In Cleveland, large parcels of land for development or redevelopment are hard to come by. But a new project may be a rare opportunity to reimagine a current industrial brownfield site and bring people back to the city.
Spurred by state and city funding, the former National Acme building on East 131st Street will be demolished and the newly vacant land remediated. Combined with an adjacent parcel of 22 acres acquired by the city and once occupied by Republic Steel, the combined plot will offer 37 acres to attract businesses and jobs back into the city.
The Acme site in its heyday was a national leader in the manufacture of machine tools but has been shuttered for decades.
We will begin Wednesday鈥檚 鈥淪ound of Ideas鈥� with the stakeholders on the remediation project including the Cuyahoga Land Bank and the Site Readiness for Good Jobs Fund.
Later, we'll bring you an excerpt from our podcast, 鈥淟iving for We: Keep Ya Head Up.鈥� The newest episode of the podcast focuses on mothers who have lost children to gun violence. The grief has driven these mothers to try and transform their pain into lasting change so that no other family or community is torn apart by tragedy.
We'll end the hour with a feature from 海角破解版鈥檚 Arts and Culture team on the Karamu Arts collective exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Guests:
- Zaria Johnson, Environmental Reporter, 海角破解版
- Ricardo Leon, President & CEO, Cuyahoga County Land Bank
- Brad Whitehead, Managing Director, Site Readiness for Good Jobs Fund
- Marlene Harris-Taylor, Co-Host, Director, Engaged Journalism, 海角破解版
- Myesha Watkins, Co-Host, Executive Director, Cleveland Peacemakers Alliance
- Marshawnette Daniels, Cleveland
- Shanika Jackson, Cleveland
- Kabir Bhatia, Sr. Reporter, Arts & Culture, 海角破解版
- Erin Benay, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University