Dread ahead on Main Street.

CENTRAL business districts; DEALERS (Retail trade); MERCHANTS; BUSINESSMEN; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; ART museums

CHAGRIN Falls (Ohio); OHIO

This article reports that delays in the final phase of a $3.9 million downtown improvement project in Chagrin Falls have stirred the anxiety of merchants in a village already coping and competing with modern Main Street replicas nearby. Piccadilly's Fine Art Galleries is on its way out as it moves next month to what owner P.J. Campbell said is twice the space and half the rent on Professor Street in Cleveland's Tremont neighborhoodSeveral Chagrin Falls merchants think year-old Legacy Village in Lyndhurst, recently opened First & Main in Hudson and Woodmere's refashioned Eton Collection already have had a draining impact on their sales and thinned what traditionally was a bustling mix of foot traffic in an old-fashioned downtown.