Pickle Williams

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The great thing is when you are a city about to get you very own lifestyle center you are allowed to ingnore and/or contradict your master plan :clap:: Form the Seven Hills 2002 Master Plan: "ASSESSMENT OF FUTURE RETAIL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES There is a total of 264,018 square feet of retail space within the City of Seven Hills, with 256,018 square feet currently occupied. For every resident of Seven Hills, there are about 21 square feet of retail space. In comparison, Suburban Cuyahoga County has about 45 square feet of retail space per person. However, when retail uses along Broadview Road in Parma are included, the amount of shopping space immediately available to residents of Seven Hills nearly quadruples to 1,011,392 square feet, bringing a total of 84 square feet of retail space immediately available for each resident of Seven Hills. Since the 1,011,392 square feet of retail space in Seven Hills and along Broadview Road in Parma serves not only Seven Hills but also Parma and other adjacent communities, a more reasonable estimate of the amount of retail space per person in the Seven Hills area can be made by doing a radial analysis taking into consideration the number of residents and the amount of retail space located within a given area of land. Figure 4.2 examines the concentration of retail space per capita starting from the center of Seven Hills, located in Calvin Park. The area within one mile of this center point has 0.5 square feet of retail space per capita due to the largely residential nature of Seven Hills. However, when the population and the retail space within three miles of Calvin Park is included, the concentration of retail space jumps to 47.4 square feet per capita, just above the sub-urban average. Similarily, Figure 4.3 shows the retail space available within a two, four , and six mile radius from the future entrance to the Municipal Recreation Center on Broadview Road. The area within the first twomiles includes nearly two-thirds of Seven Hills and large residential parts of Parma as well as the Broadview Road retail district. The retail concentration here is 31.2 square feet per person. When the four mile radius is included, the amount of retail space increases to 49.2 square feet per capita and includes such major retail centers as Parmatown Mall. CONCLUSION As shown in this retail inventory and analysis, Seven Hills residents are well served by retail and office businesses. The City has experienced a commercial building boom since 1970 and has increased by ten times its amount of office and retail space. Thus, the results of this analysis suggest that the City emphasize working with existing merchants to strengthen their retail businesses. Excessive new construction of retail, especially along the Broadview Road corridor, will create competition for existing businesses in this locale. For certain underutilized areas, such as the vacant land on Broadview Road near the new municipal recreation center, limited retail development that complements the existing retail environment should be allowed. The office market analysis in this chapter suggests that the City should continue its efforts to attract additional first class office buildings along the City’s eastern portion of Rockside Road. With several new office building projects pending in the neighboring community of Independence, the City of Seven Hills should initiate a development incentives package to developers who will build multi-story office buildings in this area of Seven Hills."