by Liz Hersh | Dec 6, 2019
Irishtown Bend West Creek Conservancy, LAND studio, the Port Authority, and Ohio City Inc. (among many others) are working to transform Irishtown Bend into an urban park connecting Ohio City to downtown and Lake Erie. Because the scale of the project is such that it...
by Liz Hersh | Jul 29, 2018
The West Creek Greenway Fresh air, clean water, and natural green spaces for kids, for families, for wildlife— this has been the ongoing vision of West Creek Conservancy. Cleveland Metroparks West Creek Reservation has become a reality; and the evolving vision of an...
by Liz Hersh | Jul 29, 2018
Snake Hills Conservation Area When John Busch, whose family operates the adjacent Busch Funeral Home, indicated his desire to see their woodland property along Big Creek preserved, former Parma Mayor Dean DePiero suggested to him that West Creek Conservancy (WCC)...
by Liz Hersh | Jul 29, 2018
Since 1999, Dave Vasarhelyi, founding Director of West Creek Preservation Committee (now West Creek Conservancy – WCC), had envisioned a trail extending east from Cleveland Metroparks West Creek Reservation to the Towpath Trail at Cuyahoga Valley National Park. He...
by Liz Hersh | Jul 29, 2018
Henninger House Restoration It still stands—a sturdy, stone sentinel once standing watch over the settlers below—settlers swarming into the community of “Cleaveland” created by the confluence of the Cuyahoga and the Lake. It still stands—a home of stone hewn from the...
