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Have you been to Uniqlo or Primark? If you have, you would not be wishing for it to come to Easton.

Too bad Bridgeworks doesn't look more like this.

"Sidewalk Superintendent"

Leases expire and new tenants may be willing to pay more for a more visible location, or a tenant may no longer need as much space but still wants a presence in the market.

Interesting. That would be a great spot too.

Does anyone know where Arhaus is relocating at Crocker Park? I would not be surprised if it was the Barnes & Noble space. This would give Arhaus a more visible presence and allow for a two-story store since the upstairs space is listed "for lease".

Wawa or Sheetz would never build at Steelyard because it would take 5-10 minutes to get off the freeway and another 5-10 minutes to get back on the freeway after buying gas.

I've been to their new locations in Boardman and they had one cashier with about 15 people impatiently waiting in line. It's more like Sav A Lot or Aldi with deals on name brand, closeout items stacked in boxes. Hopefully with the public financing subsidy, the Cedar Fairmount store will be remodeled but don't expect anything fancy based on Boardman. It will draw people from a much wider area because of lower prices than the new Meijer on E105 so the parking will be a bit of a mess. Better than having an empty building.

The grocery tenant deal tanked because the City would not permit Casto to increase the size of the retail/commercial component of the project because of parking and the desire to have new housing stock in the City. The City also wants small shop retail to bring in some national fast casual restaurants who would love to be in Lakewood because of the density and demographics. An urban format Meijer, Fresh Thyme or Trader Joe's would have been nice to force Giant Eagle to fully upgrade their store. Any ideas where else one of these smaller grocery stores could locate?

Why is DSG moving from Crocker? I would have thought the Crocker store would be better performing than Great Northern even though Great Northern is a larger building built by Galyan's Sporting Goods.

I knew when they no longer had the veal meatloaf on the menu that it was only a matter of time....

Even with the renovation, it still was not about the food. Very disappointing menu and spotty service. They even got rid of the veal meatloaf.

Columbus has a very vibrant urban retail scene in the Short North one block from its convention center which is missing from Cleveland. This adds to the draw of Columbus over Cleveland during convention downtime. Professional sports venues, Playhouse Square and the Rock Hall are phenomenal draws but not close to the Cleveland convention center. Like it or not, retail adds vibrancy and a big city feel to Columbus that Cleveland does not have.