Mitchell's Ice Cream Coming to Strongsville

Mitchell's Homemade Ice Cream plans to start construction next week on a 2,800-square-foot store inside

Co-owner Peter Mitchell said the ice cream parlor will be in the mall's food court, adjacent to the Cinemark movie theater and across from .

"We're hoping to be open by Thanksgiving," said Mitchell, who operates the company with his brother, Mike.

It will be the first mall location for the Cleveland-based company, which now operates ice cream parlors in Rocky River, Westlake, Solon and Beachwood.

"We're excited about it," Mitchell said. "SouthPark is such a vibrant mall."

The Strongsville store will be larger than any of the existing Mitchell's parlors and will include seating for patrons.

Mitchell said the company has been looking for a site in Strongsville for about two years.

Locating in Westfield SouthPark "doesn't rule out, at some point, a location outside the mall" as well, Mitchell said, pointing to the success of Panera, which runs busy restaurants both in the mall and across the street on Royalton Road.

The company's website says the brothers have developed a unique, three-step freezing process that results in extra-creamy ice cream filled with "generous chunks of chocolate chips, whole nuts, cookies, and other delicious baked treats."

The menu includes cones, floats, sundaes, shakes, malts, fresh fruit smoothies, homemade ice cream cakes and pies, and signature treats like the Cleveland Brownie Sundae.