Drivers cruising through one of Cleveland’s most prominent intersections – where Carnegie and Ontario avenues meet – may have noticed that the curved parking garage across from Progressive Field has undergone a facelift. 

The brick structure’s facade is no longer branded in big white letters as the “Cuyahoga Community College and Bernie Moreno Companies Center.”  

Gone is Moreno’s name. 

A businessman who made his fortune as a luxury car dealer, Moreno is one of three Republicans running in next month’s U.S. Senate primary for a chance to face Democrat Sherrod Brown in November.  

Moreno once sat on several boards in town, including that of MetroHealth Systems, Cleveland State University, the Cleveland Foundation and the Tri-C Foundation. He also earned a reputation as a generous and innovative civic leader. But he’s spent his energy in recent years shedding some of his civic ties, eyeing Washington and selling himself as a conservative outsider. On the campaign trail, he boasts of having former President Donald Trump’s endorsement. 

But his politics have nothing to do with his name disappearing from the busy intersection. Tri-C told Signal Cleveland the change just signals the end of Moreno’s sponsorship deal. In 2013, Moreno signed a 10-year deal for the garage’s naming rights that was worth $500,000 to the college. 

Tri-C didn’t say if it is looking for a new name to add to the billboard-size wall of the garage.