"Home in the Heights" Rehab Project


	"Home in the Heights" Rehab Project

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2-17-2009 10:58 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5d52d186-0c45-4fba-b2fa-6b4eb2b55ecd/501D285F-4F3E-4938-AB4D-E70B660868C0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/02/cleveland_heights_project_aims.html" href="http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/02/cleveland_heights_project_aims.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.cleveland.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/02/cleveland_heights_project_aims.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blog.cleveland.com/img/E1BB7E26-F28E-48CE-87BE-E997B769EFAB" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/02/cleveland_heights_project_aims.html">CLEVELAND HEIGHTS -- A gleam of silver tinsel still stapled to a basement beam haunts the empty house. Once, this tiny bit of glitter might have been part of shimmering streams of fuzzy foil hung for someone's birthday, anniversary or holiday celebration. 
</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/02/cleveland_heights_project_aims.html"><P>	Its glow is nearly lost in the shadows as time freezes in the house's barren rooms that stand muffled in dusty stillness, bearing the scuffs and worn evidence that somebody once lived, laughed and loved here. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/02/cleveland_heights_project_aims.html"><P>	Now, the house has joined the ranks of thousands more, adrift on a sea of foreclosures. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/02/cleveland_heights_project_aims.html"><P>	But not for long, if the Cleveland Heights Home Repair Resource Center is successful with its first Home in the Heights rehabilitation project. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/02/cleveland_heights_project_aims.html">In coming months the center plans to renovate the 2,050-square-foot, four-bedroom house on Westover Drive, which has been vacant for more than a year. 
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