Third Federal Savings and Loan is Greater Cleveland's biggest home mortgagor and the nation's biggest federally chartered thrift. But it's also a neighborhood bank, headquartered in Slavic Village, helping homeowners and nonprofits there and elsewhere.
A couple from Ethiopia provides Cleveland with home health workers, chicken fingers and apartments, including the forthcoming Addis View in Hough.
From this June through 2029, all 27 Cleveland branch libraries are supposed to be replaced or improved. Then officials hope to renovate Main Library and the attached Stokes Wing. Voters backed the branch work in 2017 with a tax increase of 2 mills, costing $35 per year for a $50,000 home.
The 80,000-square-foot "Pivot Center for Art::Dance::Expression" unites arts and social services, including a program led by a victim of a notorious kidnapping nearby. Gina DeJesus helps families like hers on the same square block where she was held captive for nine years.
Two cousins used to interpret for the U.S. Army in their native Kabul. Now they’re selling Asian and African clothing and housewares at Kamm’s Corners. The cousins opened Asia Star Clothing and Houseware at 17108 Lorain Ave., selling dresses, scarves, headgear, bracelets, carpets, flags, cups, flasks, blankets, clocks and more.
Will Sanchez hopes to open his new gallery March 1 and keep growing there as a painter, proprietor, poet, and neighborhood activist.
A pandemic might seem like a strange time to plan a cultural and civic organization’s next 100 years. But leaders of Coventry PEACE Inc. say it’s more important now than ever to build the community’s future. Last month, the group launched a fund-raising campaign called “$100,000 for 100 years.”
“My goal is to take something that’s been neglected, overlooked, underserviced, and make it great,” said Ibis Development CEO Adam Lubkin of the newly renovated Buckeye Plaza, which he’s renamed The Shoppes of Buckeye. “When I do that, I’ve noticed that the area around it improves.”
Tonya Griffith Bullard started selling food this year in a parking lot on Buckeye Road to raise money to help fix up her mother’s home, damaged by fire. Now she and her husband, Marvin Bullard, plan to open a takeout restaurant there.
They’ve revamped menus. They’ve upgraded ventilation systems. They’ve added plexiglass, curtains, fans, ventilators, patio heaters, firepits, chimineas, tents, yurts, igloos, shipping containers, and more. Will it be enough to keep them afloat until they return to normal?
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