Akron Life November 2022

AKRON LIFE CELEBRATES 20 YEARS!

Akron Art Museum

John S. Knight Center

Towpath

Akron Marathon

Lock 3

... There’s 400 companies in Akron metropolitan that deal with polymer materials. We’re never gonna get another huge manufacturing industry to relocate in Akron. Bounce Innovation Hub … that’s been very critical to the development of the new economy. ... We’ve supported homegrown businesses that have expanded. There are jobs here for the future. Today, downtown store fronts are mostly filled, and many new apart ments are quickly getting rented, including 139 at the Goodrich and 107 at 159 Main. In 2021, the Civic added the Wild Oscar’s and Knight Stage venues and is adding a patio linking it to Lock 3. Construction is set to start later this year on Lock 3, adding a permanent stage, art, green space and seating to reimagine it into the city’s central park. Lieberth

is helping to open the Akron History Center in late 2023 and celebrate Akron’s bicentennial in 2025. Lieberth: We’ve learned we are an agile community. We have the ability to be flexible and to make changes as the situation requires. One of our biggest assets is our size. …We’re big enough to have problems. But we’re small enough to be able to embrace them and find ways to attack and solve them. It’s been a long, hard slog to area. ... You can’t attract people downtown if it’s not reasonably attractive and feels safe. The city has never looked better than it does today. — by Kelly Petryszyn get Main Street done. It enhances the best of downtown as a living

Firestone Stadium

Goodyear World Headquarters

Canal Place

photos by Bruce Ford

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