This is the Twenty-Second edition of Seeds & Sprouts – Early intelligence on Cleveland-area real estate projects.

In a recent presentation by the chief of the Cleveland Clinic, the public got a sneak peak of two of its major-new facilities in the background. The conceptual renderings offered the first-ever public glimpse of what the new Neurological Institute could look like.

A planned renovation of a vacant office building in downtown Cleveland by the Walton Enterprises, of Wal-Mart fame, into a boutique hotel got its first publicly accessible airing today by a city panel. And the feedback it received was decidedly positive.

Cuyahoga County officials are once again soliciting proposals for the vacant Juvenile Courthouse and Detention Center, 2210 Cedar Ave. This time, the action may be a savior or a deathknell for the architecturally beautiful but neglected complex on the east side of downtown Cleveland.

Combine a tight apartment market in Cleveland’s urban core with a relatively large undeveloped property in Tremont and the outcome isn’t surprising. What is surprising is that it has taken this long for an 0.8-acre vacant property along Fairfield Avenue west of West 11th Street to get developed.

A zombie is about to be slayed thanks to a property transfer and a development partnership that got good news this week. That zombie is 45 Erieview, the former Ohio Bell headquarters in downtown Cleveland at the southeast corner of East 9th Street and Lakeside Avenue.