OPINION: When it comes to architecture and planning on its campus, the Clinic looks in many ways like a throwback to the urban renewal era of the 1950s and ‘60s.
Cleveland Clinic needs to bring city life back to its campus, reverse erasure of neighborhood connectionsCLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Clinic’s medical performance has made it one of the top hospitals in the U.S. for decades. But when it comes to architecture and planning on its campus, the Clinic looks in many ways like a throwback to the urban renewal era of the 1950s and ‘60s.
A birds-eye rendering unveiled Monday, May 16 at a community meeting of the Fairfax Renaissance Development Corporation shows the Cleveland Clinic's conceptual plans for a future campus expansion. The project will include the demolition of the Cleveland Play House complex and the construction of a new Neurological Institute.
The Clinic’s posture toward Cleveland also takes physical shape through the use of its property, the design of its buildings, and the public spaces around them. Observers say the Clinic has planned its campus to send subtle and not-so-subtle “keep-out’' messages to its neighbors. “The fact is that the Clinic certainly had some desires over the years to create an island rather than a connected place,’’ said Robert Brown, a planning consultant, and former Cleveland city planning director. “Hopefully they’re more enlightened these days.”
Every day the Clinic attracts just over 21,000 employees to the Cleveland campus. It plans to create another 1,000 jobs by 2028 by collaborating on creating a new “The district, which will include the construction of two new buildings along Cedar Avenue on the Clinic’s campus in 2023, also involves projects to be undertaken by the MetroHealth System, University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University, and Cleveland State University.
The Clinic, meanwhile, has agreed to partner with the church on outreach and community service projects that included providing 100 free Thanksgiving meals to residents in need. Such collaboration is encouraging to Cash, but he’s hoping for an even deeper relationship. For example, they pointed to the Clinic’s participation in a private development now under construction at East 105th Street and Cedar Avenue that includes 190 apartments atop a 40,000-square-foot Meijer supermarket.
The Clinic acquired the property in 2009 from the Cleveland Play House after the theater company moved downtown to Playhouse Square.controversial decision Longer term, Rios said at the forum in May, “we’d like to incorporate some street-level amenities so that our neighbors, our patients, and our caregivers can enjoy some of the services that they don’t have access to in the area right now.”
There are exceptions, including the leafy courtyard of Lerner Research Institute, designed by Cesar Pelli, which faces north from the south side of Carnegie Avenue between East 96th and East 100th streets. Elsewhere, blank facades of masonry or reflective glass and long, dull blocks without street-facing entries predominate.
They include CWRU’s participation in the Uptown development in University Circle, or the park created along Euclid Avenue by University Hospitals to screen the approach to its emergency department.builds on a two-decade effort to transform itself from a commuter to a residential school, and to stimulate adjacent private development.on the southern edge of Hough in Midtown call for numerous ground-floor amenities and community workspaces.
By considering the zoning for the Clinic, the city now appears ready to ask more of its biggest employer. It’s possible, however, that the Clinic could resist efforts to impose new regulatory sticks and carrots. When asked about being included in a Design Review district, Peacock said, “I’m not sure there’s value in adding a layer.’’Regardless of zoning, the Clinic should revise its 2012 master plan, which, among other things, called for removing East Mount Zion Church.
The Clinic also appears to be chipping away at the concept. At the new Neurological Institute, for example, visitors will have to walk across six traffic lanes and a median on the north side of the building to reach the landscaped spine envisioned by Foster.
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