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"The Hub," a vision for Midtown developed by KSU students Mykie Hrusovski, Turki Alosimi and Katelyn Milius, will be one of the projects shared Thursday at the unveiling of a portfolio of student design and planning analysis focused on the future of Midtown.

(Mykie Hrusovski, Turki Alosimi and Katelyn Milius)

CLEVELAND, Ohio - To envision a more exciting future for the city's Midtown area, the nonprofits MidTown Cleveland Inc. and Health-Tech Corridor tapped the brainpower of students from Kent State and Cleveland State universities and the Cleveland Institute of Art.

On Thursday, in a free public event from 4 to 7 p.m., the best of those visions will be shared with the public at JumpStart in the MidTown Tech Park, 6701 Carnegie Ave., Suite 100.

Cleveland Institute of Art student Shane Carey prepared this rendering of a proposed co-working space intended for the Victory Building in Cleveland's Midtown.

"The effort by all three institutions was very well received and the work was so interesting that we said, 'let's have an event to show the work,' said Jim Haviland, executive director of Midtown Inc.

Midtown has been the focus of numerous efforts at redevelopment, many of them successful, in recent years. Among other things, the completion in 2008 of the Euclid Avenue HealthLine, a bus rapid transit corridor, has helped encourage redevelopment.

Students from the Cleveland Institute of Art will present interior designs aimed at turning a vacant factory floor in the Victory Building into a "co-working" space for entrepreneurs, freelancers and other professionals.

A grant from the Cleveland Foundation helped fund the students' designs.

Students from CSU will present research findings on the potential for residential and mixed-use development in Midtown, according to the event flier.

And KSU students from the university's Cleveland urban design graduate program will share architectural and urban design concepts on how to develop several vacant blocks in the Health-Tech Corridor.

The event is free, but space is limited and an RSVP is required. To respond, visit EventBrite.com.