After years of being closed, East Cleveland’s Martin Luther King Jr., Civic Center is reopening on May 1.
Now, East Cleveland Service and Parks Director Antonio Marshall said he hopes it will give the community a safe gathering space to meet once again.
“When the civic was open, we were able to touch the kids that had problems, so we were able to talk to them. We were able to grab them and just love them and make them have a different outlook than the streets. So when we lost that, we got where we at now. The crime rate for the kids is really high,” said Marshall…