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CLEVELAND, Ohio — The board of trustees for the Flats Oxbow Association has decided to close the organization, placed its executive director on administrative leave and contacted authorities — including the FBI — because of concerns about possible financial irregularities… (go to article)
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A wide-ranging discussion about the Flats, touching on the need to shore up a crumbling hillside and ways to revive water taxis and build boardwalks, attracted more than 350 people to the Nautica Powerhouse on Tuesday night. Industrial companies with operations along the Cuyahoga River asked for attention to safety, navigation and [...]
A community meeting set for tonight from 5 to 9 p.m. at Windows on the River in the Nautica Powerhouse is intended to kick off a city planning revolution in the Flats. Apparently the effort won’t involve Flats Oxbow, the community development corporation that has long represented the area. The Cleveland and Gund foundations have [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — When more than 180 skateboarders and BMX-bike riders showed up for a public meeting last April, Cleveland city officials were taken aback. The crowd wasn’t just large. It was young – people in their teens, 20s and 30s. They came from downtown Cleveland, from Parma, Kirtland, Eastlake and Kent. And they were [...]
As Cleveland positions itself for renewal as a 21st century economy, much of the Flats remains a symbol of the past, with empty industrial buildings, vacant land, and bulk-material storage lining much of the Cuyahoga River. But the Flats also remains a dynamic place, home to a working steel mill, market-rate housing, public housing, a [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A whole lot of fish from around the world are expected on Cleveland’s shores in the fall. Jacobs Entertainment announced Friday that it had secured the $33 million needed for the first phase of a long-discussed aquarium in the Powerhouse on the Flats’ west bank. Officials hope to start construction next week [...]
CLEVELAND — The idea of straightening the Cuyahoga River to allow freighters to bypass Collision Bend has been discussed for more than 100 years, but a local community development group believes the age-old plan might give Dan Gilbert the extra room he wants to build his Cleveland casino. Digging a new river channel across the [...]
The landmark building in Cleveland’s Flats that long housed Jim’s Steak House will fall to the wrecking ball if property owner Scranton Averell Corp. has its way. Tom Stickney, president of Scranton Averell, said the company wants to demolish the former restaurant and nightclub at 1800 Scranton Ave. because it is beyond repair… (go to [...]
On your standard map of Cleveland, the Scranton Peninsula is just a clenched fist of land uppercutting the Cuyahoga River, another nondescript piece of the Flats jigsaw situated just south of downtown. Zero in to street level and the area is even less than what’s promised on paper: Like a scene out of a nuclear [...]
The name Cuyahoga is said to mean “Crooked River”. Yet in the 1910s, there was a proposal to straighten the river, The New Cuyahoga: River Straightening Recommendations. This document was brought to my attention by Kevin Leeson, of the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission. The book is reproduced here from a copy in their collections, with the exception of [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Rowing Foundation closed a deal Monday to create Rivergate Park, a new public park on the Cuyahoga River devoted to rowing, canoeing, kayaking and dragon-boating. The foundation raised $3 million in grants, donations and loans in less than a year to purchase nearly seven acres on Columbus Road Peninsula from [...]
New grants from the Fred A. Lennon Charitable Trust and the Lozick Foundation have pushed theCleveland Rowing Foundation$100,000 closer this year to the dream of establishing a public center for rowing, canoeing and kayaking on the Cuyahoga River. The foundation is negotiating a bridge loan with a bank to complete the $3 million deal to buy [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Towpath Trail planners aren’t done purchasing property in The Flats. Tim Donovan, director of the Ohio Canal Corridor, said Monday that his group is eyeing other parcels that could complete the 101-mile trail from Lake Erie south to Dover-New Philadelphia following the route of the Ohio & Erie Canal… (go to article)
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Planners have added a piece of land in the Flats that’s critical to finishing the Cuyahoga County section of the 101-mile Towpath Trail. The Ohio Canal Corridor and the Trust for Public Land announced Thursday that they are acquiring 11 acres along the Cuyahoga River for $4.8 million. The two adjacent properties [...]
The Cleveland Rowing Foundation’sproject to create a riverfront park in Cleveland scored its third big grant in two days today with a $200,000 donation from the George Gund Foundation. The grant follows $550,000 in donations announced Tuesday by Peter Lewis and theCleveland Foundation. Gund Foundation trustees voted around 2 p.m. to make the gift, said senior program officer [...]
The Cleveland Rowing Foundation took big steps Tuesday toward realizing its dream of creating a riverfront park in Cleveland when it received two big gifts from major donors. Philanthropist Peter B. Lewis announced he was giving a $250,000 dollar-for-dollar matching grant to the rowing project, while the Cleveland Foundation approved a $300,000 grant. “We’re thrilled,” said Jon [...]
The Towpath Trail is at the crossroads. Planners of the ambitious and nearly complete hiking and bicycle trail are facing three uncomfortable choices as they try again to stitch together the final few miles through a downtown Cleveland industrial area along the Cuyahoga River. Their preferred route is still blocked by the lurking presence of a [...]
“Whatever happened to . . .?” is a weekly series updating some of the most newsworthy and interesting local stories covered in The Plain Dealer. Have a suggestion on a story we should update? Send it to John C. Kuehner. Today, we answer these questions: Whatever Happened to . . . . . . the proposed [...]
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson will propose that City Council grant a $300,000 low-interest loan to the nonprofit Cleveland Rowing Foundation to help create Rivergate Park on the Cuyahoga River. “We will be introducing legislation to authorize the loan in the next couple of weeks,” said Chris Warren, the mayor’s chief of regional development. The loan [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A group of rowing enthusiasts is tantalizingly close to realizing the dream of a sizable permanent home in Cleveland for rowing, canoeing and kayaking on the Cuyahoga River as soon as this summer. The nonprofit Cleveland Rowing Foundation, an umbrella group for nine high school, collegiate and adult rowing programs, has raised $1.9 [...]
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