Article: NEW VIEW OF PARMA; From building a university to a dam, graduate students redesign aging suburb.(Real Estate)

Byline: BRAD DICKEN

You can't buy much in the way of waterfront property in Parma, which is not surprising since the city of 80,000 residents doesn't have a big lake.

But Kent State University graduate architecture students didn't let that stop them from envisioning how a dam might create a whole new way of looking at the largely blue-collar suburb.

Like most of the proposals submitted by 15 Kent State students as part of a class project known as "Parma 2.0: Re-thinking the Suburb,'' the idea of flooding a large swath of the city probably won't come to fruition, but it is making city leaders and residents reconsider what the city could be as it ...

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