CLEVELAND, Ohio — City Hall has sent another $1.9 million to Cleveland’s Mt. Pleasant, Union-Miles and Lee-Harvard neighborhoods as part of Mayor Justin Bibb’s promise to revitalize the area.

The city announced that 29 projects won funding from the city’s commercial corridor program, part of Bibb’s $15 million Southeast Side promise.

Bibb and City Council had recently approved loosening restrictions to expand the corridor program so it could be used across wards 1, 2 and 4. Originally, it was set up for “micro-geographies” to make sure money was spent in specific commercial corridors.

Marvin Owens, the mayor’s senior strategist for the Southeast Side, told council the program was “so targeted” that there were businesses just outside of those corridors that couldn’t receive funding, whic

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