Cleveland's Ohio City area: West Side Market and craft beer

Growing up in the 1980s, Sam McNulty often visited the food vendors at the West Side Market, located in Cleveland's Ohio City neighborhood.

"I kind of fell in love with the neighborhood back then, even though it was considered sketchy," says McNulty. By the 1990s, when McNulty interned with a community development organization, "the neighborhood was still largely boarded up - not a place you wanted to be after dark", he recalls. "But you were starting to see little glimmers of hope."

Today Ohio City offers visitors a very different impression. There's a booming craft beer and dining scene with some 40 eateries, many concentrated around West 25th Street. McNulty opened his first restaurant, Bier Markt, at 1948 W. 25th St, over 10 years ago; today he co-owns five restaurants in the area, including two of the brewpubs Ohio City is now known for.