[CPEO-BIF] "Cleveland [Ohio] eyes $10M in grants for one of city’s largest swaths of vacant land"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleveland eyes $10M in grants for one of city’s largest swaths of vacant land

By Sean McDonnell
cleveland.com <http://cleveland.com/>
April 28, 2026

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland is making a push for up to $10 million in state grants to clean up one of the largest stretches of industrial land in the city. 

The proposal would mark 89 acres along railroads tracks on Cleveland’s East Side as a special investment zone, which is needed to apply for brownfield grants from the Ohio Department of Development. The collection of industrial parcels stretches between Carnegie and Woodland Avenue, east of East 55th Street. This zone would sit between the Central and Fairfax neighborhoods. 

Council approved the measure Monday night. Assistant Development Director Trudy Andrzejewski said the area is “one of the city’s largest concentrations of vacant industrial land” during a Council development committee meeting last week. City officials are working in tandem with the Site Readiness for Good Jobs Fund, a nonprofit Mayor Justin Bibb formed that could acquire and clean undesirable land so that developers could find places to build in Cleveland.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/04/cleveland-eyes-10m-in-grants-for-one-of-citys-largest-swaths-of-vacant-land.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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