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.

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.

While Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood has been the target of redevelopment efforts for decades, new momentum from public and private players could accelerate the area’s comeback.

Getting ready for its close-up is a mid-sized film studio campus planned by an experienced filmmaker in the Cleveland suburb of Euclid. The goal for the filmmaker, Northeast Ohio native and Ingalls & Co. CEO James Ingalls II, is to transform Greater Cleveland into “a premier cinematic hub.”

A collection of new luxury rental townhomes is now open and move-in ready at ORRIS, 22601 Center Ridge Rd., Rocky River. Developed by The Krueger Group (TKG), this phase-two expansion of the ORRIS development adds 25 townhomes to offer single-family living in a maintenance-free rental setting.

Although site preparations have been underway since winter, now the repair, recovery and rebuilding work begins on the redevelopment of the long-vacant Warner & Swasey factory, 5701 Carnegie Ave., in Cleveland’s MidTown neighborhood.