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Programs offer leadership training
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM (CDCLP) Community Development leaders from the Cleveland area participate in a session on real estate. The CDCLP is looking for leaders interested in joining its 2025 cohort. (Plain Press July 2025) If you are passionate, committed and dedicated to taking an active role in improving…
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Library and Northwest Neighborhoods break ground for new Walz Branch, senior housing
(Plain Press July 2025) On Friday, June 6th the Cleveland Public Library and Northwest Neighborhoods Community Development Organization broke ground on the Walz Library-Karam Senior Living project at 7918 Detroit Avenue in Cleveland’s Detroit Shoreway neighborhood. The new development promises to bring to the neighborhood a new state-of-the-art library branch and affordable senior…
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HUD cuts will make it harder for City’s CDCs to stay open
by Bruce Checefsky Cleveland City Council introduced measures to overhaul funding for Community Development Corporations (CDCs) in January of this year. Ordinance No. 113-2025 would change how neighborhood development corporations get money by creating a Neighborhood Development Sub-fund. The program will provide grants to expand economic opportunities for low- to moderate-income residents. In Cleveland,…
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Anti-eviction program helps residents in Northwest Neighborhoods
by Bob Sandrick, The Land (Plain Press October 2024) A nonprofit provider of affordable housing in Cleveland has devised an innovative and perhaps groundbreaking eviction-avoidance program that it hopes will serve as a model throughout the city and even the country. Northwest Neighborhoods, which owns and manages more than 350 rental apartment units…
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Partnerships push Karam Senior Living towards its construction as a place where anyone can thrive
ARCHITECTURAL RENDERING BY BIALOSKY CLEVELAND This architectural rendering shows a front view of the future Walz Campus of the Cleveland Public Library at W. 80th and Detroit Avenue which includes an addition called Karam Senior Living. Karam Senior Living will provide affordable housing to area senior citizens. (Plain Press September 2024) Northwest Neighborhoods CDC…
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Northwest Neighborhoods announces Executive Director Kent Márquez
(Plain Press August 2024) The Board of Directors of Northwest Neighborhoods CDC is pleased to announce its selection of Bridget Kent Márquez (she/they) as the organization’s Executive Director, following one year of her interim executive directorship. Under Kent Márquez’s leadership, a spokesperson for Northwest Neighborhoods says the nonprofit has evolved as an innovative provider of affordable housing and…
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New mural completed near the Lorain Ave. exit of I-90
PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Thursday, October 12, 2023; 8004 Lorain Avenue: This Destination Cleveland Mural by artist Lisa Quine of Hudson, Ohio is across Lorain Avenue from the westbound I-90 Lorain Avenue exit. The mural says, “The Land where anything is possible.” Northwest Neighbors offers thanks to the building’s owners and Destination Cleveland for accepting…
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Renovation updates for Cleveland Public Library’s branches and StoryWalk introduced at Carnegie West Branch
Renovation updates for Cleveland Public Library’s branches and StoryWalk introduced at Carnegie West Branch by Bruce Checefsky Plain Press, July 20220 Cleveland Public Library (CPL) ranked fourth among America’s Star Libraries, earning a prestigious Five-Star rating from the Library Journal, the oldest and most respected publication covering library service. The Library Journal index, published annually, compares…
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