Perk Park in downtown Cleveland earned a grisly reputation in February 2009, when a gunman ambushed two young men early on a Sunday morning, killing one and wounding the other.
A transformation is under way.
Under pressure from neighbors and property owners who want a safer and more beautiful park, Mayor Frank Jackson and Cleveland City Council agreed late last year to spend $1.6 million on a renovation. The design, first conceived in 2003 by landscape architects Thomas Balsley of New York and James McKnight of Cleveland, had languished for lack of funding… (go to article)
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