West Side Market helps improve food access: Learn more

“I think this is important because we are trying to create awareness around the West Side Market, food access and different food access issues,” says Tanesha Velez, a speaker at the event. Velez is a board member of the non-profit Cleveland Public Market Corporation which was created to manage the West Side Market. And she is the founder of Cleveland Fresh, an urban agriculture operation that focuses on indoor growing, specifically microgreens.

“I think it’s exciting for people to learn more about things going on in the community and food access and how Latinos are being represented,” says Velez, “to learn how important the West Side Market is to the community and the region. And to help understand how it plays a major role into food access.”

The free, but ticketed event will be held at 5:30 p.m., May 16, at the Greater Cleveland Food Bank, 13815 Coit Road, Cleveland. For tickets go to,During the event, panelists will discuss the ways that the West Side Market and other public markets have expanded community food access and wellness education. The panel will be moderated by Jennifer Lumpkin, local partnerships manager for the Alliance for the Great Lakes.

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End the politicking so Cleveland can ensure a future for its treasured West Side Market: editorialCleveland Cty Council President Blaine Griffin, what’s needed now is your leadership to end the sordid politicking that’s turned debate over the West Side Market into an unnecessarily divisive, unproductive and untrue East Side-West Side, neighborhoods-versus-center-city confrontation. Cleveland can do better than that. Cleveland has to do better than that if it wants to remake itself as a place of opportunity, not petty political squabbling, writes the editorial board of The Plain Dealer and cleveland.com.
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