A key ingredient to the University Circle Arts and Retail District will be transit – and artists. In the wake of Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority discovering transit-oriented design as a priority, New York-based urban design firm Project for Public Spaces appeared with the major players from the Circle to burnish Euclid and Mayfield as a transit village. 

They spoke openly about moving the E. 120th St. station closer to campus and building a node of activity. The stop might include simple, glass-covered stairs/ramp leading to the platform with entrances from the red brick road (E. 117th St.) behind the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) factory as well as across the tracks at Mayfield and E. 119th – the road leading into Sidari’s Italian Foods. CIA and Case students will bring more street life to the area around the station if public spaces are carved out with just enough suggestion of uses but with openness to change how the students want to use it. Read more.