Lakefront vision to be unveiled July 27

A vision for turning downtown Cleveland’s under-developed and under-
utilized lakefront into a more enjoyable place will be unveiled July 27 by
city officials. It will reportedly include preliminary designs for the North
Coast Connector, remake of the Shoreway into a boulevard, phases of
mixed-use developments, and possibly some cost-benefit data associated
with a closing and repurposing of Burke Lakefront Airport (Google).
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Although the downtown lakefront plans to be released publicly on July 27 will be preliminary, they will give more insight into the direction city officials received from prior public input sessions on developing the city’s “front porch” as officials call the city’s Lake Erie waterfront. And since these plans are still preliminary and conceptual, city officials said they want more public input on them before refining them and adding more design details to them.

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