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.