The first problem was the entrance to the theatre.  When Marcus Loew decide on the property for his new edifice, he chose the site on South Main Street just south of Bowery where the unfinished Hippodrome theatre stood since 1918.  Albert B. Myers, owner of the land on which stood the hallway of the Hippodrome, decided not to sell the property, but offered Loew's a ninety-nine year lease.  The only alternative left Eberson was to make the entrance of the theatre on Bowery Street, an undesirable idea since the theatre front would be on a side street, instead of on Akron's Main Street.  So the decision was made to lease the land on which the hallway was built.

The second problem involved land just west of the hallway, a sixteen-foot wide strip owned by the Erie Railroad Company for the construction of a new railway.

The third problem was that part of the Ohio Canal lay west of the Erie land in the area of the proposed theatre construction.   As the canal moves south, it abruptly makes a turn westward and becomes Lock #13 which borders Loew's property to the south.  Traffic on the canal, part of the Erie and Ohio waterway system ceased in 1913, after many years of providing low cost transportation because of the competition provided by the railroads.  But the State of Ohio continued to own the canal even though it was not in use in the late twenties. Loew's corporation solved the last two problems by leasing the air rights over the Erie Railroad land and over the Ohio Canal.  The architect proceeded to design a bridge extending from the hallway over the railroad property and canal the the theatre property.

In June of 1928 the Franklin Brothers Company of Akron began tearing down the unfinished Hippodrome theatre to make way for the new $300,000 Loew's
Theatre.  In less than a year from the beginning of construction, the new theatre was completed.