ClevelandDesignCity

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Downtown Cleveland’s sluggish landscape could host more than $1 billion in projects in the next five years.

But big boxes attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors, including a $600 million casino and a $475 million convention center/medical mart, won’t revive downtown — unless they mesh with efforts to draw more residents and businesses.

A number of strategies, from a redone Public Square to an aggressive marketing campaign for downtown living, are percolating.

Joe Roman, head of Greater Cleveland’s chamber of commerce, wraps the $270 million Flats East Bank project and prospects for development of port land near North Coast Harbor into an unprecedented array of opportunities to revitalize the core city… (go to article)