In 2023, Geoff Brediger competed to buy a historic lighthouse — and lost.
Now he’s getting a second shot at acquiring the property, an iconic but tricky piece of real estate that’s half a mile out in Lake Erie.
Brediger, a 48-year-old Lakewood pharmacist, is the founder of the Cleveland Light Keepers Collective. The new nonprofit is one of six groups that recently expressed interest in taking over the Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead Lighthouse, a landmark beacon that the federal government’s been trying to offload for almost a decade…