Sterling Linder Holdings: Sterling Building

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Sterling Linder Holdings: Sterling Building

Year Built: 2017
Utility Provider: The Illuminating Company (FirstEnergy)
Floors: 5
Ownership: Sterling Linder Holdings owns the building.
Lot Size: 2 acres

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The Sterling Building stands on the site of the old Sterling Lindner department store on Euclid Avenue in downtown Cleveland. It is now a telecom-focused office building whose upper floors house colocation data centers. DataBank runs its Cleveland CLE1 facility in the building, and BlueBridge Networks runs a data center across nearly two floors, where it also markets wholesale edge space. Network carriers and public offices fill the rest of the building.

Site History

  • January 2017: DataBank bought the CLE1 data center in the building from 365 Data Centers.
  • February 2016: Sterling Linder Holdings bought the building.

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Sites within 15 miles of Sterling Linder Holdings: Sterling Building

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0.01 miles DataBank Cleveland CLE1
The "Sterling Building" in Cleveland's Theater District is a tech-focused office building, the structure dates from 1909 and once was the home of the old Sterling Lindner department store.
0.01 miles BlueBridge: Cleveland
BlueBridge Networks' downtown Cleveland data center on the fifth floor of the Sterling Building on Euclid Avenue, serving public-sector and enterprise customers.
0.16 miles Fusion Connect Cleveland
0.16 miles Lumen Cleveland 4
Located within the Keith Building
0.16 miles Cogent: 1621 Euclid
0.27 miles AT&T: 750 Huron Rd
The AT&T Huron Road Building is downtown Cleveland's main telephone exchange, built for Ohio Bell in 1927. Reign Capital bought it in 2025, and AT&T leases it back.
0.34 miles DataBank Cleveland
Formerly known as zColo Cleveland-1525 Rockwell
0.34 miles Verizon: 1525 Rockwell
0.34 miles SecureData 365 Cleveland
The site was opened in 2015 and is within H5's data center building.
0.36 miles Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
0.38 miles H5 Cleveland Technology Center (CTC)
H5 Data Centers owns the Cleveland Technology Center on Rockwell Avenue, the main carrier hotel and internet exchange point for Northeast Ohio.
0.82 miles Verizon: 1150 W 3rd St
Verizon's Cleveland network building on West 3rd Street downtown, a former MCI WorldCom facility where Verizon offers colocation.
1.22 miles Cogent: 2650 Rockefeller Ave
Cogent Communications' small Cleveland data center on Rockefeller Avenue, a former Sprint network site.
1.36 miles Lumen Cleveland (4000 Chester)
3.15 miles Lakeland: Cleveland, Ohio
The City of Cleveland has rejected a $1.6 billion proposal by private credit firm Lakeland Equity Group to build a massive hyperscale data center campus.
6.17 miles AT&T: 13630 Lorain Ave
AT&T's West Park central office on Lorain Avenue in Cleveland, a 1927 Ohio Bell telephone exchange that Reign Capital bought in 2025 and AT&T leases back.
7.36 miles StratCap: 4100 W 150
StratCap Data Centers owns this former National City Bank data center and operations center on West 150th Street in Cleveland, once known as T5@Cleveland.
7.50 miles Lumen Cleveland 5
7.55 miles Expedient Garfield Heights 2
Previously known as "Cleveland-NEO 152"
7.60 miles Expedient Garfield Heights 1
8.16 miles Bluebird: Parma
Bluebird Fiber's Parma data center, a former Everstream and Aegis facility in a Corporate Drive office building south of Cleveland.
10.03 miles Ark: Independence
11.21 miles BlueBridge: Mayfield Heights
BlueBridge Networks' second Cleveland-area data center, in the Landerbrook Place office building in Mayfield Heights.
12.64 miles Verizon: North Royalton
Verizon's North Royalton switching hub south of Cleveland, a former MCI network facility on 22 acres where Verizon offers colocation.
12.97 miles Progressive: Mayfield Village
Progressive Insurance's enterprise data center on its Campus 2 headquarters complex in Mayfield Village, Ohio.
14.97 miles Cleveland Clinic Brecksville
Cleveland Clinic's primary enterprise data center, built in Brecksville, Ohio, and in service since January 2012.

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Sterling Linder Holdings, LLC is the owner of the Sterling Building at 1255-1275 Euclid Avenue in Cleveland's Playhouse Square district. It bought the building in February 2016. Tenants include colocation and network providers that run data centers on its upper floors, along with county and private offices.

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