CLEVELAND, OHIO: Historic churches near Cleveland Clinic for sale
CLEVELAND, OHIO: Historic churches near Cleveland Clinic campus at center of debate over preservation, land-banking
The Episcopal Diocese of Ohio has put the Church of the Transfiguration up for sale, for $1.9 million
By Michelle Jarboe McFee
The Plain Dealer
http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2012/01/historic_churches_near_clevela.html
January 20, 2012
The Euclid Avenue Church of God and the Church of the Transfiguration sit empty on Cleveland's former Millionaires' Row, remnants of a heyday when mansions marched east from downtown.
Their congregations have fled. And historic preservationists fear that both churches will disappear, swallowed up by the Cleveland Clinic's appetite for land.
Now the Cleveland Restoration Society, with nine employees and a million-dollar annual budget, is pitting itself against the city's largest employer, a health care giant that says it has no interest in redeveloping dilapidated churches at the edge of its main campus.
The Clinic has offered to pay $500,000 for the land beneath the Euclid Avenue Church of God, northeast of Euclid and East 86th Street. On the other side of Euclid, the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio has put Transfiguration up for sale, for $1.9 million.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
The Episcopal Diocese of Ohio has put the Church of the Transfiguration up for sale, for $1.9 million
By Michelle Jarboe McFee
The Plain Dealer
http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2012/01/historic_churches_near_clevela.html
January 20, 2012
The Euclid Avenue Church of God and the Church of the Transfiguration sit empty on Cleveland's former Millionaires' Row, remnants of a heyday when mansions marched east from downtown.Their congregations have fled. And historic preservationists fear that both churches will disappear, swallowed up by the Cleveland Clinic's appetite for land.
Now the Cleveland Restoration Society, with nine employees and a million-dollar annual budget, is pitting itself against the city's largest employer, a health care giant that says it has no interest in redeveloping dilapidated churches at the edge of its main campus.
The Clinic has offered to pay $500,000 for the land beneath the Euclid Avenue Church of God, northeast of Euclid and East 86th Street. On the other side of Euclid, the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio has put Transfiguration up for sale, for $1.9 million.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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