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Committee clears land-swap with Cleveland schools to enable new JFK stadium and shared-use agreement
Summary
The committee approved an emergency ordinance authorizing a land exchange with the Cleveland Municipal School District that transfers the former JFK High School parcel to the city and transfers multiple land-bank parcels to the district, and authorizes up to $2.1 million in city bond funds toward construction of a shared stadium.
The Development, Planning & Sustainability Committee approved an emergency ordinance authorizing property exchanges between the City of Cleveland and the Cleveland Municipal School District (CMSD) to facilitate redevelopment and a new shared athletic stadium adjacent to the new JFK High School and the city-owned Frederick Douglass Recreation Center.
Under the agreement the city will convey several small land-bank parcels to CMSD to support facilities at FDR Academy and Newcomers Academy, and the school district will convey the roughly 14-acre former JFK High School parcel at 17100 Harvard Avenue to the city for redevelopment. CMSD demolished the former school building and…
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