I think the car is a bed... really great garden. Is that e or w 58th? Is this a community or private garden?

Great photo - nice to brighten up the day. Thanks

Disrupt IT

This is on West 58th and Storer.   No, the little car is a kids toy - but now  it's filled with flowers - it is next to the big butterfly mural on a wall.  Those tires are something else.

I don't know if it's private or not.  I was just driving that way one day and there it was. 

There are several building up that way that have some really great murals.  On up the street a gas station is really done up with a beautiful mural all the way around it.

This lot had piqued my interest over the last 2 summers. It is very well maintained, always mowed and litter free. The grass around the tires is always clipped. One of these days I will find the person who does this work to say thanks as it brightens my mood when I drive by. I love the convertible.

Stockyard Redevelopment Organization in general and Matt Martin in particular are to thank for the garden and public art at W. 58th and Storer Avenue.

We have a new committee in Tremont, the Recreational/Pocket Parks Committee supported by the OSS and I plan on submitting the  photo of this little greenspace as a recommendation that maybe we can do something like this in Tremont.  I do believe that I met Matt at the Cake Walk and he is certainly to be given kudos for this little garden.  Matt did live in Tremont in one of the houses that burned on Jefferson if I'm not mistaken but I don't know where he is residing now. 

I've driven by it several times but I did not have my camera - now that I'm out collecting photos of pocket parks and recreational facilities for our committee, I really wanted this one to be a part of the collection.  It is just fabulous and they should be really proud of themselves.

Perhaps this should win an award for being the most interesting and creative greenspaces?

That's 5412 Storer Ave.  

I would like to see that on that on the corner of richmond and chagrin!    

Trees make a world of difference.    

The storefront was a david ellison project. 

Select commercial properties at the link for D.H.E and the last image in that series is the location Jarleen is reffereing to, the mural is at that location.    5804 Storer  

I appreciated what what D.H.E contributed, but to me the rest is schlock.  

the storefront that has the murals, next to this building is the parking lot and that has the murals on the wall of the building in back. 

  Today's PD has a beautiful image of a barn with the mariner's compass on it.  The article features the Barn Quilt Project of Miami County, Ohio.

It's an historical imag/icon I would like to see used in Cleveland to help folks get their bearings and to highlight significant locales throughout the City of Cleveland. 

This stretch of Storer gets a lot of wayfarer (walking) traffic.  Any part of the City that is trafficked by walkers at all times of the day--feels lived in and safer than desolate stretches of suburbia.
Thanks for the images, Oengus.
 

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This garden is located at Storer and W. 54th street.  Volunteer community members constructed and maintain the garden.  There are about 12 total regular gardeners, men and women, young and old.  The design was a vision of Pastor Martin at Prince of Peace located directly across the street.  He was able to organize the people to create the garden from start to finish.  Matt Martin certainly deserves his KUDOS for the overwhelming support he continues to provide to this project.

Note that 2 years ago these lots were a dump site, very dangerous to even try to walk across due to the craters of trash and debre.  One year was dedicated to leveling the property and the next year the garden was created.  Also acknowledge that at each phase, diverse individuals (dope dealers, addicts, moms, children, elderly, streetwalkers) all pitched in to put their hands to work on something positive because they wanted to beautify their community and never had a real opportunity to do so.

The mural, which is a "must see" was created by Milan Kecman a retired artist through a grant from Neighborhood Connections. 

Just to show how amazing things can happen when CDC, community, professionals and supporters work together.  The community is very excited about enhancing their efforts in the garden next spring.

A photo journal is available at POPCE across the street, hours 3-7 Monday-Friday.

Trees…. there are many sites online that sell bare root trees for very little money.  Aslo lowes and home depot have discount in early spring and late fall. 

It is interesting, so Stockyards….

Tables and seating….

The store next door used to be called Economy Mart, its had some patching done to it, its rough.

See if you can find out how D.H.E was involved in the other store’s restoration its called Browns Plaza.

The garden could serve as a patio for the store and the store could sell food that people could eat in the garden.

The city has paving stones, they save them, the red bricks.

Across the alley is a small carriage house, it could also sell food. It could maybe be an ice cream stand? maybe Pierre’s will offer support?

The building on the other side of 54th used to be a theater.  

For some reason, I think this little garden is just perfect.  Trees would be nice but they do grow up and make big trees - and that might create too much shade blocking the sunlight from this sunny little spot and the flowers.  This is still the cutest little garden in our area.

I have always thought the old theater could have better use than that of the location of a fence company. The fence company could be relocated and that location could be a community center. It could be funded based on the arts. It is flanked by two store fronts, I think this could be a good home for Art House or other type programs. The problem is that of parking,  its limited in that area, Detroit Shoreway figured that out just recently, that people need to have access to parking or nothing really succeeds. Theaters without parking fail, like the variety on Lorain. That area is very tightly developed, spaces do exist.

Much of the storefronts are empty, that area definitely was not a good location for a night club.

It also is not all impoverished, there are many working class people in that area.  It's the hood but kind of a well kept hood, storer is an eye sore for the most part. 

If you get young person involved and then that can be leveraged up.

If you associate it with architecture, then again it can be leveraged.

  I second DWebb's comments on the vernacular charm of the garden.  When I walked door to door campaigning, I was disheartened to find garbage strewn homes next to well-manicured gardens.  It's a difficult war to wage--promoting beauty in the City of Cleveland.  This morning, I saw one woman pulling weeds from her battered street's curb.  Keep up the fight for a civilized society.
 

I am attempting to give something for the inevitable question of; what can a park do for us. Get the young people involved they will take ownership.

This a good project,

Hornbeam Hedge:

Other plants can be bought to fill the ties, the center area could support art displays, decorative beds or even vegetables….a small pond, a fountain….the kids could be drawn in, through that.   

They can be bought as bare root plants and in bulk for very little,

I like murals the city should promote them. 

...but what else is new?

Wanted to let everyone know that Stockyards Redevelopment Corporation has laid off three employees, including Matt Martin and Zach Starnick, who did such a great job with this garden at 58th and Storer and with other projects throughout Ward 14.

Zach and Matt, with the help of Court Community Service workers, cleaned up tons of trash and tires and painted over countless feet of grafitti in the ward. In addition, on their own time, they acted as "non-official" community organizers for block clubs in the neighborhood that were not assigned community organizers (ie., Clark-Fulton area block clubs). They had a hand in pretty much any beautification project in the ward, from gardens to block club cleanups to the clearing of trash from vacant lots.

They did a great job on behalf of residents of Ward 14 and all I can say is that this move appears to be politically motivated and it's bullshit. Ward 14 has lost two tireless workers; two people who made a positive difference in a ward that has had its share of rough times.

The director of Stockyards Redevelopment Corp. is Alex Brazynetz and he can be reached at 216/961-7687, ext. 205. Councilman Santiago's office number is 458-1482. Please, if you live in Ward 14 or in the Stockyards service area, call them and let them know that the residents of Ward 14 are tired of being treated like second-class citizens. And for good measure, call the Mayor's Action Line at 664-2900 and let him know that Ward 14 residents aren't going to take it anymore!!

And if you see Matt or Zach, let them know you appreciate the hard work and long hours they put in on behalf of the residents of Ward 14.

Thanks...

Advertised for a community organizer at the http://www.cndc2.org site...does anyone know who got this position or if it is filled? We need REAL community organizers here.

Either one/both of the good folks you mention here, should get picked up. Brian Cummins, this is your chance to allocate some of your funds, too. Merrick House operates out off Walton location and senior services currently in Ward 15.

  Where did she go??
 

 She left Merrick House for DSCDC, then took a new position that is housed at DSCDC as director of a Housing Center that is funded in part by NPI.

Debbie, the third person laid off from Stockyards is Michael Palcisco, who was responsible for helping Stockyards residents with code enforcement issues, home repairs, board ups, etc. So, the three men who were most visible throughout the ward and who most actively helped residents on a daily basis were laid off.

I don't know why there was money two weeks ago and no money on the day they were laid off. All I can think is that someone pulled money or leaned on the Stockyards board using reduced funding as a threat or miscounted money and didn't have what he/she thought they had. Any way you slice it, it's fishy.

If I was a conspiracy theorist, I would think that someone would like the ward to be a huge mess for whoever wins the election in November.

Ask the great one--Kucinich.  Yeah, as a matter of fact, I do have a problem with the Pope...and especially with the bishop. 

The Dalai Lama?...well, he's probably clean.