Expansion – NEOtrans

Cleveland Amtrak routes surge; but expansion lags

Ken Prendergast / March 28, 2025

According to the latest data from national passenger railroad Amtrak, America’s most heavily used passenger train passes through Cleveland each night. And it, plus the other Amtrak route through Cleveland, were the two fastest-growing long-distance routes in terms of ridership last year. But getting more ridership or better departure times at Cleveland will be difficult absent new federal policies, said a nonprofit rail advocacy coalition.

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Leaning laundromat of Little Italy demolition due

Ken Prendergast / March 27, 2025

Italy has its famous Leaning Tower of Pisa. Cleveland has its leaning laundromat of Little Italy. But while Pisa’s was built in 1372 and is in no danger of falling, Cleveland’s version is a danger to surrounding buildings and may be demolished soon after five years of consideration.

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Federal Equipment expands in Cleveland’s Kinsman

Ken Prendergast / May 17, 2023

Historically, when a company outgrows its aging facilities in the urban core, they tend to move out to a larger, more modern structure in the suburbs. But not Federal Equipment Co. which is expanding its presence in Cleveland’s Kinsman neighborhood that it’s called home for more than six decades. It’s the latest real estate investment along the Opportunity Corridor and the Blue/Green light-rail transit lines in an area of the city derisively dubbed as the Forgotten Triangle, until now.

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Seeds & Sprouts XXV — Park Place Tech stays, LaSalle Theater available, Grant Thornton moving

Ken Prendergast / January 13, 2023

Park Place Technologies will stay and expand in Mayfield Heights. Collinwood’s LaSalle Theater, now stabilized, is up for sale. And Grant Thornton, one of the nation’s largest accounting firms, is moving and shrinking its downtown Cleveland office.

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Miceli sees need to store more cheese, please

Ken Prendergast / May 18, 2022

When Miceli Dairy Products Co. turns 100 years old next year, it hopes to open its latest cheese-making expansion in Cleveland’s Lower Buckeye neighborhood, near where Buckeye Road intersects with the new Opportunity Corridor Boulevard.

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Cleveland Clinic to massively expand its facilities

4 Comments / Ken Prendergast / October 15, 2021

In a stunning surprise, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation is reportedly planning to more than double the size of its proposed new Neurological Institute and bring more than 1,000 new jobs to the global health care system’s main campus near University Circle.

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