The Cleveland Plain Dealer

East Fourth St. is a popular spot in downtown Cleveland, an alley lined with tables from onlooking restaurants. A recent renovation has resulted in an explosion of flowers.

A recent conference focused on how planners use the transformative effect that artists bring to a community to help jump start urban revitalization.

Cleveland and its suburbs are trying to remove some of the regional competition between cities by sharing revenues and resources.

Following up on a series from three years ago, the Cleveland Plain Dealer finds that much hopeful talk on the benefits of regional cooperation have yet to translate into actual reform.

Residents in Cleveland, Ohio, may be putting their tax dollars towards relocating a strip club. The relocation is part of an effort to acquire the club's current location for reuse as a homeless shelter.

The largest inner-ring suburb advocacy group in the country has an ambitious agenda for Ohio's new governor.

A plan to revive downtown Cleveland by creating an design district that would make the city a center of consumer-product design is attracting the support of local experts and officials.

As a developer sets his sights on redeveloping some of Cleveland's Cuyahoga Riverfront, the state of Ohio is considering the use of eminent domain to secure the land and ensure the economic development it promises.

Population loss continues for Cleveland and its inner-ring suburbs.

Cuyahoga County's woes figure prominently in a new report that calls for addressing the growing needs of older suburbs.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer profiles hometown company Forest City Enterprises, highlighting its emergence as a big-name player in real estate development nationwide.

Editorial urges Greater Cleveland to help central city residents get to jobs in the outer suburbs.

New $225 million mixed use development announced for prime riverfront area.

Labor interests and city council are concerned about the fate of neighborhood stores.

Can a former suburban shopping center developer save downtown Cleveland from a 'death spiral?'

State governments are concerned about Wal-Mart's impact.

President Bush's "Clear Skies" bill stalls in the Senate.

Eight land trusts dedicated to saving farmlands and forests in nine Northeast Ohio announce plans to merge.

Cleveland's older suburbs hope to fight new projects that will drain more people from the aging suburbs.

At a dinner held by Cleveland's University Circle, Inc., a potential patron launced an unexpected 15-minute critique.