A Midtown Cleveland development site is about to get twice as large. Even better, a developer is ready and willing to construct mixed-use developments on it.

On this date of the groundbreaking ceremony for Sherwin-Williams’ (SHW) new global headquarters, it’s not just a time to look ahead but to look back to see how we got here.

In one week, three major groundbreakings were held in Cleveland. Today, representatives of the City of Cleveland, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Meijer, Fairfax Renaissance Development Corp. and Fairmount Properties broke ground on a new grocery store and apartment complex in the Fairfax neighborhood of Cleveland.

Champagne was flowing in the lobby of 45 Erieview as Ohio Department of Development officials announced the winner of the state’s largest historic tax credit — a 38-year-old office building to be converted mostly into high-end housing.

It wasn’t just the sound shovels hitting the dirt at the City Club Apartments’ groundbreaking ceremony today in downtown Cleveland that was heard. It was also the news that the Farmington Hills, MI developer and owner of multi-family and mixed-use properties was just getting started in establishing a…

Typically, when a government agency needs a property for a new facility, it does an alternatives analysis of all of the properties that meet its criteria. It then ranks them according to that criteria and then pursues acquisition of their preferred property or properties. Not Cuyahoga County.