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Developer outlines North Coast Yard pop-up park, says no city funding requested
Summary
Delta Development Corporation executive director Scott Skinner described the North Coast Yard, a 1.2-acre temporary lakefront activation with food, music and youth programming that drew 25,000 visits last year; Skinner said the project is funded by his nonprofit's operating budget and not asking the city for money.
Scott Skinner, executive director of the Delta Development Corporation, told the City Council the North Coast Yard is a temporary 1.2-acre activation on the Northland Ground Stadium site adjacent to the steamship Mathers.
Skinner said the pop-up includes furniture and seating, a shipping-container bar, regular food trucks and play areas for basketball, roller skating and skateboarding. The site, he said, uses about 90 of the parking spaces on a 2,100-space lot and was programmed every evening last summer.
"Last year we were open for 2 and a half months and we had 25,000 unique visitors," Skinner said, noting marquee events such as a skateboarding competition and a Fourth of July watch party.
Skinner said programming involved more than 70 nonprofit and small-business partners from 17 Cleveland neighborhoods and five surrounding suburbs; weekly offerings include soccer leagues, youth skate camps and live music hosted by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He added that aside from food and drink, most activities were free and that the operations are covered by his organization's budget.
On funding, Skinner told council members the initiative was supported initially by roughly $3,000,000 in ARPA funds allocated three years ago and by modest parking revenue and settlement bond portions, but emphasized the pop-up is financed through his group's operating budget and that any permanent leases or development agreements would return to council for approval.
Skinner said the group expects to have further planning materials to share with the public by late summer and requested permission only to continue summer programming, not a city appropriation.
