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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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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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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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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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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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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Hotel land sale may boost GCRTA station developments

Stark Enterprises, which owns the La Quinta Inn By Wydnham at left, will buy the land it
is leasing from the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority. The transit agency owns
property here for its Puritas-West 150th Red Line station, visible at right (Google).
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A land sale recently approved by the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) went largely unnoticed beyond the agency, as did the creation of a fund where the sale proceeds will be deposited. But when combined, both could have long-term implications for the cash-strapped transit agency which is considering significant service cuts.

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