What was once the nation's largest maker of woolen horse blankets is now 60 affordable housing units and a hub for social services on Cleveland's West Side.
Although the transit cuts may seem like a fait accompli given RTA’s tenuous budget situation – projections show a $48.3 million budget gap in 2028, and the agency is not ruling out further cuts – public transit advocates in Cleveland are not going down without a fight.
The plan is to build a 10,000-square-foot production facility that will allow them to dramatically expand capacity.
Recently, The Land spoke with a broad mix of jazz fans, musicians and promoters, who expressed deeply mixed feelings about the switchover of WCSB (now known as XCSB) to JazzNEO.
“We want to build something that’s attainable for people who want to be 1,000 feet from the entrance to Edgewater Park."
"There are really only a handful of places like it in the country, let alone the world. To have an arts center of this size and as well equipped as it is, focused on hand papermaking, printmaking and book arts, it's a very rare find.”
The new Memphis-Pearl mid-rise project near the intersection of Memphis Road and Pearl Avenue would add a six-story, 74-unit apartment building to a neighborhood that hasn’t seen new residential construction like this in decades.
In the past year, two music lovers on Cleveland’s west side, Corrine Henahan and John Dewey, have transformed what used to be a smoke-filled, run-down corner bar at Madison Ave. and W. 87th St. into a loving tribute to the local music scene. The project is a direct result of their own grit and determination.
A pair of new businesses, Edgewater Sub Shop and Dahlia Coffee Company, recently opened in Cleveland’s Cudell and Edgewater neighborhoods, bringing new energy and life to what were previously culinary dead zones.
The Land's free community journalism program has graduated more than 50 students, and a new cohort of students will begin Oct. 2.
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