[CPEO-BIF] Rails to trails in Cleveland, Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Land purchase moves trail plan a step closer to reality

By Steven Litt
Cleveland Plain Dealer (OH)
December 28, 2009,

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The long-held civic dream of linking neighborhoods 
along Cleveland's Flats to the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie with 
hike-and-bike trails just took a big step forward.

The Trust for Public Land, a national nonprofit land-conservation 
organization based in San Francisco, announced Monday it closed a $3.2 
million deal to preserve 1.3 miles of abandoned rail bed on the west 
bank of the Flats for a future trail network.

The transaction, completed Wednesday, transferred ownership from Earl 
Walker, a Cleveland investor and former Cuyahoga Community College 
professor, to Parkworks, a nonprofit organization that aims to turn a 
chunk of urban archaeology into a major public amenity.

"We just feel terrific about having this vision last year and realizing 
it over the past 12 months," Parkworks director Ann Zoller said Monday.

...

For the entire article, see
http://blog.cleveland.com/architecture/2009/12/land_purchase_moves_trail_plan.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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