The five-way intersection of Broadway Avenue, East 55th Street and Hamlet Avenue is the traditional centre of Slavic Village, once called Little Bohemia for its large Czech population.
It retains all of its pre-World War I buildings. Reviving this area as part of the Broadway transit corridor is the goal of new planning and development by the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority and Slavic Village Development Inc.
The Broadway Avenue corridor in Cleveland’s Slavic Village could soon see new signs of life thanks to a federal grant that was awarded last week to the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA).
The $432,000 grant will allow the transit agency to develop plans to redesign the Broadway corridor from the Turney-Ella bus loop near Calvary Cemetery to downtown as a bus rapid transit (BRT) route with enhanced pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure.
Once those plans are complete, it can then apply for federal funds to build that infrastructure. The planning work will also help guide land use decisions involving zoning, parking policies and public incentives to support local transit-oriented development ( TOD ). The city of Cleveland and Slavic Village Development Inc is a nonprofit community development corporation.
On Nov. 17, the Federal Transit Administration announced the award of approximately $13.1 million from its Pilot Program for TOD to 19 projects in 14 states for 2022. The TOD planning grants support community efforts to improve access to public transportation. The grants help organisations plan for transportation projects that connect communities and improve access to transit and affordable housing.
“The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority will receive funding to plan for TOD along the proposed Broadway Avenue Corridor project, a multi-modal planning project that will incorporate bus rapid transit with bike and pedestrian infrastructure,” said the FTA in awarding the grant. “The TOD plan will increase bicycle and pedestrian access to transit hubs, recommend ways to incorporate green infrastructure, and analyse ways to revitalise commercial and housing opportunities near transit stations.”
This is the second time GCRTA has been awarded funding from the FTA’s Pilot Program for TOD which has been in existence since 2015. In 2018, GCRTA won $336,000 to plan for TOD along the MetroHealth Line, a planned BRT line connecting downtown Cleveland with the city’s Old Brooklyn neighbourhood via West 25th Street to serve MetroHealth’s expanded health facilities plus growing residential and employment areas.
The NOACA report also stressed the importance of TOD investment in what it called “the village centre” — the core of Slavic Village, which is an historic district surrounding the intersection of Broadway East 55th. This five-leg intersection including Hamlet Avenue is a traditional mixed-use neighbourhood centre, with commercial buildings, many featuring apartments above storefronts, fronting the main streets.
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NOACA’s report noted this is one of only two intersections in Cleveland with pre-World War I buildings on all of its corners. This crossroads has 50 businesses and institutions, a post office, the offices of Slavic Village Development, Inc., and several churches, including the landmark Our Lady of Lourdes.
The construction of multiple distribution centres nearby that will offer more than 1,000 jobs. One is already under construction — the $30 million, 156,775-square-foot Cleveland Cold Storage food warehouse at East 75th Street and Opportunity Corridor Boulevard. Another — the 182,000-square-foot Reserve Premier warehouse at 3000 E. 55th — is getting its site cleared in preparation for construction.
Another big project is the possibility that the Cleveland Browns may seek to move the football stadium off the lakefront so it can be developed with year-round uses. Team owner the Haslam Sports Group reportedly has shown interest in building a new stadium on the current site of the Main Post Office along Broadway or possibly another site just south of the Municipal Parking Lot. The stadium would apparently be part of a “ballpark village” development district.
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