City Centric Podcast: An interview with Alliance’s Joe Mazzola

Joe Mazzola is a development and planning professional deeply versed in nonprofit, for-profit, and public environments.

Joe Mazzola has served as the Community Development Director with the City of East Cleveland, where he was responsible for nearly $10 million in federal entitlement funds in conjunction with the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP), Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), and others.

He has been a special projects consultant with the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad (CVSR), Joe coordinated pre-development activities for the proposed $1.2 billion mixed-use project located in downtown Cleveland’s Warehouse District as the Director of Development with Stark Enterprises.

Joe Mazzola has a Master of Business Administration from Kent State University, a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, and a Pastoral Ministry Graduate Studies from Saint Mary Seminary in Cleveland, Ohio.

Take a listen to this interview with Joe Mazzola and how economic development goes beyond new buildings. It is building the community and its people.