Parks, Greenways

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Parks, Greenways Trails Transforming Slavic
Village Marlane Weslian, Slavic Village
Development
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SVD Fast Facts

• Serve low/moderate income community of 30,000 on
  Clevelands near south side.
• Soup to nuts CDC offering broad range of products
  and services with emphasis on social justice and
  physical development.
• Over past 5 years annual budget 1.5 to 2
  million and 20-25 staff.

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Slavic Village 2000 Then

• Blue collar, aging, white, eastern European
  ethnic community
• High percentage of seniors
• Concerns were race, physical development and loss
  of local hospital
• SVDs implicit goals were to attract middle
  income households and artists Creating a
  Renaissance in Broadway Slavic Village

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Slavic Village 2008 Now

• Community significantly more diverse
• Young families are major demographic
• Epicenter of foreclosure crisis
• Significant new resources and amenities that are
  not typical bricks and mortar
• Negative media due to several high profile crimes
• Strong, strong focus on community building
• Emphasis on marketing niche and branding
• New image Living Active

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Building on our assets
Third Federal Savings Bank
MetroParks Washington Park/First Tee Reservation
Mill Creek Falls 45 ft tall
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Change Means Partners Collaborations
W LERR MetroParks Neighborhood Progress
Inc. CleanOhio Catholic Diocese Boys Girls Club
Cleveland Schools Councilman Anthony
Brancatelli Cleveland Foundation Friends of the
Trail Gund Foundation
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Mill Creek Falls, New Overlook Trail
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MetroParks Washington Park
and First Tee Golf Course
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INVESTMENTS IN GREENSPACE - Planning

• Greenway Map First phase
• Transportation for Livable
• Communities Initiative (TLCI)
• -Kingsbury Run Trail
• -Broadway Streetscape
• -More off-road trail
• connections
• Fleet Ave. Streetscape
• Bikeway

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Wheeling Lake Erie Railroad discontinues the
use of 2.5 miles of rail line and agrees to
donate the land to the City of Cleveland in 2002
Rail Line - Before
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2003-05 SVD uses major grant opportunity with
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to spear-head
trail development, and partners with City of
Cleveland to raise funds for trail development
a collaborative ownership and maintenance plan.
Trail
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Broadway Scenic Byways
Trailheads
Before
After
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Trail Completion October 2006

• 3.5 mile Morgana Run Trail three trailheads
  open to the public

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Successes Programming and Events

• Friends of the Trail Urban Trailblazers

Promoting the Morgana Run Trail with events
volunteer maintenance.

• Morgana Run 5K
• Bike Rodeos
• Hallo - Green

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Programming - Urban Trailblazers

• A group of residents who have agreed to spend at
  least 2 hours a month on the Morgana Run Trail
• The group assists users on the trail by
  providing them with basic bicycle maintenance,
  first aid, and general information regarding the
  trail and the neighborhood.
• The group also insures that the trail is
  maintained properly

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Programming and Events

• Walk a Hound, Loose a Pound
• SVD and corporate partner Third Federal Savings
  and Loan partner for annual Morgana RUN! 5K

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Successes Boys and Girls Club

• Organized a bike club with SVD and member
  youth
• Assists with clean-ups along the trail

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Investments in Greenspace

• Hyacinth Park programming throughout the summer

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Friends of Hyacinth Park

• Public Art Project Adoption of park by
  community
• Events Concerts, Parties in Park

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• Dan Kane Gardens
• SVD adopts park

Warszawa Music Festival 8 week concert series
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• Cleveland Botanical Garden
• Slavic Village Garden site
• Turns vacant lot into garden
• Employs 15 neighborhood youth

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Mural Park City Fresh Open Air Market
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Trail Public Art Project
Partners LexTech, Cleveland Public Art,
Parkworks, NPI and SVD
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• Projects on the drawing board
• Skateboard Park
• Velodrome
• Tioga Neighborhood Park
• Blanche Ave./E.55th Trail spur

• Union Ave. Model Block Garden - Funded
• CCC and South High Athletic Fields - Funded

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Trails Greenspace as Change Agents

• Positive message to residents regarding health
  of the neighborhood
• Increases street life sense of
  safetypro-active instead of negative approach to
  safety
• Provides vehicle for higher level of stakeholder
  involvement and support in the community
• Increased levels of activity by residents on
  existing recreation amenities and creation of new
• More opportunities for community building
  activities, including volunteer maintenance
• Additional investment opportunities, public art
  and economic development

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Successes Using Trail to leverage135 unit
housing development connected by the Morgana
Run Trail to the Ohio and Erie Canal Towpath Trail
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