The Lorain County Port Authority voted to accept a $13.9 million loan from the county commission to buy the Midway Mall. It's a move leaders hope will fast-track redevelopment at the property.
ELYRIA, Ohio — The revitalization of Elyria’s long-declining Midway Mall is being re-energized by the prospect of new ownership. Thursday, the Lorain County Port Authority voted to accept a $13.9 million loan from the county commission to buy the property.For years, the mall has been down on its luck, as customers left for online and competing shopping centers and retail shops vacated the property.
“Even when I came in here the first time to get my eyebrows done, I couldn’t even tell if there was going to be a store because there’s nothing here. There’s no people, there’s no nothing,” said Hannah Lopez, a customer at Perfect Eyebrows. In spring 2022, city leaders backed a plan to move away from retail. It proposed transforming the 700,000-square-foot space into a health and light industrial park.
“All things are on the table. There’s been different things suggested. We’re going to take a look at it and see what makes the best sense for the city of Elyria and for Lorain County,” said Lorain County Port Authority Director Jim Miller. Whitfield explained having multiple owners of the mall has made it difficult. He hopes a single owner, the Port Authority, will make the property more attractive to developers.
“It’s close to Interstate 90, Interstate 80. So many cars pass through that corridor every day. And this is right there, what they see first, when they come into Lorain County. And we want it to be something that we’re proud of,” Miller said.
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