Archive for August 2026
Ikea’s Crocker Park Lease Shows How Starved Cleveland Retail Has Become for Space
Ikea has signed an 80,000-square-foot lease at Crocker Park in Westlake, backfilling the former Dick’s Sporting Goods box and giving Greater Cleveland — until now the largest U.S. metro without an Ikea — its first store in the region. The small-format location, developed with Stark Enterprises, is slated to open in spring 2027. It’s a…
Read MoreTwo Speeds in Akron Industrial: 1.2% Vacancy in the Machine Shops, 9% in the Big Boxes
Averaged across 74.5 million SF, Akron’s 5.9% industrial vacancy hides two markets — near-full manufacturing space and a loosening logistics segment. Source: CoStar Akron Industrial Submarket Report, Q2 2026. Akron’s industrial vacancy rate hit 5.9% in the second quarter, according to CoStar’s submarket data. That’s up from 5.1% a year ago and 2.7% at the…
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