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Jacobs' planned to convert the Tower's surround plaza into a shopping centre which would serve the Cleveland area. The resulting Galleria, a glass-enclosed 207,600-square-foot (19,290 m 2) mall, opened in late 1987. It was the first major retail venture in Downtown Cleveland since the 1920s.
Between 1920 and 1930 Cleveland Public Schools, now Cleveland Metropolitan School District, built 35 schools one of which was the Girls' Opportunity School which was built in 1924 and is the school that evolved into the current Jane Addams Business Careers Center. The programs offered were for young women who had difficulty with academic study.
Higbee's was a department store founded in 1860 in Cleveland, Ohio. [1] In 1987, Higbee's was sold to the joint partnership of Dillard's department stores and Youngstown-based developer, Edward J. DeBartolo. [2]
May Company was the first local department store to issue its own personal charge card, announcing it on July 16, 1966 in a Cleveland Plain Dealer article, breaking away from being part of the Department Stores Charge Plate (a metal card that was notched for each store and used at all participating members which included William Taylor Son & Co ...
Pick-N-Pay Supermarkets was a chain of supermarkets which operated in the Greater Cleveland, Ohio area. The company's origin can be traced to the year 1928 and the opening of a small dairy store in Cleveland Heights, Ohio by Edward Silverberg who then expanded his operation and created a chain of such stores which he called Farmview Creamery Stores.
On October 24, 1941, Taylor's celebrated their flagship store's 26th Birthday at the now demolished Hollenden Hotel, where the Fifth Third Center now stands on Superior and East 6th Street. [ 5 ] Taylor's (the store) had throughout its history gone through a succession of Taylors who operated and owned the store.
Heinen's was founded in 1929 in Cleveland, Ohio, when Joe Heinen opened a small meat market on Kinsman Road (now called Chagrin Boulevard).After running the store for a few years, Joe opened his first supermarket across the street from the original butcher shop in 1933.
Cleveland entrepreneurs William Bingham and Henry C. Blossom purchased the Clark & Murfey hardware store in 1841, and incorporated it as the W. Bingham Co. in 1888. [2]In April 1913, the W. Bingham Co. announced it would construct a new building in the city's Warehouse District as its new headquarters. [3]