BUILD Supporting Documents

2026 BUILD Application supporting documents

A grant application to the U.S. Department of Transportation's Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) was submitted by the Port of Cleveland on February 24th, 2026. The project supports the overall vision for the Cleveland Harbor Eastern Embayment Resilience Strategy (CHEERS). For more information on CHEERS, visit its project webpage.

Links for supporting documents and studies are organized below. 


The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority (“Port”) requests $13,022,000 from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s BUILD program to construct the Cleveland Harbor – Interstate 90 Maritime and Freight Fortification (CH-I90) project. CH-I90 will protect existing infrastructure along the Lake Erie shoreline in the city of Cleveland and will address critical harbor needs to ensure the uninterrupted operation of transportation facilities vital to Northeast Ohio’s economy, including the Cuyahoga River shipping channel, Cleveland Harbor, and Interstate 90 (“I-90”). I-90 carries 127,603 vehicles through Cleveland daily on this segment of interstate. The Port of Cleveland moves 13 million tons of cargo annually, generating $7 billion in economic value, including the transport of raw materials to Cleveland-Cliffs Cleveland Works steel-making facility. These operations are essential to Northeast Ohio’s economy and the larger American steel industry, with its products transported by ship, rail, and truck to markets across the U.S. and abroad.


CH-I90 and Habitat Loop 90% Plans

2026 CH-I90 BUILD Application

Transportation Plans and Studies

Maritime, Manufacturing, and USACE Documents

Community and Neighborhood Documents

Past Studies and Engagement