Euclid Has High Hopes for Redevelopment of Longtime GE Factory Site
Hundreds of workers once filled the factory floor at a General Electric Co. plant in Euclid, where the company made lightbulb filaments and other metal products. Now officials in the inner-ring suburb hope the 27-acre property, off Tungsten Road near East 222nd Street, can become an economic engine again.
Developer Weston Inc. purchased the real estate from GE last year and began razing the buildings in late March to make way for a new, 434,000-square foot warehouse. The $47 million project is a speculative one, aimed at manufacturers or distributors who need to move quickly.
"This is really the only new construction on this scale that we have going on," said Callie Cripps, the city's economic development division manager, who described the former GE site as one of Euclid's largest redevelopment opportunities.