Lakewood and Partners Win Another Development Award

The City of Lakewood, Lakewood Historical Society, Lakewood Heritage Advisory Board, and LakewoodAlive won another award, this time from the Ohio Historic Preservation Office for their collective efforts to recognize, preserve, and promote Lakewood’s historic resources.

From OHPO:
"Their work has contributed significantly to improving the quality of life in Lakewood through historic preservation...New development has taken place in a planned and precise manner on vacant lots. Other development includes the adaptive use of the former Lakewood Tennis Club/Elks Lodge as a Winking Lizard and the First Church of Christ Scientist as the Maxxum Corporation offices. The City’s Heritage Advisory Board has surveyed all of the commercial buildings in the City and assigned a ranking of historic and architectural merit to help support careful development and preserve the best resources...
...City strengthened its demolition ordinance
...Birdtown neighborhood to the National Register of Historic Places.
...City passed a Preservation Ordinance, which went into effect this year that codifies the city’s local historic preservation program. And this year, the Lakewood Historical Society’s primary site, the Honam/Hotchkiss House, became Lakewood's first locally designated landmark.

By strengthening its historic preservation legislation, designating districts both nationally and locally, and using historic preservation as an economic revitalization tool through Downtown Lakewood and the Main Street Four Point Approach™, the City of Lakewood is securing its future economic vitality incrementally and building both literally & figuratively on its existing unique and historic resources."