Alongside longtime neighborhood resident, advocate and St. Matthew United Methodist Church trustee and chairperson Mittie Jordan, Hough inhabitants and church congregants have quietly spent the last decade building their Brookdale Orchard into a bulwark against blight along Superior Avenue and Wade Park.
The West Park and Kamm’s Corners neighborhoods will soon have walking and cycling access to the Rocky River Reservation via a direct pathway. That’s all thanks to the $2 million Old Lorain Road Connector Trail project.
Although not everyone goes to a bar to consume alcohol, a tasty beer or cocktail can still add to an evening’s enjoyment. Thankfully, non-alcoholic (NA) options are now socially acceptable substitutes to a traditional beer or mixed drink, said Cleveland nightlife entrepreneurs interviewed by The Land.Â
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The Land recently worked with students at the Mastery School of Hawken, in University Circle, on their month-long challenge course. Over the course of three weeks, students from the high school worked on short documentary films focused on finding "under-reported and over-reported stories in Greater Cleveland."
Despite Bike Cleveland’s ongoing advocacy efforts to improve road safety across the 6,000-plus streets comprising the city’s grid, Cleveland has already experienced an uptick in traffic-related deaths with 12 cyclists and pedestrians killed in vehicular accidents, an increase over the nine who died in 2023. That puts tough questions and discussions before the nonprofit as members gather data to help local leaders craft the municipality’s first mobility plan since 2007.
In a state with some of the nation’s strictest rules, in an election year when democracy itself is widely seen as at stake, many Cleveland activists are boosting previous years’ efforts to register, turn out and educate voters.
Nearly three years after Cleveland leaders launched a master plan for redeveloping the Clark-Fulton neighborhood with professional and residential input, one of its cornerstone housing developments is moving forward. The Arch at Saint Michael project will repurpose classrooms and offices into 46 new low-income multifamily apartment units for seniors in the Saint Michael Archangel Roman Catholic Church’s former school and convent.
A new book examines the lives and decisions of the Van Sweringen brothers – including their impact on public transit in Northeast Ohio, their vision in creating an exclusive suburb for Cleveland’s wealthy, and more.Â
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