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Cleveland is finding creative uses for vacant lots, including an educational tool for kids
An elementary school is making a garden out of an eyesore
by WKSU's KEVIN NIEDERMIER


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Kevin Niedermier
 
This long vacant lot is being transformed into a flower and vegetable garden for students at the elementary school across the street.
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Across the street from Cleveland’s Buhrer Elementary School is a small vacant lot where a house once stood.  In the spring, that lot will be a garden for the students.  The school garden is one of 66 “Re-Imagining Cleveland” projects. It’s a federally funded effort to find creative ways to reuse the city’s many vacant properties. WKSU’s Kevin Niedermier went to Buhrer Elementary to see how the future garden is progressing.

 

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The lot has been empty since the house that once sat there was condemned in 2002 and demolished in 2004.
Some of the people behind the project...(L to R)
Jennifer Grasso and Lilah Zautner of Neighborhood Progress, Kristen Trolio of Tremont West Development Corp.,Buhrer Elementary School Principal Sandra Velaquez, and 3rd grade teacher Emily Fritz.
There's a bit of junk on the lot, but the bigger issue is the old house's foundation which is underground and has to be removed before the land can be made into a garden.
Noe Cifuentes and Thaileen Cedeno are 2 Buhrer Elementary School 3rd graders looking forward to planting flowers and vegetables in the garden this spring.
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