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The developers of the Stokes West project received key approvals on Friday, July 1, after spending three months in limbo.

In Cleveland, the debate over whether the holdings of nonprofit hospitals should be exempt from property tax are informed by the racism and redlining.

For years, hospitals and public policy wonks have been engaged in an ongoing debate over whether nonprofit hospitals provide adequate benefits to the community to make the tax breaks they receive a good deal for taxpayers. That debate is further complicated by the history of racist policies like redlining that still affect Clevelanders today.

While applauding the project, city review bodies urged the company and its consultants to pay more attention to the pedestrian experience.

The 253-unit proposal on Stokes Boulevard met with dramatically different responses from a city design-review committee and the Cleveland City Planning Commission. Members of the commission pushed the developers to preserve the only remaining building on the block, a stretch of rowhouses that have been sitting vacant since late 2017.