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 When Candy Mashoor bought the building at 1030 E. 62nd St. in the St. Clair Superior neighborhood, at first she wondered if she’d made a huge mistake.
“The day I signed, I got the keys and I was like, ‘What have I done?’” said the Brazilian-born entrepreneur and founder of YaYa & Co., a textiles company that sells handmade, sustainably-sourced pillows, bedding, rugs and other items. “I couldn’t go in. It was moldy, wet and full of junk. It was horrible. I thought, ‘I didn’t buy a building, I bought a dump.’” Yet now, with the help of loans and grants from the city of Cleveland, Mashmoor is renovating the historic, long-vacant building into a new home base for YaYa & Co., a coworking space, and office space for Humongous Fan, an HVAC company that makes large industrial fans. The project is expected to create 50 new jobs. Read the full story  It was a gray, drizzly morning in November, and in the parking lot of a mostly empty building off of S. Moreland Boulevard in the city’s Buckeye-Shaker Square neighborhood, misery was in the air. A group of neighbors, volunteers, and movers were huddled around a U-Haul truck parked in the back of the building in the soggy rain. They had a full two day’s work ahead of them – moving tenants out of this abandoned building, which was in such bad condition the city had ordered it to be immediately vacated.
Tatiana, who didn’t want her last name used because she’s ashamed of her situation, was one of the tenants who was moving out. Holding her baby daughter in her arms, she related how when she first moved into the building at 2910 Hampton Rd., which is owned by Aliarse Holdings LLC, she thought it was nice. “When we moved here, it was on its way up,” she said. “It was amazing. There was electric in the hallways and all the windows were in.” In a familiar story, things quickly went south. The property manager soon disappeared and the out-of-state landlord was nowhere to be found. Then utilities were cut off and there was no heat or water. Within a few weeks, she said, thieves and vandals smashed out windows and stole pipes. “It turned into a complete shitshow,” Tatiana said. “Smokers and crackheads ran through it and tore it up.” READ THE ARTICLE IN SCENE |
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