Cleveland residents celebrated a new, accessible park and greenspace Friday in the heart of the Hough neighborhood.

The 2.6-acre site is now called Thurgood Marshall Green. It was once home to John W. Raper Elementary School, next to Thurgood Marshall Recreation Center on East. 85 th Street. The park now features accessible walking trails, two playgrounds, a pavilion and more than 120 newly planted trees.

"Everybody doesn't have access to healthcare and all of those things, but there is something that the outdoors and Mother Nature provides to us," Councilmember Stephanie Howse-Jones said. "This is going to be a place that is going to help rejuvenate, restore, and just give real joy to many community members who are long overdue for getting that."

Cleveland's Hough neighborhood is one

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