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Shaker Square unveils 'vision plan' to reinvigorate community

Dan Shingler, Crains Cleveland

Shaker Square has a plan and vision for its future.

Now comes the hard part, backers say: implementation.

A few hundred people, many of whom said they live near the square or have businesses there, filled every seat and lined the doorway of a theater at the Square’s Atlas Cinemas on a cold evening, Thursday, Jan. 23.

They came to hear how the Square’s owners, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress and Burten, Bell, Carr Development, plan to reinvigorate the historic square.

It’s not a reinvention of the square — that’s something backers said they did not need or want, presenters said — but a plan to relaunch the location in its traditional roles as a shopping area and gathering place.

“It needs to be a new era for this Cleveland Classic,” Burten, Bell Executive Director Joy Johnson told the audience.

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