New businesses are popping up in Shaker Square. Developers don’t want to lose the momentum, which is why they are pushing to fill the remaining vacant spaces in the square.
Rey Galindo and his nephew Jorge Sierra Galindo are back in business in Shaker Square. The former owners of Luchita’s, a long-standing Mexican restaurant in Shaker Square, are opening a restaurant in early June. Different from Luchita’s and under a new name called Coyoacan Taqueria & Brew. Read and watch the full story.
Let’s be clear about what’s going on with neighborhood-based nonprofits in Cleveland. The City needs and has relied on community development corporations (CDCs) to serve residents and small businesses. This has been true for decades. Read the full letter in Crain’s.
After years of planning and critical repairs, the public is finally getting a look at what’s in the works for the re-envisioned Shaker Square, which was purchased in 2022 by two nonprofit organizations — Cleveland Neighborhood Progress and Burten, Bell, Carr Development Inc. Read and watch the full story.
A group of political and civic leaders, along with the Cleveland Browns, sat down for a formal lunch Wednesday, Oct. 8, at Doc’s on Harvard, in Cleveland’s Lee-Harvard neighborhood, for the Middle Neighborhood commercial corridor launch event. They heard an upbeat assessment of progress that has been made and is expected in the future.
Cleveland Neighborhood Progress hosted the event, which touted ongoing work in the community involved in the Middle Neighborhood Initiative and the Southeast Side Promise… Read full article.