Lakefront planning area with Public Square, Cleveland State University, Tower City Station and the Main Library.
Search this neighborhoodDowntown is a planning area of about 14,100 residents on the lakefront, with Lake Erie to the north and The Flats to the south and west. Goodrich-Kirtland Park lies to the east. Public Square, Voinovich Bicentennial Park and Willard Park are among the city parks inside it. Cleveland State University, the Main Library, Progressive Field, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland City Hall and Terminal Tower are all mapped in the area. Rail stations include Tower City Station, North Coast Station and Flats East Bank Station, and the Public Admin Library is listed as well.
By area, Downtown is zoned mostly General Industry, Semi-Industry and General Retail Business, with Limited Retail Business next. Rail comes from the RTA Waterfront Line, Red Line, Blue Line and Green Line. Bus routes include RTA Route 77 Brecksville, RTA Route 90 Broadway–Libby, RTA Route 1 St. Clair and RTA Route 3 Superior. Permits here are mostly Commercial Building, Commercial Electrical and New. An address search on CivicScout shows the report for any Downtown property.
CivicScout counts Cleveland Division of Police reported offenses that carry a location across the whole Downtown 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. Burke Lakefront Airport, inside this area, has its own police, so its reports are not in the city feed. 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 Downtown over the past year are mostly in the categories Commercial Building, Commercial Electrical and New.
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View new construction →Zoning in Downtown is mostly General Industry, Semi-Industry and General Retail Business, by area; the exact district varies by parcel.
View zoning →The zoned public schools assigned by attendance boundary.
View schools →A CivicScout report for any Downtown address combines permits, police reports, 311 requests, code violations, parks and zoning within a half mile.
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