Innovation District

CWRU’s $300m research center moves forward

By Ken Prendergast / April 26, 2023

A proposed Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building with a construction budget roughly equal to that of the new Sherwin-Williams headquarters’ original tab is no longer just an idea for administrators, staff and students at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). The university is already making moves to relocate classes and other services and activities out of Yost Hall, 2049 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr., so it can be demolished this summer to make way for the new research center.

Midtown development sites to double in size

2 Comments / By Ken Prendergast / December 16, 2021

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.

Cleveland Clinic to demolish ex-Cleveland Play House

5 Comments / By Ken Prendergast / November 12, 2021

According to two sources, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation will seek to demolish all structures that were once part of the Cleveland Play House (CPH), 8500 Euclid Ave. That includes the adjacent former Sears department store along Carnegie Avenue. Demolition could occur this winter.

Fairfax Market development wins financing

By Ken Prendergast / November 12, 2021

Financing was awarded to the first phase of a mixed-use development on the southeast corner of East 105th Street and Cedar Avenue that aims to capitalize on the many infrastructure, health care and residential developments nearby.

Large office building in the works for Cleveland’s Midtown

By Ken Prendergast / September 4, 2021

What may prove to be the largest office building ever built in Cleveland’s MidTown corridor is advancing toward a potential construction date early next year.
Wexford Science & Technology, LLC of Baltimore is moving forward in developing a 150,000-square-foot office building and multilevel parking deck at the northwest corner of Euclid Avenue and East 66th Street.

Cleveland Clinic advances its ‘Big 3’ projects

By Ken Prendergast / June 18, 2021

Cleveland’s largest employer is about to get even larger. While Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF) is officially mum on expansion details, NEOtrans is hearing rumors from sources that one or more of their “Big 3” projects may be bigger than originally anticipated.

CSU starts campus masterplan process

1 Comment / By Ken Prendergast / March 19, 2021

As first reported here at NEOtrans last summer, Cleveland State University (CSU) began a search for a consultant to help it design a new downtown campus masterplan. That consultant has been found, with CSU hiring Boston-based Sasaki Associates Inc.