Browns stadium or no Browns stadium, Cleveland is building its long-planned land bridge to the downtown lakefront.
That’s what James DeRosa, the director of the Mayor’s Office of Capital Projects, told City Council last week. The pedestrian bridge would connect Mall C to the lakefront land that’s home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Great Lakes Science Center and the stadium — or whatever replaces the stadium.
In all, the project will cost $447 million, including the land bridge and extensive changes to the Shoreway. The land bridge portion, which features a parking garage, accounts for $145 million of that…