Heinen's converted an old bank building & opened a full service grocery store in downtown Cleveland. It's really useful to people who live & work there. It's heavily utilized.
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I love seeing historical buildings reused like this, and that communal space in middle, mmmf, we need more of that.
aug 29, 2025, 4:13 pm • 6 0 • view
How about abandoned malls? So many out there!
aug 29, 2025, 10:20 pm • 0 0 • view
I know one not too far form me is being partly redeveloped, there was another that closed years ago sadly it was demolished, so much cool 90s stuff lost. Luckily most of the other malls I visit are usually busy, but yeah, would be cool to repurpose the abandoned ones too.
aug 30, 2025, 12:13 am • 1 0 • view
What a cool looking space!
aug 29, 2025, 3:25 pm • 28 1 • view
It is. The building was completed in 1908. It obviously still has a lot of lovely features.
aug 29, 2025, 3:28 pm • 30 1 • view
Huh. I'm trying to think of a similar place in Cincinnati and all I can think of is the old Tellers in Hyde Park that's closed now, also in a former bank location with a "vault room" for parties. We definitely have food deserts here though, and this is the home of the Kroger Corporation!
aug 29, 2025, 3:34 pm • 10 1 • view
Kroger sucks the blood of the people!
aug 29, 2025, 6:07 pm • 10 1 • view
Aye, and profiteering during a pandemic, Kroger is thy name...
aug 29, 2025, 6:46 pm • 6 1 • view
I am currently living in an area where Kroger has actual competition and I am absolutely baffled how they stay in business here.
aug 30, 2025, 2:28 pm • 1 0 • view
That was the motive behind the proposed merger with Albertson's - eliminate all the competition.
aug 30, 2025, 2:34 pm • 1 0 • view
It's weird, Albertson's was the expensive place anywhere I went which had both (and Safeway after the merger). It was Walmart that was anchoring most prices, then Kroger. My perception of that proposal at the time was that it would be unleashing the worst tendencies of Albertson's.
aug 30, 2025, 2:39 pm • 2 0 • view
I was out of the US for a long time, so I missed Kroger going batshit crazy.
aug 30, 2025, 2:40 pm • 2 0 • view
They just don’t make em like they used to. Everything’s so plain now.
aug 30, 2025, 5:27 am • 2 0 • view
Heinen’s -there’s a great childhood memory from the Cleveland burbs (too expensive for my family, but the source of treats for special occasions).
aug 30, 2025, 11:39 am • 1 0 • view
I love Heinen’s, and this area sorely needed a grocery store to support the growing residential population, but I wouldn’t exactly call it a food desert here. A food desert is what happens when they close the Collinwood Dave’s.
aug 30, 2025, 1:15 am • 0 0 • view
WOW!
aug 29, 2025, 7:12 pm • 0 0 • view
A red state did that?🧐 Wow! Community gardens work too! Someone just told me they weren’t allowed plants on their patio at their apartment.
aug 29, 2025, 8:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Cool...but too expensive for most residents and there's still many food deserts in Cleveland.
aug 30, 2025, 1:55 am • 0 0 • view