Northeast Ohio Regional Retail Analysis
Executive Summary
Regional Retail Patterns
Map 2 illustrates the two most dominant retail development spatial patterns in the region. The first, and most obvious, is the linear pattern of development along major corridors. Arterials such as Pearl Road, Broadway, Detroit Avenue, Center Ridge Road, and Euclid Avenue can be easily identified, even without the roads being shown.
The other dominant pattern is the clustering of retail in traditional downtown areas. Examples of this include Elyria, Lorain, Medina, and Painesville. Graph 2 indicates the amount of retail space per person by county for all retail categories and selected convenience and shopping goods.
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Graph 3 displays the total amount of shopping area by county. Cuyahoga County has by far the most retail in the region, approximately 74,317,000 square feet equaling the retail square feet of the other counties combined. The communities with more than 2 million retail square feet include Cleveland, Mentor, Elyria, Parma, North Olmsted, Strongsville, Lorain, Euclid, Middleburg Heights, Westlake, North Randall, Fairlawn, Willoughby, and Lakewood. Of these 14 communities, five are outside of Cuyahoga County.
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Graph 3 also shows the distribution of the major retail categories. Convenience goods and services and shopping goods and services add up to well over one-half of the region’s total retail. Automotive sales, parts, and services and other retail are the next largest categories, each with about ten percent of the total. Commercial amusements, vacant retail, and local office each account for less than ten percent of the retail area.
The study report contains detailed retail inventory information for each of the more than 200 communities in the study area.
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