The Cuyahoga Land Bank has put the Mickey’s building — the centerpiece of the Circle East project in East Cleveland — on the market after a prior development plan fell through.
Back in 2024, the land bank rolled out plans to turn the building into a laboratory developed by a company called Verdynt Bio. As Signal Cleveland reported last year, Verdynt and its leader have faced lawsuits tied to past work.
Land bank CEO Ricardo León said his organization parted ways with Verdynt at the end of 2025 after project financing didn’t come together. Now it’s back to the drawing board…