In May, Scene took a long look at the mammoth undertaking that would be
moving Cleveland’s port from the Warehouse District to East 55th street, freeing up downtown waterfront property for frothing-at-the-mouth developers.
At a glance, it sounds like a good idea. But this is a project that has all the ingredients of another Cleveland city-planning disaster. Think Euclid Corridor—tons of hyperbole, cronytastic maneuvering, decades of delays, and, of course, a steadily inflating price tag, predicted by some experts to end up at double the city’s initial $600 million estimate. ...