Five Northeast Ohio development projects are getting a big boost from the state, landing more than $35 million in tax credits designed to help tricky deals get off the ground.
The winners range from a 22-acre waterfront project in Sandusky to the preservation of an old cigar factory in downtown Mansfield.
In downtown Cleveland, tax credits will help a local developer remake the vacant Rose Building complex as apartments and a hotel. In Brecksville, state incentives will fill a funding gap for the second wave of development at Valor Acres, the transformation of an old VA hospital site into a mixed-use district…