A New Plan Aims to Bring 2,500 Jobs to Cleveland’s Midline District: CLE Daily

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by Ron Ledgard | Nov. 9, 2026 | 5:00 AM

Photograph courtesy NEOTrans

🎸 Billy Idol's Cyberpunk Helmet Lands at the Rock Hall: The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's 2026 Inductees Exhibit opens today with artifacts from all 18 members of this year's class, including the helmet Billy Idol wore in his "Shock to the System" video, a custom Dior jacket from Luther Vandross' Power of Love Tour, a Liam Gallagher tambourine and the outfit Celia Cruz wore in her "La Negra Tiene Tumbao" video. The class, which also includes Queen Latifah and Phil Collins, is inducted Saturday in Los Angeles.

🏈 Browns Fall Short: Shedeur Sanders started his first game of the season and helped rally the Browns to force overtime. But the Saints held on to win, 23-22, as Sanders missed on a two-point conversion. Here are DMan's Thoughts.

🎟️ Cuyahoga County Residents Get In Free at the Rock Hall on Nov. 22: The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's Community Day offers free admission from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and the first public look at the new Haslam Atrium, plus the Rock & Roll Game Show and performances by former Artists in Residence. On Nov. 30, Go-Go's guitarist Jane Wiedlin talks about her memoir, TMI: Memoirs of a Go-Go, with tickets on sale Tuesday.
🎺 A Century of Cool: The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra marks the 100th birthdays of Miles Davis and John Coltrane on Monday, Nov. 16, with a night of Paul Ferguson arrangements drawn from "A Love Supreme" and "Kind of Blue," led by CJO favorites Jack Schantz, Brad Wagner, Chris Coles and Chris Burge.

🎄 Canton's Christkindl Markt Turns 53: The 53rd annual Christkindl Markt is a juried fine arts and crafts show with pottery, jewelry, metalwork and home decor from Northeast Ohio artists, Nov. 13-14 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Canton Museum of Art, 1001 Market Ave. NW. Admission is $10.

ICYMI: Remember our look at Fly Heli? The helicopter tour company, which operates from Burke Lakefront Airport, offers rides from a $55 City Tour of about six minutes to a $230, 20-minute Grand Cleveland Tour, and the heated helicopters fly a popular Christmas-light tour in winter. About 50% to 60% of its customers are locals.

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Today's Trivia

1949 Lorain High School graduate Chloe Wofford became better known as who, taking her new first name from her baptismal name when she became Catholic?

Development: A new master plan for the Midline Business District envisions more than 2,500 jobs on the near East Side.

By Ken Prendergast, NEOTrans

The plan for the 200-acre district would bring up to 1.5 million square feet of development to as many as 21 sites, stretching from Euclid Avenue and East 55th Street in Midtown south to the Opportunity Corridor in Kinsman. It was commissioned by the Site Readiness for Good Jobs Fund, which Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration created three years ago with the Cuyahoga Land Bank.

The Plan: Beyond the jobs, it calls for more than 2 miles of trails, known as the Midline Greenway, and at least 10 acres of public open space. About 150 acres of active businesses within the larger 350-acre area of interest would stay put.
The Team: LAND Studio of Cleveland, Merritt Chase of Pittsburgh and Utile of Boston developed it, with a steering committee that includes the city, Burten Bell Carr, Fairfax Renaissance and Midtown Cleveland.

Worth Noting: The fund is seeking City Planning Commission approval. No development costs have been released.

Read the full story.

Talk of the Town

The Cuyahoga Land Bank wants ideas for East 185th Street. It's seeking proposals to redevelop 2.66 acres of vacant land, nine parcels split between Cleveland's Collinwood and Euclid, with new housing or commercial buildings that have ground-floor retail, restaurants or community services. Responses are due at 5 p.m. Dec. 20.

A mislabeled gas line caused the Twinsburg Township house explosion. State regulators found a contractor installing fiber optic cable hit a gas line marked about 28 inches from its actual location on June 25, destroying three houses and damaging at least three dozen others. Two people were hospitalized, and Enbridge Gas Ohio is reviewing the findings.

Ohio is getting about $8 million from a data privacy settlement with General Motors. The $220 million multistate deal resolves claims that GM sold drivers' data without their consent through its OnStar Smart Driver program, and Ohio's attorney general says the app told 380,000 drivers they weren't enrolled when they were.

Two Cleveland comedians are taking their viral videos on the road. T-Bone and Solo, whose "Culture Swap" series has drawn more than 4.5 million viewers, bring Culture Swap Live to Hilarities on Friday, Nov. 20, with tickets starting at $30. "If you think our videos are unhinged," Timothy "T-Bone" Sweeney says, "just wait for the live show."

Mac's Backs has moved across the street. After 33 years at 1820 Coventry Road, the Coventry Village bookstore opened Friday at 1807 Coventry Road, where owner Suzanne DeGaetano says the store doubles its event space. It's the shop's fourth Coventry location since it opened in 1982.

Things To Do: Looking for ideas for the week?

😂 Make ’Em Laugh Mondays: Kevin Ford hosts a new stand-up lineup every week at the Grog Shop, making it an easy night out for a few laughs. 8-11 p.m., $11.72-$26.73, Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Blvd., Cleveland Heights. grogshop.com

🏈 Akron Zips vs. Western Michigan Broncos (Tuesday): With little home action for pro fans this week, college football fills the gap in Akron, where the Zips take on the Broncos on a Tuesday night. 7 p.m., $30-$135, 375 E. Exchange St., Akron. gozips.evenue.net

🎸 Journey at Rocket Arena (Thursday): The ’80s favorites play their Final Frontier Tour, which may be a farewell run, so this could be the last chance to sing along to the hits live. 7:30 p.m., $91-$413, 1 Center Court, Cleveland. rocketarena.com

🎤 Sombr: You Are the Reason Tour (Friday): The pop star known for “Undressed” and “12 to 12” brings Hannah Jadagu and Disney star Dove Cameron along for the ride. 7 p.m., $48-$274, 1 Center Court, Cleveland. rocketarena.com

Friday's Trivia Answer

What now-defunct publication was billed as "Cleveland's Monthly Feminist and Lesbian Newspaper” when it debuted in 1973? What She Wants

Check back tomorrow for the answer to today's question.

From the Editor

Wednesday is Veterans Day, formerly Armistice Day, which marked the end of World War I in 1918.

The Cleveland Veterans Day Parade runs from City Hall to Tower City Center’s Skylight Concourse, with a celebration from 1-4 p.m. If you can’t make it Downtown, there are smaller ways to honor service.

Thank a veteran you know, visit a local memorial, or donate to a veterans’ organization. Most of us don’t have to look far to find someone who served. Take a minute this week to say thanks.

— Ron Ledgard, Managing Editor

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Ron Ledgard

Ron Ledgard is Cleveland Magazine's managing editor and a Pittsburgh native who has made his peace with Cleveland (except on Sundays). He's a University of Pittsburgh graduate, a veteran of The Athletic and the Akron Beacon Journal, and was there for every chapter of LeBron's Cleveland story. After two decades of chasing deadlines and box scores, he's happily landed in magazines. He's a sucker for a long story done right, the kind you save for a Sunday morning (before kickoff, of course). When he isn't editing, he's out on a trail, trying a new restaurant or hunting for the next great thing to do. Sports is his subject of choice, and coffee is his fuel. Most Starbucks baristas in the area greet him like the Cheers crowd greeted Norm.