One of Northeast Ohio’s largest for-sale office properties will soon be put up for bid. Progressive Insurance’s first headquarters campus it constructed in the eastern suburbs is scheduled for a Feb. 2, 2026 auction.

In the early 2000s, the Hyacinth Lofts were developed in the old Cleveland School Book Depository, offering hope for a revival of the Slavic Village enclave named after an historic St. Hyacinth Roman Catholic Church. Then the foreclosure crisis hit, devastating this once working-class, ethnic neighborhood.

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.

Many who stay at the InterContinental Suites Hotel Cleveland at Cleveland Clinic, 8800 Euclid Ave.,in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood, are visiting for an extended period, such as for medical testing and long-term treatments. So as long as they’re here, they’re now going to get a resort-style stay.

An historic, four-story commercial building on the east end of Downtown Cleveland has gone on the market. And, at the same time, renovations to the building are about to begin, at least partially. Those two seemingly disconnected actions have a connection — making the property more marketable.

A land sale recently approved by the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) went largely unnoticed, as did the fund where the sale proceeds will be deposited. But when combined, both could have long-term implications for the cash-strapped transit agency which is considering significant service cuts.