"Buying the bus station means we increase our footprint ... It might be for one-nighters of cabaret, music, and burlesque. You come have a meal, have a martini, watch a show. So the idea is more bars and restaurants and more activation for the neighborhood."
Catch up quick: The Playhouse Square Foundation purchased Cleveland's historic Greyhound Bus terminal in April for $3.3 million.
State of play: Hassall told Theater Mania he envisions the larger theater district as a version of New York's Times Square, where patrons could "graze" from one unplanned activity to another.
Between the lines: "Hassall is essentially trying to foster an urban pedestrian culture ā the kind New Yorkers and Londoners take for granted ā within a larger society that is hugely reliant on cars," Theater Mania writes.
The bottom line: Playhouse Square will experiment as it expands.
