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Article: Cleveland is full of surprises for vacationers
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 21, 1996
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The ad person who coined the slogan, "You're not getting older,
you're getting better," couldn't have come up with a more appropriate
compliment for Cleveland.
Those of us who have spent our lives here, and watched as this
industrial town rode the economic wave from manufacturing giant to
rust belt bust, are amazed by the spectacular changes.
As Cleveland hits its bicentennial, museums, sports facilities,
hotels, high-rise office towers, and university buildings are popping
up all over. The Warehouse District, once gritty and generally
abandoned, has surfaced as a chic address, and blighted neighborhoods
on the fringe of the city core are developing attractive housing.
After years of ...