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Grand plans to invigorate Cleveland's dreary lakefront landed with a thud in a sliver of Ohio City this week.

The city's redevelopment vision for eight miles of lakefront, displayed at three public meetings, showed a hunk of favored green space - north of Detroit Avenue from West 29th to West 38th streets on the city's near West Side - lost to commercial development,

The possibility of losing some of the lake vistas and greenery at "Dogbone Park," so called because of its shape, drew indignation.

"That patch of green is a sacred place," said Joe Mazzola, executive director of the Ohio City Near West Development Corp. "People are investing in projects near there based on those vistas being maintained."    more...