The Opportunity Corridor, Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio’s Opportunity Corridor is the ‘transformative’  3.2 mile boulevard connecting East 55th Street /I-490 (industrialized- see welder) and University Circle (cultural and medical institutions- see Parade on the Circle) on Cleveland’s east side. This controversial road was constructed between 2013 and 2021. In 2014 and 2015 I visited some of the neighborhoods (homes, businesses and churches) destine for ‘transformation’, as well as some of the excavations of the future roadway…