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Seeking Solace At The Solstice Steps

Lakewood transformed a former landfill and fenced-off shoreline into the Solstice Steps, a year-round public destination overlooking Lake Erie.

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Photo Credit: Courtesy Of Environmental Design Group

“It's a sense of opportunity that many of us have had when you stand there on a great summer night and you watch the sunset, but you just stand there and look through a cyclone fence; many folks have commented, might we do better?”

--Lakewood Mayor, Michael P. Summers

A new sense of opportunity hung in the air at the site where the Lakewood Solstice Steps would reside, as onlookers lingered to watch the sunset over Lake Erie—peering through a rusty cyclone fence.

Limited public access to waterfronts is an obstacle for most northeast Ohio lakefront communities, except for residents whose property touches the water’s edge.