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Nonprofit owners seek new vision for Shaker Square
The nonprofit owners of Shaker Square are developing a new vision for the historic shopping district on the city’s East Side before selling it to a new owner.
Burten Bell Carr Development Inc. and Cleveland Neighborhood Progress are about one month into a visioning process “that will help inform us and potentially a new owner of what the community will support” at the square, said Briana Perry, senior vice president for Cleveland Neighborhood Progress.
The nonprofit owners of Shaker Square are developing a new vision for the historic shopping district on the city’s East Side before selling it to a new owner.
Burten Bell Carr Development Inc. and Cleveland Neighborhood Progress are about one month into a visioning process “that will help inform us and potentially a new owner of what the community will support” at the square, said Briana Perry, senior vice president for Cleveland Neighborhood Progress.
Already, the square’s owners have learned that many Clevelanders have close ties to the square, which comprises four, two-floor retail and office buildings clustered around the Regional Transit Authority’s East-Side rapid transit line.
“People are very passionate about the square,” said Perry, who heads her nonprofit’s equitable neighborhood revitalization operations. “People have either worked here or grew up close [to] here or took the rapid to get to work through here.”