Port Board OK’s $60M Irishtown Bend stabilization

Looking northward from West 25th Street at the planned Irishtown Bend
Park in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. The view is from the top
of the Cuyahoga River valley with downtown Cleveland on the other
side (Plural). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Today the Cleveland port authority’s board of directors approved the hiring of an Ohio construction company for nearly $60 million to stabilize and rehabilitate the Irishtown Bend hillside, a project that is being done foremost to maintain the Cuyahoga River shipping channel. But the work also must be done before any construction can start on the 23-acre Irishtown Bend Park in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood.

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