Plain Dealer (Saturday, February 4, 2006):
"The initiative is changing how people view the valley within Cuyahoga County. Insiders are
taking a more holistic view of the valley's economy and ecology, and outsiders are seeing
opportunity in a gritty terrain that once drew little notice."
Cool Cleveland (Wedneday, July 27, 2005):
"The CVI's broader aim is to stimulate economic redevelopment through sustainable development,
whether this means green space, parks and trails, green building, or sustainable products.
'We want to use the Valley as a lab for sustainability,' he says. 'We're trying to bring
about an overall cultural change, using sustainability as the model for a different kind of
economic development.'"
Plain Dealer (Sunday, May 22, 2005):
"Their 20-year vision is to make the Cuyahoga River a place where both fish and industry
thrive. They hope restoration ideas spawned for the river that once caught fire will make
Cleveland a leader in clean-water technology used around the world."
Builders Exchange – The Magazine (February 2005): "The
river that now divides us can also be brought to connect us. The valley is being
rediscovered as an economic engine, as old industrial areas are transformed to new
ones, while mixed use areas develop."
WCPN (Wednesday, July 21, 2004):
In the first installment of a three part series, Making Change focuses on the
Cuyahoga Valley Initiative. "...the turning basin is a "regenerative zone," a starting
point for putting the concepts behind the Cuyahoga Valley Initiative to the test. The
companies located there are already finding ways to re-use their resources - at the
same time, efforts to create recreational opportunities, connect neighborhoods and
restore the natural environment are also underway. Alsenas says the outcome of these
efforts in the regenerative zone point to the potential the Cuyahoga Valley Initiative
has to improve the entire region’s well-being."
(part 2,
part 3)
RMI Solutions (Summer 2004):
"Cleveland could become an international standard for regenerating industrial brownfields.
Demonstrating integrated ways to overcome various environmental and redevelopment
challenges — and selling the concepts, services, products, and forms of social and
economic organization needed to do so — could provide a sort of professional niche
for the Cuyahoga Valley."
Plain Dealer (Sunday, March 28, 2004):
"After 34 years in the Cuyahoga River's industrial valley, Jim Krimmel knows the grief of
industry run aground. Maybe now it's time to think green, he says. Not tree-hugger green. But
the kind of green envisioned in the newly unveiled Cuyahoga Valley Initiative, in which
industries reuse and profit from waste, communities link with the river, and the valley itself
stands as a national destination." "County planners want... governments, property owners and
businesses to view their slice of the valley as part of an interconnected whole a region
where economic development and the environment are not mutually exclusive."
Free Times (Wednesday, March 24, 2004):
"[The Cuyahoga Valley Initiative] could be the most enlightened process in our region's
history for re-visioning how we integrate the Cuyahoga River's heritage and potential. Viewed
through the real-world lens of the "world-class, extreme and unfathomed" potential of the
river valley, CVI offers a framework for discovering opportunities that have always existed
there."
Cool Cleveland (Wednesday, February 18, 2004):
"In the most visionary plan in years, this collaborative set of opportunities, developed with
the help of the Rocky Mountain Institute, promises to
join industry, neighborhoods and restored habitat along the river valley that runs through
12 cities to Cuyahoga's border with Summit County."
Plain Dealer (Friday, February 13, 2004): "Cheers... to the architects
of the Cuyahoga Valley Initiative."
WCPN (Thursday, February 12, 2004):
Shula Neuman quotes CPC Director Paul Alsenas, "we should be able to do multiple things do one
intervention with multiple benefits, rather than the traditional way of thinking about things
where we do wonderful good things in this community but they seem to have single outcomes.
We want to do one intervention, multiple benefits and outcomes."
Plain Dealer (Thursday, February 12, 2004):
"The Cuyahoga County Planning Commission...
unveiled the Cuyahoga Valley Initiative on Wednesday afternoon to an enthusiastic crowd of
70 civic and industrial leaders... The new vision marries industry, neighborhoods and
restored habitat along the 17 miles of river valley that run through 12 cities to Cuyahoga's
border with Summit County.
