Cleveland Print Room Focuses On New Home

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By Ken Prendergast / October 25, 2024

Photography nonprofit to renovate former laundry

Increasingly, artist studios and nonprofit arts organizations have been moving eastward from downtown into Cleveland’s Goodrich-Kirtland Park neighborhood and St. Clair-Superior. But few are making as big of an investment as that which the Cleveland Print Room (CPR) plans by acquiring and renovating a former commercial laundry at 4730 Lexington Ave.

That’s where CPR intends to invest about $4.5 million to renovate several brick structures totaling about 18,000 square feet as well as improve the grounds of the 0.56-acre property for a photographic gallery and community darkroom for traditional film-based photography. That doesn’t include environmental remediation of the site or the property’s purchase price, said Kerry Davis, CPR’s creative director who has been working on this project for about two years.

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Cleveland Print Room Focuses On New Home