The $42 million Bowery Project in downtown Akron is projected to generate as much as $245 million in economic impact over the next 20 years and help create more than 2,000 jobs, a new study says. Also, the project, which involves redeveloping and repurposing six empty and blighted buildings in the heart of downtown along South Main Street next to the Akron Civic Theatre, remains on track to be completed by the end of November, developers said. Soon-to-be finished apartments in the Landmark building — the tallest of the six buildings at West Bowery and Main — will begin to be leased out starting in October...
