Burton Neighborhood News

 Burton Heights Business Corridor Continues to Decline Article Written: March 31, 2023 at 6:49 PM The Perry Plaza Shopping Center has lost Three Tenants in 2023 2202 Broad Street Burton Heights Erie, Pennsylvania Broad Street is the main shopping corridor in the Burton Heights neighborhood of East Erie, decline in the area which began in the late 1990s has gotten worse in recent years as more stores continue to leave the shopping district due to frequent thefts and crime in the area. The first hit of bad news for the area was the closing of the CVS Pharmacy store at 1407 Buffalo Road in Burton Heights in August 2022. The CVS store has remained vacant and abandoned since then with no interested buyers. Then in 2023, the Perry Plaza has experience three tenants leaving the shopping center all at once, two of which have opened fairly recently in the past few years. Universal Smoke Shop at 2246 Broad Street, Dream Style Furniture at 2232 Broad Street and Little Caesars at 2212 Broad Street

 Article Written: March 25, 2023 at 11:29 AM The Dairy Queen location in Millcreek Township will be closing on March 31st. 3505 West 26th Street Millcreek Township, Pennsylvania Holland’s Dairy Queen at 3505 West 26th Street, corner of West 26th Street & Loveland Avenue in the Ketzel Deffenbaugh neighborhood of Millcreek Township was confirmed yesterday that it will be closing down on March 31st. The reason for the closure was because the owner of the local Dairy Queen franchise in Millcreek is retiring after operating and opening the store in 1974. Holland’s Dairy Queen was the last operating Dairy Queen in the Millcreek area as the other locations such as the West Erie Plaza location closed in 2017 and the Millcreek Mall location closed in 2020. There is no reports on what the location will become after the Dairy Queen closes down. There will be currently only 6 operating Dairy Queen locations in Erie County. 2 in Erie, 1 in Girard, 1 in Corry, 1 in Lawrence Park and 1 in North E