Coventry P.E.A.C.E. Campus Artists Warn Community Center Could Dissolve Due to Landlord's New Lease Agreement

One of Cleveland Heights ' most beloved centers for collaborative artists could go away next year due to a sudden change of terms with their landlord, its tenants said this week.

"You can't raise money. You can't ask for grants or government funds unless you actually have that lease in hand that says you'llhere," Shannon Morris, the managing director of ARTFUL, a 24-space studio hub that's been a part of P.E.A.C.E. since 2017. In a statement to Scene, P.E.A.C.E.'s board, led by Krista Hawthorne, said that Heights Libraries Director Nancy Levin was granted the ability to both alter the building's rent structure, to swipe away any"unsolicited offers" to buy the building, and to conduct a study"on the future use of the building."

Two calls to Heights Libraries, including to Director Nancy Levin, who helped buy the building and attract its first tenants, went unreturned on Wednesday. Robin VanLear, an artist who's rented space at P.E.A.C.E. since November 2019, recalled the specificity of Levin's original aim. One that was derailed, in June 2020, VanLear said, by the uncertainty of where American Rescue Plan Act dollars could go.

And, like the ghost of Harvey Pekar or the spirit of Chrissie Hynde, VanLear sees separating P.E.A.C.E. from its location in Coventry as a kind of sacrilegious departure. Especially when Coventry's retail district is suffering its own issues of vacancy.

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