Built as the Federal Department Store and later became a Peaches record store, the light-brick building with the tower along Pearl Road north of Brookpark Road is about to become home to a RISE Dispensary for medical cannabis. It is the latest change to the PearlBrook Shopping Center (Google). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.
Cleveland plaza partly razed for Sheetz last year
Here comes another change to the PearlBrook Shopping Center at the northwest corner of Pearl and Brookpark roads in Cleveland’s Old Brooklyn neighborhood. Plans were submitted to the city last week for a new RISE Dispensary of medical cannabis to be located in a building at 5100 Pearl Rd. that was built for a Federal Department Store and later became a Peaches Records & Tapes store.
Chicago-based Green Thumb Industries, parent of RISE Dispensaries, has submitted a permit application to carry out interior demolition. The area that is the focus of the permit application measures 7,350 square feet which is less than 10 percent of the floor area of the two-story, 76,464-square-foot structure, according to public records.
RISE has been operating dispensaries since 2015, according to Green Thumb’s Web site. In the nine years since, they’ve expanded
