Clinic’s car-dependency collides with community

In less than a dozen years, stunning growth has changed East 105th Street, where Cleve-
land’s University Circle and Fairfax neighborhoods meet. Transportation access to this
booming area has improved but still lags Downtown Cleveland’s even though Uni-
versity Circle’s employment and population are quickly catching up (Google).
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Each morning, the red lines appear on the traffic app’s map. The lines, along with their yellow brethren, make for a colorful mosaic along the otherwise green-shaded grid of neighborhood streets surrounding the Cleveland Clinic. But that’s the only attractive thing about them. No one wants these indicators of traffic congestion — not city officials, Clinic officials, neighbors or commuters.

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Car wash biz withdraws Shaker Square plan

Proposed design concept for the Shaker Square car wash (SBA).
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Clean Express Auto Wash, a Cleveland-area express car wash operator and a brand of Express Wash Concepts, issued a statement today today that it has withdrawn its application for a proposed car wash location in Cleveland’s Shaker Square.

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Another big site added to the Midline

The former American Sugar Refining Co. plant on Carnegie Avenue in Midtown closed early
last year, was sold last month and in the coming weeks will be demolished for an as-yet uniden-
tified end user. The 10.3-acre property has joined many others in the Midline redevelopment
district to be reactivated once again (CRESCO). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Another big piece of land has been added to the Midline redevelopment district on the city’s near-East Side. And officials are wasting no time in clearing the site for future development.

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Massive mixed-use projects rise in Cuyahoga County

From the central green in Valor Acres, the rest of the $678 million mixed-use development
takes shape in Brecksville (Ian McDaniel). CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

While billions-worth of development is underway to revitalize downtown Cleveland and adjacent neighborhoods, billions more in mixed-use developments are rising in communities throughout Cuyahoga County.

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City Hall to fight Shaker Square car wash

A Clean Express Auto Wash stands on Broadview Road in Parma in a well-landscaped setting.
But vocal opposition to building one next to Cleveland’s historic Shaker Square emerged at a
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It may be one of the nicest-designed, best-landscaped and best-operated car wash operations you can find, but Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb, his chief of development, City Council members and a committee of the City Landmarks Commission said a proposed car wash doesn’t belong next to Shaker Square.

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Clinic seeks OK of Emergency Dept expansion

Seen from the corner of Cedar Avenue and East 93rd Street, this massing shows the scale,
shape and location for Cleveland Clinic’s planned 120,000-square-foot expansion of the
Maria & Sam Miller Emergency Services Building. If the City Planning Commission
agrees with this concept, the details of the design will be filled in (Cleveland Clinic).
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Cleveland Clinic and its facility planning consultants are seeking approval next week from the Cleveland Planning Commission for conceptual designs for its expanded Emergency Department, called Building E, 9105 Cedar Ave., in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood.

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Flats find new life with wave of openings

Good Night John Boy recently moved to this building on the riverfront, an upgrade
among several happening all around the Flats East Bank (Ian McDaniel).
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When the sudden closings of several long-term tenants punctuated the end of the 2025 season, many were quick to declare Flats East Bank in Cleveland “dead” once again.

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