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Summer 2026
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FROM RAIL CORRIDOR TO GREENWAY
the Midline takes shape
The City of Cleveland, in partnership with the Site Readiness for Good Jobs Fund and LAND studio, has launched The Midline Business District & Greenway, a 350-acre redevelopment initiative on Cleveland’s near east side that transforms vacant industrial land into a connected employment district and public greenway. The continuous trail and open space
In addition to delivering significant
network will connect seven neighborhoods
environmental cleanup, the project will
to emerging job centers, transit, education,
create more than four miles of trails, parks,
and essential amenities. By linking residents
and public spaces that foster recreation,
directly to employment and transportation
gathering, and community connection.
networks, the Midline serves as economic
LAND is leading the planning and
and community infrastructure, reducing
design of the greenway and public realm,
barriers to opportunity while expanding
with ongoing community engagement to
access to good jobs.
ensure the corridor delivers lasting benefits.
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opportunity and excitement abound in the community
In my first 100 days at LAND studio, I’ve had the opportunity to experience firsthand the energy, creativity, and care that shape this organization’s work across Northeast Ohio.
From community-driven planning in Green, to
supporters, and community members. The
new public art on Public Square, to massive,
months ahead hold tremendous opportunity,
transformational projects like The Midline and
and I look forward to building on our strong
Irishtown Bend Park moving forward, it is clear
LAND studio’s new executive director looks to the future
Planning in Green
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foundation while continuing to create vibrant
that LAND’s
public spaces that inspire, invite, and bring
work is rooted
people together. Thank you for being part of this
in connection
work and this next chapter for LAND studio.
— connecting people to one another, to
place, and to possibility. I’m honored to join this team at such an exciting moment and deeply grateful for the warm welcome from partners,
KEISHA GONZÁLEZ
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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LAND leads local artwork efforts LAND is partnering with the City of Green to develop the community’s first comprehensive Public Art Plan, creating a shared vision for how art can strengthen public spaces across the city.
equitable investment, and guide future public art, parks, trails, and gathering spaces. Last month’s “A Change of Art” community event offered residents another opportunity to help shape the vision through hands-on participation and feedback. The final digital plan will include
Through community engagement
asset mapping, LAND is working with
site recommendations and long-term
sessions, creative exercises, and cultural
residents and stakeholders to identify
strategies for public art throughout Green.
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stabilization project puts park’s future on solid ground The vision for Irishtown Bend reached a milestone this May as the Port of Cleveland completed its $65 million hillside stabilization project, securing the riverbank and establishing the site for the future Irishtown Bend Park. For more than a decade, LAND studio has played a leading role in design development, partner coordination, and fundraising efforts, while Ohio City Inc. has ensured that community voices have remained central throughout the planning and decision-making process. Together, these efforts have helped transform a long-standing environmental
With the hillside
A civic nexus more than a decade in the making rounds a corner
This phase also includes construction of
stabilization work now
the park’s signature riverfront boardwalk,
complete, Cleveland
along with improvements to Franklin
Metroparks has
Boulevard including new pathways,
initiated Phase 1 of
lighting, and streetscape amenities.
park construction. This will complete
Following Phase 1’s anticipated completion in late 2027, Cleveland
the final link in the Cleveland Foundation
Metroparks will begin development of the
Centennial Trail, creating a continuous trail
park’s remaining amenities, including an
and infrastructure challenge into a
route that will allow users to travel from
event lawn, the Mandel Maritime Theatre,
generational opportunity to create a
Lake Erie through the entire Towpath Trail
the Irish Heritage site honoring the area’s
new civic destination.
system to Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
history, picnic areas, and a playground.
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THE SPACES BE T WEEN I N T H I S I S S U E I Guiding a community’s art identity :
A neighborhood-spanning greenway breaks ground : Setting the stage for transformation at Irishtown Bend
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a Wild new piece sparks wonder on Public Square LAND studio recently unveiled Go Wild, a
to pause, look closely, and reconnect with the
printmaker, illustrator, and author, Price
new Art Wall installation on Public Square
beauty of the natural world. “I hope the piece
creates work rooted in curiosity, color, and a
by artist Jennifer Michelle Price. The vibrant
inspires anyone who sees it to take a moment
deep appreciation for people and nature. Stop
work celebrates the plants, animals, and insects
to notice, experience wonder, and go wild and
by the café seating area on Public Square to
that make Northeast Ohio unique, inviting visitors
explore,” Price shared. A self-taught painter,
experience Go Wild in person.
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