The celebrated giant Hard Rock guitar will take its final riffs in Cleveland this week as the Tower City location is set to close when the RNC packs up and leaves town.
The Hard Rock Cafe has been a popular haunt for rock and roll fans since its opening in 1998 inside of Tower City.
The restaurant overlooking the Flats with an entrance off West Huron Road says the closing “marks a strategic decision on behalf of the brand to focus efforts in the market on Hard Rock Cafe at Northfield Park and Hard Rock Rocksino” in Summit County.
The brand’s Northfield Park location opened in 2013 and marked the Hard Rock International’s first Rocksino gaming property.
The horse track-combined-casino at Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield Park in Northfield is also home to a Hard Rock Cafe.
The company says employees who will lose their jobs after the Cleveland location closes after this week “will be given priority consideration for open positions at the Northfield Park cafe and Rocksino gaming property.”
The Northfield location also features a Hard Rock-logo concert stage and a comedy club.
Craig Webb can be reached at cwebb@thebeaconjournal.com or 330-996-3547.