Hoover plant slowly becoming a shell of its former self

[Omaha Steve]

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Sunday, August 26, 2007
By G. PATRICK KELLEY
REPOSITORY BUSINESS EDITOR

NORTH CANTON Most production will cease at the Hoover plant here by the end of October.

It's likely the huge facility will be a shell by then, staffed only by enough people to keep it in usable condition until it's sold or put to use by someone other than present owner TTI Floor Care North America.



The 1.3-million-square-foot landmark facility is for sale, with California developer Stuart Lichter taking a serious look at it. Lichter is the man who turned the shell of the B.F. Goodrich plant in downtown Akron into Canal Place, a business and retail park.

Production workers, who once numbered more than 2,000 at Hoover's four facilities in Stark County, will be winnowed down to about 120 when the last bell rings.

Only about 200 of what was once a salaried staff of more than 1,000 remain. About 65 of them have been offered jobs at TTI's headquarters in Glenwillow, near Solon.


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