Clinic’s expanding Emergency Dept. has a big price tag

Cleveland Clinic’s to-be expanded Emergency Department on Cedar Avenue at East
90th Street in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood will push out its parking to nearby blocks
currently occupied by homes. The demolitions will start next week (Cleveland Clinic).
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Way back in the good old days of the early 2000s, $230 million would be enough money to afford building a landmark 50-plus-story skyscraper. Today, with inflation and a very specialized building to construct, that same amount of money will achieve a structure of far less scale.

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Tremont Treehouse apartments to sprout

Built around The Treehouse Pub in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood, a new apartment complex
 that borrows on the pub’s name could see construction start by the end of this year (GLSD).
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Sometimes a proposed development in Cleveland sees a flurry of public activity when it’s first announced, then fades into the background for months or even years, then suddenly pops back up again when everything finally comes together for that project.

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Arch at St. Michael is reborn

They don’t make ’em like this anymore. So it would have been a veritable sin to lose this High
Victorian Gothic architectural gem from Cleveland’s landscape. Fortunately, the former Catholic
School has found a new use as senior housing after a $28 million renovation (CHN Housing
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In the late 2010s, the former St. Michael School, 3146 Scranton Rd., where Cleveland’s South Tremont neighborhood meets Clark-Fulton, appeared destined for a fall from grace.

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Clinic opens two new research buildings

Construction and even landscaping was completed by July for a pair of new Cleveland Clinic
research buildings along Cedar Avenue in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood. Those buildings
officially opened today (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland Clinic today celebrated the opening of two new state-of-the-art research buildings, part of the largest research investment in the health system’s 105-year history.

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Blue, Green lines on track for rapid modernization

A brand-new Van Aken-Warrensville Rapid Station, under construction on Tuttle Road in Shaker
Heights, will feature a heated indoor waiting area and public restrooms (Harrison Whittaker).
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Between new railcars, upgraded stations, rebuilt tracks, and Transit-Oriented Development (TOD), the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s (GCRTA) Blue and Green lines are benefitting from hundreds of millions of dollars in investment that could reshape the future of the city’s least-used rail transit lines.

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Millennia plans tech hub, AI center at 925 Euclid

The former Union Trust Bank Building in Downtown Cleveland could become a technology hub
instead of a primarily residential redevelopment if plans by its owner and an emerging develop-
ment team pan out (Gordon Brothers). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

With a court-imposed auction looming two months from now, the owner of the former Union Trust Bank Building, 925 Euclid Ave. in Downtown Cleveland, is trying to organize a dramatic change of plans for the building’s redevelopment that could include significant artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.

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Airport Ground Transportation Center plans revealed

The new Cleveland Hopkins International Airport’s Ground Transportation Center is seen at left,
on the current site of the Orange Lot. To the right is the airport’s new terminal headhouse, proposed
to be built on the existing site of the Smart Garage (CCG). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland’s Planning Commission’s Design Review Committee is set to hear and see a presentation Friday on conceptual plans for the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport’s new Ground Transportation Center (GTC). But even for a conceptual plan, it is short on many details that may come later as plans are refined.

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