​The Cleveland Cavaliers will move into their new downtown practice facility during the NBA All-Star break in February, executives from Bedrock and Rock Entertainment Group said this week during a construction tour with News 5 Cleveland.Work on the Cavaliers’ half of the Cleveland Clinic Global Peak Performance Center will be largely finished by the end of this year.The building at West Third Street and Eagle Avenue in the Flats covers over 210,000 sq ft on former riverfront parking lots. Populous designed it. Bedrock, the real estate arm of Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert’s group of companies, is developing it as the first vertical piece of a $3.5 billion plan to remake the Cuyahoga riverfront behind Tower City.Officials from the Cavaliers, the Cleveland Clinic, and Bedrock broke ground in October 2024.Basketball courts, treatment and recovery areas, and gathering space for players, staff, and their families will fill the team’s side of the complex. Plans for a hospitality space upstairs are still being refined. On the ground floor, a public lobby will hold team memorabilia.Antony Bonavita, executive vice president and chief venues and development officer at Rock Entertainment Group, said the Cavaliers built the Independence facility under a different thought process. He described the downtown building as “something that people can even come and be a part of,” per News 5 Cleveland.The Clinic controls the other half. Athletes of any age or ability level will be able to come there for testing, training, and treatment, and the staff will include specialists in sports medicine, cardiology, pulmonology, and genetics. Bonavita said that side is scheduled to open in August, once a steep bridge running from the Gateway District down into the Flats is complete. The full building is due to be open by August 2027.That bridge is a new Eagle Avenue ramp, which Bedrock is building from Ontario Street across from Progressive Field. The road spans railroad tracks and passes through an illuminated tunnel in the center of the performance center. Bedrock Managing Director Dan Whalen said the point is to connect the riverfront to the upper edge of downtown, where Rocket Arena sits up the hill.Since September 2007 the Cavaliers have practiced at Cleveland Clinic Courts, off Brecksville Road in Independence. The building covers more than 52,000 square feet and cost $27.845 million to put up. Rocket Arena is less than 10 miles north. Once the Cavaliers leave, it becomes the training and practice home of the Cleveland Sirens, the WNBA expansion team Gilbert and Rock Entertainment Group are launching in 2028. The Sirens introduced their name and logo on Aug. 4 at a Rocket Arena event.Since the season ended, Donovan Mitchell signed a four-year, $273 million extension. The Cavaliers re-signed James Harden for three years, $97 million, with a player option and trade kicker. They acquired Peyton Watson from Denver on a four-year, $88 million deal. Dean Wade went to Philadelphia,