Midline 4C: 7000 Central
Situated at a pivotal intersection in the Central neighborhood, this 10-acre site features a 183,000-square-foot manufacturing complex originally built in 1901 by the Wellman-Seaver Engineering Company. The structure offers soaring multi-story ceilings, rail spurs, and expansive floor-to-ceiling windows—ideal for adaptive reuse or modern industrial redevelopment.With direct access to transportation infrastructure, a deep regional workforce, and strong public-private investment behind it, the National Acme site is built for advanced manufacturing, aerospace/defense, advance materials, and energy supply chain.
With access to multiple bus lines and more than 900,000-plus workers within a 30-minute commute, “this is exactly the kind of transformative, high-impact redevelopment Cleveland needs,” said Mayor Justin M. Bibb.
“Reviving 7000 Central will help bring jobs, safety, and economic opportunity back to a corridor that has been overlooked for far too long,” Bibb added.
A Historic Industrial Giant Reborn in the Heart of Cleveland’s Central Neighborhood
The transformation of 7000 Central Avenue is one of the most ambitious industrial redevelopment efforts underway in Cleveland. This once-formidable, long-abandoned manufacturing complex—built in 1901 by the Wellman-Seaver Engineering Company—sits at a pivotal intersection in the Central neighborhood and is now poised to become a catalyst for jobs, safety, and economic mobility.
Anchored within an emerging industrial district, 7000 Central offers unmatched access to transit, workforce, and infrastructure. Its historic bones—including soaring multi-story ceilings, rail spurs, and massive floor-to-ceiling windows—create opportunities for adaptive reuse in advanced manufacturing, innovation, food production, or mixed creative industries.
The site anchors an already robust food and wellness cluster and has access to multiple bus lines and 900 workers within a 30-minute commute.
The Site Readiness for Good Jobs Fund, working with the Cuyahoga County Land Bank, City of Cleveland, Cleveland Foundation and other community partners, has moved aggressively to reclaim, stabilize, and reimagine this critical property.
Midline 4C sits in the center of the Midline. The Midline is Cleveland’s largest-ever industrial redevelopment, transforming more than 350 acres of long-vacant near east side land into a thriving business district and greenway. Situated between Downtown and University Circle, it will create family-sustaining jobs, new parks, and a 2-mile trail — connecting the neighbors who have always called this part of the city home to jobs, green space, and each other.
The Midline Project is major cleanup, repurposing and reinvention of Greater Cleveland thoroughfare of industry. This collaboration, led by the Site Readiness Fund and the Cuyahoga Land Bank, with support from Team NEO, JobsOhio, and the industrial broker community, is turning hazard into hope—making Cleveland competitive in a new era of advanced manufacturing and economic growth.
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