Flowers for East Cleveland, OH

Every December, GE's Nela Park campus lights up as the country's original outdoor holiday display, and for a lot of Cleveland families that is the mental image of East Cleveland — the landscaped grounds of the world's first industrial research park, sitting right on the Cleveland Heights line. There is more history under it: this was the very first suburb Cleveland ever set loose, Euclid Avenue still runs through as the old streetcar spine, and Forest Hill Park — the Rockefeller estate turned public green — spills over the border. On the ground, deliveries are short east-side hops that thread the Euclid and Superior corridors and the Mayfield Road pinch toward University Circle. That circle is the reason get-well and new-baby drops make up so much of the volume: University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and the Cleveland Clinic main campus are only minutes off, and the neighborhood funeral homes along Hayden and Shaw keep a steady sympathy calendar.

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