The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority Board of Directors today approved $55 million in bonds for apartments and retail space at the site of the former Richmond Mall in Richmond Heights and $6 million in bonds for new housing planned for Cleveland’s Old Brooklyn neighborhood.

We may be only a few weeks away from learning more details about a possible sale of Downtown Cleveland’s historic Rockefeller Building. But the grapevine is already buzzing as to what might happen after a sale is closed.

Five years ago, NEOtrans reported that a development boom in Glenville’s Circle North district had reached nearly “every block.” Despite an economic environment which has slowed construction activity, that momentum seems to be making a comeback.

Eleven years ago, United ended its hub operation at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, leaving the 1999-built Terminal D vacant and relinquishing some of the airport’s remaining gates to expansion by low-fare airlines.

In October, NEOtrans’ inaugural Progress Pics article featured exclusive construction photos of Lakewood’s Westline apartments. As the exteriors of its two residential buildings approach completion, we’ll take another look at the continued progress on this and other developments in the inner ring suburb.

Among the objectives in redeveloping Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront is to fill the physical and economic void to be left by Huntington Bank Field and their main attraction, the Cleveland Browns. That was one of the insights shared by the chief of the North Coast Waterfront Development Corp. (NCWDC)…