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December 06, 2022

Mandel Foundation awards $5M challenge grant to Ohio City park project

Irishtown Bend Park

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation has awarded a $5 million challenge grant to the Irishtown Bend Park project in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, community development partners LAND studio and Ohio City Incorporated announced Dec. 6. The grant to the 23-acre park project of shared public green space that connects...

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December 06, 2022

Couple’s $42M donation creates sparkling new west side hospital

Details from a mural by Derek Brennan in the three-season pediatric common area

The opening of The MetroHealth Glick Center “unquestionably exceeds our greatest expectations,” philanthropist Bob Glick told the Cleveland Jewish News. Bob and JoAnn Glick, for whom the $767 million, 11-story building is named, were given that honor after they contributed $42 million for programming – not for bricks and mortar. The building,...

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October 28, 2022

MetroHealth's new Glick Center showcases works by Cleveland-area artists

Lynnea Holland Weiss and her mural, "Embrace," shown in-process and completed

MetroHealth’s new main campus hospital in Cleveland, the Glick Center, is full of art. Designed to be a reflection of the diverse community it serves, each of the building’s 11 floors feature artwork at every turn, created mostly by local artists. Linda Jackson, director of the Center for Arts in Health...

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October 11, 2022

Fallen officer inspires community partners to build reflective park in Buckeye

The entrance to Derek Owens Memorial Park on Parkview Avenue

Sometimes you stumble upon some of the most beautiful, warm-spirited folks and lush green spaces, and that’s what happened to me one day in the Buckeye/Woodland Hills neighborhood. One Sunday, while traveling east on Parkview between Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. and East 102nd St., I saw a gentleman cutting,...

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October 06, 2022

New Mural, “Glacier Caves" by Natalie Lanese, Celebrated Thursday in Clark-Fulton

Mural part of larger public art project highlighting Cleveland's Latino neighborhood

On the Corner of West 25th Street and Walton Avenue in the Clark-Fulton neighborhood there will be a public art event from 4-6:30 p.m. to celebrate the recently completed mural, “Glacier Caves,” by local artist Natalie Lanese. Sponsored by Metro West Community Development Organization, Land Studios and MetroHealth as part...

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