The historic Northern Ohio Blanket Mills property could have ended up as a pile of rubble. Instead, the building in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood – which once housed the nation’s largest manufacturer of woolen horse blankets and carriage robes – has been transformed into 60 affordable apartments as well as a hub for social services, including health care and child care.
That outcome, project leaders say, reflects years of persistence, coordination and investment from community partners and funders. They marked the achievement with a ribbon-cutting and open house on Thursday, April 23, celebrating the building’s grand opening at 3466 St. Rocco’s Court, between Fulton Road and West 25th Street.
The redevelopment includes 60 one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments on the upper floors. The first floor houses the Cleveland Department of Public Health, Neighborhood Family Practice, Metro West Community Development Organization and Little Footsteps Bilingual Child Enrichment Center, creating a one-stop center for residents and the surrounding community…