Apartments planned for Hessler Road leads to tension between residents, University Circle development corporation
CLEVELAND, Ohio As University Circle grew up around it, Hessler Road largely stayed the same.
Its aesthetic is still intact, complete with hippie-ish residents living among Case Western Reserve University students in dense clusters of aging rowhouses lining a brick road. A bulletin board that says “Happy Hessler Street Fair 50th Anniversary,” a reference to the beloved arts and cultural celebration held along the small road, remains on display.
Long-term residents like it that way, but they fear that plans for new apartments could change their neighborhood. At the same time, they say the one thing they wanted to change – that the local development corporation shepherding the plans would listen to their concerns – has not.