The Bezos Earth Fund on Tuesday announced a $10 million grant to help Cleveland take a bite out of the vast problem of cleaning up vacant residential lots marred by buried debris, rusting fences, illegal dumps and invasive vegetation.
The nonprofit Western Reserve Land Conservancy will spend the $10 million over three years to clean up 600 publicly-owned parcels across roughly 60 acres in the St. Clair-Superior and Hough neighborhoods. Most are held by the city’s land bank.
“I’m really excited we have an opportunity with this investment to improve environmental conditions where people live and current residents have weathered so many storms over the years,’’ Isaac Robb, the conservancy’s chief urban program officer, said Tuesday in an interview…