CLEVELAND, Ohio — For decades, a manufacturing corridor stretching along a rail line south of Euclid Avenue through the Central and Fairfax neighborhoods has largely been known for what it lost.
Factories closed. Jobs disappeared. Buildings sat empty. Land that once helped power Cleveland’s manufacturing economy became fragmented into dozens of abandoned and contaminated parcels, many untouched for generations.
Now city leaders are betting that same corridor could become the centerpiece for job growth by attracting several businesses – triggered by a nearly complete massive land assemblage and early cleanup work for hundreds of acres…