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The new Mitchell's Ice Cream is set to open this March! The facilities will offer a storefront, ice cream factory and the Mitchell's Ice Cream headquarters right on West 25th Street.

The old Rialto Theatre, which dates back to 1919 has served as a variety of businesses over the years. The building has been sustainably renovated and features solar panels and a reuse rainwater system. The updated theatre marquee signage on the front will proudly display Mitchell's flavors and farm partners. The alley on the south side of the building, Gould Court will be closed to traffic and will become a patio and serve as a community space.

If Ohio City is an artisan neighborhood, then Mike Kaplan and Chris McGillicutty of the Glass Bubble Project are its original artisans.

Established in 1998, the Glass Bubble Project pre-dates most of trendy bars and restaurants that have become the lifeblood of the West 25th nightlife corridor. Built around 1920, the building formerly housed Diamond Welding, and later became a band practice space. It wasn’t a particularly welcoming location, which was just fine for a couple of artists looking to set up shop. “When we got here,” said Chris, “the place was full of old tires.”

When deciding what to do with property on its campus no longer needed for growth, Providence House CEO and President, Natalie Leek-Nelson, said the organization looked for a solution that would create an “empowered zone for kids that will be respectful to our children and the surrounding residents.”

The answer came in a unique partnership with St. Ignatius that allowed the two organizations to create a campus oriented towards kids’ well-being in Ohio City.

The Cleveland Museum of Art’s successful Ohio City Stages program, which debuted this summer with a series of free outdoor concerts at the Transformer Station at West 29th and Church, continues this fall with a new series of performances. 

“The Transformer Station will be a space for adventurous music as much as adventurous visual art,” says Tom Welsh, Associate Director of Music Programming at CMA. “This is the museum’s great strength and role to play – this is something different, I think, a pretty terrific series of first-class international artists.”

The concerts, which will be held inside the Transformer Station, are intimate, mostly solo performances with limited seating. They are intended to showcase artists that typically do not appear in Cleveland, especially ones whose work is not easily categorized. Tickets cost $20 ($18 for members) and concerts begin at 7:30 pm.