Saturday, February 22, 2025

Universities worldwide compete to redesign Cleveland’s Lake Shore Power Plant site

With Lake Erie and Interstate 90 in the foreground, the background is changed from
a polluted former power plant site into a dynamic urban community between Gordon
Park and East 55th Street. Thisconcept, by a partnership of Harvard University and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was just one of 82 submitted to an international
design competition (Harvard-ULI). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

With deference to the classic movie “Casablanca,” of all the abandoned industrial sites in North America, the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Hines Student Competition picked Cleveland’s vacated Lake Shore Power Plant site as the canvas for its 2025 design competition. Four finalists were announced today in the competition that drew 82 entries from universities worldwide, with the winner to be named April 3 in Cleveland.

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