“The building is not in a design review district so therefore we don’t review the demolition of the existing structure on the site,” said City Planner Matt Moss at a July 1 committee meeting where the Sheetz project received schematic approval.Īccording to plans submitted to the city, the Sheetz store will measure about 6,139 square feet. Its demolition also does not require approval from the Cleveland Landmarks Commission. A demolition permit will be pursued separately and directly from the building department as it does not require design review approval. Athens Deli moved here a dozen years ago after its lease ran out at its home of 51 years on Lorain Avenue in Ohio City. Luna’s has another location on York Road in Parma Heights. Everything from Luna’s Deli & Restaurant to Athens Imported Foods & Deli, will be gone. 5 from the Cleveland City Planning Commission’s Design Review Committee. A mattress store and a wireless communications retailer keep the lights on at Pearl Plaza, these days.īetween Pearl Plaza and the shell of the Yorktown will rise a gas station and convenience store that received final approval Aug. Saddle Ridge had a longer run as a country nightclub with a mix of hip-hop, rap, rock and countrified pop music like Kidd Rock and Gretchen Wilson. Bellbottoms Disco Bar operated by capitalizing on the nostalgia of patrons of Dixie Electric Company/Mining Company but it has since closed. The nightclub tried to make a comeback in recent with separate themes. It appears to have been transferred in 2020 to Ace Storage Inc. He quickly sold it to the International House of Prayer. It closed and sold the theater in closed in 1996 to Donald H. County property records show the movie theater was sold by Loews Theatre & Realty Corp. Yet, neither the Yorktown Theater or the Pearl Plaza are looking very healthy these days. Neither the Yorktown Theater or Pearl Plaza are part of the redevelopment, but they are what attracted most people to the shops at the northwest corner of Pearl and Brookpark. The intersection of Pearl and Brookpark was one of Greater Cleveland’s top-10 busiest intersections until Interstate 480 was completed between I-71 and I-77 in 1987, and the Jennings Freeway (State Route 176) was built in 1998. In between were a mix of stores and restaurants including the popular, 73-year-old Goodman’s Sandwich Inn (now the Cleveland Corned Beef Co.). The nightclub was The Dixie Electric Company discothèque in the 1970s and later a pop music dance club called The Mining Co. One side became a popular nightclub and the other a famous record store called Peaches. The other, at upper right, is the Pearl Plaza, once home to a Peaches record store and the Dixie Electric Company/Mining Company nightclub (RDS). One of those bookends, at lower left and next to the soon-to-close Luna’s Deli & Restaurant, is the old Yorktown movie theater. Explore the city, its past and beautiful architecture.It’s a development plan sure to make Baby Boomers and Generation Xer’s weep, although the PearlBrook shopping center’s bookends were more well known and will still stand even though they are now empty. Want to go for walk downtown? Check out our walking tours of downtown Cleveland. The path is wide which allows for social distancing. You can park in the lot behind the West Side Market (free for first hour and a half) and walk the span on a nice day. Walking the bridge is a nice easy walk with great views of downtown and Ohio City. Henry Hering of course is the same artist who sculpted Security and Integrity in front of the Cleveland Federal Reserve and Energy in Repose also outside the Cleveland Fed. They were designed by sculptor Henry Hering and architect Frank Walker and symbolize the made progress in transportation through out the years. They are made of local sandstone from Berea. The four pairs of statues stand on pylons at each end of the bridge. Thank goodness, that did not happen! It 1976 they were added to the list of National Register of Historic Places. It is hard to believe but in the 1970’s, there was an effort to remove the Guardians of Traffic! They were called “monstrosities and should be torn down and forgotten”. It was meant to have a lower level but that was never completed. The bridge is about a mile in length, was opened in 1932 and connects downtown with Ohio City. Have you taken the time to walk across the Hope Memorial (or Lorain-Carnegie) Bridge and get better view of the Guardians of Traffic? Last month, I was looking for a different spot to get my daily walk in, so I met a friend and we walked the bridge.
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