Three young developers who won national attention for remaking a blighted block in Oberlin are ready to tackle their second project, a near-vacant former creamery building in Cleveland's Tremont neighborhood, writes Michelle Jarboe for The Plain Dealer.

Once part of a nationwide dairy network, the 100,000-square-foot Fairmont Creamery sits in the slope of the city's industrial valley. Now Sustainable Community Associates, a development company that aims to balance profits and progressive values, sees the 1930s brick building as a link in another chain. By transforming the property with apartments, a gym and offices, the developers hope to attract other investors to an isolated stretch between two vibrant near-west neighborhoods.

"It would be a transformational project for that corner of the neighborhood, no doubt," said Cory Riordan, executive director of Tremont West Development Corp., a nonprofit group. "There's sort of that gap that sits between these real estate markets of Tremont and Ohio City, and this would go a long way toward filling that gap."

Read Jarboe's full article in The Plain Dealer.

This article was originally published on February 2, 2013 in The Plain Dealer.