Downtown Cleveland’s glimmers of hope

Downtown Cleveland Inc. reported that numerous metrics of office and residential
occupancy, foot traffic and other activities show Cleveland’s central business has
had one of its best months since the depths of the pandemic in 2020. This is the
food truck scene at Perk Park along East 12th Street, between Walnut and
Chester avenues (DCI). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

While it seems like foot traffic is up in Downtown Cleveland since the pandemic four years ago, different organizations that measure the city’s central business district’s economic performance have numbers backing up that perception. And that’s also reflective of increased numbers of workers returning to their offices and more residential conversions and occupancies as well. But those numbers are still far from robust.

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