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Welcome CVS!
CVS is here at
last. The new store opened Sunday August 19. It's
large and bright, with a convenient rear entrance and a
drive through prescription dropoff - pickup window. For
more, including pictures, click
here.
Patios are growing
Several restaurant
dining patios around the Square look better than ever -
enlarged, rebuilt, renovated. Look for a page of photos
soon.
More free parking!
Parking meters
are still all around the Square. (If not, all the spaces
would be used by Rapid Transit riders and store
employees.) But now they
have a button you can press for 15 minutes of free
parking. What a good (and long
awaited) improvement. learn more
Shaker Square Citizen
This website salutes Donita Anderson, founder and
manager of the North Union Farmers Market. Her work has
brought a freshness and vitality to the Square.
learn more
The Coral Company,
probably including the three May move-ins, says that
occupancy has risen to 85 percent from only 45 percent
when they took over in September 2004. That's good for
us all, though given the CVS delay and the recent
departures, we think that number is a little "north" of
the current occupancy rate.
Community pages
Our coverage of predatory lending, a major consumer protection issue,
continues on our
Predatory Lending page. And our Grinch
List of all the Northern Ohio state legislators who
voted to weaken the Anti-Predatory Lending
bill, still gets lots of visitors.
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Northeast corridor
In the center of the northeast
quadrant, just west of what will be the new CVS location, is a new wide
well-lit corridor from the Square to the
north parking lot. It makes it easier for visitors to
park free and get to the Square without having to walk
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Web site news
Our website is ranked #1
by all major
search engines. Our traffic increases steadily. We now
have more than 12,000 visitors a month!
For three years this
website has had no income, yet it needs almost
daily attention to keep it fresh and growing. Our first
effort to make it self-sustaining is a small inobtrusive section
for real estate advertising:
Places to Live near Shaker
Square.
We've also started a
Sponsorship program and are glad to announce that the
largest store on the Square - Dave's Supermarket - as
our first website sponsor.
Doing this will allow our other pages to
stay ad-free.
See you on the Square.
Arnie
On a sad personal
note. Sandy, who often walked the Square with me and
whose sweet face graced this page since its start, is
gone. She died in her sleep on June 19, age 9 1/2, a
very advanced age for a boxer. We'd been together
more than seven years, ever since she was rescued in Sandusky
(thus, the name Sandy).
Thanks for
being one of the more than 12,000
persons
who visit
www.shakersquare.net each
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