Cleveland’s downtown may possess its historic core and central business district, but several massive developments are solidifying Greater University Circle’s status as one of the most important job centers in Northeast Ohio.
Significant, urgent repair projects are to be pursued in the coming months at Progressive Field in Downtown Cleveland while questions linger as to whether there is enough funding to pay for them.
While Cleveland has been lauded for attracting investors to redevelop closed school buildings, things don’t always go as community officials hope. So unfortunately eight mostly historic school buildings are to be demolished, with three facing imminent demolition.
With hours to go before a July 30 deadline to settle its debts or lose its property in a potential Nov. 3 auction, the owner of 925 Euclid Ave. won a third option — an extended deadline.
Akron-based Kenmore Construction Co. has two big jobs in front of it. One is the multiyear reconstruction of Downtown Cleveland’s Central Interchange on Interstate 90 for $329 million. The other is to build a new asphalt plant for up to $20 million so it can pave the interchange’s new lanes and ramps.
Returning vacant, polluted industrial sites to productive use in Cleveland and other established communities is typically not cost-effective for private investors to tackle. Yet leaving them rotting and fallow is not an option either.
Cleveland Clinic is now delivering certain medications to patients’ homes via drones, marking the start of the first long-term deployment of a prescription drug drone delivery program by a U.S. health system.
As new developments get underway, close to 300 residential units are now under construction around the Gordon Square Arts District — centered on the intersection of Detroit Avenue and West 65th Street in Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood.
On Cleveland’s West Side, three Transit-Oriented Developments (TOD) are moving ahead within a 10-minute walk of a single Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) rapid transit station.