CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Shake Shack, the fast-casual burger joint with a cult following, has lined up a space on Euclid Avenue in downtown Cleveland for a restaurant that could open by mid-2019.

City building-permit records show that Shake Shack will occupy a prominent corner at the Garfield Building, at East Sixth Street and Euclid. The chain, which opened its first Ohio eatery at the Pinecrest development in Orange this year, positions itself as a modern take on a roadside burger stand. The menu includes burgers and, of course, shakes, plus hot dogs, fries, frozen custard, beer and wine.

At the Garfield, a historic bank building renovated by Cleveland-based Millennia Companies as apartments over street-level retail, Shake Shack will be next-door neighbors with the equally beefy but decidedly tonier Marble Room steakhouse and raw bar.

“Shake Shack was always described to us as the belle of the ball, when you’re trying to bring a ... restaurant into downtown,” said Tom Mignogna of Millennia Housing Development. “We knew it was doing gangbusters out at Pinecrest. And we thought it was going to be an excellent complement to Marble Room.”

A basic burger at Shake Shack costs about $5. At dinner, an entry-level steak at Marble Room will set you back $36.

Millennia plans to start construction next week, with the goal of turning the space over to Shake Shack in early summer, Mignogna said.

“We’re hopeful that this is the first brick in the road to attracting more national retailers to downtown Cleveland,” Joseph Khouri, a first vice president with the CBRE Group, Inc., real estate brokerage. said of landing Shake Shack. “That is our objective - and not just national. We also want to bring in some high-quality regional retailers.”

Khouri is marketing retail space at Millennia’s downtown properties, which include the former 75 Public Square office building set to become apartments; the Statler, an apartment building near Playhouse Square; and the massive former Huntington Building at 925 Euclid Ave., slated for a mixed-use overhaul that Millennia is calling the Centennial.

Millennia also owns Key Tower and adjoining buildings in the heart of downtown.

Khouri said there’s only one, roughly 2,300-square-foot retail space left at the Garfield, off Vincent Avenue and East Sixth beneath a spin studio called Harness Cycle.

Shake Shack hasn’t formally announced the Cleveland location and didn’t respond to a request for comment. The publicly traded company, based in New York, expects to open 36 to 40 restaurants in the United States next year, according to projections included in its third-quarter financial results.

In early 2017, Shake Shack publicly committed to another downtown Cleveland site - the nuCLEus project in the Gateway District. But that ambitious, high-rise development hasn’t materialized yet.

“They wanted to get into the market quicker, and we’re supportive of it,” Ezra Stark, chief operating officer for Cleveland-based nuCLEus developer Stark Enterprises, said of Shake Shack. “We have a list of retailers and restaurants that want to be in the project.”

The timeline for nuCLEus, a block-wide development slated to include offices, apartments and garage parking, is unclear. “We’re still working with the city and the county, finalizing the private-public partnership,” Stark said, alluding to long-running discussions about closing funding gaps.