I nearly danced with joy when I read your Nov. 5 article announcing that the city of Cleveland was finalizing a deal to buy the former Dave’s Market site in Collinwood for community-oriented redevelopment. (”City is buying shuttered Dave’s Market property”).
City Hall has long sought to increase the population of the city, which dropped from 750,903 in 1970 to 362,565 in 2023. The only way to lure people back to the city is to invest in the neighborhoods by providing quality family services such as grocery stores.
Previously, the city’s plan had appeared to be exclusively focused on persuading rich people from the suburbs to live on the city’s waterfronts by building luxury housing, subsidized by city funding. I’m glad to see that has changed.
Let’s focus next on redeveloping the former CVS site at West 130th Street and Lorain Avenue.
Jeff Barge,
Cleveland