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CRA director highlights downtown activation, Cleveland Street challenges and MLK property appraisal
Summary
CRA Executive Director Jesus Nino reported active downtown construction and activation projects, a completed rehousing of an old motel into 'Clearwater Gardens,' concerns about Cleveland Street market closures, progress on a shipping-container small-business initiative with a $36,000 architectural contract, and an MLK/Washington property appraisal of $2,520,000 slated for disposition.
At the Nov. 17 CRA meeting, Executive Director Jesus Nino framed recent downtown work as evidence of the CRA's mission while flagging persistent business-viability issues on Cleveland Street.
Nino told trustees the CRA has roughly 66 grants in process across downtown and North Greenwood and is reprinting Spanish outreach flyers to increase small-business participation. He described the conversion of a former motel into a completed affordable-housing asset called Clearwater Gardens, which CRA staff and partners are beginning to lease to tenants and plan to ribbon-cut soon as an example of CRA reinvestment.
On commercial activity, Nino said some Cleveland Street businesses…
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