Business View Civil Municipal - July 2023

168 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 7 Legacy Village shines as Northeast Ohio’s premier lifestyle center Legacy Village is Northeast Ohio’s premier lifestyle center located in the Cleveland suburb of Lyndhurst. Featuring more than 45 restaurants and retailers, the center is home to the area’s only J.Crew Factory, L.L.Bean, Lilly Pulitzer, The Capital Grille, as well as the Arhaus and The Tempur-Pedic flagship stores. Legacy Village enjoys a great sense of community, reflected throughout the year in annual events, live music, and the many other happenings that are mainstays of the center’s warm, welcoming culture. Complementing the experience is the Designated Outdoor Refreshment Area (DORA) which offers guests the opportunity to enjoy adult beverages outdoors within Legacy Village as well as at select retailers. Beginning with the annual arts festival, Art in the Village, the center’s warm weather line-up includes an eclectic mix of live music, trivia nights, weekday programs for the younger set, a variety of food trucks on Mondays, a Sunday farmer’s market and more. Legacy Village is also the home to the six-floor, 135-room Hyatt Place Hotel. Plenty of free parking throughout the center includes a five-level, 355-space parking garage. Located in the midst of Northeast Ohio’s thriving eastside business, residential, cultural and educational centers, Legacy Village is at the heart of the welcoming and thriving Lyndhurst community. For more information, visit www.legacy-village.com LYNDHURST, OHIO In addition to his mayoral duties,Ward is also keeping himself busy these days with his work as president of the Hillcrest Council of Councils. Begun in the 1980’s, this is an organization of council members from nine local communities. And as Gov. Mike DeWine noted in May, Ohio has a mighty big heart indeed. It offers job opportunities, family-friendly communities and a great quality of life, as well as tourism-related events and attractions. Ward relishes his more than 30 years of deep and varied civic involvement. This includes 22 years of service as a city councilman for Lyndhurst. He was elected mayor in November of 2015. And after spending 40 years in the transportation business, Ward retired from his private-sector duties to devote his full- time attention to the City of Lyndhurst. In addition to his career as a trucking company executive, Ward served on the board of directors of Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin School in Chardon, Ohio; as a member of a lay advisory board to the Sisters of Notre Dame; and on the board of the 250 Committee, which raises funds for the Big Brothers/Big Sisters organizations. He is a 1973 graduate of St. Ignatius High School, and he attended John Carroll University. “It was an awesome time,” Ward recalled of his days at St. Ignatius. “It was so simple then.”