Before the Shaker Square design we know today, planners envisioned locating the commercial gateway to the Van Sweringens' suburb inside the existing Moreland Circle, a traffic circle (or roundabout) where South Moreland Boulevard, now Van Aken, branched off Shaker Boulevard. The plan shows how the rapid transit tracks would have passed through a tunnel-like opening in one of the buildings. The design would not have enabled sufficient parking and would have been incapable of the kind of expansion that eventually occurred to the east, west, and south of Shaker Square. | Source: Shaker Historical SocietyDownload Original File
