The 50+ acres in play next to downtown, but few are talking about it

There’s a lot to unpack in this photo at East 24th Street and Central Avenue. First is the Nurses
Home arched doorway, a survivor from multiple demolitions of St. Vincent Charity Hospital,
leaving a vacant lot at far left. In the center beyond the fence are piles of rubble from another
demolition, that of the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Justice Center. And at far right is a corner
of the 22-acre Olde Cedar public housing and may be demolished, too. Downtown Cleveland
is in the distance (NEOtrans). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Mega-redevelopment sites are emerging all around Downtown Cleveland. There’s the 50-acre lakefront site that includes the to-be-demolished Huntington Bank Field. There’s the nearly 40-acre Bedrock Riverfront site. There’s the 62-acre ex-Lake Shore Power Plant site just east of downtown. And there’s the 450-acre site that now contains Burke Lakefront Airport.

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