Inside Business
Sparx in the City Ignites New Energy In Cleveland, 2006

“The image of downtown Cleveland as a cement island, a place to drive to only to get to your singular destination, quickly park and hustle inside a building just wasn’t going to attract the sought-after people, businesses or economic development dollars. Creating a positive buzz – an infusion of energy, signs of life, or spark, so to speak – might generate some interest in downtown and make cool things happen in the City of Cleveland. It was around this discussion that Sparx in the City was founded in 2003 and continued to grow under the leadership of co-founder and producer Susie Frazier Mueller.”

“A lot of people think it’s just an arts program, but it’s not,” Frazier Mueller says.