Business is booming at Beachcliff Market Square in downtown Rocky River – cleveland.com

ROCKY RIVER, Ohio -- Since 1983, Beachcliff Market Square has been providing a smaller type of shopping mecca in Rocky River. The 110,000-square-foot, three-sided shopping center at the corner of Detroit and Wooster roads continues to pull in shoppers year round for many products and services.

The plaza is a mixed-use, open-air center. There used to be an indoor section of stores, but the profile changed when some restaurants took over those spaces. Burntwood Tavern is just one of them.

Today, the center -- whose slogan is Extraordinary is our style -- offers shopping, dining, health and wellness, and other services.

Making an extraordinary splash recently was a surprising new tenant, The Goddard School -- an unusual business to find in a shopping plaza. But manager Bill Brink explains why it is a good match.

The Goddard School opened Oct. 1, said Brink. Its the only one of their schools that is not freestanding. In Rocky River, it was getting hard for them to find a freestanding building when they needed 12,000 square feet.

Another business wanted only 5,000 square feet and couldnt find that, either.

The Goddard School needed a new space due to an increase in enrollment. Even their Westlake school had a waiting list.

I know someone, said Brink, who had a 2-year-old and was on a waiting list for 16 months.

For those who may have not been to Beachcliff Market Square, there is a large parking lot right in front of all the stores -- no long walks to your car when you shop there. And there is also a parking garage.

The Goddard School requires parents to park, come in, then sign in, in order to pick up their kids, said Brink. The parking garage is right below the school, so it offers no weather problems and its very convenient -- a perfect use of space.

But there is another reason Brink is happy with the arrangement: Parents can drop off the kids, then have breakfast, go work out or go shopping -- all right here.

Brink can rattle off the names of all the stores, services and restaurants. Some newer additions include Milan Hair Laser Removal Clinic, as well as Hand and Stone Massage. They join some of the long-lasting businesses like Planet Fitness, Erie Island Coffee and Girl Got Swing, which offers golf equipment and apparel for women.

Others include Smiles by White, West Side Preventative Eyecare, El Pita Mediterranean Cuisine, Francescas Boutique, Ann Taylor Loft, dentist Scott Shapiros Beachcliff Family Dentistry and a Cleveland Clinic family practice.

We have been blessed with a good mix of retail, services and restaurants, said Brink. It makes for a nice mix.

For a look at Beachcliff Market Square to consider for your holiday shopping, visit https://beachcliffmarketsquare.com/. For questions, email Bill.Brink@madisonmarquette.com or call 440-799-3176.

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