Thursday, January 24, 2013
Smithers-Oasis building 3,500 square foot addition on Marvin Street
Globally recognized Kent firm Smithers-Oasis has approval from the city to build its 3,500 square foot greenhous addition at the company's Marvin Street property. The Kent Community Development Department recently issued a permit for the $450,000 project to expand the company's research an development department, which was under cosideration for relocation to South Carolina. Smithers-Oasis, best known for its floral foam packaging used in flower shops around the globe, broke ground on the new addition recently. The Kent Board of Zoning Appeals approved plans for the expansion in October. The firm, founded in 1954, developed water-absorbing foam for florists to use in packaging flowers, according to its website. The company is headquartered…
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Smithers-Oasis North America
919 Marvin St, Kent, OH
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Monday, January 7, 2013
Company known for floral foam expanding research and development center in Kent
A 3,500 square foot addition at Smithers-Oasis on Marvin Street will let the firm keep its research and development operation in Kent. The company, best known for its floral foam packaging used in flower shops around the globe, broke ground on the new addition recently. The Kent Board of Zoning Appeals approved plans for the expansion in October. The firm had outgrown its original greenhouse used for research. "As we continued to work on many exciting new products for the North American and international markets, it became clear our existing greenhouse would not keep pace with our needs," said Jim Daly, VP of Smithers-Oasis Corporate Research. "A new greenhouse will allow us to continue our path forward as the leader in propagation media …
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-81.35416
Smithers-Oasis North America
919 Marvin St, Kent, OH
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Popped! adding space to handle internet, corporate orders
Gwen Rosenberg has grand plans for her little popcorn shop, Popped!, in downtown Kent's Acorn Alley. For starters, it's not going to be so little anymore. Rosenberg is planning to expand into space on the third floor of Acorn Alley II, directly above her existing shop, to handle the abundance of internet and corporate orders that have come through both her physical and digital doorways. "Downstairs, the space is limited," Rosenberg said. "I didn't think it was limited when I opened it." The specialty popcorn store opened in the summer of 2011, and since then the Kent mom has enjoyed a brisk business for her offerings of kettle, caramel and more creative varieties of popcorn. The store marked its grand opening earlier this year. As a …
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Popped
175 E Erie St, Kent, OH
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Friday, November 9, 2012
Partnership with Summa Wellness Institute puts coffee, pastry shop in building with wellness center and Akron Children's
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Friday, November 9, 2012
Tree City Coffee & Pastry and Summa Health System announced today an agreement to open a Tree City Coffee & Pastry café this December in the Summa Wellness Institute in Hudson, Ohio. Partners Mike Beder, Evan Bailey, and Brian Bower will join together in Hudson to form the joint venture, named Tree City Coffee & Pastry Hudson. The venture paves the way for Summa Wellness Institute members and consumers in Hudson and surrounding communities to enjoy the Tree City Coffee & Pastry experience. The agreement also brings together two companies with similar values. “The agreement with Summa Wellness Institute is in line with Tree City Coffee' & Pastry's strategy of growing through strategic community based alliances” stated Evan Bailey, co-owner…
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Tree City Coffee & Pastry
135 E Erie St, Kent, OH
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Smithers Oasis gets OK to build larger greenhouse for research and development
A Kent firm well known for its floral foam is expanding its research and development center in Kent with a larger greenhouse. Smithers Oasis on Marvin Street gained approval from the Kent Board of Zoning Appeals Monday to build a greenhouse 36 feet by 96 feet to serve its research and technology facility. The business received a 74-foot variance from the 100-foot minimum side yard setback to build the new greenhouse on the southeast portion of its 12-acre property. Jeff Malek, corporate technology engineer for Smithers Oasis, said the firm had outgrown its 25 feet by 40 feet greenhouse and considered moving the research and technology aspect of the Kent manufacuring plant to its location in South Carolina. "Which is not desirable to us," …
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Smithers-Oasis North America
919 Marvin St, Kent, OH
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Zoning board grants variance for 5,300 square feet addition
A machine shop planning to add at least 5,300 square feet of manufacturing space has the go ahead from the Kent Board of Zoning Appeals to do so. The board granted Copen Machine a variance Monday to allow a building addition to come about two feet from a property easement the business granted to the city of Kent about seven years ago. The board voted unanimously to grant the business a 48-foot variance from the 50-foot minimum front yard setback requirement. Travis Copen, president of Copen Machine, said the variance to come within 2 feet of the easement is necessary because several public easements on their property make expansion within zoning codes difficult. "We need the 5,300 square feet to do what we need to do," he said. "This is …
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Copen Machine
501 Dodge St, Kent, OH
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Friday, October 5, 2012
Dealership plans to expand onto former Huntington Bank property
The Klaben Auto Stores is expanding its West Main Street campus to include a used car lot at the former Huntington Bank branch at 1035 W. Main St. Klaben Property Management received approval for their used car plans from the Kent Planning Commission this week. Al Klaben told the plannning commission the former bank will house three to four sales people with used cars displayed on the property. "Basically we’re going to use the existing Huntington building as a used car office," he said. "Nothing’s going to change with the existing building." The expansion includes the removal of a grass area to allow for more car display space and to widen the service driveway at Klaben Ford to the west. The actual parking lay out is not set to allow …
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Klaben Auto Stores
1089 W Main St, Kent, OH
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Pharmacy was demolished in order to build larger store on South Water Street
In a matter of months Kent's CVS transformed from bricks and mortar to rubble and back again. Earlier this year demolition crews razed the former building, which was nearly 11,000 square feet in size, in order to build a new store with 13,600 square feet and a drive-thru window. During the $4 million expansion project the pharmacy counter remains open in a temporary trailer on the site.
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CVS Pharmacy
514 S Water St, Kent, OH
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Beemer Machine plans to hire 2 to 3 more employees
A Kent machine shop will stay in the Tree City thanks to a recent approval from the Kent Board of Zoning Appeals. Beemer Machine, at 1530 Enterprise Way, will expand in Kent and hire a few more employees following approval of its request for a 10 foot setback variance from the zoning board. Ed Burch, founding owner of the CNC-based machine shop, plans to build an addition onto his existing shop in order to buy a few more mills and add storage. Burch said the expansion and addition of two more machines means he'll have to increase his employee base from 10 to as many as 13. "I made it through the 2008, 2009, even the 2012 downward workload," Burch said. "We’re lucky enough perseverance has paid off and we’re becoming busy again. I’m up …
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Southbound lanes will close for pharmacy expansion work
The two southbound lanes of South Water Street will close starting this morning for underground utility work associated with the CVS expansion. The southbound lanes will be closed from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday and Friday. Traffic will be maintained using the turning lane. Last week, workers finished demolishing two houses south of the existing store to make way for the new building, which will include a drive-thru pharmacy. The city announced the lane closure on the same day it announced the closing of South DePeyster Street from Erie Street to Haymaker Parkway for construction of the Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center. The closure of South DePeyster Street will not start until Monday. The road will remain open from Erie…
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CVS Pharmacy
514 S Water St, Kent, OH
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Linda Guyas
10:18 pm on Thursday, December 20, 2012
Congratulations, Gwen! We miss your Popped popcorn! more ›