Planning area bordering Downtown with Lonnie Burten Park, the Woodland and Sterling library branches and Tri-C's Metro Campus.
Search this neighborhoodCentral is a planning area of about 11,800 residents. Goodrich-Kirtland Park and Hough lie to the north, Kinsman and The Flats to the south, and Fairfax to the east. Inside it are Lonnie Burten Park, Central Park, Grant Park and Colonel Charles Young Square. The Woodland Branch and Sterling Branch libraries, Lonnie Burten Recreation Center and the Cuyahoga Community College (Metro Campus) are also mapped here. The Central Recreation Center is listed as closed for renovation.
By area, Central is zoned mostly Multi-Family Residence, General Retail Business, General Industry and Semi-Industry. The RTA Red Line, Blue Line and Green Line appear in the transit data, along with bus routes such as RTA Route 14-14A Kinsman, RTA Route 8 Cedar–Buckeye, RTA Route 11 Quincy–Cedar and RTA Route 16 East 55. Permits here are mostly Residential Building, Commercial Building and New, with Commercial Electrical close behind. To check a specific address, search it on CivicScout.
CivicScout counts Cleveland Division of Police reported offenses that carry a location across the whole Central 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 Central over the past year are mostly in the categories Residential Building, Commercial Building and New.
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View new construction →Zoning in Central is mostly Multi-Family Residence, General Retail Business and General Industry, by area; the exact district varies by parcel.
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