Midline Expands With Major Midtown Acquisition, Meet Shaun Yaskai of Noble Beast Brewing, Cavs 2016 Fan Photo: CLE Daily

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🐓 New Chapter: Soho Chicken & Whiskey continues in a new home in Ohio City.

🍕 By the Slice: The Market Hall outpost of Boom's Pizza serves ready-to-go slices.

🎉 Juneteenth: Celebrate Black history and culture at these Cleveland events.

ICYMI: Cosm, the massive entertainment venue with a 100-foot, 12k-resolution LED dome, is expected to be completed in the summer of 2027.

Today's Trivia

The Browns’ 13-7 win over the Philadelphia Eagles on Dec. 3, 1950, marked the last time a team won an NFL game without this?

Midline adds another 10 acres with the purchase of the former American Sugar plant.

Development | By Ken Prendergast, NEOTrans

Another big piece of land has been added to the Midline redevelopment district on the city’s near-East Side. And officials are wasting no time in clearing the site for future development.

The New Site: Last month, the Site Readiness For Good Jobs Fund took title to the former American Sugar Refining Company plant, 6515 Carnegie Ave., in the Midtown portion of Cleveland’s Central neighborhood.

• Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

• The site measures 10.3 acres and includes nine structures totaling 112,000 square feet, according to public records.

Down Goes History: Some of the structures date to the late 1800s, with the newest built in 1994. One has a two-story terracotta facade with ornamental features on Carnegie.

• On Tuesday, the demolition contractor for this project submitted an application to the city to demolish the plant in its entirety — a job that will cost $1.49 million, city records show.

Former Operator: The sugar factory closed early last year, laying off 90 workers, and almost immediately went on the market.

Brad Whitehead, Managing Director of the Site Readiness Fund: “The intent is to market the site as ‘pad ready’ and be able to move a project forward once a new industrial user comes along.”

• The site is zoned as Midtown Mixed-Use District, allowing a variety of uses such as light industrial, office, retail or multi-family residential.

Read more on what's happening in Midline.

Relive the Cavaliers’ 2016 NBA Championship through fan photos.

History | By Cleveland Magazine Staff

As big as the Cleveland Cavaliers' 2016 NBA Championship was for the city of Cleveland, the moment was also a personal one.

In honor of the 10-year anniversary of the Cavs beating the Golden State Warriors, we wanted to live those moments together again.

Here are some fans snapping a selfie while inside the arena for the Game 7 watch party.

See more in this collection of personal pictures.

Talk of the Town

Northeast Ohio bread company Schwebel is closing down this summer after 120 years. Schwebel, founded and based in Youngstown, became a cornerstone in the bread market for Cleveland, Canton and Pittsburgh. It has slowly been shutting down plants and bakery outlets since 2013. 

• Company leaders cited aging equipment and labor costs as reasons for the closure.

Cleveland's Flock Safety contract is set to expire on June 29 after the City Council safety committee voted against extending it. However, another committee will take up the debate and vote on the contract, but no date for the meeting has been set, according to Signal Cleveland. If renewed, it would have cost the city $250,000. 

Northeast Ohio leaders are demanding answers after the FBI raided Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a voter registration group, last week. Many of the leaders see it as an attempt to intimidate Black Clevelanders and Ohioans before November's election, where polls show a competitive governor and senate race in the state.

• “This wasn’t a terrorist attack; this wasn’t a threat to public safety,” Rep. Shontel Brown said, reports Cleveland Scene. “It was an attempt to send a message to a specific community.”

Amazonia in Lakewood has been under new ownership since May, with Magdalena Medica and Juan Sebastian Albornoz Ramirez serving as co-owners. The move comes after the Vergara family backed away from the restaurants in February, reports Cleveland Scene.

• Margarita Reyes and her brother Luis Felipe took over ownership of Hola Tacos in Lakewood from the Vergara family last month.

Shaun Yasaki of Noble Beast Brewing.

Photo of the Day |  By John Skrtic

A few pints in, talking with the friendly entrepreneur, it is the type of Cleveland spot where conversations settle in easily and don’t need much introduction. Yasaki is a local kid, originally from West Park and now living in Ohio City. He came up during the early Cleveland craft beer wave, helping open Platform Beer Co. in 2014, where he helped establish a reputation for an experimental and creative brewing style that shaped the brewery’s early identity. He stepped away in 2015 as Platform continued to evolve.

Now Yasaki is preparing to open Anthology Cask House in the old Bookhouse Brewing space in Ohio City, leaning into cask traditions and classic beer styles, while also planning a year-round beer garden that will add another gathering place to the neighborhood.

Meet the faces behind some of Cleveland's favorite haunts.

Things To Do This Weekend

Bleachers Forever at Jacobs Pavilion (June 19): The indie pop band performs at 6:30 p.m. at Jacobs Pavilion as it brings its tour in support of its new album, Everyone For Ten Minutes, to town. Band leader Jack Antonoff has won multiple Grammys and possesses sharp pop sensibilities. 2014 Sycamore St., Cleveland, 216-861-4080, jacobspavilion.com

C.S. Lewis on Stage at the Hanna Theatre (June 20): Max McLean brings his one-person show about the author of The Chronicles of Narnia to the Hanna Theatre. Performances take place at 4 p.m. on Saturday and at 3 p.m. on Sunday. 2067 E. 14th St., Cleveland, 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org

Solstice 2026 at Cleveland Museum of Art (June 20): The Cleveland Museum of Art's annual solstice celebration returns with a lineup of world music that will play both inside the museum and on the grounds outside. The event begins at 7 p.m. and runs until midnight. 11150 East Blvd., Cleveland, 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org 

Father's Day Car Show at Hale Farm & Village (June 21): In addition to a car show featuring automobiles from the past 100 years, this event will feature live music and food trucks. There will also be glass blowing, blacksmithing and craft demonstrations. The event begins at 10 a.m. at Hale Farm & Village in Peninsula. 2686 Oak Hill Road, Akron, 330-666-3711, halefarm.org

Yesterday's Trivia Answer

A postmark by this Rockport Township postmaster led to the name of a Cleveland neighborhood still used today. Oswald Kamm

Check back Monday for the answer to today's question.

From the Editor 

As a kid, I could not pronounce the name Schwebel, but I knew their bread as the clown bread due to the logo on it. It is my favorite bread. If my parents bought any other bread, I did not want to eat it as a kid.

It's sad to see a company over 120 years old go out of business, especially as America celebrates its 250th birthday, but in today's world, we are seeing major local players in our food network go out of business. 

Last year, Detroit-based Harvest Sherwood Food Distributors closed all its locations nationwide, including its Maple Heights warehouse. In March, Grocery Outlet bargain market locations in Parma, Canton, Lorain and Cleveland permanently closed.

Earlier this year, the new Eastside Market was shut down by the city, leaving another gap for people to find food. These are just some of the local food stories that I have been paying attention to. 

If we can't get food locally, companies have to import from farther away, which costs more; these will likely be larger corporations that can absorb more of the cost but are even more likely to pass it on to us. - Jaden Stambolia, Editorial Assistant