Wednesday, February 08, 2006 12:00 PM @ the City Club

A Greater Cleveland: How Urban Renewal Can Re-Shape a City

Speakers: Mitchell Schneider, President, First Interstate Properties, and Scott Wolstein, Chairman and CEO, Developers Diversified Realty

 

Cleveland, like many Midwestern cities, is undergoing a vast transformation as an urban center. Real estate development is at the heart of this transformation as unused, blighted or anachronistic areas require a new direction to serve as linchpins for sustained economic and civic growth.

 

For more information, visit http://www.cityclub.org/content/speakers/SpeakerDetail.aspx?spkID=5278

Why do they use the term "urban renewal"?  I think that most would associate it with the demolish and pave strategies of the 60s..

 

Sounds like a very interesting forum. It would be great to see it.

I don't think this has been posted yet, but here's a pdf from CUDC and Neighborhood Progress' "RE-IMAGINING A MORE SUSTAINABLE CLEVELAND: Citywide Strategies for Managing Vacancy". It has some interesting ideas.

 

http://www.cudc.kent.edu/shrink/Images/landlab_plan_draft_low-res.pdf

These guys appear to be real estate developers.  They are probably unfamiliar with the history of the term "urban renewal".

 

These guys appear to be real estate developers. They are probably unfamiliar with the history of the term "urban renewal".

 

The pdf that I posted above is not related to the original City Club forum posting from 2006 regarding Mitchell Schneider, etc. It's just related to the thread topic, so I included it here.

Shrinking Cleveland and The Garden Club   

http://www.smartcityradio.com/smartcityradio/coming_up.cfm?showsmartcityID=448

 

MP3: http://smartcityradio.fluidhosting.com/2009/02-February/020509_SMARTCITY.mp3

 

Why does one city succeed while another very similar city is left behind? This week on Smart City we take a look at two such industrial towns, and we'll also examine the uncertain future of Cleveland.

 

Sean Safford is the author of the book "Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown: The Transformation of the Rust Belt". He'll tell us about the history of two former steel towns and how one succeeded while the other languished.

 

We'll also speak with Terry Schwartz of the Cleveland Urban Design Collective. She'll tell us about the unique challenges of redeveloping Cleveland and how she is using design to re-imagine the shrinking city.

Jpop beat me to it. I was just gonna post the link to the smartcity conversation about Cleveland and Youngstown, when I saw it's already on UO.  I found it completely on accident, but it's worth listening to.

I found it completely on accident, but it's worth listening to.

 

I agree. I especially think that a lot of what he says about Youngstown actually applies to Cleveland, too.