SummaCare will move its corporate offices to Akron’s East End neighborhood into the space that formerly housed the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company headquarters. The move is expected to begin in late summer, with all 300 employees in their new offices in November. SummaCare, whose first client 30 years ago was Goodyear, signed the lease March 2. The insurer had…
WKSU / by Amanda Rabinowitz The mostly-abandoned site of the former Goodyear Tire & Rubber headquarters on Akron’s east side is starting to come back to life. Last weekend, a new concert venue opened in the 90-year-old Goodyear Theater with two sold-out concerts featuring rock acts The Smashing Pumpkins and Gavin DeGraw. Developer Stu Lichter says it’s just the beginning. His California company, Industrial…
Wall Street Journal / Eliot Brown Tire maker Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is scheduled to cut the ribbon Thursday on a glassy new headquarters in Akron, Ohio, after nearly a century at a sprawling complex about a half-mile away. Now, a California-based developer is trying to make sense of what the company is leaving behind. Stuart Lichter, the developer…