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Cleveland Public Market Corporation has officially assumed the operation of West Side Market in the Ohio City neighborhood.

Cleveland's new Urban Forestry Commission serves a similar purpose as the Tree Commission, but gives the commission authority to advise Mayor Justin Bibb and city council on tree canopy policy and projects.

Food deserts persist throughout Cleveland, especially in historically redlined neighborhoods on the city's East and South sides.

Two iconic retail properties — Shaker Square on the East Side and Tower City downtown — are in states of transformation that offer hope, while, on a smaller scale, the upcoming closing of a neighborhood grocery store highlights the occasional limitations on market forces to meet consumer demand and underscores the need to think expansively in attracting and retaining grocers in the city.

The city will provide up to $12 million in loans toward an effort to usher the historic East Side shopping center into new hands. Nonprofits New Village Corp. and Burten, Bell, Carr Development Inc. hope to avert a foreclosure and take possession of the property.