Posted inNews & Views Car Wash Company Backs Out of Controversial Shaker Square Plans After opposition from Mayor Bibb, City Council and residents, Express Auto Wash announced it has withdrawn plans for the project. by Mark Oprea June 19, 2026June 19, 2026
Posted inNews & Views Waterfront Board Reviewing 11 Proposals for Lakefront Development in Post-Stadium Cleveland 11 developers have pitched varied plans including mid-rises, a music venue and a hotel ahead of the next master plan for the area. Waterfront czar Scott Skinner told the City Planning Commission it’s going to be a decade-long process though. by Mark Oprea December 8, 2025December 9, 2025
Posted inNews & Views Cleveland City Hall’s Economic Development Department Gets New Leadership Jeff Epstein, the former director, is leaving to head the Port of Cleveland by Mark Oprea September 3, 2025September 7, 2025
Posted inNews & Views Visible Voice Books to Relocate to Larger Space in Ohio City This November This fall, on Lorain: More books, more food, more shows by Mark Oprea August 26, 2025September 9, 2025
Posted inNews & Views Ohio Grants $2 Million to Clifton/Lake Multi-Use Trail Connector Project in Lakewood and Rocky River The mile-and-a-half pathway is set to break ground later this year by Mark Oprea June 6, 2025July 15, 2025
Posted inNews & Views Clark-Fulton’s Largest Vacant Building to Be New Home for Cleveland Public Health Community Center The Blanket Mills site off St. Rocco’s Court will be home to a new health center, a slew of nonprofits, along with 60 units of affordable housing by Mark Oprea April 30, 2025July 15, 2025
Posted inNews & Views Cleveland City Council Committee Approves Zoning Change for Vacant Madison Ave. CVS Site After Hours of Contentious Debate “We are a historic district,” one neighbor protested. “But mainly, the priority is the safety of our children.” by Mark Oprea April 9, 2025April 17, 2025
Posted inNews & Views City Planning Commission Approves Warner Swasey Redesign, Demolition to Come This Summer That includes the iconic sawtooth sheds complex, long popular with area photographers by Mark Oprea March 21, 2025April 23, 2025
Posted inNews & Views R&B Hall of Fame Eyeing Buckeye’s Moreland Theater in Cleveland for Permanent Home It will be a “high-tech state-of-the-art, 50,000-square-feet, highly-interactive, virtual reality, 3D hologram experience” its website reads by Mark Oprea March 11, 2025June 18, 2025
Posted inNews & Views North Coast Yard Pop-Up Meant to Give Clevelanders a Taste of Lakefront Makeover “I don’t see this necessarily as an appetizer. I just see this as starting dinner earlier” by Mark Oprea March 5, 2025July 1, 2025
Posted inNews & Views Great Lakes Brewing Confirms Plans for Scranton Peninsula Development, Just Not a Production Facility The Cleveland brewer also reiterated its commitment to the Ohio City brewpub by Mark Oprea February 17, 2025June 30, 2025
Posted inNews & Views Cleveland Ropes in Five Other TIFs to Downtown ‘Shore to Core’ to Buttress Finances for Bedrock Project City Council also agreed to spend future Riverfront TIF revenue now to begin infrastructure work at the Bedrock site by Mark Oprea February 13, 2025July 4, 2025