I go to Fitworks all the time. Their hours suck but they are way cheaper than Titans. And what will their prices be when the competition next door closes? Another $20 a month out of my pocket for a new gym.

 

There's a 24-hour gym down the street from me......

 

Anytime Fitness

11517 Clifton Boulevard

Cleveland, OH 44102

(216) 221-1712

anytimefitness.com‎

There's a fitness center opening in the Flats East Bank hotel. Got a mailer for it last week.

^Can you give us anymore info from the mailer?

^Can you give us anymore info from the mailer?

 

http://eastbankfitnessclub.com/

 

 

Eh, that mailer says a lot of things but "upscale" ain't one of them!

It will be a big fitness club, though. It fills the entire second floor of the hotel.

Eh, that mailer says a lot of things but "upscale" ain't one of them!

 

Luxurious Lockers and Towel Service" ? ? ?

;)

I assumed he was speaking of the mailer lol. The club is supposed to be extremely nice and they will be running a special at first for downtown residents to get the word out (from what I've heard by someone who is joining).

I guess this is a better thread for this. Giant Eagle Market District will be opening at Clifton and W.117/116.

 

This will be the second Market District Store in the Cleveland market.

^Really?!?  Like the one in Solon?

I thought the second Market District was planned for Strongsville.

Maybe that one will open before this one... not sure. But that's what I heard at City Hall yesterday.

 

And yes, just like the new Solon location.

There's a fitness center opening in the Flats East Bank hotel. Got a mailer for it last week.

 

I assume the Parker Hannifin Y at the Galleria will also have a fitness center

I guess this is a better thread for this. Giant Eagle Market District will be opening at Clifton and W.117/116.

 

This will be the second Market District Store in the Cleveland market.

 

a half mile from their other store?  And where is that going to fit?

^yeah...that makes no sense...who is the source (plus if the store is as big as the new Solon Market District store if will take up almost the whole block...what about parking...this does not sound like Giant Eagle's MO).

Is this new Giant Eagle on Clifton going where the old Rego's (or whatever it was) used to be? I thought someone told me that space was going to be a school or something.

The source is Cleveland city council.

 

 

There's a fitness center opening in the Flats East Bank hotel. Got a mailer for it last week.

 

I assume the Parker Hannifin Y at the Galleria will also have a fitness center

Yes, the Y will be moving from its current location on Prospect.

Market Districts vary wildly in size. I've been to most of them and none are alike. The Shadyside one is very urban and is the size of a regular Giant Eagle store. Others are mammoth but they seem to be building smaller ones these days like in Solon. That one falls in the middle when compared to others. There's also a new Market District Express concept. The first one is opening near Columbus. Since its in the early planning, I'm not sure what it will have or how it will vary from Giant Eagle Express stores and NEO doesn't even have that GE concept yet.

The new Tiffany store opened at Eton today. It has the lamest, most pathetic, most second rate assortment of products I have ever seen at the dozens of Tiffany stores I've visited... Uhhhh... the assortment leaves a lot to be desired... That sounds more polite... But if you like lots of silver... and tiny little diamonds, I've found the store for you...

Market Districts vary wildly in size. I've been to most of them and none are alike. The Shadyside one is very urban and is the size of a regular Giant Eagle store. Others are mammoth but they seem to be building smaller ones these days like in Solon. That one falls in the middle when compared to others. There's also a new Market District Express concept. The first one is opening near Columbus. Since its in the early planning, I'm not sure what it will have or how it will vary from Giant Eagle Express stores and NEO doesn't even have that GE concept yet.

 

I try to avoid Giant Eagle in general, for numerous reasons.

 

But from what I've heard from others, the consensus is "they are trying to be Heinens and falling well short".

5th street arcades adds several new retailers, nears 100 percent occupancy

The historic Colonial and Euclid Arcades in downtown Cleveland suffered from 40 percent vacancy last year, yet this year they added a slew of new shops and have gone from half-empty to nearly completely full.

 

Renamed the 5th Street Arcades, the once-moribund properties have been turned around by Dick Pace of Cumberland Development, who has breathed new life into the spaces by luring entrepreneurial tenants with fresh concepts and excitement about downtown.

 

 

http://www.freshwatercleveland.com/devnews/5thstreetarcades082913.aspx

This has been one of the most exciting developments Downtown in years, but it's happened mostly quietly.  I hope they make a lot more noise about it, because I want to see these entrepreneurs do well.

^ speaking about that; Pour, the coffee shop on the Euclid side, is building out their interior.  I would guess they will be open middle of next month.  Also, there will be a tea shop inside, opening in Sept. but I can't remember when.

It sounds like the retail mix that was in The Arcade, way back in the day.  And that is a great thing

By the way...what is the status of the Galleria now?

Consist of mostly office space, the food court, a large bank branch and Lizardville the winking lizard spinoff bar.

By the way...what is the status of the Galleria now?

 

The YMCA is moving in some time, eventually. I hope it's a really great branch like in Lakewood.

i didnt go in the galleria last time i was home for a visit, but i walked by and it looked alive and well. good to hear of it being redeveloped for these new uses.

Last time I was there it was extremely dead and very depressing. These are positive steps forward, but it is still far from where it needs to be.

The retail/services component of the Galleria is being forced into something whcih must survive on its connections.... which are vast considering it is directly connected to Erieview Tower and has underground connections to the AJC building and One Cleveland Center.  I would guess that at least 95% of the traffic in the galeria is coming from or going to the surrounding office space 

yeah there will probably need to be more of the avenue and other new residential/office development around it for the galleria to become much of anything more than what it is for now, but it continues to have great potential.

So, I hate to start speculation, but we are working on some estimates for AG at crocker, and it appears there is going to be an upscale department store included that is currently not in Ohio. I'd love to spill all of the beans, but please understand that I cannot. Hopefully an announcement will be made by the end of the year.

Well that leaves Neiman Marcus or Bloomingdales right?

Didnt the owners table the move to Crocker indefinitely when they took AG private?

Didnt the owners table the move to Crocker indefinitely when they took AG private?

 

It was postponed until the vote went through but it's still moving forward.

So, I hate to start speculation, but we are working on some estimates for AG at crocker, and it appears there is going to be an upscale department store included that is currently not in Ohio. I'd love to spill all of the beans, but please understand that I cannot. Hopefully an announcement will be made by the end of the year.

 

I always appreciate your inside info but a dept. store at CP and AG moving fwd despite the sale is not good news to me or the city of Cleveland.

But I'm glad you guys are getting some work from it.

So, I hate to start speculation, but we are working on some estimates for AG at crocker, and it appears there is going to be an upscale department store included that is currently not in Ohio. I'd love to spill all of the beans, but please understand that I cannot. Hopefully an announcement will be made by the end of the year.

 

A Hallmark department store?? ;) No wait, Tommy Bahama! :o

 

But seriously, I would bet Neiman Marcus, but other possibilities are Gordmans, Carson's, Younkers, Belk and Boscov's (adding a store near Bellaire!).

So, I hate to start speculation, but we are working on some estimates for AG at crocker, and it appears there is going to be an upscale department store included that is currently not in Ohio. I'd love to spill all of the beans, but please understand that I cannot. Hopefully an announcement will be made by the end of the year.

 

I always appreciate your inside info but a dept. store at CP and AG moving fwd despite the sale is not good news to me or the city of Cleveland.

But I'm glad you guys are getting some work from it.

 

I agree with you. I'd much rather the store be within the City, particularly downtown. And I do wish AG would reconsider downtown as well, but that's for another thread..

If this is true my guess is Von Maur since it appears to be the one department store nationwide that seems to be expanding rather than contracting.  However, while many claim it is an "upscale" store I really don't know how true that is.  I know MTS would probably laugh hysterically at that classification.  It certainly is not in the Saks, NM league or any where close.

 

I certainly cannot see it being Bloomingdales or NM (neither of which has an Ohio store) since Bloomingdale seems to be actually closing stores (I think they just closed one in Atlanta that became a Von Maur) and I cannot believe either one of those two would locate so far away from the far east side.

^Well Von Maur is already in Ohio. So that cancels out that idea.

Von Mari has been speculated for Crocker in the past, and that would be my guess. However, Von Maur is already in Ohio, so unless that "not in Ohio" part of the clue is wrong, it is not Von Maur...

 

And either Bloomingdales or Neiman-Marcus, based on demographics and location and existing upscale retailers, would almost certainly focus east before west, if they were to hit CLE.(Not saying west isn't worthy... merely saying retailers play the odds and go where similar retailers are already established...)

so if not von then any guesses? i would hope for an excellent non-usa chain, like a topshop or uniqlo.

 

Maybe there was location confusion on Von Maur? Still my bet. Nothing else fits... (oh, wait - I changed my mind... see below)  if not Von Maur and not the other two mentioned, I can't think of another that matches description. Unless either "upscale" or "department store" are loosely used....

Lord & Taylor might fit the bill, too..  no longer in Ohio... and looking...

 

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2013-06-28/business/fl-lord-and-taylor-20130628_1_lord-taylor-mizner-park-outlet

 

 

 

 

Here is long-past Crocker department store speculation:

 

"The only new department store to come to Cleveland will be Von Maur in Crocker Park."

 

http://www.heartlandrebusiness.com/articles/DEC02/highlight2.html

 

ahh good guess with L&T, that would be fine and it fits upscale just under the wire!

 

i'd rather my lower rung non-usa chain choices tho, just because they would be more popular and unique.

 

With Apple leaving Legacy Village - there has been a very noticeable decrease in cars in Legacy lot during the weekday hours when I regularly grab lunch there.  Not sure what they have planned for new additions there, other than Ethan Allen and Granite City Brewery (both this Fall) - but they need a definite traffic driver. I have to think (with Apple always have 20-30 people in store + employees) they are losing 300-500+ customers/cars a day or more at Legacy - plus the spinoff business from those hitting other stores.

 

Then, at Eton, they must have adopted plan B of parking remedy when Tiffany opened two weeks ago - on top of Apple changes (to get employees out of lot, parking down the street at Stark-owned corner office building) because what was once a lot in which it was hard to find a space is now (from my daily commute by lot) one with dozen or even 100+ prime spaces during dinner hours.  I realize September is a hard month to read - with kids back to school, not quite shopping season, etc... but ast night at 7, and prior days/nights, you could have rolled a bowling ball from Bravo to Paladar and not hit much.  Pre-Apple, or even a month or so ago, you couldn't have easily found a close space in the main/front lot during same periods. Now, have your pick.  If Eton is still losing customers over perceived parking issues, it appears it is no longer the case.

I don't know man. Parking at Eton pre-Apple seemed awful regardless of the hour.

Pretty awesome news here. Topman/Topshop will be cominng to town! While sadly not a full store, they will have sections opening in Nordstrom at Beachwood Place. No firmly set date yet, but the sales girl said mid-October is the time frame. So excited for this :D