Catalyst Healthcare Real Estate, a Pensacola, Florida-based developer, owner and operator of health care properties, has proposed constructing a $40 million rehabilitation hospital at 5711 Lombardo Center in Independence.

The owner of University Square, a lender-controlled shopping center in University Heights, has filed bankruptcy in hopes of wiping out cumbersome restrictions on the property and clearing a path for redevelopment.

University Square Real Estate Holdings LLC filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition on Monday, July 10, in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Ohio. The company, created to hold real estate on behalf of bondholders who took control of the property in 2015, is out of cash.

The Eagle Avenue Bridge, one of several iconic structures that cross Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River, may be demolished next summer because of how badly it has deteriorated.

In an online presentation, the city of Cleveland said demolition is the best option for the bridge. City officials looked at several other options, like stabilizing the bridge, making it operational or moving it and repurposing it somewhere else — but found that the cost was too high for every other alternative.

In testimony on June 22, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced plans to revise “expeditiously” the 2023 waters of the United States (WOTUS) Rule---hinting that the administration will skip the proposed rule stage and instead promulgate a final rule.

Public use of Geauga Lake for people with kayaks and canoes and sunbathing on some of the tiny Sea World beach may be in the offing if the city of Aurora succeeds in snagging the gems.

Mayor Ann Womer Benjamin has proposed the city buy the lake and 40 acres of lakefront land from Industrial Commercial Properties of Mayfield Heights. ICP snagged some parcels in Aurora as part of its purchase of the Bainbridge Township side of the former amusement park.

Cleveland is cruising smoothly toward a once-in-a-century change in the city’s zoning code designed to make neighborhoods more urban, walkable and sustainable. The new zoning language, which could be adopted as soon as this fall, would represent a shift from the city’s existing code, adopted in 1929 and amended numerous times since then.

The White House announced the launch of Invest.gov, a new website to highlight semiconductor, clean energy, electric vehicle/battery, and biomanufacturing infrastructure projects across the U.S. utilizing investments from the Inflation Reduction Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the American Rescue Plan Act, and the CHIPS and Science Act. 

After being found guilty of violating consumer protection laws at least 71 times, a former home-improvement contractor from Hudson has been ordered to pay $625,873 in restitution to 19 individuals plus $1.775 million in civil penalties — or the maximum $25,000 fine for each of those 71 violations.