Two excellent stories to take note of today, one from Crain’s detailing the county’s awarding of a one million dollar loan to clean up part of the East Bank of the Flats to EPA standards, the other from EcoCityCleveland’s Mark Lefkowitz about Greater Cleveland’s wealth of green neighborhoods:

“Green building is moving ‘up scale’—in impact—as the U.S. Green Building Council launches its new Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) program this year. The good news for Greater Cleveland is it can boast four projects in the pilot phase, which is better than average for a region this size.

Some 120 projects in total were selected to be a part of the pilot program including the Flats East Bank, Upper Chester (near the Cleveland Clinic), the redevelopment of the former Saint Luke’s Hospital, and the East College Street project in the town of Oberlin. Local organizers hope to capitalize on the catalytic strength of these four high profile projects as anchors for green neighborhoods that, someday, stretch for blocks.

 You can get the Crain’s story here, and the rest of Mark Lefkowitz’s report here.

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