Playgrounds, sidewalks and amphitheaters: 20 Cuyahoga County communities win grants for local improvements

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cuyahoga County is gifting communities much than $3.2 cardinal adjacent twelvemonth to repair streets and sidewalks, upgrade playgrounds and make nationalist accommodation much accessible to those pinch disabilities.

County Council approved nan backing earlier this period arsenic portion of its 2026 Community Development Block Grant Program.

Through nan program, communities tin use for up to $150,000 each twelvemonth for projects meant to fortify cities and amended value of life for residents. This year, pandemic money near complete from nan CARES Act allowed nan region to springiness a fewer of nan projects a small much money.

Councilman Robert Schleper touted nan value of those dollars to thief communities support parks, trails and playgrounds, make sewer improvements aliases support elder centers.

“These look for illustration mini things, but erstwhile you deliberation astir nan thought of entree aliases nan thought of what it provides to nan users. ... it has impact,” he said.

Here’s wherever nan money is going adjacent year:

• $167,357 to Bedford for Greencroft Park playground replacement.
• $150,000 to Bedford Heights for nan Exterior Home Improvement Program.
• $150,000 to Berea for nan Coe Street Improvement Project.
• $150,000 to Brooklyn for ADA upgrades to nan elder organization halfway parking lot.
• $136,350 to Brooklyn Heights for ADA restroom improvements astatine nan municipal center.
• $150,000 to Fairview Park for creation of Belvidere Avenue waterline and sewer improvements.
• $249,876 to Garfield Heights for playgrounds arsenic portion of nan parks and trails maestro plan.
• $150,000 to Maple Heights for nan Southgate Park Boulevard betterment project.
• $150,000 to Newburgh Heights for resurfacing East 52nd Street.
• $150,000 to North Olmsted for nan Old Town Hall accessibility and revitalization project.
• $150,000 to North Royalton for nan State Road sidewalk extension.
• $150,000 to Olmsted Township for nan Mackenzie Road sidewalk project.
• $150,000 to Parma Heights for resurfacing Mandalay Drive.
• $150,000 to Richmond Heights for an audio-visual strategy successful nan organization center.
• $235,000 to Euclid for Bexley Park mini-pitch recreational courts.
• $150,000 to Warrensville Heights for Old Emery Road culvert repairs.
• $150,000 to Glenwillow for ADA upgrades astatine nan caller bandshell.
• $150,000 to North Randall for nan Home Improvement Program.
• $150,000 to Oakwood for pavement repairs connected First Place.
• $197,400 to Woodmere for a caller amphitheater and bandstand.

Kaitlin Durbin is simply a authorities newsman connected nan Public Interest and Advocacy squad for cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer. She covers each things Cuyahoga County, including council, nan executive and agencies that...