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| Site plan for the proposed Shaker Square car wash. North is at the top of the image, with the southeast commercial quadrant of Shaker Square visible at upper left (Kimley Horn). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Shaker Square, although faded from its peak decades ago, remains Greater Cleveland’s seminal example of transit-oriented community design in which the rapid transit system, pedestrian activity, and vertically mixed uses are juxtaposed to support each other.
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| At the northeast corner of Miller Road and Innovation Parkway, the Cleveland Clinic plans to build this medical office building (Perspectus). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
New structures and uses keep getting added to the mixed-use lifestyle center Valor Acres at Miller and Brecksville roads in suburban Brecksville. The latest will be a Cleveland Clinic outpatient care facility, due to open in late 2027.
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| At the northeast corner of Detroit and St. Charles avenues is the former Lakewood Center West, now converted into Lakewood Lofts. In the parking garage seen behind, 70 spaces are set aside for tenants of the lofts (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Downtown Lakewood is steadily turning from an office district into a residential one. The latest example of that metamorphosis is perhaps the quietest conversion of a seven-story suburban office building in Greater Cleveland’s history.
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| The development team of The Thomas apartments and their future successors posed at a groundbreaking ceremony today in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood (NEOtrans). |
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| Transit oriented development isn’t limited to rail station areas. It can also be built along high- frequency bus lines like Cleveland Clinic’s North Campus expansion of Fairview Hospital where Cleveland meets Fairview Park (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Most municipalities in Cuyahoga County were built-out decades ago, limiting opportunities to offer newer, more competitive housing and build a stronger tax base without raising taxes. The few remaining places for development are infill sites for which many communities lack zoning to develop them.
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| Where Steve Barry Buick’s showroom stood on the north side of Detroit Avenue at Brockley Avenue in Lakewood now is a 66-unit apartment building with a yet-to-be-leased ground- floor retail space (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
Until the first decade of this century, Detroit Avenue in Lakewood had a half-dozen car dealerships along it. Today, they’re all gone after having closed or moved to exurban highway interchanges.
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| The Slavic Village Neighborhood Plan represents the culmination of a series of outreach events involving diverse members of the community (Slavic Village Development). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM. |
On Friday, City Planning Commission approved not one, but two transformative plans developed alongside each other for Cleveland’s Slavic Village — which hasn’t seen a comprehensive neighborhood plan in almost two decades.
