Detroit Shoreway Featured on WKYC

Last week WKYC did a week long feature of The Detroit Shoreway and Gordon Square Arts District, highlighting all of the hustle and bustle of this great city neighborhood. Here at Cleveland City Living, we are big proponents of EVERY city neighborhood in Cleveland, but The Detroit Shoreway has a close spot in our hearts. Its where Scott lives, and I am a close neighbor over in Ohio City- so The Detroit Shoreway neighborhood is regularly visited. Make sure you check out one of the segments here, as it features Scott and Battery Park! I look forward to seeing more city neighborhoods featured for their awesome innovations and community building!

Cleveland's Downtown Population Growing

USA Today highlighted how and why urban neighborhoods are growing in a great article today. It discusses how urban centers are growing, and much of the population is thanks to young college educated professionals. The national news source highlighted Cleveland and said the following:

In Cleveland, which lost 17% of its population, downtown added 1,300 college-educated people ages 25 to 34, up 49%.

If that isn't a reason to be happy in Cle, I don't know what is. News like this is EXACTLY what keeps Cleveland City Living (the blog and in real life) moving and groving.

Welcome center is a great new starting point for Cleveland State University

Cleveland State University has been striving to change the "feel" of its campus for several years now, and the results have been healthy, to say the least.
Just for fun, Jim Pressler of Cleveland and daughter Claire try out the photo booth at the newly opened Cleveland State University welcome center.

What was once an enclosed, concrete fortress has steadily been transformed into an outward-looking, far more inviting center of higher learning. What was once widely seen as "just a commuter school" is working hard to become a real residential campus.

This fall came the latest architectural change -- one that the general public won't see, but that prospective students and their parents will: A new welcome center is now the place where admissions counselors work, where campus tours are launched and where newcomers get their first inkling of what CSU is like.

The welcome center is nestled among the new Euclid Commons dorms, right at the heart of residential campus life. It's a place that gives prospective students an opportunity to connect with CSU's history and envision their own futures in and beyond college. It's a vibe changer, and that's a good thing.

(Article Courtesy of Cleveland.com)

MOCA Cleveland

Have you seen the rendering for the NEW MOCA Cleveland building? I love it and can't wait to see it completed. It will give the area such an amazing new *modern* feel. What do you think of it?

(Image courtesy of Cleveland.com)