Slow Roll Week 12: La Villa Hispana (Clark-Fulton)
Mon, Jul 24
|Roberto Clemente Park
Nestled between two major freeways, Clark-Fulton is a hidden gem among Cleveland's neighborhoods, filled with terrific Latino food and shady streets.
Time & Location
Jul 24, 2023, 7:00 PM
Roberto Clemente Park, 3690 Seymour Ave, Cleveland, OH 44113, USA
About the event
We've still got another ride to enjoy this week in Gunning Park (the one and only benefit of the awful smoke filling our lungs this week), but we'll get the jump on the next one as well.
Cleveland's Clark-Fulton neighborhood -- currently proudly claiming its identity as La Villa Hispana, and the heart of the Hispanic community in this city -- is on an upswing. Spurred by MetroHealth's billion-dollar Transformation Project, new developments are breaking ground almost every day in the area, which nestles between I-71 and I-90, running from Scranton Road on the east to W. 48th Street on the west. The neighborhood is set to become home to Centro Villa 25, an ambitious new adaptive reuse project that will turn an old warehouse complex into a center for Latino-oriented culture and retail businesses. The neighborhood has also become a vibrant center for mural art, with blank walls blossoming…