A working plant is visible from the redeveloped area which once housed the Jones And Laughlin Steel Cleveland Works. As in other areas of the Midwest, manufacturing jobs have left Cleveland in droves, leaving eyesores in neighborhoods and driving up unemployment. In this instance, the former area was redeveloped into a shopping center.
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Dina Camacho, 75, says she took a dramatic hit to her property value after the former TRW Automotive, located at 1455 East 185th St. in Cleveland, (pictured) shut down.
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Dina Camacho, 75, says she took a dramatic hit to her property value after the former TRW Automotive closed.
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Dina Camacho stands with her two-year-old male Terrier mix Benjamin.
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Frances Powell, left, and her son Kincaid, 8, pause on their walk home from the daycare center in Cleveland where Ms. Powell works.
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Frances Powell, not pictured, and her son Kincaid, 8, pause on their walk home from the daycare center in Cleveland where Ms. Powell works. The pair walk past a shuttered factory with postings warning of hazardous materials on their way home daily.
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A parking lot behind the former TRW Automotive.
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Cliff Severt, 57, discusses the shuttered former Joseph & Feiss textile factory's offices, located at 2149 W. 53rd St., in Cleveland, which is down the street from his home.
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Signs at the shuttered S R Products plant, located at 13311 Union Ave., in Cleveland,.
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A man passes by the shuttered S R Products plant.
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Jeffrey Wates, plant manager of Richard's Grinding and Machine shop in Cleveland, says his industry has taken a real hit as manufacturing in the region has declined.
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Jeffrey Wates, plant manager of Richard's Grinding and Machine shop in Cleveland, discusses the hit his industry has taken as manufacturing in the region has declined.
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Jeffrey Wates, plant manager of Richard's Grinding and Machine shop in Cleveland.
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Debbie Luber, second generation owner of Richard's Grinding and Machine shop in Cleveland, left, and Jeffrey Wates, plant manager.
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Debbie Luber and Jeffrey Wates of Richard's Grinding and Machine shop.
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Portions of the shuttered former Joseph & Feiss textile factory's offices.
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The shuttered former Joseph & Feiss textile factory's offices, located at 2149 W. 53rd St., in Cleveland, looms in overgrowth over the surrounding residential neighborhood.
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The former Joseph & Feiss textile factory.
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The former Joseph & Feiss textile factory's offices.
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The shuttered former Joseph & Feiss textile factory's offices.
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Inside the former Joseph & Feiss textile factory.
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The shuttered former Joseph & Feiss textile factory.
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The Steel Heritage Center sits on the redeveloped property which once housed the Jones And Laughlin Steel Cleveland Works.
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