Shaker Square, although faded from its peak decades ago, remains Greater Cleveland’s seminal example of transit-oriented community design in which the rapid transit system, pedestrian activity and vertically mixed uses are juxtaposed to support each other.

New structures and uses keep getting added to the mixed-use lifestyle center Valor Acres at Miller and Brecksville roads in suburban Brecksville. The latest will be a Cleveland Clinic outpatient care facility, due to open in late 2027.

Downtown Lakewood is steadily turning from an office district into a residential one. The latest example of that metamorphosis is perhaps the quietest conversion of a seven-story suburban office building in Greater Cleveland’s history.

It’s a project that has gone under the radar amid the many others on Cleveland’s near-West Side. But today, a development team assembled to break ground for The Thomas apartments, 2422 W. 7th St. in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood.

Most municipalities in Cuyahoga County were built-out decades ago, limiting opportunities to offer newer, more competitive housing and build a stronger tax base without raising taxes. The few remaining places for development are infill sites for which many communities lack zoning to develop them.

Until the first decade of this century, Detroit Avenue in Lakewood had a half-dozen car dealerships along it. Today, they’re all gone after having closed or moved to exurban highway interchanges.