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County committee backs funding and brownfield extension to advance Warner & Swayze affordable-housing project
Summary
The Cuyahoga County Community Development and Housing Committee voted to send to full council a request to commit up to $2.9 million in emergency rental assistance and $450,000 in HOME funds to the Warner & Swayze adaptive-reuse project and approved extending a brownfield match deadline to Nov. 30, 2025.
The Cuyahoga County Community Development and Housing Committee voted to move to full council for second-reading suspension two measures intended to keep the Warner & Swayze historic adaptive-reuse project on track: a funding package that includes county emergency rental assistance and federal HOME funds, and an extension of the county's brownfield match deadline.
Sarah Parks Jackson of the Department of Housing and Community Development said the project, at 57th and Carnegie in Cleveland's Midtown, would convert the former Warner & Swayze manufacturing plant into 140 units overall and 112 affordable units — 56 general multifamily units and 56 designated for seniors. "We are proposing that we put in $2,900,000 of our emergency rental assistance funds," Jackson said, adding the…
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