Vacant lots may grow useful again

Too much of Cleveland’s East Side looks like this — rural. From nearly 100,000 residents
in the 1960s to fewer than 20,000 today turned this crowded area into an urban prairie.
This is East 65th Street at Luther Avenue, where the Hough neighborhood meets St Clair-
Superior (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Taken together, Cleveland’s Hough and St. Clair-Superior neighborhoods aren’t that big of area. But its large amount of vacant land weighs heavily on the City of Cleveland.

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