Demolition starting at Starlite

Published: Thursday, 7/3/2014 - Updated: 18 hours ago

BY CHIP TOWNS BLADE BUSINESS WRITER

Demolition will begin soon at the Starlite Plaza shopping center in Sylvania, making room for a new ProMedica Health and Wellness Center.

The Lathrop Co. has been chosen as the construction manager for the project at 5700 Monroe Street.

A groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled for July 16.

The ProMedica facility will be on the site of the former Churchills supermarket, which was built in 1971. It later became a Farmer Jack, and then a Bassetts Market. It has been vacant since 2007.

Two buildings on the east side of Starlite, a restaurant occupied by Ralphies Sports and Drink Eatery, and a retail building occupied by Daves Performance Footgear and the Buckeye Store and More, will remain. An older retail building that abuts Daves will be demolished.

Also scheduled to be demolished are a 60,000-square-foot strip center on the west side of Starlite Plaza and a 37,000-square-foot strip center behind the former grocery store.

One of the few tenants left in the parts of the complex that is scheduled to be demolished is Sewing and Vacuum Express. The company previously said it had a two-year lease and had no plans to leave.

On Wednesday, Linda Schweer, one of the owners, said they were studying their options. She said they were putting some numbers together to present to ProMedica.

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Demolition starting at Starlite