Monday, March 5, 2012
Restaurant will feature drink and food specials, plus live entertainment.
Bar Louie is planning to open with a bang the weekend of St. Patrick's Day, offering green beer, live music and free food. The neighborhood restaurant and bar will occupy the 6,501 square-foot space formerly occupied by Blake's Seafood at 9 Main Street at Crocker Park. "We've been looking at Cleveland area and Crocker Park is a great lifestyle center," said Hillary Shahbabian, Bar Louie spokesperson. "There's great traffic and it fits our demographic of young professionals very well." The grand opening party on Saturday will feature $2 green beers, with the celebration continuing March 19 through 25 with $2 martini specials and a free small plate per customer between 6 and 9 p.m. "The party for the grand opening is to really set the tone …
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Friday, January 6, 2012
The Ohio Department of Transportation will construct two right turn lanes to alleviate traffic congestion.
The Ohio Department of Transportation will be adding two right turn lanes at the Crocker and Bassett roads interchange with Interstate 90 to alleviate traffic congestion in 2013. On Thursday night, city council members gave ODOT approval to build two right turn lanes, one for traffic turning right onto I-90 West from Crocker Road, and the other on the I-90 West exit ramp onto Crocker and Bassett roads. The entire cost of the project, which ODOT estimates to be about $778,000, will be funded by the state. The city will only pay for preliminary studies and engineering, with ODOT footing the cost of construction. The turn lanes are only part of the larger Clemens Road Relocation project, which is also scheduled for 2013. Plans are to build a …
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Members unanimously passed an agreement laying the basic legal framework for development at Crocker Park.
After long months of discussions and negotiations, the basic legal framework is set fo the construction of American Greetings's international headquarters at Crocker Park. City council members passed an agreement between Westlake, Crocker Park and American Greetings Friday afternoon. Under the agreement, American Greetings and Crocker Park managers Stark Enterprises will pay no taxes on the increased value of their property for 30 years, starting in 2014. "This creates the legal framework for the tax increment financing, but it won't go into effect yet," said Council President Michael Killeen. "This just sets up the structure... There are numbers in here based on current plans that have not yet been approved, so this will have to be …
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Westlake City Hall
27216 Hilliard Blvd, Westlake, OH
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Crocker Park
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
City Council will meet Friday to vote on tax-exempt status and many other details for the planned development.
Westlake City Council is set to vote on an ordinance laying the legal groundwork for the American Greetings world headquarters and Crocker Park planned expansion. The agreement details tax exemptions for the property, infrastructure to be provided by the city, service payments from American Greetings, provisions for the school district and much more. “This is the agreement that solidifies what American Greetings promised the city and what the city promised American Greetings,” said Mayor Dennis Clough. “It doesn’t approve the development plan, but it at least gives parameters. As much as we could define is included in that agreement.” The agreement could not be passed at the last regular city council meeting because two members were absent…
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Chris M.
7:45 am on Saturday, December 24, 2011
Sounds like AG got a super-sweet deal. Hope it's worth it. more ›