Overlooking University Circle --       Gateway to the Heights!
The Alcazar is a celebrated anchor in Cleveland Heights' historic Cedar-Fairmount district, a street-scale walking neighborhood of green space; elegant, architect-designed homes of the '20's; student apartments; new condos and more than 100 retail establishments and professional service providers, including:                           
antiques/interior design       environmental services   
architects/contractors         financial services     
art gallery/framing               fine linens      
attorneys                           gelato     
automobile service              gourmet wines       bakeries                             health & beauty salons     
bed-&-breakfast                  pharmacy
billiards                              physicians/medical services
bookstore                           real estate/property mgt          coffeeshop/wine bar            restaurants/caterers counselors/social services   retirement/eldercare dentists                              supermarket
                          and jazz! 

   "Circle-Heights"; a hidden city.*
Cedar-Fairmount, home to The Alcazar at the top of Cedar Hill just minutes above University Circle, is the heart of a hidden city known as "Circle-Heights" -- a constellation of 6 vibrant, kindred neighborhoods whose five square miles comprise the region's richest concentration of essential amenities and resources for exuberant, prosperous, creative living.  Circle-Heights is an intellectual magnet of 30,000 talented, well-educated persons (more than 35% hold graduate or professional degrees) -- visionaries who are inventing our future.  Joining life-long Circle-Heights inhabitants, new residents and visitors alike continue to seek out this region of real diversity (a model mix of age, ethnicity and economics), participatory recreation, indigenous street-level culture and authentic sense of place.  (56% moved here within the last 5 years; more than 20% from out of state or out of the country.)

*Steve Kurdziel, "Hidden in plain sight 6 neighborhoods hold the key to regional revival," Plain Dealer, 7/02/03, B-9; and Lee Batdorff, "Hidden City has a name; it's 'Circle-Heights,'" Plain Dealer, 7/10/03, B-8.  Besides Cedar-Fairmount, hidden city districts include Little Italy and University Circle in Cleveland, Cedar-Lee and Coventry in Cleveland Heights, and Shaker Square-Larchmere in Shaker Heights.

     University Circle: Cleveland's 
  cultural, educational and medical
                        hub.
Just minutes down Cedar Hill is University Circle, a 1-mile-wide cultural district centered on Euclid Avenue at the Case/University Hospitals campus, and home of Case Western Reserve University, Children's Museum of Cleveland, Cleveland Botanical Garden, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland Music School Settlement, Cleveland Orchestra, Free Medical Clinic of Greater Cleveland, Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine, Ronald McDonald House of Cleveland, Sculpture Center, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Western Reserve Historical Society, more than 30 other cultural, educational, health-care, social-service and religious institutions, and picturesque Wade Oval, Wade Lagoon and Wade Park. 

A few blocks further to the west lie the Cleveland Clinic, African American Museum, Cleveland Play House, Lyric Opera Cleveland, Cleveland SignStage Theatre, Karamu House and Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland.

            Public Transportation.
The Alcazar is within one block of three bus routes served by RTA (Cleveland's public transportation system) and only three blocks from RTA's University Circle Bus and Rapid Train station, located at the bottom of Cedar Hill. 

The University Circle RTA station provides direct access

west to the Cleveland Clinic and downtown Cleveland (20 minutes by train to Public Square, Tower City, Playhouse Square, Great Lakes Science Center, Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame, Gund Arena, Jacobs Field, The Flats entertainment
district), the western suburbs, and Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (40 minutes); and

east to the eastern suburbs.

University Circle Incorporated (UCI) operates free "Circlelink" shuttle buses from this RTA station direct to institutions throughout University Circle.