One of Cleveland’s largest lakefront sites is now in play

The Lake Shore Power Plant site that sold last month is outlined in red
and includes a long driveway access from East 55th Street in the back-
ground. East 72nd Street and Interstate 90 are in the foreground with
downtown Cleveland in the distance. At right left is where the
Cleveland Metroparks plans a $300 million lakefront recre-
ation area including a new island in Lake Erie (Google).
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Turns out the sale of a large Cleveland lakefront property could be good news for a more livable shoreline, after all. The 62-acre former Lake Shore Power Station site just east of Downtown Cleveland, along with the 167-acre Eastlake power plant property and another in Oregon, OH near Toledo were sold last month by Energy Harbor Generation LLC of Akron to a firm that specializes in cleaning up and redeveloping former coal-fired power plant sites.

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