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RENOVATING FOR MODERN TIMES Great Lakes Brewing Co.’s largest-ever revamp reflects a competitive landscape BBY JEREMY NOBILE
Beyond marking the next chapter for a storied local company, the largest renovation to date at Ohio’s oldest continuously operating craft brewery is also a sign of the times for the craft beer business. Great Lakes Brewing Co. last week unveiled a slew of upgrades at its Ohio City restaurant/brewhouse that collectively reflect a redesign in the business concept that’s tailored to draw customers in an increasingly competitive market. There is still plenty of space for sitdown dining — there’s a virtually net-neutral impact to total bar and table seating — but some areas, like the eco-friendly Beer Garden, have been tweaked to appeal to a more casual crowd interested in drinks, quick bites and hanging out. Longtime fans need not worry, though. The changes are meant to highlight the charm and heritage of the business, not pave over it. It starts with the new entrance, now marked by large, restored double doors that date back to the building’s 19th-century heritage. Six pounds of paint were sanded off the doors, which hadn’t been used in decades. Some of the buildings on Market Avenue were originally stables and storage for the Leonard Schlather Brewing Co. Just inside the entrance is an original grain scale that still works. See GLBC on Page 18
Jim Hess works on lighting at Great Lakes Brewing Co.’s Ohio City brewhouse. | KEN BLAZE FOR CRAIN’S CLEVELAND BUSINESS
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Company’s gains far exceed its low profile Feud erupts at potential Sherwin-Williams also is credited for being upfront with shareholders Sherwin-Williams HQ site BBY JAY MILLER
Contrary to the beige image it has cultivated in Northeast Ohio over decades, watching The Sherwin-Williams Co. is not at all as boring as watching paint dry for its shareholders and the home improvement industry. In the coatings industry, it places gold or silver worldwide in most key
categories, and it excels in the favorite color of the financial community — green. It’s an innovator in its industry and it has been adding dozens of retail stores a year, bringing its total to more than 4,700 stores at a time when most retailers are pulling back their brick-and-mortar presence. But until Sherwin-Williams stepped into the spotlight earlier this month,
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when it announced its plan to spend $600 million to erase an eyesore parking lot on Cleveland’s Public Square with a new corporate headquarters and consolidate its research and development at a new center in Brecksville, the company has assiduously cultivated a low-key, “nothing to see here” profile around town. The company ranks No. 2 in the world among paint and coatings manufacturers behind Pittsburgh-based PPG Industries Inc. by both PCI and Coatings World magazines. Sherwin-Williams is the larger company overall, in part because of its sale of brushes and other painting supplies through its stores, but PPG’s coatings-only business — among its paint brands are PPG, Glidden and Dulix — is bigger. See S-W on Page 18
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The only structure standing amid the sea of parking lots near Cleveland’s Public Square that is earmarked for the proposed headquarters of Sherwin-Williams Co. is the subject of a court fight. An affiliate of Stark Enterprises of Cleveland filed a foreclosure proceeding against the new owner of its five-floor former headquarters at 1350 W. Third St. on Thursday, Feb. 6, in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas. The suit is to collect on a $1.6 million demand note that the shopping center owner and developer and The Beacon apartments developer issued in December
2018 to the buyer of the building, an affiliate of Realife Real Estate of Fairview Park called 1350 W. 6th LLC. The note was filed as the structure changed hands Dec. 21, 2018, according to Cuyahoga County land records, which do not record a sale price directly for the property. Realife is led by Yaron Kandelker, an Israeli native who now makes his home in Cleveland and who has been rapidly accumulating commercial properties in Northeast Ohio. The practice of holding a note on a property sale is sometimes used as companies or individuals seek to move fast to close a deal. See STARK on Page 19
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