Creative Hangars Strengthen Hingetown. Foo Fighters At Stadium: CLE Daily

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🥗 Chick Magnet: Chicken Salad Chick, the fast-casual chicken salad chain, opens its newest spot in Fairview Park's Westgate Shopping Center on Tuesday, Aug. 25. The first 100 guests in line score free chicken salad for a year. The restaurant, offering dine-in, takeout, delivery and catering, is run by first-time franchise owners Doug and Angela Fitch.

🌐 Dome, Sweet Dome: Downtown's Gateway District just topped out Cosm, a 70,000-square-foot "shared-reality" venue whose 100-foot, 12,000-resolution LED dome will beam live sports and events. Built by Bedrock and run by the Cavs' Rock Entertainment Group, it'll be the chain's largest venue nationwide when it opens in Summer 2027.

📣 Rise and Give: Cleveland's sports mascots — the Browns' Chomps, the Guardians' Ketchup, Mustard and Onion, and the Captains' Horatio — plus Cavaliers fan favorite Booby Gibson gather at Playhouse Square Plaza this morning for Breakfast on the Plaza, where United Way of Greater Cleveland kicks off its 2026 campaign. The public is welcome ($7 buys or gifts a breakfast); guests are asked to bring school supplies, hygiene products and nonperishable food to restock the Cleveland Public Library's Blessing Boxes.

🥬 Wash Your Greens: Ohio's cyclosporiasis outbreak keeps growing — nearly 4,000 cases since June 1, a second consecutive week of "significant" jumps, with Cuyahoga County's 457 cases second only to Lucas. The CDC traced infections to iceberg lettuce (a Taylor Farms recall is out); officials say scrub and rinse produce rather than skip it. 

ICYMI: Get saucy — Cleveland Wing Week runs Aug. 17–23 with $10 wing deals across Northeast Ohio, and our guide rounds up the spots worth the mess, from Butcher and the Brewer's coal-fired wings to Good Company's 72-hour version. 

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Trivia Question

What famous crimebuster – better known for his exploits in Chicago – was the safety service director and a failed mayoral candidate in Cleveland?

Business: Hingetown's silver hangars get a second act as the Creative Hangars. 

By Julia Lombardo 

The seven U-shaped silver huts on the corner of West 28th and Church Avenue have always been Ohio City's impossible-to-miss "elephant in the room" — and after a rocky few years, they're quietly finding their groove again. This summer the cluster relaunched as the Hingetown Creative Hangars, a curated mix of local sellers hawking books, art, clothing, food and drink across the two-story structures.

• The Backstory: Developer Graham Veysey, who helped spark Hingetown's revival 15 years ago from a vacant West 29th Street firehouse, originally envisioned the hangars as affordable housing for artists. Instead, Chagrin Valley Soap & Salve co-owner Sam Friedman pitched a retail model, and in 2022 the huts opened as City Goods — a collective that handled internet, sales tax and marketing so makers could "just make your great product."

• The Stumble: Despite a warm reception, City Goods lost more than it earned. Friedman sold it to Ohio City Inc., which ran it as a nonprofit for about a year before surrendering the keys in early 2025, leaving the hangars vacant and open to individual tenants.

• The Relaunch: The new occupants include a bookstore, a fashion boutique, a vintage shop, a kids' store, a crafting studio and an oyster-and-martini bar. Friedman's old City Goods hangar was reborn as Forest City Vault under new owner Samantha Basille — a longtime vendor (Sappho and Her Beans coffee) who inherited the lease.

• By the Numbers: Running a consignment model that lets small vendors skip rent, Forest City Vault now hosts roughly 110 to 120 makers in a single hangar — nearly four times what City Goods fit across all seven.

The Big Picture: For Veysey, the hangars are "a chapter in a long history" — the final piece of the walkable, creative neighborhood he and wife Marika Shioiri-Clark set out to build, and, this time, a model that's "shifting with times and needs, which is what it should do."

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Talk of the Town

Great Lakes goes beyond beer.  Ohio's original craft brewery is rolling out aSPLASH, its first canned cocktail, a citrus "long drink" made with Columbus-based Watershed Distillery's Four Peel Gin, in 6% original and 99-calorie 4% varieties across Ohio this month. A portion of proceeds goes to Cleveland's CLEANR to fight microplastic pollution, with launch parties Sept. 3 at North Coast Yard and Sept. 19 at the GLBC brewpub.

A $3 million jolt for the Illuminating Company. State regulators hit Cleveland Electric Illuminating with a proposed $3 million forfeiture after finding its June 30–July 15 Lakewood outages, affecting more than 18,000 customers, came from aging equipment, not weather. Inspectors even caught CEI cooling substation transformers with garden sprinklers. The utility has until Aug. 21 to respond.  

The riverfront's next act takes shape. Along the Cuyahoga, Bedrock's $3.5 billion masterplan is moving into its next phases: the Cavs' 210,000-square-foot Global Peak Performance Center practice facility is in its final stretch (the team moves in by February 2027), a Live Nation-run riverfront amphitheatre won city approval, and new trails are knitting Ohio City to Downtown. Heads up — RTA rail east of Tower City is on shuttle buses through Aug. 15 for ramp work.  

The elected-sheriff fight isn't dead. Short of votes, County Council Member Martin Sweeney pulled his charter amendment to make the Cuyahoga County sheriff an elected office again. But vowed to bring it back. In the same column: City Hall is shopping for an "intelligence-led" police surveillance suite, including gunshot detection, license-plate readers and drones. 

More RTA cuts are on the table. Greater Cleveland RTA is floating another round of route and service-frequency cuts and wants riders to weigh in on three proposed changes at public hearings this week. 

Cuyahoga County left lead money on the table. The county forfeited nearly $1.2 million of an $8.1 million state Lead Safe Ohio grant it couldn't spend before a July deadline. The money was earmarked for lead-hazard removal in Cleveland and East Cleveland. Vendors blamed complex federal requirements; the state keeps the unspent funds.

Music: Foo Fighters turn up the volume at Huntington Bank Field.

By Christina Rufo 

Foo Fighters celebrated more than three decades of rock with their biggest Cleveland headlining show yet at Huntington Bank Field last night. Frontman Dave Grohl, an Ohio native born in Warren, led the band through a career-spanning set after opening performances from Queens of the Stone Age and Mannequin Pussy.

Yesterday's Trivia Answer

This Cleveland-area manufacturer held half the market share for coffeemakers in the 1970s – thanks in no small part to television ads featuring former baseball star Joe DiMaggio. Mr. Coffee

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From the Editor

One thing that doesn't get mentioned much, with the Browns moving out of the city at the end of the decade, is the concerts. Major shows and events go to the suburbs, too. That hit — to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, to the Downtown eateries — might be more noticeable than 10-11 football games moving to Brook Park.

With Foo Fighters in town last night at Huntington Bank Field, it just struck a chord with me. It is a battle to keep our cities humming along in this country. But I also know the key to any region in any part of this country is a vibrant core. We need the city of Cleveland at its best, so the Brook Parks, Rocky Rivers and Chagrin Falls of Northeast Ohio can be at their best.

This is "an all for one, one for all" type of thing. This is why it is vitally important for the city, county and region to get it right with what replaces the stadium along Lake Erie.

  — Ron Ledgard, Managing Editor

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