Cleveland Success

Il Rione Pizzeria, LLC set out to be a new pizzeria in the Gordon Square Neighborhood in 2017. Co-founders Brian Holleran and Brian Moss plans were to renovate a 1,500 square foot retail storefront at 1301 W. 65 th Street which had previously sat vacant. Until the 1950s, the building functioned as an old billiard hall and tavern with one apartment.

From brownfield to Innovation District, Cleveland Foundation's new facilities will complement neighboring developments at Midtown Tech Park, Victory Center, Agora, and Link 59/University Hospitals.

Cavotta’s Garden Center is an existing, renown, for-profit gardening center which took over and transformed an adjacent vacant lot at 19511 Nottingham Road in the Collinwood neighborhood. The owner, Angela Cavotta, removed existing impermeable materials from the lot to expand her urban farm and compliment her existing garden center.

Axis at Ansel was able to utilize $5M of PACE Financing to offset the cost of energy improvements

Gardening for Greenbacks Program will assist the farm in purchasing and installation of an irrigation system.

The Cleveland Athletic Club was a historic club containing a swimming pool, bowling alley, spa, and other activities which closed its doors in 2007. With assistance from the City, the historic building has been preserved and redeveloped into a mixed-use structure.

Dexter Apartment Project, on the corner of West 28th Street and Franklin Boulevard, will offer 112 market rate and workforce housing apartment units, 8,800 square feet of retail space and indoor parking for residents

DigitalC is a local nonprofit that works to address community problems through technology-driven programs and services.

Electronic Merchant Systems has been helping small to mid-sized business owners realize their full potential since 1988. In mid-2018, the company relocated its corporate headquarters to Downtown Cleveland as its business continued to expand.

Located at 1400 E. 105th Street, GlenVillage is the first retail incubator under Mayor's Neighborhood Transformation Initiative. It provides local entrepreneurs an opportunity to start and grow their business.

A new artisanal bakery coming to Treamont. Leavened Bakery will offer a full line of artisan products like naturally leavened loaves, croissants, Danishes, brioche buns and many others.

UnBAR Cafe offers a social gathering space for sober and health-minded people looking for a bar-like scene.

The LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland moved out of its previous location in the basement of the Gordon Square Arcade to a new 15,500 sq. ft. state-of-the-art facility located on Detroit Avenue in the Gordon Square Arts District.

Utilizing other City financing programs and incentives as well as private financing and New Markets Tax Credits, private developers have built a mixed-use campus on the site, known as Link59.

In 2017, Noble Beast Brewing LLC was a new proposed local craft ale brewery and taproom that was part of a $750,000 renovation project. The start-up and minority-owned business is owned and operated by Shaun P. Yasaki. The proposed project includes the renovation of the interior and exterior of a 4,800 square- foot, vacant and blighted light industrial building located at 1468 Lakeside Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio.

Northern Stamping Inc. was established in 1989 and in the mid-1990s, they evolved from a simple stamping plant serving the automotive industry into a design, engineering, and manufacturing firm.

OBCDC redeveloped a vacant building as a mixed-use commercial project in the heart of their revitalizing main street. The renovation of this building supports the CDC’s strategic plan to focus redevelopment around the core of the neighborhood and to provide spaces for new businesses and neighborhood amenities desired by the community.

The project will convert two sites, the existing Painter’s Union Building and a surface parking lot into 6,600 square feet of commercial space, 85 market rate apartments, 2 affordable apartments, and 115 parking spaces.

Pioneer Cladding and Glazing Systems was originally housed in a small office suite and has since grown to have a presence throughout the region. Today, they are ranked as one of the top contractors in their specialty and in the country.

CMC Pharmaceutical is a research and development, consulting, and lab services company with broad expertise in the chemistry, manufacturing and controls aspects of the pharmaceutical industry that moved to Cleveland in 2016.

The Tappan transformed a 1.7 acre former gas station into a 4 stories and 95 units building that fills in a major vacancy in the center of the historic Scranton Road Corridor.

Village Family Farms, Inc. is a minority-owned urban garden that cultivates produce sold to farmers markets within the neighborhoods of Cleveland.