City hopes Lakewood Hospital site will become “community gathering space”
The City of Lakewood is seeking proposals for redevelopment of the old Lakewood Hospital site into the city’s “finest multi-functional outdoor community gathering space,” Cleveland.com reports. City planning and development Director Bryce Sylvester said an August 2015 community meeting “showed residents favored employment opportunities, diverse housing options, shopping and services.” The “idea of forming a community gathering space” also arose from that meeting, according to the article. Physical work on the site must wait until the new Cleveland Clinic family center and emergency department opens its new location; the “best-case scenario” would be for groundbreaking to happen in fall 2019. For more, read the full article.
