Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Group prefers to address full planning commission.
PokerTek’s plans to set up shop in Towne Center are still in place, despite the company’s request that the item be removed from the April 2 Planning Commission agenda. “We asked for a continuance,” PokerTek representative, David Harbarger, of Fifth Street Entertainment in Cleveland, said April 1. “It’s routine.” Initial plans for the April 2 Avon Lake Planning Commission were for a conditional use permit for the site Blockbuster Video previously inhabited. PokerTek operates charity gaming sites. Charities can host the events for a four to five-day festival, receiving the bulk of the net proceeds. Anyone in the public, over the age of 21, can enter the café to play. Harbarger said only five of the seven Planning Commission members would be …
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Monday, April 1, 2013
Avon Lake Planning Commission will hold a public hearing before the case is heard April 2.
UPDATED April 2, 3:59 p.m. Avon Lake Planning Commission will not be voting on whether to issue PokerTek/Avon Lake Charity Festival Room for a Conditional Use Permit to operate at 32814 Walker Road, the location formerly occupied by Blockbuster Video in Towne Center. The item has been removed from the Tuesday, April 2 monthly Planning Commission meeting agenda. PokerTek, a company that supplies fully automated gaming machines, approached the city in January. Company representatives gave a presentation to the city’s Economic Development Committee and Economic Development Advisory Board last month and addressed city council at the Jan. 17 meeting. “The group came to us to see if it’s viable,” Avon Lake Mayor Greg Zilka said in January. “Mr. …
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Avon Lake's last video store will close next month
The Avon Lake Blockbuster Video store, along with six other stores in Northeast Ohio, will be closing its doors permanently next month. The Avon Lake store, in Towne Center, will close Jan. 22, according to Jenn Krystowski, a manager at the location. “We found out Dec. 19…there are seven in our district that are closing,” Krystowski said. The struggling company, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2010, announced massive store closings earlier this year. This week, it was announced it will shutter additional stores, including Berea, Brooklyn, Lakewood, North Ridgeville and Port Clinton, Sandusky and three in the Dayton area. The chain is owned by Dish Network. The closing will leave Avon Lake without a video store. Two …
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Ford workers represents 25 percent of the city's top 10 employees.
Avon Lake could benefit from more business growth in the form of additional companies coming to town. So says Joe Archacki and Jeff Schneid, members of the Economic Development Advisory Board, during a snapshot presentation of Avon Lake's economy at the Jan. 3 council meeting. The pair provided economic information, including how new house construction and residential tax revenue has flattened, as well as a list of the city's top 10 non-government employers. While the city boasts some large employers, such as Ford Motor Co.'s Ohio Assembly Plant and PolyOne Corp., having one or two companies account for a sizeable portion of the city's tax base could be an economic risk, the two said. "It's a little bit concerning," Archacki said. …
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010
A look ahead (and behind) at the city's economic climate
Joe Archacki has been the chairman of the Avon Lake Economic Development Advisory Board for eight years. His is the president of Mainstreet Growth LLC small business marketing for growth resource. Archacki recently retired as a sales and marketing executive with PPG Industries Industrial Group. He has more than 20 years of experience in the development of new business. His experience includes creating market plans and strategies that identify new markets and market adjacencies, creating major new value added sales methods and sold programs of products and services to large and small industrial customers. Patch asked Archacki, a retired business executive, to gauge the economic climate in Avon Lake. Here are our questions and his …
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Myron Thomas
4:00 pm on Thursday, April 4, 2013
I can probably be quite sure that some who would probably go to a booster organization's gambling event and think nothing of it, will probably be against this. Trust me when i tell you if it happens, they will be the first ones there. Mostly those with the hyphenated last names.... Those that if they really understood this concept would probably embrace it quite well with their little action … more ›