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express car wash operator and a brand of Express Wash Concepts, issued a statement today today that it has withdrawn its application for a proposed car wash location in Cleveland’s Shaker Square.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.