These changes include:
• Plans to put the former Sedlak
Furniture building at East 127th
Street and Larchmere back to
productive use.
• Completion of the $2.8-million
streetscape project.
• Submission of the application
for Larchmere to be a National
Historic District.
• Revival of talks for the formation
of a Business Improvement District.
• Working with the Cleveland
Municipal School District and the
community to effect a positive
western entry development to
the District at the school campus
complex at Larchmere and Martin
Luther King, Jr. boulevards.
Experience Larchmere
International Women’s Day, March.
Several Larchmere Merchants celebrate
International Women’s Day and donate a
portion of their sales to women-centric
nonprofits.
Larchmere Plant Sale, May.
(Mother’s Day weekend). This benefits the
Larchmere Community Association.
Sidewalk Sale, Memorial Day and
Labor Day weekends. Larchmere
merchants celebrate the kickoff and end
of summer with sales and bargains on the
District’s sidewalks.
PorchFest, June. Thirty residential
porches and 30 bands. Music, food, and
fun for the community.
Larchmere Festival, Fourth of July
holiday. Larchmere celebrates the
community with arts, music,
and food.
Holiday Stroll, Thanksgiving Weekend.
Now in its third decade, the stroll kicks off
the holiday retail season for Larchmere
merchants. Visitors can experience a
horse-and-buggy ride, hot chocolate, and
snacks, a bazaar, and music.
Merchants association
President Susan Rozman says one
of her goals during her term is to
continue planning additional events
that are mutually beneficial. “We
need to be looking at our businesses
not just in terms of how we are
going to get more people into our
stores to buy more stuff, but how are
we servicing our community,” she
says. This fall, Rozman would like to
stage a Fall Festival, and she would
like to add a Black History Month
celebration in February.
“We’re trying to understand
how Shaker and Buckeye and
Larchmere can all work together,”
she says. “Everyone in these
neighborhoods wants the same
thing. They want safe streets. They
want better stores.”
Harriet Logan says “I see a
constant ebb and flow. For 20 years,
we’ve been ‘up and coming.’ We’ve
been on the verge of something
great. Being on the cusp is a cool
place to be. Because it’s not like
you’re saturated or a has-been, and
it’s not like you’re mainstream,
either. You’re always off-stream.” SL
What’s Ahead
Greg Staursky, co-director of the
Shaker Square Area Development
Corporation, says several positive
changes this year will bring the
District “to yet another level of
destination shopping, dining, and
urban residential living.”
(left-right)
The House Warmings,
The Dancing Sheep, Larchmere
Oriental Rugs, Two Crows for Joy,
Loganberry Books, The Dancing
Sheep
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