NEOtrans business, development, real estate, construction and market trend news from the West side of Cleveland
The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) has exercised an option to order an additional 18 new Light Rail Vehicles (LRVs) from Siemens Mobility to replace their aging fleet of trains, according to GCRTA and Siemens today. This adds to previous orders, allowing GCRTA to, at minimum, provide a base-level of service on all three of its rail transit lines by 2028.
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Efforts by city officials to repopulate Cleveland neighborhoods don’t always go smoothly when residents and community officials have gotten used to not having people, density and activity around for decades. But a mixed-use project intended to restore some of that urbanity got approved today by the Landmarks Commission in a contentious meeting.
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A team of contractors, architects and structural engineers is about to start visible efforts of what is more than just a job, but a vocation. That calling is to restore the 114-year-old St. Theodosius Cathedral in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood to its former glory, from the ashes of a devastating fire that occurred on May 28, 2024.
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Just after 3 a.m. on Halloween 2024, an Audi crashed at high speed into a section of the INTRO complex, at 2050 Gehring Ave. in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. While the driver wasn’t seriously hurt, the damage to the structure was so severe that two restaurants, Pioneer and Jaja, affected by the crash are still closed and repairs won’t be completed until 10 months after the initial impact.
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Great Lakes Brewing Company (GLBC) officials today confirmed a report published by NEOtrans last weekend that they are pursuing development on Cleveland’s Scranton Peninsula in the Flats. The first phase of that development was described by GLBC founders Pat and Dan Conway as “a potential entertainment venture and beer garden,” in a statement they issued today.
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Three redevelopment projects — two on Cleveland’s west side and one in Lakewood — were awarded financial assistance today by the Port of Cleveland’s board to advance them to construction in the coming weeks. The assistance totaled more than $97 million worth of financing, sales tax savings and bonds.
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For leaders of the Urban Community School (UCS), West 47th Street has been a street of dreams. But those dreams are becoming a reality in 2025, with more to come by the end of the year – including a new baseball field of dreams.
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There’s still a lot we don’t know about Great Lakes Brewing Company’s (GLBC) vision for Scranton Peninsula in Cleveland. But NEOtrans has learned that there are once again plans for the independent craft brewery to make a big investment in Cleveland Flats rather than relocate to an exurban site along an interstate highway.
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When the chains start replacing mom-n-pop businesses in a growing neighborhood, some welcome them as a validation of its success. Others reject them as a weakening of a neighborhood’s uniqueness that created that success in the first place. So the replacement next year of the popular Soho Chicken + Whiskey with a Chipotle Mexican Grill could be the start of a shift in Ohio City’s Market District in Cleveland.
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A 109-unit market-rate apartment building planned along West 26th Street in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood recently passed its first hurdle. But it has more to come, including a rezoning, vacating an alley, design-review approvals and winning over urban neighbors who expressed fears of the multi-family development.
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