Filling the lakefront void left by the Browns

The North Coast Yard is a pop-up park created on city-owned lakefront land, north of
Huntington Bank Field and next to the Steamship William G. Mather Museum. Al-
though temporary, its recreational uses are are the types of public-space programming
that can be expected in a redevelopment of Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront after
the stadium is demolished (NCWDC). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Among the objectives in redeveloping Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront is to fill the physical and economic void to be left by Huntington Bank Field and their main attraction, the Cleveland Browns. That was one of the insights shared by the chief of the North Coast Waterfront Development Corp. (NCWDC) at yesterday’s Planning Commission meeting.

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