question today, and there is a new answer: Cleveland.

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Centennial transformation may get financing soon, too

The only thing more complicated than the stack of uses planned for Millennia Companies’
reactivation of the 1.45-million-square-foot former Union Trust Building in the heart of
Downtown Cleveland is its proposed financing. That involves a capital stack of numerous
public and private financial sources and both have adjusted over the last few years
(Millennia). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

It appears that Millennia Companies is doing more than assembling financing to redeem a foreclosed loan on 925 Euclid Ave. and remove the Downtown Cleveland property from a court-ordered receivership. It also appears that it is also seeking to close on financing to undertake a redevelopment of the property per its city-approved plans.

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