CLEVELAND — A community has come together to give a historic theater a much needed face lift after it sat vacant for decades. Businesses are slowly coming back to the Collinwood and the street is starting to thrive again. “It’s like the Phoenix rising from the fire,” said Councilman Mike Polensek. The La Salle Threatre […]

  CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – In an effort to continue building the thriving Waterloo Arts & Entertainment District, the neighborhood of Collinwood has announced its newest development initiative, called ActiVacant. This new program is a business development project designed to incubate five new businesses into the East 185th Street Business District located in North Shore […]

  CLEVELAND – The Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency, NOACA, has given an $88,000 grant to Transportation for Livable Communities Initiative for the continuing development of East 185th Street in Cleveland’s Collinwood neighborhood. East 185th Street borders the cities of Cleveland and Euclid and has a long history of providing retail goods and services to the Collinwood-Euclid area. The grant will be […]

  CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Legendary tough guy, Danny Green ruled the streets of Collinwood back in the 1970s.  His home was bombed as the Mafia tried to kill him. Fast forward to 2014, there is a different kind of explosion going on in the Cleveland neighborhood. Art galleries, music venues and a hip scene […]

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Piece by piece cranes took apart the pedestrian bridge damaged beyond repair in a Saturday morning run in with a dump truck. “I was just amazed that one man’s mistake could cause so many people so much discomfort,” said Andrew Braxton. Crews braced the dangling bridge with median dividers and carefully removed the […]