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I cannot see those storefronts on the east side of Market sitting empty too much longer. Especially once Summa moves in.

Plenty of workers in the block immediately South on Main. The biggest issue I've seen is that those workers are much more likely to head toward Main/Exchange than Main/Market because there isn't really reason to be at that Market intersection. You've got Musica/Uncorked and a couple other places a block up but those really don't have the draw of a lot of those food places down towards Exchange.

Wow, kind of a big hit for Downtown. Main Street north of Market really seems kind of dead (more-so than normal) with the 59 project and this move certainly only contributes more. I think this is very big for the East End though. This could become what many though the North Side Lofts were going to be for Akron. With Summa heading into that complex, I think retail isn't far behind. ... I'm extremely interested to see what initiatives Akron takes to link Downtown with this area. Heard a presentation from Downtown Akron Partnership a couple weeks ago discussing upcoming Main Street project and Route 59 project and how that'll help link neighborhoods on the other side of 59 to Downtown. Route 8 isn't going anywhere and that'll act as a bit of a divider between Middlebury Neighborhood/East End vs Campus/Downtown but improvements to Market and Exchange could really help fuse together both areas and really benefit the whole city.

Summa moving HQ. http://www.cleveland.com/akron/index.ssf/2017/03/summacare_to_move_operations_t.html

Between the East End portion and the building they are tearing down at the corner of Market and Case, traffic has been an absolute mess. Starting to look great though. Curious what retailers go into the building.

E Market in this area has been under construction adding the street parking for awhile. Looks like it is close. Arches over road as seen below going in this week.

http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/05/goodyear_theater_hall_in_akron.html

Concerts start this week.

No basketball but the old gym has been hosting volleyball and futsal (indoor soccer) and they seem to have it filled up pretty good. Weeknight leagues and weekend tournaments seem to keep it pretty packed. Also, construction has started on East Market to do the streetscape changes. E Market from clock tower down to around Hilton down to 2 lanes.

Court Street hasn't really changed. Some businesses have come and gone, but it still has the same feel. Definitely still a party school and personally I don't want that to change. As Matt Lauer once said, Athens and Ohio University is the quintessential college town. One thing that was never mentioned in this thread was the fire that knocked out a good portion of Union Street in the Uptown area a year and a half ago. The popular brewery Jackie O's got hit along with the other businesses around there. There has been talk of eliminating a lane of traffic there to allow for expanded streetscape. That'd be very cool for Jackie O's in particular. They've talked about a similar idea for Court. That could be very cool...

It'll be interesting to see how the city handles the streetscape changes with this development. I think they are widening sidewalks and adding some street parking and then eliminating traffic lanes along with that. I'm curious if that'll just apply to Market there starting at Goodyear Blvd or how far up Market it'll stretch. I think Market and/or Exchange from this area straight through Middlebury to the UA campus could be prime for some type of street level change. They are still busy roads but certainly not as heavily traveled as they used to be.

That reminds me there is a supermarket right there on Exchange. That isn't far at all from this project.

I agree on there not being anything in the immediate vicinity as far as amenities. The Northside Lofts even have Luigi's right there. Nothing like that around here. Closest thing of note is probably the new Goodyear HQ. This does have the benefit of being immediately off 76/77. Also probably helps that it is apartments and not condominiums like the Northside Lofts.

In addition to the ground level space directly facing Market, you also have the corner of the building that was the old bank. They are planning a restaurant in that space.

No street facing retail opened yet, but the old gymnasium was refurbished and there is a group called Rubber City Sports running out of that. There is a picture of the gym on their site. http://www.rubbercitysports.com/associations/associations_about/rubber-city-sports Pretty solid foot traffic from that already. The old theater is currently being renovated. Pretty sure streetscape renovations for Market will follow that.