Moment of Silence?EUR??,,????'??+Charles E. Adams

 

Charles E. Adams was president and CEO of The Outside In, a Beachwood, Ohio landscape architectural firm.

Charles E. Adams, chairman of the Cleveland Planning Commission’s Design Review Committee for the last 12 years, passed away Oct. 2 from what his families believes was a blood clot in his heart.

Adams was the first black chairman in the history of the city?EUR??,,????'???s design review committee. He was part of the design team for Mayor Jane Campbell’s lakefront plan and encouraged more involvement by local artists in designing benches, gateways and special paving for the Euclid Corridor project.

Mayor Campbell praised Adams?EUR??,,????'??? commitment to the community and the design review committee, for which he volunteered. Although he was not a licensed landscape architect, Adams was president and CEO of The Outside In, a Beachwood, Ohio landscape architectural firm he founded in the late 1980s.

Campbell was a Cleveland native, born with a disease commonly known as brittle bone, requiring leg braces, crutches or a wheelchair. The condition became less severe by the time he graduated from high school. He earned a master’s degree in social service administration from Case Western Reserve University and taught there before starting his own business. In 1994, Adams was inducted into the Ohio Assembly of Councils Hall of Fame for his contributions to the minority business community.

He is survived by his landscape architect firm partner of nine years, Mark Howard; sisters, Bonnie of Cleveland and Delores Watson of Garfield Heights.

Source: The Plain Dealer