Justice Center to be renovated for $150M

The 25-story courthouse tower on Ontario Street in Downtown Cleveland will be renovated
for $150 million according to a new agreement reached today. At left is the Cleveland Divi-
sion of Police headquarters, owned by the county, which may be disposed of or retained de-
pending on a strategic master plan requested in a separate action today (Google).
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Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne, County Council, and Judge Michael Shaughnessy, the administrative and presiding Judge for the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, announced they have reached a tentative agreement on a path forward for capital improvements to county courthouse facilities downtown.

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Former MLK Branch Library in UC to be demo’d for future development

Demolition of the vacated Martin Luther King Jr. Branch Library is due to yield a podium
of  ground-floor retail and structured parking topped by a multi-story hotel, seen in the
city-approved masterplan behind Fenway Manor and the new MLK Library. The
new library is on the first two floors of Library Lofts (City Architecture).
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If the City Planning Commission’s Design Review Committee gives its blessing on Friday, the vacated, former Martin Luther King Jr. Branch of the Cleveland Public Library at 1962 Stokes Blvd. will be coming down. It appears to be a sign of the times in a rapidly growing University Circle.

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Park Apartments’ leasing stirs a phase 2

Schematic design for the planned second phase of The Park apartments on an undeveloped
parcel located between Lamoille and Brevier avenues in Tremont’s Lincoln Heights district
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Although The Park apartments, 1851 Brevier Ave. in the Lincoln Heights section of Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood, hasn’t leased out yet, the response to it has progressed far enough that its developers have decided to pursue a second phase of the project.

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Singer Steel site’s new uses revealed

Singer Steel on Random Road in Cleveland’s Little Italy could soon enter a new chapter in
its history — that of a residential and parking complex. The residential would be developed
where the factory stands and the parking would be alongside the Red Line rapid transit, the
power lines for which are visible at left (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In November 2024, real estate developer TurnDev acquired the old Singer Steel site-turned-parking facility at 2100 Random Rd. in Cleveland’s Little Italy neighborhood. A year later, it acquired more land. And now, the Beachwood-based developer and its architect have revealed their plans for the combined 2.8-acre property.

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Pieces coming together for UC high-rise

Stokes East apartment tower may see construction start
this year and soon rise to approach the height of its neigh-
bor, The Artisan, University Circle’s tallest building (SCB).
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With all of the job growth happening around University Circle and the latest expansion news at Cleveland Clinic, it’s probably not a surprise that another high-rise apartment tower in that area is moving toward the start of construction.

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The next big expansion at Cleveland Clinic’s Main Campus is in the works

The Cleveland Clinic InterContinental Hotel on Carnegie Avenue at East 100th Street may
be replaced with an inpatient hospital bed tower. But the hotel isn’t disappearing. It’s relo-
cating nearby. And it’s one of several major developments planned by the Clinic for its
Main Campus near University Circle (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

By this time next year, after the Cleveland Clinic’s largest-ever building is due to open with 2,000 additional employees, there should be a lot more clarity that’s publicly available on Ohio’s largest employer’s next expansive plans for its Main Campus near Cleveland’s University Circle.

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AC Marriott Downtown Hotel, new CSA Group HQ get funding OK’d

The former Holiday Inn Express has closed and will be reopened as an AC Marriott Hotel,
Downtown Cleveland’s first. Built in 1896, the New England Building was the headquar-
ters of the National City Bank until it relocated in 1980 to the tower at right and was
absorbed by PNC. There are also two floors of condominiums at the top of this historic
structure (apartments.com). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Two significant development projects won financing from the Port of Cleveland yesterday — with one project in Downtown Cleveland and the other in suburban Brecksville.

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