east 39th

An East 39th Street home

BBC’s primary service area consists of the Central, Kinsman, and Buckeye neighborhoods, as well as much smaller areas of the Fairfax and Union-Miles SPAs. Major thoroughfares in our approximately four-square-mile area include Cedar, Central, Quincy, and Woodland Avenues; Kinsman and Buckeye Roads; and E 55th Street.

Characteristics of these SPAs, which have suffered decades of disinvestment due in large part of structural racism, include a predominantly black population, very high poverty rate, disproportionate amount of rental housing and high concentration of public housing, and vast amount of vacant land.

However, due to an infusion of hundreds of millions of dollars of new investment over the last decade, the tide has begun to turn and these neighborhoods are experiencing an exciting rebirth. Since 2000, over a thousand units of affordable and market-rate housing have been constructed in the community, and every year, Central leads east side neighborhoods in housing sales over $100,000. These neighborhoods are becoming the home of the most creative development projects, such as BoxSpot, WOVU 95.9 FM, and a possible new sixty-acre metropark. Active and engaged resident leaders are also pursuing their own projects to make their neighborhoods great places.

BBC’s service area accommodates several regionally-renown institutions, including Cuyahoga Community College Metropolitan Campus, Cleveland State University, St. Vincent Charity Hospital, and Vocational Guidance Services. We are centrally located just minutes from Downtown Cleveland, the Health Tech Corridor, University Circle, Maingate Business District, and celebrated arts, culture, medical, and educational institutions.

Our secondary service area is the entire east side of Cleveland.

For more information about these neighborhoods, we recommend the following resources:

Case Western Reserve University’s NEO CANDO
Cleveland City Planning Commission’s GIS
Cleveland City Planning Commission’s Census Data
LiveCleveland’s Neighborhood Tours

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