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Downtown Kamm's Corners Re$tore
Conveniently located near Interstate Routes 90, 71 and 480, Downtown Kamm’s Corners offers a variety of shops, specialty stores, restaurants and entertainment in a friendly neighborhood atmosphere. Currently, a $5.3 million Streetscape Improvement Plan is being developed for Downtown Kamm’s Corners, as well as several storefront renovations. Kamm’s Corners, known as Cleveland’s “Suburb in the City” is situated on the western border of the City. With the highest median housing values in the City, Kamm’s Corners offers a suburban lifestyle combined with easy access to Downtown Cleveland. Neighborhood History The Kamm’s Corners neighborhood was originally part of Rockport Township, founded in1819 with only eighteen families. The population increased as immigrants from Germany, Ireland and Switzerland settled in the area. A petition was granted on March 5, 1900 to establish the township of West Park, and the area was annexed to the City of Cleveland in 1923. Surrounded by farms and orchards, the commercial district developed along Lorain Avenue. The Sherman House, located at Triskett and Lorain, was the last stopping place for the stagecoaches arriving from the West before proceeding along the plank road to the West Bank of the Cuyahoga River. Built in 1865, it was recently restored to reflect the original Greek Revival Italianate architecture. In the late 1800’s, Oswald Kamm erected a building on the corner of Lorain Avenue and Rocky River Drive housing a general store on the ground floor with the family living quarters on the second floor. Every day he would walk to the Nickel Plate Railroad station west of the Rocky River to collect the mail. Upon returning to the general store, the mail was postmarked “Kamm’s Ohio”. The area around the four corners eventually became known as “Kamm’s Corners”. The building is now a historically renovated restaurant and anchors a village feel in a suburban setting. At the turn of the Century, the streetcars ran down the middle or Lorain Avenue connecting Kamm’s Corners to Public Square. Between 1920 and 1950, new commercial buildings sprang up along Lorain Avenue filled with merchants offering a variety of goods and services for the growing community.Kamm’s Corners Today
Kamm’s Corners offers a variety of homes from the luxurious to the affordable with distinctive styles including Tudor, Colonial, California Ranch, as well as those influenced by the Arts and Crafts period. Kamm’s Corners is the home of award winning public and private neighborhood schools that provide students with training for the growing challenges of tomorrow. From the various municipal parks to the beautiful Metroparks Rocky River Reservation, Kamm’s Corners features choice recreational opportunities. Also located in Kamm’s Corners, Fairview Hospital Cleveland Clinic Health System and MetorHealth West Park Medical provide quality, state-of-the-art medical service. The Downtown Kamm’s Corners commercial district offers a variety of specialty stores, restaurants and entertainment venues. The center of Downtown Kamm’s Corners, located at the intersection of Lorain Avenue and Rocky River Drive, has an average daily traffic count of 30,000. The first Steak ‘n Shake and Dunkin’ Donuts Baskin Robbins to open in the City of Cleveland was built in Downtown Kamm’s Corners. A feature article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer stated: “The traditional nuclear family – mom, dad and the kids – dominates this middle-class neighborhood. With the number of single-parent families exploding in big cities and suburbs, Kamm’s Corners is an urban rarity, a place where the percentage of children living with two parents rivals suburban family havens such as Chagrin Falls, North Olmsted and University Heights. There are more than 4,000 children here, and 80 percent of them live with mom and dad, by far the highest rate of children growing up in two-parent families in Cleveland, the 2000 census found.” Kamm’s Corners is… Cleveland’s Suburb in the City! For additional information including demographics, assets, features and available retail spaces, click here or call Cindy Janis at Kamm's Corners Development Corp., (216) 252-6559. |
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Downtown
Kamm’s Corners is a new commercial revitalization and economic development
initiative promoted by Kamm's Corners Development Corporation. Downtown Kamm’s
Corners is not only the name of our new program, it describes our downtown
business district located on both sides of Lorain Avenue from West 165th
to West 176th Street. 
Today,
The Kamm’s Corners success story continues as Cleveland’s “Suburb in the City”.
The bright lights of Cleveland’s Tower City, Gateway and the Flats are just a
15-minute commute by car, the RTA or rapid transit network.