With several successful greenspace developments as past accomplishments, Burten, Bell, Carr is committed to transforming massive tracts of underutilized, vacant properties into sustainable assets of the community.

The BBC-led Urban Agriculture Innovation Zone will convert a large portion of the desolate “Forgotten Triangle” into a twenty-six acre green oasis.  This initiative will position the Central, Kinsman, and Garden Valley neighborhoods and the city of Cleveland to become the forefront of the future eco-conscious economy and ultimately cultivate a new thriving neighborhood economy.

The Urban Agriculture Innovation Zone will also provide income-generating jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities for new linkages to a variety of agricultural production cycles.  It will include productive land re-uses such as bio-fuels, food production, phyto-remediation, water retention, and native plant nursery.

Currently, Rid-All Green Partnership is growing vegetables and raising tilapia on approximately one and a half acres at East 81st Street and Otter Avenue.  The Ohio State University Extension program has prepared six acres of land that it will soon turn over to market gardeners.  BBC is exploring the potential for more innovative agriculture activities and businesses and how to bring them to fruition.

Produce grown in the Urban Agriculture Innovation Zone may soon be made available at the Bistro at Bridgeport Place, a restaurant to be located at Kinsman Road and East 72nd Street.  For more information about the project, which is scheduled to open in late spring or early summer, please click here.

To read the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s coverage of Rid-All Green Partnership from November 2011, please click here.