Sheila Wright is the Co-Founder, President, and Managing Partner of Frontline Development Group, LLC. She worked for ten years under the direction of Albert B. Ratner, former CEO and Chair Emeritus of Forest City Realty Trust. She serves as Board Chair of Karamu House, the oldest black-producing theater in the country… CLEVELAND, Ohio – Six houses set to go up in Cleveland's East Side neighborhood may seem like a relatively modest development. Still, it's part of grander ambitions for the city's long-distressed Hough neighborhood. Developer Sheila Wright said at a groundbreaking ceremony Sunday that she hopes to start construction on the homes at East 65th Street and Linwood Avenue, north and west of League Park, before the end of the year. The homes will have two layouts: 1,800 square feet and 2,200 square feet. The development is dubbed "Allen Estates," after Carolyn Watts Allen and Robert Allen. Both built homes in Hough in the 1990s and advocated for the neighborhood. All are set to be owned by Black residents. Wright and her business partner Angela Bennett, who make up Frontline Development, are planning to move in, and other homeowners are already lined up. Pricing is still undetermined but Wright said the aim is to make the houses affordable. It's the first real estate project for Wright, known for her philanthropic and civil rights work in Cleveland, but she aims to make it a jumping-off point to improve Hough, which has long suffered from high crime rates and poverty. "We said we need homes and other people might too. And we hope to use this development and use our company as an opportunity to build wealth," Wright said from the stage Sunday. The estimated $2.1 million development is part of phase one for the area. While Wright and Bennett aren't ready to publicly divulge all details, Wright said Sunday that she envisions 15 homes, 46 brownstones and two buildings with apartments and retail on the first floor. That's on top of a series of projects set for west of Hough in the MidTown neighborhood, including a new headquarters for the Cleveland Foundation at East 66th Street and Euclid Avenue and a nearby "innovation district," where researchers and college students can collaborate on projects, likely in the medical technology field. New and old residents hope the projects revitalize Hough.