Saturday, August 10, 2024

Cuyahoga County cleans up with brownfield bucks

In Downtown Cleveland, Bedrock’s Riverfront Development is planned on the Tower
City Center side of the Cuyahoga River. But the riverfront land has historically been
used for industrial purposes for nearly two centuries and needs to be cleaned up before
new construction can begin. Cuyahoga Land Bank won $10 million to help make
that happen (Adjaye Associates). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

The Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corp., known simply as the Cuyahoga Land Bank, has secured multiple funding awards from the Ohio Department of Development’s Brownfield Remediation Program for demolishing more than 1,100 structures, mostly blighted single-family homes in Cleveland and East Cleveland. But there are also multiple funding awards it got for cleaning up polluted industrial sites so they can be redeveloped for new housing and jobs.

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