Nela Park is the headquarters of

GE Lighting GE Lighting is a division of Savant Systems Inc. headquartered in Nela Park, East Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The company traces its origins to Thomas Edison's work on lighting in the 19th century. History In 1911, General Electric was found ...

, a Savant company and is located in East Cleveland,

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. Nela Park is the first industrial park in the world being home to most of the lighting breakthroughs of the last century. The institute was first organized by entrepreneurs Franklin Terry and Burton Tremaine of the National Electric Lamp Company. Development of the site was started in 1911 when the National Electric Lamp Association (NELA), formed by John Robert Crouse, Sr, J.B. Crouse, and H.A. Tremaine in 1901, was dissolved and absorbed into

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. It was the first

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in the world, and was added to the

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in 1975. The campus emulates a university setting, and the dominant architectural style is

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. The campus is home to GE's Lighting & Electrical Institute, which was founded in 1933. Each December, Nela Park features a world-famous Christmas lighting display, which culminates in a miniature version of the

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, designed by GE Lighting. Albert Einstein and Ernest Fox Nichols Cleveland GE Nela Park 1922

Ownership

In March 2022,

sold Nela Park to Phoenix Investors, an affiliate of a

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-based real estate firm.

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