another new business opening in Lakewood

DougHuntingdon · Post by **DougHuntingdon** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 7:16 pm

I heard about this over the weekend. I have no indirect or direct ties to Class Act Resale.

Doug

http://www.classactresale.com/

dl meckes · Post by **dl meckes** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 7:43 pm

Sounds cool - especially the architectural resale part...

Jim O'Bryan · Post by **Jim O'Bryan** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:39 am

Doug

Not sure we need the disclaimer.

Thanks for the heads up and you attention to detail.

I do hope you mentioned that the Lakewood Observer has FREE business listings for any Lakewood business on the website and can help with many of their needs to succeed here in Lakewood.

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DougHuntingdon · Post by **DougHuntingdon** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:56 am

I just kind of heard about it third hand on the street. Maybe it will be a good business. Maybe it is a dumb idea. I don't know.

The only resale shop I have patronized is the Salvation Army retail store in Strongsville. I try not to go there too much anymore because of harrassment from the Strongsville Police Department. Apparently some hoodlum who was 20 years older, 8 inches shorter, and 50 pounds lighter wearing a peculiar hat and jacket got mouthy with a clerk in one of the stores near Walmart, and they fingered me as a suspect just because I was sitting there at the bus stop. The bus stop bench is no longer there, perhaps because a $250,000 house was nearby.

Doug

Stan Austin · Post by **Stan Austin** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:17 am

The website looks interesting and has a classy approach! This is a storefront that I believe has been vacant for close to 25 years.

Kudos to the new business owner!

Stan Austin

Shawn Juris · Post by **Shawn Juris** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:59 pm

Has it really been 25 years? That is truly incredible.

Stan Austin · Post by **Stan Austin** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:07 pm

Shawn-- Yes, it's been about that long--25 years. That building has two storefronts and they have been vacant for that long. I think their vacancy has more to do with actions or inactions on the part of the building owner than anything else. I've traipsed by that area on and off going all the way back to my time at Harding over 40 years ago. Even back then it seems that they never flourished. At one point there was a hardware store in the one we are discussing now. It never looked like a thriving business back then and then it remained in a ghost like state for almost a decade.

I think that 2 - 3 block stretch can make real good locations for a variety of businesses or services.

Stan Austin

Shawn Juris · Post by **Shawn Juris** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:19 pm

Stan,
I'm very familiar with it from the past couple years but hadn't realized it was that long. I thought after the paint job on the exterior that it looked attractive and with the addition of the Teen Health Center and accessibility to I-90 figured that something should work well there. Wasn't that whole area supposed to be reviewed by an offshoot of Lakewood Alive to determine what could fit well into the Hilliard Triangle? Anyone hear of an update on that?

another new business opening in Lakewood

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