On the Cusp in East Cleveland

The East Cleveland process was rooted in public engagement and designed to deliberately steer future development in the area in a catalyzing manner. Deliverables highlighted a series of digestible activities by an array of stakeholders capable of building from the strengths of the area in order to advance widely held objectives of tax base stabilization and new investment.

With clarity of purpose and a commitment to facilitate a planning process rooted in the people of East Cleveland, the team assembled a representative and credible Advisory Committee that directed the work. Over the course of nine months, the Advisory Committee met six times, more than two dozen stakeholders were interviewed and nearly sixty members of the public participated in three evening charrettes. The results are a publicly-vetted plan and implementation strategy informed by the expertise of the consultant team, shaped by the perspectives of participants, and endorsed by City leadership.

“[the practice’s] value is that the community has the right to determine and define its spaces and its future foremost in [their] work. In the most distressed communities of the east side of Cleveland, often a focus area for [them], this is particularly rare and particularly powerful.” April Hirsh Urban, Director of Research and Impact, Signal Cleveland

See the final report HERE
Project completed with Cleveland Neighborhood Progress