Transportation in West Park was limited to a few rutted dirt roads, which led to the area's nickname as the "lost city."

[4] The Chicago Line of the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) (completed in 1851)[5] forms the western boundary of the neighborhood.

Another set of NS tracks run diagonally southwest-to-northeast, cutting the neighborhood roughly in half.

[9] A large number of industrial parks exist along I-480 and the NS and CSX railroad tracks in the southern part of the neighborhood.

[3] Manufacturing is the predominant economic activity in Bellaire–Puritas, followed by employment in the education, healthcare, and social welfare assistance fields.

[13] Much of this housing stock is deteriorating,[3] even though residents of Bellaire–Puritas have a median household income of $32,900 (20 percent higher than that of Cleveland as a whole).