Karin Connelly Rice
Stories by: Karin Connelly Rice
Karin Connelly Rice enjoys telling people's stories, whether it's a promising startup or a life's passion. Over the past 20 years she has reported on the local business community for publications such as Inside Business and Cleveland Magazine. She was editor of the Rocky River/Lakewood edition of In the Neighborhood and was a reporter and photographer for the Amherst News-Times. At Fresh Water she enjoys telling the stories of Clevelanders who are shaping and embracing the business and research climate in Cleveland.
A partnership between Cuyahoga County’s Housing First initiative and A Place 4 Me will create a new $12 million 50-unit permanent supportive housing development for transition-aged youth ages 18 to 24 at risk for or experiencing homelessness.
Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland has plans to address systemic racism and health disparities with a vision to create a whole health campus in the Central neighborhood.
The Kimpton Schofield Hotel is celebrating Pride Month with a special cocktail that pays homage to Cleveland's first gay bar.
In an effort to give underserved neighborhoods a boost, Cuyahoga County executive Armond Budish will launch the Neighborhood Surge program.
Burten, Bell, Carr Development, which covers four square miles through various eastern Cleveland neighborhoods, is focused on improving Buckeye.
Team NEO and the Downtown Cleveland Alliance (DCA) have launched a campaign to bring businesses, tenants, and overall activity to the newly-designated Erieview Historic District.
The Cleveland Metroparks is building a pump track at its Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation next year, as well as extending its popular mountain bike trail.
Cleveland Restoration Society's annual Celebration of Preservation awards will take place virtually on Thursday, May 20. Get a sneak peak at some of the winners here.
After a dark year and making the decision to close Spice Kitchen + Bar, culinary innovator and restauranteur Ben Bebenroth has reinvented the takeout scene with Keep The Change Kitchen Collective.
The Red Line Greenway, which has been in the works since the 1970s, officially opened yesterday—connecting a string of trails to downtown Cleveland.
Food entrepreneur Clark Pope is launching a new line of cocktail pouches in three flavors this summer.
Cleveland Heights is looking to residents for mural submissions in celebration of its upcoming 100th birthday.
When it launches in June, the Assembly for the Arts collaborative will work to bring funding, diversity, and equity to Cleveland arts endeavors.
When St. Casimir Church volunteer John Niedzialek got fed up with the trash and dumping in the St. Clair Superior neighborhood, Court Community Service came to his aid—cleaning up the area.
Restauranteur Morgan Yagi says the Bartleby supper club will have a lounge atmosphere with plenty of soft seating, music, and a cozy environment when it opens later this year in the historic United Bank Building in Ohio City.
After taking 2020 off because of the coronavirus pandemic, Rooms to Let: CLE returns to Slavic Village this summer stronger that ever—this time with vacant storefronts and a full-blown arts celebration .
The legacy of Jesse Owens was continued last Friday when a clone of one of the oak trees given to Owens after the 1936 Olympics was planted at the Rockefeller Park Lagoon on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Gordon Green will become an indoor English garden on Friday, to celebrate spring and all things in bloom this season.
It may be a friendly competition, but whichever neighborhood gathers the most trash and debris this weekend wins. Will Euclid keep it's undefeated title? Will Collinwood sweep in for its first win?
This past Saturday, volunteers came out to gather donations, share information and resources, and spread love in the St. Clair-Superior neighborhood.