Collin Cunningham, Author at The Land

Can word of mouth help a long-running East Cleveland food pantry grow into its new home?

By Collin Cunningham ● Social Equity ● August 22, 2024

In transitioning from an East Cleveland church to a newer community center building, the Father Michael Wittman Ozanam Center’s weekly food pantry program is better poised to help channel more produce and shelf-stable items to residents. Volunteers, however, are looking to spread word of the relocation and bring attention to the East Cleveland City School District’s Chambers Community Empowerment Center as a whole to increase attendance.

Can a $23M redevelopment help Clark-Fulton add affordable senior housing while retaining history?

By Collin Cunningham ● Development ● August 13, 2024

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.

Unseen voices: How a shelter program, new poetry anthology channel thoughts of unhoused Clevelanders

By Collin Cunningham ● Arts & Culture ● August 8, 2024

RA Washington, who assembled “These Words are Not My Home: Poems, Stories and Essays from the Unhoused” spoke to The Land about expression, ambition, intent and the program that led to the book.

Newest course, oldest plot: Erich Hooper to bring miniature golf to Cleveland’s oldest urban farm

By Collin Cunningham ● Entrepreneurs ● July 29, 2024

Agriculturalist Erich Hooper’s property on W. 11th Street boasts the oldest urban farm in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood and serves as a community garden, STEM classroom and bastion of do-it-yourself volunteerism. By the end of 2024, the property will also host the city’s newest miniature golf course, as Hooper hopes to draw more people to his self-made backyard sanctuary.

Hitchcock Center to expand women’s services, add affordable housing in Glenville with new building

By Collin Cunningham ● Development ● July 8, 2024

Once complete and open to low-income residents in 2025, the new building will offer over 50 single-family Section 8 housing units in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood and allow the residential addiction center to expand its services.

What water leak? Eclectic antiques outlet All Things For You reopens in Tremont after 10-month hiatus

By Collin Cunningham ● Development ● June 25, 2024

Former event planner Tim Yanko and retired interior designer Dwight Kaczmarek turned water damage into brick and mortar by purchasing a former Tremont funeral home and converting it into the latest iteration of their antique and collectibles shop, All Things For You.

Cudell Park out of peril? Residents to monitor paused Marion Seltzer Elementary rebuild as CMSD considers levy

By Collin Cunningham ● Civic Engagement ● June 13, 2024

A nearly two-year construction proposal saga culminated in agreement last week when the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) announced a pause on plans to build a new school adjacent to the Marion C. Seltzer Elementary ahead of an anticipated November levy vote. CMSD’s previous plans would have absorbed a portion of Cudell Commons Park and walled off the Tamir Rice Butterfly Memorial during school hours.

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