The Coventry Living Room Project is a community-based place-making effort. Our goal is to create a public, outdoor gathering space that strengthens the sense of community in the Coventry Village neighborhood of Cleveland Heights.

We’ve created a plan to activate Pekar Park - a small, underutilized plaza at the edge of our commercial district. Our vision is for a space that allows us to do together the things that we do each day: reading a book from the library, sharing a meal from a local restaurant, putting on a community event, and more. In concrete terms, this means a space with benches, tables, and chairs; a stage for performances; a canopy for shade; and art that matches our neighborhood's identity. We’re confident in this vision, because we didn’t come up with it alone. It’s the byproduct of the thoughts and deliberations of over two dozen people with connections to Coventry Village. This is a project that reflects those who live in our neighborhood and what they need.