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Task turns to documenting the destruction at Pearl and Memphis
NEIGHBORS 4 ACTION EMBODIED THE TRUE SPIRIT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Tuesday, July 7, 2026; Corner of Pearl and Memphis: A bulldozer piles up the rubble from the demolition of the historic Greenline building. by Lynette Filips (Plain Press August 2026) In January of 2024, when I started writing these articles…
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Reader seeks answers from Old Brooklyn Development Corporation
To the editor: (Plain Press July 2026) There is an extensive ‘commentary’ about the relocation of the Historical Sosiety Of Old Brooklyn museum in the current (Summer 2026) Old Brooklyn News, which is the publication vehicle for the Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation. This corporation is the owner of the corner where the museum…
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In memoriam — Demolition of Old Brooklyn’s iconic corner at Memphis Ave. and Pearl Rd. begins
by Lynette Filips (Plain Press July 2026) I didn’t grow up in Old Brooklyn, but generations of my ancestors did — and some were still living there when I was a child in post-World War II Parma. My parents had to migrate south because there wasn’t enough housing available for all the Baby Boomer…
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Update on Memphis Pearl Project and other neighborhood events
by Lynette Filips (Plain Press June 2026) The pallets of orange Jersey barricades and piping which I mentioned in last month’s article, along with the fencing above them, have been installed around Pearl Road United Methodist Church, the former St. Luke’s United Church of Christ, and the Greenline Building(s) on the northwest corner of…
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Developments at Pearl and Memphis inch forward as former tenants seek new homes
by Lynette Filips (Plain Press April 2026) Two months have passed since I last addressed the many issues facing the corner of Memphis Ave. and Pearl Rd. in the heart of Old Brooklyn. Seemingly more and more sidebars have come up while the major issues are still in limbo. To make processing all of them…
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Historic buildings still standing at Pearl and Memphis
by Lynette Filips The months (and years) go by quickly and thus another month has passed with seemingly nothing having moved forward with the projected demolition of the doomed buildings in the Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation’s (OBCDC’s) revitalization plan for the northwest corner of Memphis Ave. and Pearl Rd. Sheets of new plywood…
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All storefronts in Greenline Buildings at Memphis and Pearl are empty
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF OLD BROOKLYN MUSEUM AND MARIA THE BARBERETTE WERE EVICTED LAST MONTH by Lynette Filips(Plain Press December 2025) In the article about the Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation’s (OBCDC’s) Memphis Pearl project in the April 2025, issue of the Plain Press, I wrote some commentary about Ward 13 Councilman Kris Harsh’s visit to…
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Councilman Kris Harsh urged to honor promise to delay demolition of Pearl and Memphis corner until funding for proposed project is secured
by Lynette Filips (Plain Press November 2025) Longtime Greater Clevelanders will no doubt remember the years shortly before and after 1970 when the lights were permanently off at Playhouse Square. The once-glorious theaters were slated for demolition because downtown Cleveland was not the entertainment epicenter of the region that it once had been. But…
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News from Old Brooklyn and update on status of Memphis and Pearl project
PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Monday, September 22, 2025, Brookmere Cemetery, 3645 Broadview Road: Entrance to the City of Cleveland’s Brookmere Cemetery. by Lynette Filips (Plain Press October 2025) Another month has passed and once again there are new developments in the Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation’s (OBCDC’s) Memphis Pearl project. Interestingly, I was recently…
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