The view from East 152nd Street of a vacant 22-acre lightbulb factory complex owned by General Electric. The company won approval this week to move forward with demolition plans.CLEVELAND, Ohio – General Electric intends to demolish a sprawling lightbulb factory complex on Cleveland’s East Side that dates back more than a century.
The corporation intends to demolish the complex by next fall, in what likely amounts to one of the largest industrial demolitions in Cleveland in recent years. GE’s plans, Hairston told the committee, are “like a dream come true, because it’s not that often you get corporations like this who want to support redevelopment…and take an eyesore off of the street where [they] once operated.”it will be “uplifting” to see the complex come down, especially if it paves the way for jobs and future development on the site.
The property requires extensive, costly environmental remediation as part of the demolition process. Along with asbestos, there’s lead paint, and mercury from the lightbulb-making process, the committee was told. The property lies a short distance across East 152nd Street from the Collinwood High School Athletic Complex, which added to the committee’s concerns. They recommended General Electric put up fencing, trees, or some other type of buffer, so the lot would be shielded from pedestrian and vehicle traffic along Noble Road and East 152nd Street.“It is an eyesore, as it is now, and having it come down can be no more of an eyesore than it already is,” he said.
Just drove through noble road then euclid to UC... So many massive complexes need demolition and a new start.
Great news. Property owners shouldn't be allowed to have a property like that just sit abandoned and untouched for that long.