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| This is where Cleveland’s Central and Fairfax neighborhoods meet, at Norfolk Southern’s elevated railroad tracks near East 71st Street and Quincy Avenue. The railroad was once a four-track line and had many industries clustered along it. Now the area is largely devoid of employers and poverty is far above the national average. City, county and private leaders are working to assembly and clean properties to market them for redevelopment (Site Readiness Fund). |
Cleveland’s Central and Fairfax neighborhoods haven’t been a hot zone for new real estate development since the Jazz Age of the 1920s and 30s. Back then, streets like Cedar, Central and Quincy were hopping with jazz clubs, speakeasies, flappers and gangsters. Aside the many night spots were factories that hummed with tens of thousands of jobs during the daytime hours. Most were tightly clustered along the four-tracked Pennsylvania Railroad that was elevated in 1915 to reduce traffic congestion.
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