CLEVELAND — A decades-long dispute between Brook Park and the city over homes near Cleveland Hopkins International Airport has ended with a ruling in favor of the city.
Back in 2001, when Cleveland was looking to build a third runway at Hopkins, then Mayor Mike White and then Brook Park Mayor Tom Coyne reached a massive deal that involved Cleveland buying hundreds of homes to the south of the airport, while Brook Park traded the I-X Center in exchange for NASA Glenn Research Center.
The deal was intended to allow airport expansion without using eminent domain. While the city completed purchases in Zones 1–4, it never acted on Zones 5–6, leaving some homeowners in limbo, according to Brook Park…