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Perk Park in downtown Cleveland earned a grisly reputation in February 2009, when a gunman ambushed two young men early on a Sunday morning, killing one and wounding the other.

A transformation is under way.

Under pressure from neighbors and property owners who want a safer and more beautiful park, Mayor Frank Jackson and Cleveland City Council agreed late last year to spend $1.6 million on a renovation. The design, first conceived in 2003 by landscape architects Thomas Balsley of New York and James McKnight of Cleveland, had languished for lack of funding.

Work on the park, located at Chester Avenue and East 12th Street, started late last year. Contractors removed the Brutalist-style concrete walls that blocked sightlines and leveled up the surface of the park, designed in the 1970s as a recessed bowl with a fountain in the center.

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Article courtesy cleveland.com