Steven Litt

Bike advocates are pleased to see the City of Cleveland going after $32.5 million to complete funding for innovative bike infrastructure projects in the city but are dismayed the city is watering down its ambitions for the Lorain Avenue Cycle Track.

Cleveland Metroparks would not be celebrating the completion of the $6 million Wendy Park Bridge on Thursday, June 24 if Cleveland businessman Dan T. Moore III hadn’t fought for 30 years to create a public park and marina at Whiskey Island.

On Friday, the Cleveland City Planning Commission voted unanimously to approve designs for a memorial garden dedicated to 11 victims of notorious killer Anthony Sowell.

A proposal by Cleveland Metroparks to widen a sidewalk on Lake Avenue to provide better connections to Lake Erie and Edgewater Park has sparked some shrill comments but is a great idea, nonetheless.

The Cleveland Botanical Garden says it wants to welcome a broader segment of the public. And yet the garden has erected an allegedly illegal fence around its outdoor grounds — charging $15 per head to come inside — and is vigorously opposing litigation that would tear the fence down, writes Robert J…

The Akron Art Museum gets high marks from funders and other observers for repairing its reputation and raising morale of staff after a management meltdown over alleged workplace violations in 2020.

City, county, and regional officials celebrated completion of the final stage of the Towpath Trail in Cleveland on Wednesday, making the end of a complex 20-year project and beginning of a new push to add to a growing regional trail system.

Grafton Nunes, who led the 139-year-old Cleveland Institute of Art through a campus consolidation, reaccreditation, and the coronavirus pandemic, announced Tuesday that he’ll retire at the end of June, 2022 after spending his final year in leadership building up college finances.

ODOT’s Review Advisory Council warmly received a downtown Cleveland lakefront connector proposed by the Browns, but with a few caveats over potential funding for additional planning.

Three of Northeast Ohio’s leading experts on city planning endorsed a new vision for the downtown Cleveland lakefront advanced by the Browns, and rejected the idea of moving FirstEnergy stadium off the shoreline.

A new master planning process launched by Holden Forests & Gardens is aimed at improving diversity and broadening the audiences for Holden Arboretum and the Cleveland Botanical Garden.

Park Synagogue, a 152-year-old Conservative Jewish congregation is offering its main building, designed by architect Eric Mendelsohn, for sale, raising questions about its future.

Cleveland edged up five places in the Trust for Public Land’s annual ParkScore ranking of the 100 biggest U.S. cities, thanks to new investments in parks and trails.

The administration of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson on Monday said a controversial proposal to include a construction training institute with an asphalt and a concrete plant in Opportunity Corridor need more “due diligence.”

The Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency has kicked off a yearlong, $250,000 study of downtown Cleveland transportation connectivity, safety and equity with a public survey that will collect comments through June 13.

The Artists Archives of the Western Reserve sponsored a panel discussion taking up the perennial question whether the Cleveland Museum of Art should revive the May Show, once a popular annual survey of Northeast Ohio art.

An excellent new documentary produced by ideastream WVIZ/PBS shows how Roy Lichtenstein’s wife, Isabel, nurtured his career in Cleveland in the 1950s before he emerged as a globally famous Pop artist in New York.

The Cleveland City Planning Commission approved rezoning a large parcel in the Opportunity Corridor development zone while members criticized plans for a construction training institute nearby that would feature concrete and asphalt plants.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland has canceled the local run of a traveling exhibition for the second time in a year as its staff debates how the institution can better embody principles of racial equity.

The Chicago-based Joyce Foundation granted the FRONT International: Triennial for Contemporary Art and New York-based artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed a $75,000 grant to create a mural in the Hough neighborhood for the 2022 triennial.