New drawings of a reimagined downtown Cleveland lakefront show wide pedestrian paths, buildings that approach and recede from the water’s edge — and a football field-shaped park on the land where the Cleveland Browns currently play.
But the latest plans for roughly 50-acres of city-owned property don’t spell out how much retail, office space or housing there should be. Instead, they show where key streets and public spaces ought to go, leaving room for the real estate market to fill in the gaps.
On Monday, the North Coast Waterfront Development Corporation plans to send the images to Cleveland City Hall, starting a public review process after months of behind-the-scenes work. The nonprofit’s leaders gave News 5 an early look at the proposal, which they described as an adaptable “framework” — not another master plan.
“There’s an opportunity for us to really get going on this so that Clevelanders can finally see action on their waterfront,” Jason Russell, the group’s vice president of planning and development, said during a recent interview…