Check out this site: Vision Downtown [1] -- it sounds like it is reporting on grassroots activism going on to redesign downtown Cleveland into a quality, connected place.
Related to this movement are the ideas in this CoolCleveland feature from last week on remaking East 4th [2].
Links:
[1] http://visiondowntown.blogspot.com/
[2] http://www.coolcleveland.com/index.php/Main/DestinationDowntownHOB