Call it gentrification or rebirth, but a couple's move into the Hingetown neighborhood has led to a transformation of the formerly "toxic corner" of Cleveland.
When Graham Veysey and Marika Shiori-Clark moved into a former firehouse in one of Cleveland’s most dilapidated areas, they knew that they wanted to "sink roots down and make an impact." Lee Chilcote writes in Vanity Fair that the couple's investment in the firehouse and the surrounding street (adding public art, bike racks, and the rehab of a building across the street) has turned Hingetown into a destination.
"Hingetown is now a development hotbed, with more than $70 million in new projects planned in the roughly eight-square-block area. Veysey and Shioiri-Clark credit this to the authentic sense of neighborhood vitality and the fact that residents have taken ownership."
Chilcote writes that the neighborhood is now home to an art gallery, a tea shop, and an independent coffee shop. The ongoing investment has attracted empty nesters, millennials, and young families.
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