Wow … This park is amazing …

it’s so uniquely Cleveland!

That’s the reaction we hope to receive from the family who lives around the corner in Tremont, the small business owner in Ohio City, and everyone who visits Irishtown Bend Park.

This Park will be unlike any other. It will dramatically reshape our waterfront, connect our neighborhoods to the Cuyahoga River, and serve as a catalyst for tourism and continued economic growth. And yet it’s so much more.

This Park will instill a deep sense of civic pride.

Irishtown Bend Park will celebrate the cultural, ecological, and industrial heritage that has shaped our great city. It will also demonstrate the power of engaging and empowering diverse communities to create a greener and more equitable future for all.

Please join us in making this transformational vision a reality for our city because everyone belongs at Irishtown Bend Park.

Tom McNair Executive Director, Ohio City Incorporated

Ohio City Incorporated (OCI) is the community development corporation responsible for preserving, promoting, and developing the Ohio City neighborhood. OCI serves the community by providing assistance to both neighborhood residents as well as businesses and institutions through the vehicles of advocacy and engagement, community building, marketing, special events, neighborhood planning, and housing assistance. Furthermore, OCI is engaged in tenant attraction and retention. The work of OCI is aimed at making Ohio City a vibrant and livable community.

This Park had to be different.

Its design had to be unique — yet reflective of the history, development, and communities that came before it.

Everyone had to have a voice. Not just architects, planners, and engineers, but those who are often excluded from major public planning efforts, especially residents of the neighboring public housing developments.

This Park had to be different. And it will be different.

Irishtown Bend Park will be a connector — of trails, of people, and of neighborhoods. This Park will be the final link in several regional trails, connecting Downtown Cleveland to Ohio City and far beyond

Northeast Ohio. Its design fosters interactions among individuals with diverse backgrounds and abilities. It invites communities to come together to enjoy a green space where nature, industry, and people co-exist.

This Park is designed to benefit our collective future by helping Northeast Ohioans better understand local history. The stretch of land that is now Irishtown Bend Park has been an important part of Cleveland’s story for generations: a community for Irish settlers, a neighbor to an Underground Railroad stop, and, now, the site of a community-designed Park restoring access to the Cuyahoga River and offering improved connections between Cleveland neighborhoods, trails, and waterways.

Greg Peckham Executive Director, LAND studio

For more than 30 years, LAND studio has managed a wide range of public art installations, cultural programming, and civic space development projects across the city of Cleveland, engaging residents, civic leaders, and a wide range of organizational partners. LAND is committed to creating and maintaining public art and public space investments in Cleveland for everyone regardless of race, gender, ability, or the community in which they live — ensuring that projects meet the needs of the city’s diverse residents.