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George Nemeth · An urban environment that fosters serendipity in Cleveland?
January 4th, 2009
From our friends at ClevelandSGS:
Mrs. Soonja “Sue” Kim and her family owned and operated Hair Plus Beauty Supply in downtown Cleveland for approximately 25 years… Mrs. Kim reported to Cleveland SGS that her closing had nothing to do with declining sales. She loved doing business at her Arcade location; however the present owner of the Marriot Residence Inn (an 85% owner in the Colonial Arcade) refused to renew her lease for the year 2009. Other tenants in the Arcade told Cleveland SGS essentially the same story. Older tenants believe that they are being moved out in an effort to redevelop the Arcade as an upscale shopping and entertainment facility.
Much of commercial redevelopment mystifies us. When asked, most people link a city’s vitality to an urban environment that fosters serendipity. The current development trend of creating a uniform shopping experience seems to go against everything we learned and loved about viable city centers…
Apparently someone isn’t learning and loving Cleveland.
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January 4th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
What a big mistake. Unique small businesses with loyal clientele give any city its soul. Also, combining upscale venues with more modest local shops can provide a vibrant mix.
January 4th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
You can’t plan serendipity, but you can be sure that planners will ruin it…sad.
January 4th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
here we are in this confounding place.the old saying don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater. this reminds me of shaker sq. several years ago it was going to be THE LIFESTYLE CENTER to rival any in the USA> i was ousted along with all the other little unique small businesses for what? not one store that came in is still open there. now i am sick every time i drive past the idiot CVS where was stouffers, the only places that can stay open are food places, the downtown arcades could all be fantastic small business places with quality artisans, glass blowers, furniture makers, galleries,candy makers or anything else but UPSCALE CRAP.i am real sick of the hype and small minded short sighted er blind people who make the decisions around town. they will grind this town down and down and drive all the energy out of the dream i had when i returned here to make my life so many years ago. so many years i wasted trying to make the change for me and my family to see a vibrant creative place out of the ashes of post industrial cleveland. instead i see farm land as best use for the entire inner city abandoned by suburbanite traitors who only show up for sports,concerts, or plays then run fast to their cars to the safety of the sprawl they have wrought.phew.