Posts Tagged ‘asiatown’
Resident Recipes from SCA West Side Market Challenge
For more than 100 years, the West Side Market in Ohio City has been providing the Cleveland community with fresh meat and seafood, fruits and vegetables, baked goods, dairy and cheese products, and so much more. Vendors offer local and global ingredients, some of which can be difficult to find elsewhere in the city.
Read More2021 SCA Giving Tree Project
Following the success of last year’s Giving Tree project, we’re very excited to introduce four more local nonprofits to our communities this holiday season. In 2020, our residents came together to donate over $2,500 worth of physical goods to four nonprofits that are doing great work in our neighborhoods.
Read MoreCleveland’s AsiaTown: Yesterday and Today
As a Cleveland transplant, AsiaTown came as a surprise to me. I’d considered myself familiar with the city prior to moving here, having family scattered throughout Northeast Ohio—but I hadn’t known this particular neighborhood existed. I knew Little Italy and University Circle, Lakewood and Tremont, and most of the outlying suburbs. AsiaTown, and its storied roots, was unknown to me until I became a Cleveland resident in 2015.
Read MorePolaroid Project: Chie, Shelli, and Stephanie in AsiaTown
Polaroid Project: Chie, Shelli, and Stephanie in AsiaTown For this installation of our Polaroid series, we asked three friends—Chichi, Shelli, and Stephanie—who met at Mueller Lofts to share their favorite things about AsiaTown with us. We’ll let them introduce themselves! Chichi has been loving living in Mueller Lofts! Being Asian- American, living in AsiaTown…
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2018 | Mueller Lofts
CLEVELAND, OHIO
Originally the Mueller Electric Factory (and home of the alligator clip), Mueller Lofts is the reimagining of a 1922 factory into 51 apartments. The building was one of the last neighborhood-scale manufacturing plants in the city and again serves as an active part of Cleveland’s Asiatown.
Read MoreBusiness Spotlight: Anna Beauty Center
Anna Li opened her beauty center in AsiaTown twenty years ago. She had recently immigrated from China, and wanted to create a boutique where people could learn more about her culture and access convenient services and great products.
Read MoreCommunity Resources for Cleveland Voters
As many of the members in our community know, we have two important elections coming up in Cleveland. On Tuesday, August 3, 2021, voters will determine who is on the ballot for the congressional seat left vacant by Marcia Fudge, who is now serving as the US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in a Special Congressional Primary Election. Then, on Tuesday, November 2, 2021, voters will elect Fudge’s replacement and will cast their vote in the mayoral election.
Read MoreLJ Huang on Shanghainese Food, Culture, and Community
Shortly after moving to Cleveland, LJ Huang began to search for homestyle Shanghainese food.
“There were a lot of good Chinese restaurants, but I wanted my food—my comfort food.” LJ explained. It was 2010, and simultaneously, she found herself attending potlucks and community parties within the Chinese and AsiaTown community.
Read MoreCleveland Asian Festival Goes Virtual for 2021
Cleveland Asian Festival Goes Virtual for 2021 This year’s Cleveland Asian Festival will take place virtually on Saturday, May 22 from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm. The festival is an annual celebration of Cleveland’s diversity and Asian culture in Northeast Ohio—organized by the community, for the community. This year’s events, which include cultural performances, food…
Read MoreCleveland.com: “Historic electric building reinvented”
Before it became an apartment complex, writes Anne Nickoloff for Cleveland.com, the Mueller Electric building was the working place of Cleveland electrical engineer Ralph S. Mueller.
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