Real Development. Real Estate.
The Frontline Development Group is dedicated to advancing real estate development that is designed to enhance wealth generation.
Frontline develops real estate projects that are committed to
innovative economic development that not only employs residents on our job sites, but partners at each step of the development to grow the balance sheets of economically and socially underutilized businesses.
This approach will both amplify the economic impact of
real estate projects, as well as increase the number of diverse, qualified competitors in the marketplace.
Sheila Wright
President
Sheila Wright is the Co-Owner and President of Frontline Development Group, LLC. She leads the creation and structuring of more than 40 million in new-construction mixed-income and commercial development. Sheila has secured over 9 million in institutional, municipal, and public–private capital across her most recent projects. She is known for originating complex capital stacks, aligning political and community stakeholders, and engineering the strategic conditions required for project approval and investment. Her approach combines disciplined deal structuring, capital architecture, and high-level coalition building to move developments from concept to closing with precision.
Angela Thi Bennett
Vice President & General Counsel
Angela Thi Bennett is an attorney with extensive experience in corporate, real estate, commercial, and community development law. She has led due-diligence reviews exceeding $250 million in commercial real estate sales and managed over $100 million in public finance projects for the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority. Drawing on her family’s roots in residential and commercial rehabilitation, she oversees all phases of real estate development. Angela has also served as superintendent of a Hough community school, a State Board of Education appointee under Governor Kasich, and Director of Community Development and Building & Housing in East Cleveland, and has led major redevelopment projects, including converting an 83-bed nursing home into a 42,000-sq-ft office complex.
Advisory Committee
Albert B. Ratner
Former CEO and Emeritus Chair of Forest City Realty Trust
Robert O'Brien
Trustee
Cleveland Development Advisors
Darrell McNair
CEO
The MVP Group of Companies
Vanessa L. Whiting
President, A.E. S. Management
David M. Reynolds
Private Banking Executive, National Director of Channel Management and Client Acquisition Key Private Bank
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Current Projects
The Allen Estates at League Park
Changing the world one neighborhood at a time.
Allen Estates Groundbreaking Ceremony
Frontline Development Group, LLC, a minority-owned, female-led firm, breaks ground on The Allen Estates Project in Cleveland's Hough Neighborhood at the Historic League Park. Less than ten minutes from downtown, the group plans to introduce a mixed-use, mixed-income, neighborhood consisting of 237 housing units comprised of modern designed homes, brownstones, and mid-rise apartments with commercial tenants. The Frontline team is working closely with the City of Cleveland and other partners to create walkable streets and bring amenities to the area including smart technology.
The project will span along E. 65th from Linwood to Wade Park as well as the E. 66th Corridor, which is targeted for significant infrastructure investment. The corridor connects the Allen Estates to other anchor investments coming online including the new location for the Cleveland Foundation Headquarters and the newest branch of Cleveland Public Library. The Allen Estates project will provide housing to the Hough community, as well as the newly anticipated Innovation District and neighboring institutions such as Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic and University Hospital.
