This 70-year-old building on Carnegie Avenue, recently called Cleveland Clinic’s DD Building for back-office functions, was acquired, modernized and repositioned as a for-lease office space by CedarTech and Cumberland Development. Miami University will occupy the fourth floor of this building (Cresco). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.
Facility is in partnership with Cleveland Clinic
Miami University and Cleveland Clinic revealed in public records filings that they will make a $1 million investment to build out the university’s new location in Cleveland to boost healthcare education, quantum computing and healthcare research, plus workforce development.
The site chosen for this new facility is the CedarTech office building at 10900 Carnegie Ave. This expansion will serve as a mechanism to attract students to make Cleveland and Ohio home after graduation.
The university will take the fourth floor of this six-story, 49,205-square-foot, 1956-built building, renovating and occupying about 7,022 square feet of space. There it will provide a base for students to work as interns for the Cleveland Clinic as part of a groundbreaking partnership with Miami University in Oxford, OH, in the southwestern part of the state.
The partnership resulted in the creation of the Ohio Institute for Quantum Computing, intended to position Ohio as the global epicenter of quantum computing innovation. While much of the classroom learning will be done at Miami’s Oxford campus, the hands-on learning will be done here in Cleveland.
Outlined in red, the CedarTech office building on Carnegie Avenue, at right, has is parking lot entrance on Cedar Avenue, at left. Immediately west is the Cleveland Clinic’s Main Campus with Downtown Cleveland in the distance (Cresco).
As part of its partnership with IBM, Cleveland Clinic houses an IBM Quantum System One, the world’s first quantum computer fully dedicated to healthcare research. The quantum computer was installed several years ago at the Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute, N Building, 9620 Carnegie Ave., as part of its Discovery Accelerator.
Backed by $7 million in state funding through the Cleveland Innovation District, Miami and Cleveland Clinic launched Ohio’s first bachelor’s degree (and one of the first worldwide) in quantum computing, ensuring Ohio leads in developing the workforce and solutions for this $170 billion emerging global market.
“This synergistic partnership will establish Ohio as a global leader in quantum computing,” Miami President Gregory Crawford said in a written statement. “We look forward to working closely with Cleveland Clinic researchers, who are at the forefront of this burgeoning technology.”
“By combining the educational, research, and healthcare excellence of Miami University and Cleveland Clinic, we are accelerating the leading-edge power of quantum computing to shape the future of healthcare and technology,” Crawford added.
A renovated office space in the CedarTech building. While this doesn’t necessarily represent the space that Miami University will be occupying, it shows how a 70-year-old office building can be renovated for contemporary uses, including for students interning on the applications of quantum computing for healthcare purposes (Cresco).
“This new educational collaboration strengthens Cleveland Clinic’s position as a leader in healthcare innovation and the emerging quantum computing industry,” said Cleveland Clinic CEO Tom Mihaljevic. “By joining forces with Miami University, we are creating a robust ecosystem that will attract, educate and retain top talent, while providing unparalleled opportunities for innovation.”
This project has been in the works for more than a year. In January, Miami University pledged to establish a physical presence adjacent to Cleveland Clinic’s main campus, within the Cleveland Innovation District.
“This will foster closer connections between Cleveland Clinic and Miami University to further the organizations’ shared goals of job creation, research acceleration, and workforce development,” a project summary stated.
“Miami students will have the opportunity to intern on-site in the Cleveland Innovation District, a unique public-private initiative that brings the State of Ohio and JobsOhio together with Cleveland’s healthcare and higher education institutions to create jobs, accelerate research, and educate the workforce of the future,” it continued.
Representatives of the Cleveland Clinic and Miami University pose next to the Clinic’s IBM Quantum System One which is very fragile and must be kept ultra cold. Located at the Lerner Research Institute, it handles data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data-processing application software (Miami University).
CedarTech LLC of Pepper Pike acquired the building from Cleveland Clinic in July 2022 for $1,357,395 and renovated the building and its 1.37 acres of land for $1.2 million. CedarTech is led by Brian Smith who was in charge of Cleveland Clinic’s construction and strategic project development efforts from 1993 to 2019.
The building’s redevelopment was pursued in partnership with Cumberland Development of Cleveland, led by its CEO Dick Pace. Although the building has a Carnegie address, its parking lot is accessed from Cedar Avenue to the south which has an address of 10969 Cedar. Building permit applications to the city are being filed using this address.
Marketing the building are Cushman & Wakefield CRESCO brokers Conor Coakley and Eric Schreibman. More than 8,000 square feet of office space remains available in the building, according to its listing on LoopNet.
While Dimit Architects of Lakewood designed the overall building and site renovations, Payto Architects of Cleveland is handling the redesign of the fourth-floor space Miami University will occupy. Marilyn Heflin, Miami University’s senior project architect/manager is overseeing the project for the university.
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