THE VISION ISSUE - City of Shaker Heights

Shop Shaker Database
Helps You Shop Local
Where better to shop than your hometown Not only will
you help build a thriving commercial base right here in
Shaker, your tax dollars will stay in the community, where
they can be put back to work for you and your family.
The City’s new Shop Shaker database is designed to
help you do just that.
Need an accountant or web designer Find it on Shop
Shaker. How about a veterinarian or dry cleaner That’s
here too.
“The goal is to make residents and other local businesses
aware of the plethora of shopping options within the
community,” explains Tania Menesse, director of economic
development for the City.
“It will include traditional storefronts but will also highlight
our service businesses and the hidden gems of our city –
our home-based businesses,” she adds.
It’s a mobile friendly online tool, so you can search it at
home from your computer, or use it on the go from your
phone.
Business owners can sign up for the database by filling
out a simple form; business owners can also include links
to websites, Twitter, and Facebook, and post coupons or
other promotions.
Shop Shaker is available at work-live-shakerheights.
com.
section from six legs to four, create a
new intermodal center where buses
and trains can be accommodated, and
then create regularly shaped parcels
of land where redevelopment can occur,”
she explains. City officials have
already raised the $18.5 million needed
for the reconfiguration project and
are bullish on the $75 million in potential
economic development from
a mix of residential, retail, and office
development. Even better for Shaker
residents and the City itself is that if
all goes according to plan, the redevelopment
will generate $5 million
annually in income and property tax
revenues.
Reconfiguring the Roads
The first step is the Warrensville/Van
Aken Intersection Reconfiguration
– a signal that the district redevelopment
is beginning in earnest. And the
first step in the reconfiguration was to
secure funding – something Braverman
has spent countless hours doing
in recent years. Fortunately, those efforts
have been rewarded to the tune
of $18.5 million. “It takes a long time
to raise $18.5 million for road work
– which is what Joyce has been doing
for the last four years – and to get the
Ohio Department of Transportation
to sign off on road reconstruction
and to get plans and engineering,”
Menesse explains, adding, “This is a
process.”
According to the City’s Warrensville/Van
Aken Transit-Oriented De-
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