Housing
Northwest Neighborhoods is committed to ensuring all our residents have affordable, healthy and safe housing, and we foster investments in our housing stock with an equity lens.
Northwest Neighborhoods also connects residents and property owners to home repair and homeownership resources.
For home repair resources, visit the home repair page.
For multi-family apartments owned by Northwest Neighborhoods, visit the Available Units page.
Economic Development
Northwest Neighborhoods supports the economic development and revitalization of commercial/retail districts within its service area.
This includes managing commercial leasing for a 50,000 square foot portfolio of Northwest Neighborhoods-owned properties, recruiting new businesses and providing technical assistance to existing businesses, coordinating public improvements and government approvals, managing the Gordon Square parking program, supporting merchants’ associations, overseeing an Economic Development Committee and Hire Local initiative, and more.
Visit the business page if you’re looking for information on starting a business, resources for your existing business, or information on neighborhood merchant associations.
Marketing & Events
Our organization provides support for a variety of free or low-cost events throughout the year, showcasing our neighborhoods as travel destinations and providing arts and cultural opportunities for visitors and residents.
To learn more about neighborhood events and what is coming up next, visit the events calendar.
Northwest Neighborhoods produces three e-newsletters as well as a print newsletter—Neighborhood Views—sent to every home in the service area
Greenspace, Planning & Infrastructure
We collaborate with multiple partners to create greenspace and improve infrastructure within the service area, ranging from streetscape projects and pocket parks to multipurpose trails and bike lanes.
Northwest Neighborhoods also leads master planning for its neighborhoods and convenes the community to provide feedback on public improvements. From 2015–2019, Northwest Neighborhoods participated in the Kresge Climate Resilience Urban Opportunity Initiative in partnership with Cleveland Neighborhood Progress.
For more on greenspaces in the neighborhood, visit Parks and Recreation.
Special Improvement
District
A separate 501(c)3 non-profit organization, the Gordon Square Arts District-Cleveland Improvement Corporation (GSAD-CIC) provides maintenance, safety and marketing services along Detroit Avenue between West 58th–West 73rd Streets, such as snow and graffiti removal, power washing, garbage removal, safety escorts, holiday lighting and more.
Also known as the “Special Improvement District” or SID, the GSAD-CIC contracts with Northwest Neighborhoods to hire all service vendors, manage finances, provide marketing, and serve as primary contact for district-related needs.
Oversight of programs and services is provided by the GSAD-CIC Board of Directors and four working subcommittees: maintenance, marketing, safety, and finance.
Downtown Cleveland Ambassadors (DCA) provides safety escorts to employees and patrons of Gordon Square Arts District.
