Burten, Bell, Carr Development, Inc., along with its numerous partners, have worked over the years to bring attention to the wants and needs of the Buckeye community. Through community help, we’ve worked to create projects such as the We Are Buckeye report, Elevate the East, the Buckeye Commercial Plan, the Buckeye Road Refresh, the Community Health Needs Assessment, and more.
The city granted $1.2 million to Burten, Bell, Carr Development Inc. (BBC) to invest in the commercial corridor along Buckeye Road between E. 116th and E. 130th Streets. BBC serves as the Community Development Organization for this area. Specifically, through this grant, they will acquire, stabilize, and hold commercial and mixed-use properties to prepare them for development.
Burten, Bell, Carr Development, Inc. initiated this project to design and develop a real estate master plan for the Greater Buckeye Neighborhood. By gathering ideas from residents, business owners, and local organizations, this plan will serve as a guide for public and private partnerships for the redevelopment of the community.
ELEVATE THE EAST is a community process to guide public art investments in Cleveland’s Eastside neighborhoods, including Buckeye, Kinsman, and Woodland Hills. The yearlong planning process included community-wide input through public events, online surveys, youth workshops, and interactive experiences. Led by Ward 6 Councilman Blaine Griffin and Burten, Bell, Carr, the public art plan is one component in a larger transformation strategy to benefit all people living in the area.
Buckeye Road Refresh is a Transportation for Livable Communities Initiative (TLCI). The TLCI program provides funding to re-imagine critical roads, streets, and corridors that impact the overall health of neighborhoods, like Buckeye Road. Launched in October 2020, Buckeye Road Refresh is a transportation planning project for Buckeye Road between Woodhill Road and South Moreland Boulevard.
The neighborhood-level CHNA for the Buckeye, Central, and Kinsman neighborhoods was conducted by Burten, Bell, Carr Development, Inc. (BBC) in collaboration with the Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation (OBCDC) and the Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health at Case Western Reserve University. The CHNA was conducted to inform and secure support for future neighborhood-based and health-related program development and policy initiatives that align with community needs and desires for change.
Council Member Deborah A. Gray was elected to represent Ward 4 on Cleveland City Council, which includes Cleveland southeast side neighborhoods of Shaker Square and portions of the Buckeye, Woodland Hills, and Mount Pleasant.
She has been actively involved in her community for decades, having served as a Buckeye Ambassador, Concerned Citizen, block club president, St. Luke’s Foundation Resident Advancement Committee member, and has been involved in many organizations and initiatives, like Co-Founding the Informative Action Committee for Cleveland VOTES and Healthy Eating Health Living (HEAL), working hard to empower the people in our neighborhoods.
Prior to being elected to Council, Councilwoman Gray was the elected Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Precinct Committeewoman from Ward 4, Precinct F.
In addition to her extensive community work, Councilmember Gray is an East Tech graduate, holds a business degree, graduated from the Cleveland Leadership Institute, and brings a diversity of experience to Council. As a corporate employee for one of the largest Cleveland organizations, she spent years learning about organization structure and process.
After the Great Recession in 2008, she went on to start her own successful fashion business where she networked with women-owned small businesses to sharpen her entrepreneurial skills. Councilmember Gray also got involved in the labor movement when she was a union rep to the UAW. Most recently, she worked in public service at the Cleveland Public Library.
Councilwoman Gray was born in Saginaw, Michigan, and as a child her family moved to Cleveland. She is a proud resident of the Buckeye Neighborhood, and has spent decades in Cleveland’s southeast neighborhoods, where she raised her two sons and became a homeowner.
Ward 6 Councilman and Council President Blaine A. Griffin represents one of Cleveland’s most diverse wards, encompassing the East Side neighborhoods of Fairfax, Larchmere, Little Italy, Woodland Hills, and parts of Buckeye-Shaker, University Circle, North Broadway, Slavic Village and Union-Miles.
Prior to serving on council, Councilman Griffin had been executive director of the city’s Community Relation’s Board for 11 years. He led a staff and board trustees in efforts to improve cross-culture relations throughout the city. The Community Relations Board also oversees police/community relations and youth initiatives.
Prior to City Hall, Councilman Griffin worked with the Cuyahoga Department of Justice Affairs. As a program officer, he managed community re-entry efforts and initiatives to help transition serious violent offenders from correctional facilities back into their communities. Councilman Griffin also served as a program director for the Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland. He was responsible for the fiscal and operational oversight of the largest network of emergency food distribution sites in Cuyahoga County with a budget of more than $2.7 million. He managed seven staff members and more than 800 volunteers throughout Cuyahoga County to service 160 emergency food distribution centers.
Councilman Griffin began his community-based service work with the Harvard Community Services Center, as well as a community organizer and later program manager at East End Neighborhood House. While at Harvard Community Services Center, Councilman Griffin established a coalition of community residents, activists, and businesses to fight infant mortality and morbidity as part of the Healthy Family/Healthy Start project.
He is affiliated with a number of community and professional organizations: He is a member of Mount Sinai Ministries; F.B.I. Citizen’s Academy; Malone University Advisory Board; Ecclesiastes #120 Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons; and Bezaleel Consistory #15. Griffin is a graduate of the Cleveland State University Maxine Goodman Levine College of Urban Affairs Leadership Academy and the Cleveland Leadership Center’s Leadership Cleveland; Class of 2014, as well as a German Marshall Memorial Fellow.
Councilman Griffin, originally from Youngstown, moved to Cleveland in 1993. He and his wife of 26 years, Jeanette, and their three sons live in the Larchmere neighborhood of Ward 6. Griffin graduated from Malone College in Canton, Ohio, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications. He was reelected in November 2021, and first started representing the ward in May 2017.
Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board Buckeye Commercial Historic District Public Meeting
Burten, Bell, Carr Development, Inc. initiated this project to design and develop a real estate master plan for the Greater Buckeye Neighborhood. By gathering ideas from residents, business owners, and local organizations, this plan will serve as a guide for public and private partnerships for the redevelopment of the community.
ELEVATE THE EAST is a community process to guide public art investments in Cleveland’s Eastside neighborhoods, including Buckeye, Kinsman, and Woodland Hills. The yearlong planning process included community-wide input through public events, online surveys, youth workshops, and interactive experiences. Led by Ward 6 Councilman Blaine Griffin and Burten, Bell, Carr, the public art plan is one component in a larger transformation strategy to benefit all people living in the area.
BBC is working with multiple partners on a layering of projects to revitalize the Buckeye Commercial Corridor. The goal of all these projects is to bring the corridor to life through local businesses and housing throughout the area. Once completed, this project will create 20 housing units and various commercial spaces that will be set at affordable market rates.
Buckeye Road Refresh is a Transportation for Livable Communities Initiative (TLCI). The TLCI program provides funding to re-imagine critical roads, streets, and corridors that impact the overall health of neighborhoods, like Buckeye Road. Launched in October 2020, Buckeye Road Refresh is a transportation planning project for Buckeye Road between Woodhill Road and South Moreland Boulevard.
The neighborhood-level CHNA for the Buckeye, Central, and Kinsman neighborhoods was conducted by Burten, Bell, Carr Development, Inc. (BBC) in collaboration with the Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation (OBCDC) and the Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health at Case Western Reserve University. The CHNA was conducted to inform and secure support for future neighborhood-based and health-related program development and policy initiatives that align with community needs and desires for change.
Council Member Deborah A. Gray was elected to represent Ward 4 on Cleveland City Council, which includes Cleveland southeast side neighborhoods of Shaker Square and portions of the Buckeye, Woodland Hills, and Mount Pleasant.
She has been actively involved in her community for decades, having served as a Buckeye Ambassador, Concerned Citizen, block club president, St. Luke’s Foundation Resident Advancement Committee member, and has been involved in many organizations and initiatives, like Co-Founding the Informative Action Committee for Cleveland VOTES and Healthy Eating Health Living (HEAL), working hard to empower the people in our neighborhoods.
Prior to being elected to Council, Councilwoman Gray was the elected Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Precinct Committeewoman from Ward 4, Precinct F.
In addition to her extensive community work, Councilmember Gray is an East Tech graduate, holds a business degree, graduated from the Cleveland Leadership Institute, and brings a diversity of experience to Council. As a corporate employee for one of the largest Cleveland organizations, she spent years learning about organization structure and process.
After the Great Recession in 2008, she went on to start her own successful fashion business where she networked with women-owned small businesses to sharpen her entrepreneurial skills. Councilmember Gray also got involved in the labor movement when she was a union rep to the UAW. Most recently, she worked in public service at the Cleveland Public Library.
Councilwoman Gray was born in Saginaw, Michigan, and as a child her family moved to Cleveland. She is a proud resident of the Buckeye Neighborhood, and has spent decades in Cleveland’s southeast neighborhoods, where she raised her two sons and became a homeowner.
Ward 6 Councilman and Council President Blaine A. Griffin represents one of Cleveland’s most diverse wards, encompassing the East Side neighborhoods of Fairfax, Larchmere, Little Italy, Woodland Hills, and parts of Buckeye-Shaker, University Circle, North Broadway, Slavic Village and Union-Miles.
Prior to serving on council, Councilman Griffin had been executive director of the city’s Community Relation’s Board for 11 years. He led a staff and board trustees in efforts to improve cross-culture relations throughout the city. The Community Relations Board also oversees police/community relations and youth initiatives.
Prior to City Hall, Councilman Griffin worked with the Cuyahoga Department of Justice Affairs. As a program officer, he managed community re-entry efforts and initiatives to help transition serious violent offenders from correctional facilities back into their communities. Councilman Griffin also served as a program director for the Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland. He was responsible for the fiscal and operational oversight of the largest network of emergency food distribution sites in Cuyahoga County with a budget of more than $2.7 million. He managed seven staff members and more than 800 volunteers throughout Cuyahoga County to service 160 emergency food distribution centers.
Councilman Griffin began his community-based service work with the Harvard Community Services Center, as well as a community organizer and later program manager at East End Neighborhood House. While at Harvard Community Services Center, Councilman Griffin established a coalition of community residents, activists, and businesses to fight infant mortality and morbidity as part of the Healthy Family/Healthy Start project.
He is affiliated with a number of community and professional organizations: He is a member of Mount Sinai Ministries; F.B.I. Citizen’s Academy; Malone University Advisory Board; Ecclesiastes #120 Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons; and Bezaleel Consistory #15. Griffin is a graduate of the Cleveland State University Maxine Goodman Levine College of Urban Affairs Leadership Academy and the Cleveland Leadership Center’s Leadership Cleveland; Class of 2014, as well as a German Marshall Memorial Fellow.
Councilman Griffin, originally from Youngstown, moved to Cleveland in 1993. He and his wife of 26 years, Jeanette, and their three sons live in the Larchmere neighborhood of Ward 6. Griffin graduated from Malone College in Canton, Ohio, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications. He was reelected in November 2021, and first started representing the ward in May 2017.
