This year, Case Western Reserve University's Regionally Speaking programs will focus on the partnership between the university's Social Justice Alliance and Institute and the City of East Cleveland. Sunday's Plain Dealer examined new East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton's plans to revive his community.
East Cleveland News Archive
15 February 2010
09 February 2010
Huron Hospital plans to build a $20–30 million expansion of its East Cleveland campus. The hospital will formally announce the expansion along Euclid Avenue later this year.
Update: a Plain Dealer editorial called the expansion a "statement of Huron's continued commitment to the community it has served since 1874 -- and as a vote of confidence in East Cleveland's future."
16 April 2009
With the Greater Circle Seniors Design Charette starting today, WCPN spoke with Rob Hilton, President of the McGregor Foundation and Margaret Calkins of IDEAS, Inc., one of the judges.
10 March 2009
On April 16-19, participants in the McGregor Foundation's Greater Circle Seniors Design Charette will generate ideas for affordable senior housing at four sites in Cleveland's Glenville, Fairfax, and Buckeye-Shaker neighborhoods.
23 February 2009
Volunteers and students with Case Western Reserve University are creating an inventory of the more than 2,200 abandoned houses in East Cleveland. The data will be used to prioritize demolitions.
19 December 2008
Mayor Brewer of East Cleveland proposed building a 12,000-seat amphitheater in his city's portion of historic Forest Hill Park. The idea would require approval from the Forest Hill Park Advisory Commission, and at least one of its three members is opposed to the concept. Others question the need for additional concert venues.
01 December 2008
Steven Litt was impressed by the plans for the redesign of the bus and rapid transit station at the base of Cedar Hill in University Circle. Under the plans, the transfer station on the south side of Cedar Glen would be replaced with a new public park.
21 November 2008
With the foreclosure crisis increasing the supply of abandoned homes in Cleveland and East Cleveland, more of the area's homeless are squatting in the vacant houses. Advocates for the homeless are working to establish a program that would allow the skilled homeless to take possession of abandoned homes in exchange for repairing them.
28 October 2008
The grand opening of RTA's HeathLine attracted crowds over the weekend, and its Monday debut experienced only minor glitches. A Plain Dealer editorial says that the corridor's real payoff will be in the surrounding development it encourages.
24 October 2008
The Euclid Corridor was officially opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the HealthLine this afternoon. Construction of the $200 million, 7.1-mile project took three years, and it was the subject of Thursday's Sound of Ideas on WCPN. RTA will hold opening celebrations all weekend.
23 June 2008
Brad Masi of the New Agrarian Center describes how community gardening can be used to combat food deserts, using a new community garden at Huron Hospital in East Cleveland as an example.
20 May 2008
The Greater Circle Living program was officially launched today. The initiative will supply forgivable loans and rental reimbursements to an estimated 700 homebuyers in portions of seven adjacent neighborhoods in Cleveland and East Cleveland.
12 May 2008
The East Cleveland portion of the Euclid Corridor Transportation Project was formally opened this afternoon.
09 May 2008
On Thursday, OneCommunity announced the official launch of a wireless Internet cloud covering most of University Circle and parts of Cleveland Heights and East Cleveland. They also rolled out Linked Communities, a new web portal for the University Circle area.
28 January 2008
The renovation of the former Warner and Swasey Observatory in East Cleveland was halted after the owner was indicted for mortgage fraud last January.
08 January 2008
Mayor Brewer of East Cleveland says that his City's water main agreement with the City of Cleveland will lower residents' water bills by about a third.
Update: WKYC and WTAM have additional information.
03 October 2007
A Plain Dealer editorial says that the Cities of Cleveland and East Cleveland will both benefit from the recent water main agreement.
25 September 2007
The Cities of Cleveland and East Cleveland reached a deal on the water main maintenance and no poaching agreement proposed by Cleveland officials. The cities had been negotiating for over a year.
19 September 2007
The sinkhole in East Cleveland provides an example of the need to maintain Northeast Ohio's aging infrastructure.
08 August 2007
Michael Schramm and Claudia Coulton of Case's Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences examined the impacts of the foreclosure crisis on the number of houses and condominiums in Cuyahoga County owned by financial institutions. As of February 2007, 9,175 of these properties are held by financial institutions, representing 2.05% of the County's residential properties. The highest percentage was in East Cleveland, where financial institutions own 8.09% of the houses and condominiums.
09 July 2007
The Cuyahoga County Community Mental Health Board is still trying to identify a site for the planned new State Mental Health Hospital. Councilperson Phyllis Cleveland objects to the proposed site on Quincy Road in Cleveland, so the Board is considering alternative sites in Warrensville Heights and East Cleveland.
15 June 2007
RTA reports that the first two Euclid Corridor stations, one in Midtown and one in East Cleveland, will soon be complete.
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