Cleveland-bred rapper Machine Gun Kelly is pitching in a quarter of a million dollars to fund a skate park on the city's Southeast Side.

The investment from MGK, whose real name is Colson Baker, will help make the $1.3 million project a reality. The city sees the facility, located at Luke Easter Park, as not only recreation expansion for residents, but a potential venue for larger events.

City spokesperson Tyler Sinclair said MGK's foundation reached out earlier this year to discuss how to best invest in Mayor Justin Bibb's vision to revitalize the economically depressed Southeast Side.

"The city always can use more, whether it's more recreational programming, better services, better facilities," Sinclair said. "So this was one where it's like …something that either we're lacking or we

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