OK, so Cleveland isn't exactly Detroit but this mixed-use entertainment
project could be something that our city might see eventually. The
developer of the project, who also restored the Book Cadillac has
proposed something similar along Washington Boulevard.
Excerpt:
The current vitality of Fourth Street is the culmination of 15 years of
work by the Maron family to turn a worn thoroughfare and its old
buildings into a prime example of 21st-century urban redevelopment in
the Midwest.
“In the early 1980s, there were some people who wanted the unwashed,
unloved warehouses and flats on East Fourth Street to be demolished,”
said Thomas J. Yablonsky, the executive director of the Historic
Gateway Neighborhood Corporation, a Cleveland nonprofit group focused
on downtown development. “Give the Marons credit for the
all-encompassing environment and experience they’ve put in one place
there.”
City leaders and local developers say East Fourth Street is
confirmation of an entertainment-focused economic strategy that
Cleveland’s development executives and lawmakers pursued in the
mid-1990s when $650 million was spent on two new stadiums for its major
league baseball and football teams, a new arena for the basketball team
and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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