If you’re a health system earning $18 billion per year and you want to build a new bed tower where your aging Central Utility Plant sets, you move the utility plant. But if the place where you want to build a new utility plant has a police station and a neighboring multiple sclerosis care center, you move those uses, too.
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While Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood has been the target of redevelopment efforts for decades, new momentum from public and private players could accelerate the area’s comeback.
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An expanded tax base is a result of economic development. On that score, Cleveland’s near-East Side doesn’t produce much in the way of tax revenue while its old infrastructure, city services and social programs are in need of lots of resources. So the city is going to do something to equalize that imbalance.
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In 2022, NEOtrans reported on a wave of Hough construction projects which added a total of nearly 300 homes across four projects (Park Lamont, The Lumos, Addis View Apartments, and Gordon Crossing). Now, a flurry of groundbreakings — both residential and non-residential — are continuing that trend.
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Across the two-mile-long, four-block-wide district known as Midtown Cleveland, several critical projects are finally seeing construction activity. The largest of those, a $64 million rehabilitation of the abandoned Warner & Swasey machine tools factory, will add 112 apartments to the area in its first phase.
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As older Cleveland homes continue to age beyond repair, reactivating a vacant or abandoned property can feel like taking one step forward while the neighborhood takes two steps back. In Glenville, Hough, and Buckeye-Shaker, CHN Housing Partners is reversing that momentum — filling empty lots by the dozen.
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An annual report by the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission released this week showed that Transit Oriented Development in the county reached an all-time high in 2024. But 92 percent of countywide TOD activity is occurring in the city of Cleveland. And only four of 26 communities along high-frequency transit routes and walksheds, called TOD corridors, had a TOD project in the past six years indicating a lack of suburban activity.
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The economic development boom in Cleveland’s University Circle continues to be felt in the neighborhoods surrounding this epicenter of the local eds-and-meds jobs sector. Four new apartment development plans were revealed this week as they go on the design review docket at the City Planning Commission. Combined, all four projects could add more than 150 workforce housing units with many more in later phases.
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Back when Cleveland was an industrial powerhouse, few wanted to live near its dirty, noisy industries. Today, its largest source of employment is the education and health services sector — a cleaner industry to which it’s attractive to live within a short walk or bike ride. It is centered in and near University Circle, surrounded by long-neglected neighborhoods. But investment has been coming into those places — Hough, Fairfax, Glenville, Cleveland Heights’ Top of the Hill, and East Cleveland’s Circle East — bolstering them as neighborhoods of choice.
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Fourteen promising entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds have been selected to participate in an innovative new real estate development program with a clear mission: to break down historical barriers and empower these individuals with the knowledge and tools needed to shape the future of Cleveland’s communities. The Cleveland Equitable Development Initiative, or CLE-EDI, will bolster the ranks of successful minority real estate developers in the region and to stimulate economic growth in the communities from which these entrepreneurs hail.
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