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Downtown Akron Skywalk - 28 February 2019 - Starbucks inside the Polsky building

Downtown Akron Skywalk

3.0(1 review)
12.0 mi

If you work in downtown Akron then you can get across different buildings through a connected…read moreSkywalk. I think the fact that the city of Akron developed a skywalk is really great. I took the skywalk on 28 February and went straight to the Polsky Building to get some lunch at Chick-Fil-A. The Polsky building has a Starbucks, Chick-Fil-A, a snack shop, and a University of Akron bookstore. The shops are on the 3rd floor I believe. My team walked on the Main street / High street skywalk - this skywalk is called the Main Place skywalk which is named after the Main Place building. There is also a skywalk between High Street and Broadway called the Ocasek Skywalk since the Ocasek building is the main connector. (see my attached photos with maps). The skywalk is convenient during the winter months when you don't want to walk outside. It is connected through different outlet points and even has a tunnel in the Cascade Parking garage. Some parts of the skywalk are cold and one particular section of it (a hallway) smells bad. Maybe the smell is due to some construction in the area outside. But, for the most part, the walk above the streets is nice. You will enjoy looking through the windows and you will fee the bright sunlight over your face. Also, there is some artwork on a few walls on some parts of the Skywalk. I also enjoy the little exercise posters on the walls that encourages movement as you walk through the skywalk. If you are walking leisurely, the walk will take you between 5-10 mins depending on where you are going and where you are coming from. Overall, I recommend the Skywalk as a good form of exercise because you get to leave your desk at work and move around. The buildings you will go through are old but there is no need for building admiration here since the point of the skywalk is to not walk outside. This, the skywalk meets its purpose without looking 100% aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Rating: 3/5 just because of the bad smell in a section of the skywalk and it is cold in some parts of the skywalk. *** - 39 total reviews in 2019 - 249 total Yelp reviews - Reviewed on 1 March 2019

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Downtown Akron Skywalk - The Univ. Of Akron - Polsky Building

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Downtown Akron Skywalk - 28 February 2019 -- On the Main/High Skywalk in downtown Akron.

28 February 2019 -- On the Main/High Skywalk in downtown Akron.

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Hotel Mathews Monument - Hotel Mathews Monument, Akron

Hotel Mathews Monument

3.0(1 review)
12.3 mi

The center of African-American culture in Akron during the mid-20th century, Howard Street was home…read moreto many of the city's black-owned business and entertainment establishments, and provided an atmosphere in which minority-owned businesses could thrive. Attracted to the vitality of the neighborhood, entrepreneur George Mathews (1887-1982) established a barbershop here in 1920 and in 1925 opened the adjoining Mathews Hotel. The hotel quickly became the anchor of the Howard Street district. George Washington Mathews was the first African American hotel and barber shop owner in Akron.1 His barbershop and hotel were located on North Howard Street at the junction of what is now Howard Street and Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. Mathews was one of many successful African American business owners along Howard Street from the1930s to 1960s. Hotel Matthews remained open until 1978. As the rubber industry in Akron declined, so did the Howard Street District. The hotel, along with many other businesses on Howard Street, were bulldozed in the early '80s to make way for the Innerbelt Freeway, a project that was part of Akron's Urban Renewal Movement. The historical marker here reads, "Enthralled by the vitality he witnessed as a visitor to Akron in 1920, George Mathews put his entrepreneurial spirit to work and established a boarding house; soon after a barber shop, then a beauty salon. Over the next half century, The Hotel (spelled "Matthews") was home to a series of shops and businesses including a photo studio and record store. Not the least of its fame was as the Akron home to the greatest "jazz age" entertainers who came here to perform and were guests at The Matthews. George Mathews and his establishment on North Howard Street were the anchors of a rich and glorious district in the lifestyle of Akron's minority community from the mid 1920s through the 1970s." The buildings are long gone but the memories live on. [Review 1354 of 2024 - 273 in Ohio - 22377 overall]

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