World City Guide

Shopping

Like many American cities, Cleveland offers excellent shopping opportunities. Items are inexpensive and in abundant supply and variety. Cleveland-themed souvenirs popular with visitors are, of course, rock and roll memorabilia and they can be found at Daffy Dan’s Rock’n’Roll Heaven/Cleveland Souvenirs, 2101 Superior Avenue.

On Public Square and connected by walkways to nearby hotels and sports facilities, is the US$400 million development called The Avenue at Tower City Center, whose lower level is a converted train depot and houses various shops, including names like Brooks Brothers, J Crew and Nine West. America’s first enclosed shopping centre, The Arcade, was built in 1890 on Euclid Avenue and is today completely refurbished and renovated, offering three levels of speciality shops in an Atrium-style structure. The new Hyatt Regency Cleveland at The Arcade, 420 Superior Avenue (tel: (216) 443 1000; website: http://cleveland.hyatt.com), also found a home in this landmark structure.

Factory outlet shopping is also popular in Cleveland. The Aurora Premium Factory Outlets, 549 South Chillicothe Road (tel: (330) 562 2000), has 70 outlet stores, including Eddie Bauer, Polo Ralph Lauren and Liz Claiborne. Northeast Ohio’s largest factory outlet centre, featuring over 80 stores, is Prime Outlets at Lodi, 9911 Avon Lake Road (tel: (330) 948 9929), located in Burbank, a short drive southwest of Cleveland off I-71S.

Visitors should also not overlook Cleveland’s various neighbourhoods when shopping. Larchmere is good for antiques, ethnic specialities can be found in Ohio City, and art galleries and Italian pastries and restaurants in Little Italy.

A state sales tax of 7% applies, which cannot be refunded. Stores are open daily 1000-2100. On Sundays, some stores may open 1200-1800.