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Which provider is free shifts with schedule and location. Each suburb below carries its own note on housing age and site conditions worth knowing.
Lakewood
Lakewood grew almost entirely along its streetcar lines -- Detroit Avenue in 1893, Clifton Boulevard in 1903, and Madison Avenue in 1916 -- incorporating as a village in 1903 and a city in 1911 as its population raced toward a 1930 peak of over 70,000 packed into just 5.5 square miles.
Local planning notes →Shaker Heights
Shaker Heights takes its name from the North Union Shaker community that farmed the land from 1822 to 1889, before the Van Sweringen brothers began buying up the property in 1909 to build a planned garden suburb, incorporating it in 1912 and opening the Shaker Rapid Transit line to downtown Cleveland in 1920.
Local planning notes →Cleveland Heights
Cleveland Heights grew up along the escarpment overlooking Cleveland, developing as a streetcar suburb in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries around commercial nodes like Coventry Village and the Cedar-Lee district that still anchor the community today.
Local planning notes →Parma
Parma grew into one of Greater Cleveland's largest suburbs during the ranch-house building boom of the 1940s through 1960s, as Eastern European families from Cleveland's Slavic Village and other inner-city neighborhoods moved out to new single-family homes.
Local planning notes →Euclid
Euclid grew along the Lake Erie shoreline as an industrial suburb through the early and middle twentieth century, its neighborhoods built up around the manufacturing plants that gave the city a strong blue-collar identity distinct from Cleveland's newer, more spread-out southern suburbs.
Local planning notes →Garfield Heights
Garfield Heights, named for President James A. Garfield, developed largely as a working-class suburb in the early and middle twentieth century, its housing built to serve the families who worked Cleveland's steel and manufacturing corridor along the nearby Cuyahoga Valley.
Local planning notes →Strongsville
Strongsville takes its name from early settler John S. Strong and still centers on a historic town square typical of Connecticut Western Reserve township planning, even though most of the city's growth came generations later, in the rapid suburban expansion of the 1960s through the 1990s.
Local planning notes →Westlake
Westlake was known as Dover Township for most of its history, a stretch of Lake Erie-adjacent orchard and farmland west of Cleveland that only transitioned into a fully built suburb in the later twentieth century as corporate offices and new subdivisions moved in.
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