Cleveland City Council modified and approved legislation proposed by the Bibb administration that will make some changes at the West Side Market. The updates include capping rental rate increases, allowing for longer-term and shorter-term leases and permitting alcohol sales.
Horizontal Books on West 25th St., known for stacking books on their sides to make the titles easier to read, is planning to flip its own concept later this year, changing its name and adding a host of coffees sourced from around the country.
The leaders like to say they’re “E and E,” which means “emerging and experienced.” They vary not just in age and other demographics but in their careers, which span governments, businesses, universities, and philanthropies.
The Land has been around for more than one year now. In our brief lifetime, we’ve published hundreds of stories, some of which have had rippling impacts through Cleveland.
“Tell us how to do it, not who should own it.”
On an early September evening, about a dozen neighbors gathered in the backyard of Phil and Christina Buck on Cleveland’s west side for a meet-and-greet with City Council president and mayoral candidate Kevin Kelley. The candidate, dressed casually in a short-sleeve shirt and leaning forward in his lawn chair, listened intently as an Ohio City resident complained about absentee landlords.
The West Side Market’s new day stall vendor program grants local entrepreneurs temporary spots in the produce arcade on weekends. Although this program only runs from Aug. 7 to Aug. 28, the city has eyes on a future long-term day stall program.
When I was six or seven years old, I thought the most prestigious university in the world was WSMU. At every family gathering, my uncle would invariably invoke the lessons learned at WSMU to settle any argument. It wasn’t until I was a little older that I learned WSMU was not a college at all, but instead my uncle’s euphemistic reference to the hard-scrabble education one gains by working for decades at the West Side Market.
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