A New Day Is Dawning

Shaker Square is at its best in the summer when its restaurant patios are full with locals and visitors, young and old, enjoying our nearly 100 year-old gathering place. You can feel the energy.

This summer it was a construction zone. Its streets and what lies below them were being rebuilt. Closed streets, construction equipment, piles of materials, dust everywhere. Few visitors. Empty restaurant patios. One welcome sign of life remained: the Saturday morning North Union Farmers Market.

On August 26th the construction equipment was gone, and the barriers too. This once-in-a-generation rebuild will soon be done.

The renovation of Shaker Square's buildings is also nearly complete. The new owners of the Square, finding them in poor shape, invested and did what had to be done to enable a better future.

Our Square's darkest time is ending. A new day is dawning. It will move ahead, step-by-step, more vital, with old friends returning and new friends discovering it. Let us all enjoy this and, each in our own way, support it.

See you on the Square.

Arnie Berger   September 18, 2024