Rezoning approved for cold storage facility in Opportunity Corridor amid controversy over asphalt plant proposed nearby msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
CLEVELAND, Ohio Success has never been guaranteed for the city-led Opportunity Corridor project, a public-private effort to redevelop scores or hundreds of acres around a new, 3.6-mile boulevard that will traverse the economically devastated “Forgotten Triangle” to link Interstate-490 to University Circle. The rap on the $306 million boulevard, funded primarily through bonds backed by Ohio .
Opportunity Corridor site earmarked for nonprofit construction institute
Michelle Jarboe
Garbage litters vacant stretches of the 9-acre site that Norman Edwards and Fred Perkins envision as the future home of the Construction Opportunity Institute of Cleveland and related facilities.
Along East 79th Street, just south of where the Opportunity Corridor is cutting across Cleveland s East Side, ambitious plans are afoot for a 9-acre site where the only signs of life today are birds flitting between gnarled trees, abandoned buildings and piles of litter.
The city of Cleveland, which acquired the block during land assembly for the $257 million road project, is considering a lease-purchase deal to support redevelopment. The would-be buyer is a company tied to Norman Edwards, president of the Black Contractors Group and the American Center for Economic Equality, according to public records.
Cleveland City Councilman Kevin Kelley officially enters race for mayor crainscleveland.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from crainscleveland.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Mayor Frank Jackson re-election speculation: Darcy cartoon
Updated Apr 03, 2021;
Posted Apr 03, 2021
Questions remain on if Mayor Frank Jackson will hop in or out of the next Cleveland mayoral race.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio Speculation on if Mayor Frank Jackson will hop in or out of the next Cleveland mayor race intensified this week when a contractors group leader claimed Jackson would seek his fifth term. Whether the validity of the claim is hollow or solid remained undetermined when Mayor Jackson would neither confirm or deny he would run again.
Norm Edwards, president of the Black Contractors Group, sent out an email saying the organization, which promotes minority construction job contracts, is “very excited and proud to endorse Mayor Frank G. Jackson for an unprecedented 5th term as Cleveland mayor.”