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CLEVELAND — Overhead cranes and abandoned cabooses hint at the backstory of this building. A once-mighty factory where workers made the machines that shaped America.
“Injecting life and vitality into neighborhoods. Removing blight. Promoting environmental justice and building wealth,” he said. “And this site, with all of its strengths and attributes – sitting right in the middle of a neighborhood – is just the kind of place that we hope to reactivate.” One of the company’s executives, George Hulett, invented the unloaders in the late 1800s. The mammoth machines transformed the shipping business, dramatically reducing the amount of time and manpower required to haul materials off ships.Cleveland's Hulett Ore Unloaders on Whiskey Island to be sold for scrap But industry moved on. And Wellman-Seaver-Morgan, after several name changes and mergers, left Cleveland in 1988. A railroad-track manufacturer later used the factory.
The Cuyahoga Land Bank, or Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corp., is holding the real estate for the site fund. The land bank, a quasi-governmental entity, is exempt from property taxes and has unique powers to acquire and clean up blighted land and buildings. City officials have talked about pursuing additional funding from Cuyahoga County and JobsOhio, the state’s private nonprofit economic development corporation. The site fund also plans to seek state grants for environmental clean-up.
“I think this investment shows that this administration is serious in terms of bringing jobs and bringing hope back to Cleveland’s East Side,” he said, referring to majority-Black neighborhoods struggling with high poverty rates and the fallout from decades of decline. 'We need to get a broom' The small team at the site fund doesn’t have a firm plan for the building yet. But it has a few ideas.
Cleveland Site Fund Hulett Ore Unloaders Site Readiness For Good Jobs Fund Wellman-Mcdowell Wellman-Seaver-Morgan
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