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In Indianapolis, they have an enviable night spot called The Cabaret which features a rotating mix of cabaret artists, Broadway actors, etc.. doing small shows "no seat further than 20 feet from stage" ... The current season has Matthew Morrison from Glee, several Broadway leads doing solo shows, etc... it's one key thing missing from playhouse Square or, frankly, Cleveland... As background, Indianapolis gets Broadway tours 1-2 seasons after we do here in Cleveland because people simply don't go.. but this seems to have thrived and for Cleveland to be without of any of this type seems odd, especially with a huge Broadway subscriber base to sell to for shows that would seem to cross over very well. I sure hope the Greyhound has such a space for such shows a good booking agent to book well.

County, aside, why isn't Cleveland at least working to annex that sliver of Cleveland-adjacent Brook Park stadium land into Cleveland, proper, to at least save face to a degree? Cleveland could share some revenue with Brook Park and take the burden off Brook Park services, etc.. while not allowing the stadium to move to a suburb on what amounts to a geographic border technicality... (Because if Brook Park thinks this is putting their suburb on any kind of desirable, meaningful suburb map, with all due respect, they're wrong ..)

I watched the trailer about 10x in a row when it first came out. Movie looks great, for many reasons. Anybody know the antique store Mr Haysbert is in around the :12 and especially :38 second marks? It looks like several places I know in Cleveland Heights and on Larchmere... but not exactly. I need some art glass windows.

The company filed for bankruptcy today

I'm not sure anything did happen if anything Barnes & Noble has a resurgence and is renovating and upgrading stores across the country both in design and selection of books.

The former Burntwood corner space and adjacent spaces to south that had Pulpo, popcorn place, etc .. as I understand it.

The 5-year vacant Bahama Breeze location, immediately across from the Pinecrest west entrance, finally appears to be ready to be redeveloped... This article describes an interesting furniture showroom / interior design space that sounds very much like an IKEA Plan & Order Point showroom - which in its most recently opened form is 15,000 sq ft in Charlotte. (If it were traditional furniture store they would have just said that, no?) Though these sorts of stores generally have been opened to supplement existing, full size IKEA stores in cities like D.C., Austin, and the aforementioned Charlotte, it's certainly possible that one might precede (but hopefully not replace) a larger IKEA store in Cleveland “Part of the use will be similar to RH, a showroom where you can order furniture and such, but much smaller than the RH building,” - https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cleveland.com/community/2025/03/orange-council-set-for-three-public-hearings-including-one-related-to-bahama-breeze-property.html%3foutputType=amp I could be really wrong, but I can't think of another business of this type that would spend on such a high-profile location...

They were mostly set for Garfield heights including Garfield heights making improvements to the transportation boulevard interchange - until IKEA as a corporation backed away from building large stores in the US about 5 years ago - assuming people will only shopping online. 2 years ago they indicated they were going to go eight full-size stores in the US in Cleveland seemed to be back on track.

This has been noted here before but 25 years ago IKEA, per Crain's, was looking at Harvard and 271 and then mayor Marsha Fudge Warrensville Heights helped spearhead big box legislation that kept them from even really trying to establish a store (in Chagrin Highlands). There are plenty of markets where IKEA is non-central to the metro. With that said several locations in the area would be very good ones by IKEA though wasn't the last rumor that they were going to Richfield?

Well, that's interesting... Tanger (rhymes with "hanger") the big outlet mall developer, is branching out into regular price lifestyle centers, buying Pinecrest Should be meaningful for the tenant mix and the fact they have big pockets for future building additions, etc .. https://chainstoreage.com/tanger-acquires-mixed-use-center-cleveland-suburb

Give us a mini Bethesda.... Please. (Parent of former resident.) It already has transit and demographics and a retail and restaurant base. Similarities, but a long way to go to make that happen. Need more housing, hotel, and... Retail. Hope to see much more at VAD and adjacent former car dealer space and Warrensville/Chagrin corner.

They sometimes even have three people working and I know stores shouldn't staff three people unless they need them so I I hope they quietly do well because items are not inexpensive there and if you sell a few you might make your day. Still, they've long since closed locations at places like Easton Columbus which is certainly high profile and high traffic, but high rent.

I'm so glad it is. I love Van Aken and want it to succeed in all ways. And I am there more than enough. But I still walk from lunch in the quite busy food hall, out the door and down the empty sidewalk to my haircut at Principle (usually midday, weekday) and then back the empty sidewalk to my car. Though the new Kiln restaurant is clearly doing very well, the Shops need traffic.. My favorite Shinola watch/leather goods store has been right there in the busy food hall area for 5-6 years and, yet, I'm usually the only customer in there and fear every visit will be my last one they're open. In other cities it would be at the Pinecrest type, more high visibility shopoing area, with lots of passersby. If Van Aken is only for local community types, and congregating in the food hall is enough, so be it, but then be prepared for empty storefronts. People like to shop where they feel part of a crowd, not in a quiet, awkward, only-customer-in-here kind of place.

Interesting... Whether Summer. Winter. Asoeing, or Fall - I am at Van Aken 1-2x a month and Pinecrest 2-4x a month and in the best weather I can count on one hand the people on the sidewalks at Van Aken any visit - other than food hall - and at Pinecrest, it's usually dozens on the sidewalks - but still half the Crocker pedestrian traffic (but some would say more 'buying' visitors at Pinecrest vs cruisin' at Crocker)

So very odd at VanAken... Went today for haircut and lunch, as I do regularly. The paved surface parking lot was full, as always, and the parking garage had just two spaces left in it on top level only... and there was not a soul on the streets. The foot traffic is very light here, sadly - though the Market Hall always seems well visited. (Brassica is super!)

You can get away with a bad airport like the old Laguardia and Newark facilities did - because they at least had good service and, well, it was NYC.. you quickly forget... Or you could have mid-level service and build a palace of a modern airport like they did in Indianapolis (and are doing in Columbus) where their whole aim was to elevate the impression of the city... - because though it doesn't matter to everyone, as is clear from comments on this board, it does matter to many people. But, a region like NEO can't afford to have both a dated airport AND bad non-stop service (top 50 service in a top 20 region) - and that's exactly what it has. Due to the cards we've been dealt, and local leaders slow action, peer cities, as well as those with a million or more fewer people, have dozens more non-stop flights and far better facilities and I don't get why the CLE region seems to be okay with that.

If I were Cleveland.com travel writer Susan Glaser, who penned the article noted above (and is normally positive about CLE) I'd be embarrassed at the negative, misleading title and tone. of the article. I actually did a double take when I read it, then saw her name attached to it.

I personally would prefer to see the Burke Dome as the compromise option, despite being ruled out by HSG, so far. But, would anything change in perception if that airport stadium location, now barely outside of Cleveland city boundaries, were officially annexed into Cleveland in whatever way that would give Brook Park the $$$ to make up for the relative loss of prestige their 18,000 residents probably think they're getting by locating it there?

As someone who has taken this flight 3x, seeing Aer Lingus add frequency is fantastic. I look forward to taking it 1-2x yearly due to the fair fares and/or great Avios points redemptions. However, the more important thing for long-term success may be for them to alter the timing of the flight to arrive few hours earlier (currently around 9 am) to better connect to early morning non-stop flights from Dublin to the rest of Europe - especially via Aer Lingus. While London and Paris may be well connected, with multiple flights a day, many other Euro destinations are either served only 1x a day from Dublin (prior to 9), or morning and a later afternoon or evening flight. Rome, Prague, Madrid, and Vienna were all destinations in recent trips that didn't mesh well with the CLE flight, requiring either a 4-5 hour minimum layover, a connection in another city, or a trip on another, often budget, airline - when Aer Lingus had flights just missing the CLE arrival timing.

Took the survey - but it is all about feel ("where do you like to go in Cleveland") not about substance ("what features would you like to see in a new airport"). They need to visit every new - often aspirational (mid tier cities that want to be perceived as world class) - airport terminal in the US and then go one better for CLE in layout, looks, and services, etc... But, why do I just know ours will be penny-pinched to mid-level?

Looks great, though I use that valet several times a month for the dining perfection that is Cordelia and it's so convenient. But still looks like, per floor plan, some version of valet pickup or drop-off will be in this space - when, originally, they were moving to Prospect for drop-off and Euclid for pickup (or vice versa).

If all the people angry about the next President were just as upset by the weakness of the juvenile justice system - something might change... I'll admit I'm a "one strike and you're out" (and "stop and frisk me, please, if it means you're able to then stop and frisk the ones who really need stopping and frisking" kind of guy - but, seriously... So many reports indicate multiple, multiple offenses in the past of many of the young getting caught. That should never be allowed to happen.

Growing footwear brand Tecovas and popular men's sportswear brand Travis Mathew now announced for 2025 openings. Both were on leasing map discussed here earlier in 2024. Restore juice location there rumored to be closing 12/31. Also, continue to be surprised by the significant customer traffic consistently seen in the local Heartland Coffee location that opened in the past year there. Always busy, including many folks just hanging out at tables, which COVID had seemed to kill, everywhere.

Based on County Executive Chris Ronayne's post today on X, Aer Lingus has extended its agreement for the CLE-DUB flight from Spring 2026 to end of 2027 - which would be very good news. I have used the service in 2023 and 2024 - am booked for 2025 - and plan to use it 1-2X a year - hopefully well past 2027. For those with Avios frequent flyer miles, or a credit card that converts to Avios, the deals on flights can often be had with relative points pocket change... 13K-20K points each way.

And the leasing map for Eton continues to say "lease pending" for the former Bravo! and Mitchell's Fish Market spaces - though now updated with the 3 above. Only the former North Face space is listed as available, no pending lease (as it relates to exterior spaces there.) The smallish Eton Lululemon, originally proposed in marketing materials for the Pinecrest space just opened with Alo, continues to be the athleisure outlier, as others are all at Pinecrest. Would think the somewhat larger North Face space could be in the running for them if not moving to somewhere in Pinecrest.