Planning area bordering Jefferson and Brook Park with five city parks, the Rockport Branch library and Brookpark Station on the RTA Red Line.
Search this neighborhoodBellaire-Puritas, a planning area of about 14,000 residents, sits between Jefferson to the north and the suburbs of Brook Park and Parma to the south. Brooklyn lies to the east, while West Park (Kamm's Corners) and Cleveland Hopkins International Airport border it on the west. Five city parks sit inside it: Emery Park, Gilmore Park, McGowan Park, Crossburn Park and Brookfield Park. The Rockport Branch library is also here, and Brookpark Station serves the Red Line within the area. Two schools, Innovation Academy West and West Park Bilingual Academy, are listed among its institutions.
By area, Bellaire-Puritas is zoned mostly One-Family Residence and General Industry, with smaller shares of Semi-Industry and Two-Family Residence. Rail service comes from the RTA Red Line, and bus routes include RTA Route 78 West 117–Puritas, RTA Route 83 Warren–West 130 and RTA Route 54 Brookpark–Rockside. Permits here are mostly Residential Building, Residential Plumbing and Residential Electrical, with Residential HVAC and Commercial Building also in the mix. To see the details for a specific property, run an address search on CivicScout.
CivicScout counts Cleveland Division of Police reported offenses that carry a location across the whole Bellaire-Puritas planning area, and open building-violation notices within a half mile of its center. About one in five recent police reports carries no offense category, so the counts understate violent crime and cannot show that an area has little of it. Reports handled by transit, campus and suburban police may not appear. CivicScout does not have current traffic crash data for Cleveland.
View safety data →Permits issued in Bellaire-Puritas over the past year are mostly in the categories Residential Building, Residential Plumbing and Residential Electrical.
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View new construction →Zoning in Bellaire-Puritas is mostly One-Family Residence and General Industry, by area; the exact district varies by parcel.
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