Construction is due to start later this year on the first of two mixed-use developments on Detroit Avenue in Lakewood by a Columbus-based real estate firm.

Financing could be secured this spring for the redevelopment of the northwest corner of Pearl and Memphis in the heart of Cleveland’s Old Brooklyn. But a casualty of the investment would be the 119-year-old St. Luke United Church of Christ.

It’s going to be a little while longer before the developers of 42 projects, many of them megaprojects, across the state learn whether their project is going to win a golden ticket and get a big step closer to their own groundbreaking ceremony.

The fate of lakefront development in Cleveland appears to depend on whether local, regional and state policymakers want more traffic and for it to pass through downtown quickly or to have less traffic and for it to travel into the central business district more slowly.

The pandemic, remote working, tenant downsizing and a flight to quality are challenges facing New York City-based DRA Advisors. In downtown Cleveland, they are fighting those challenges with a 37-year-old skyscraper, 200 Public Square.

Although the now-dead nuCLEus plan enticed us with its promise of a large-scale project for seven years, there are growing indications that a potential megaproject in downtown Cleveland’s Gateway District could be even larger.