Irishtown Bend is turning a corner. At a kickoff event on Friday, the Port of Cleveland celebrated the area’s future transformation into a 23-acre park: starting with the stabilization of the hillside. The tenuous bit of land, located on a dramatic bend of the Cuyahoga River, was first a home to many of Cleveland’s Irish immigrants in the 1800s, then, decades later, it turned into an abandoned, razed space prone to landslides due to fill material placed on the hill in the ‘60s. "Those of us who have heard engineers talk about it — many, many times we don't sleep at night, especially when it rains heavily, as it's done the last couple of nights," said Will Friedman, the President and CEO of Port of Cleveland, at a podium in a tent behind the Cleveland Rowing Foundation. "There is a very real risk and threat that we are beginning to avert today." 🔗 Read more about the project at the link in bio. 🖊/🎥 nickoloffoff 🎵 thekatyband #irishtownbend #cuyahogariver #cleveland #cle #clev...