ClevelandDesignCity

Despite extreme turmoil at the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, the beleaguered agency is doing at least one thing right.

The port’s real estate director, Eric Johnson, has led the formulation of a strong new plan to transform 100 acres of downtown waterfront from industrial shipping to an urban neighborhood with parks, offices and a continuous public promenade.

The plan, approved Friday by the Cleveland City Planning Commission (with important caveats), gives new focus to the city’s quest to make better use of a downtown lakefront dominated by the shipping industry and severed from the business core by railroads… (go to article)