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Despite Cleveland City Planning Commission calling the design for a proposed affordable senior housing development in Slavic Village as unoriginal and its location isolated from community amenities, it urged that the project be approved in an expedited manner.

Senior apartments planned for Slavic Village

Ken Prendergast / December 29, 2025

In the early 2000s, the Hyacinth Lofts were developed in the old Cleveland School Book Depository, offering hope for a revival of the Slavic Village enclave named after an historic St. Hyacinth Roman Catholic Church. Then the foreclosure crisis hit, devastating this once working-class, ethnic neighborhood.

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