Artist Shani Richards is part of a movement to revitalize the Sidaway Bridge. With her work in “Crossroads: Still We Rise,” a new exhibition at The Sculpture Center in Cleveland, she hopes to draw new attention to the structure. “Crossroads,” the first in a series of related exhibitions, features 11 other artists, each of whom also hopes to unveil a forgotten corner of Cleveland and push for its revival.
For more than a decade, community developers on Cleveland’s near west side have been working to create a new, improved streetscape on Lorain Avenue between West 25th and West 65th Street. Yet now, it turns out, the long-envisioned Lorain Avenue Cycle Track may not happen at all, or if it does, it could be so watered down as to hardly resemble the original, bold vision.
The Nunn Family Funeral Home at 4434 Lorain Avenue in Ohio City dates back to 1865, and the site operated as a funeral home until about 20 years ago, when it was converted into a daycare. Now, a developer plans to restore the building into retail, apartments, and the site of future residential development.
The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority is offering free rides for all buses, rails, and Park-N-Rides from June 13-19. These free services were implemented to encourage existing and new riders to try the newly redesigned system, called NEXT GEN RTA.
Beginning at the eastern edge of Zone Recreation Center and threading through Ohio City before connecting to the Centennial Lake Link Trail, the $6 million Red line Greenway connects the near west side to downtown Cleveland while offering views of industry, nature and the city along the way.
In early 2020, west side residents celebrated the completion of a new, long-awaited, $8 million streetscape on Fulton Road in Cleveland’s Ohio City and Clark-Fulton neighborhoods. Yet now, a year after the orange barrels were hauled away, the number of crashes have increased by 20% and some residents say that the road is less safe.
Two new developments on Fulton Road in Ohio City are adding more than 150 apartments to the neighborhood, but the real selling point is how they use context-based design as well as public art, restaurants and retail spaces to create more vibrancy at the street level.
“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.”
The nonprofit organization led by Daniel Gray-Kontar has worked with adult and youth residents in Midtown and Hough to create a vision for a Black Avenue in Cleveland.
With unmet demand for custom, for-sale housing on the west side and in downtown Cleveland, Duck Island has become a hot area for new housing starts in the city of Cleveland.
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