CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio — A long-planned but never-built section of Blanche Avenue is finally set to become reality, as Cleveland Heights moves forward with a $2.5 million infrastructure project that will open the door for new housing development.

Interim Mayor Tony Cuda announced Friday that the city determined there were no environmental concerns with the planned construction, clearing the path for the city to formally ask the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to release more than $850,000 in federal funds for the project.

The city will build a new roadway, about a quarter-mile long, east of the current dead-end of Blanche Avenue.

There are currently 29 platted but vacant house lots on the north side of the proposed street. The lots, originally mapped in the mid-1910s,

See Full Page