Chuck Scaravelli is the creator and visionary of Loft Home Builders. Loft Homes take older homes and transform them for the way people live today. The design of the Loft Home is based on the philosophy of openness, freedom, nature and simplicity. Older homes were built with high quality materials that include hardwood floors. The final product incorporates much of the current fabric and materials. The design utilizes the urban environment as an inspiration and asset. Every Loft Home is different with features that include removing walls, exposing ceilings and beams and refurbishing the floors. What was once a tired undesirable home, is transformed into a desirable, high quality, work of art.

Chuck started his real estate career in the wine business! It began with his father, Sam Scaravelli, introducing Lambrusco (a sweet wine) to the United States, thus changing Americans’ understanding of wine. Mr. Scaravelli made history by selling more wine than anyone had ever sold anywhere in the world. The business growth led to the need for a warehouse site. Seeking wines to market caused the Scaravellis to travel and see developments and trends around the world. The Scaravellis used that knowledge and followed their instincts and purchased undesirable property in downtown Cleveland In 1982 along the Cuyahoga River.

That purchase led to an empiric education in real estate development that included building a marina, purchasing more land along the river, buying railroad bridges, selling land, purchasing dilapidated historic buildings and converting them to housing. People did not live in Downtown Cleveland at the time. In fact, people rarely came to Downtown Cleveland. The buildings Scaravelli purchased included the Perry Payne Building, the first skyscraper in Ohio, and the Otis Terminal Building, the largest warehouse in the city (650,000 sq. ft.). Scaravelli believed people would desire to live downtown in these buildings. Their instinct was right and these developments were successful and provided the foundation for the current explosive growth Cleveland is now experiencing.

Chuck followed his instinct again and saw an opportunity to transform abandoned homes slated for demolition into Loft Homes. Those homes are in older neighborhoods that had become undesirable and where growth had ceased. The instinct was confirmed with our first Loft Home move-in, a 31 year old single business woman.