Cleveland Metroparks wants resident feedback to reimagine Gordon Park South [Video]

CLEVELAND — Gordon Park South is a 50-acre park in Cleveland’s St. Clair-Superior neighborhood that’s basic. It has a handful of baseball fields, a small playground and not much seating or places to fire up a barbecue.

Cleveland Metroparks, the Mandel Foundation, and LAND Studio want to change that and have started planning to reimagine the park.

David Wilson, director of parks and community with LAND Studio, a nonprofit that works in art, community engagement and public space planning, said resident feedback is critical to improving the park.

“It’s always important to have community voices at the table, not at the end of the process, but from the very beginning informing what they want to see in a space that is theirs,” Wilson said. “We are merely interpreters of that vision.”

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