MidTown Cleveland, Inc.’s public-private strategy has allowed our cooperative relationships with governmental, corporate and philanthropic partners to flourish. By engaging our strategic partners, we’ve successfully championed major initiatives that benefit MidTown and the Northeast Ohio region.

Our recent accomplishments include:

• Immersing the organization in the Ohio Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) planning efforts to ensure the access from the Innerbelt to Prospect and Carnegie Avenues isn’t eliminated, as originally proposed in the Innerbelt Reconstruction Project.
• Administering the City of Cleveland’s Empowerment Zone and Storefront Renovation Programs to facilitate business expansion and site improvements.
• Successfully lobbying for the resurfacing of Carnegie and Kelly Avenues.
• Receiving a Clean Ohio Brownfield Grant to purchase the Ohio Knitting Mills building at 1974 East 61st Street, demolish the adjacent abandoned Wood & Spencer Screw Factory building, and eliminate environmental contamination to begin construction of the MidTown Technology Center.
• Collaborating with Euclid Corridor Transportation Project contractors to ensure the final design benefits MidTown.
• Reducing the appearance of litter and graffiti through community beautification events and ongoing visual quality initiatives.
• Implementing a dedicated security patrol to provide supplemental security to all MidTown stakeholders.
• Master planning the MidTown Service Area to guide urban development and promote economic growth.
• Facilitating the development of the Montana Townhomes, located at East 36th Street and Prospect Avenue.
• Securing the resources to demolish the former Electronic Technical Institute (ETI) building located at 4222-4300 Euclid Avenue to accommodate the new headquarters campus of Center for Families and Children.
• Assembling more than 15 acres of land in MidTown, mainly along Euclid Avenue, to guide redevelopment activity and realize the vision for the MidTown Business and Urban District as outlined in MidTown Cleveland, Inc.’s master plan.
• Implementing the Prospect Maintenance Program to maintain the character and beauty of historic Prospect Avenue.
• Recycling former industrial real estate to enable the development of the Loftworks (1667 East 40th Street), Mid-City Lofts (3635 Perkins Avenue), Kronheim Lofts (1814 East 40th Street), YWCA (4019 Prospect Avenue) and Kalman & Pabst Photo Group (3907 Perkins Avenue) facilities.
• Engaging our strategic partners to retain Applied Industrial Technologies in MidTown, preserving 400 jobs in the area.
• Aiding MPC Plating in its expansion and modernization project by making MidTown Cleveland, Inc.-owned real estate available and helping to secure needed city landbank property.