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Pub will relocate as part of housing, retail project
By Ed Meyer and Jim Carney
Beacon Journal
Published on Saturday, May 10, 2008
Brubaker's Pub on South Main Street in downtown Akron has closed, but it is expected to reopen just north of its present location in the city's new $25-million student housing and retail project.
''It will look substantially bigger because it will all be on one floor,'' pub owner Scott Brewer said Friday. ''It will have cafe seating on Main Street and open-air windows.
''It might be the crown jewel [of the project], it's going to be that nice. We're excited about it,'' he said.
Martin Mehall, majority owner and president of the downtown development project, Exchange Street Associates, confirmed that negotiations with Brewer culminated in a new lease for the pub.
Mehall said he expects the new Brubaker's to open by the end of this year.
Brewer said the two sides have signed off on a 10-year lease with options that could extend it to 20 years.
The pub's last day of business was May 3. The past few days were spent moving out fixtures and furnishings from the present site in preparation for demolition, Brewer said.
The major redevelopment project, on the south end of downtown Akron, got under way this year with the demolition of the former Jillian's building on South Main.
Construction work already has begun on the student housing and retail complex, which will house 450 University of Akron students.
Mehall said the project is expected to be finished by June 2009, in time for students to move into the two-, three- and four-bedroom apartments for the fall semester of 2009.
The new single-floor Brubaker's will be built south of Main and Exchange streets, and it will be about 3,200 square feet, Brewer said.
Mehall said the second, third and fourth floors of the new building will be used for apartments.
He said the entire project is ''going as planned, pretty much the way we laid it out for the planning commission when we got approval.''
Ed Meyer can be reached at 330-996-3784 or emeyer@thebeaconjournal.com.
Jim Carney can be reached at 330-996-3576 or jcarney@thebeaconjournal.com.
Brubaker's Pub on South Main Street in downtown Akron has closed, but it is expected to reopen just north of its present location in the city's new $25-million student housing and retail project.
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