ClevelandDesignCity

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The eastern-downtown area that has long wanted to be known as The Quadrangle now has a new name: The Campus District.

It also is moving toward a much more forceful mission: To create the next big, hip and exciting destination area in Cleveland, spanning from St. Vincent Charity Hospital on the south to the lakefront on the north. Within that 500-acre swath: Cleveland State University, Cuyahoga Community College and a sea of disconnected, underdeveloped neighborhoods, property and people.

The community development corporation now known as The Campus District can — and must — plow away the malaise and sew together the sprawling corridor along East 22nd Street, consultant Chris Ronayne told its board today… (go to article)