Brian Steere is doing more than just opening a restaurant next to Akron’s Lock 3 park.
The two-story Crafty Steere, due to open next month in a space in the O’Neil’s Building that’s been vacant for more than a decade, will have family-friendly games, a bar and a market in addition to a downtown restaurant.
The business will be “crucial” for the success of a core part of downtown, said Kimberly Beckett, the president of Downtown Akron Partnership…