CLEVELAND, Ohio — The United States Postal Service will use about 400,000 square feet of a former General Motors transmission plant in Parma to store and process mail during the holiday season, hoping to prevent the weeks-long delivery delays many customers experienced in the final months of last year.
Postal officials entered a lease starting this month to use the majority of the more than 500,000 square-foot building on Chevrolet Boulevard, according to Bennett Morrison, senior vice president at building owner Industrial Commercial Properties.
A USPS spokeswoman said its lease at the Parma site is so workers can process an influx of mail that goes through the agency’s processing center on Orange Avenue in Cleveland during the holidays. It is one of 45 annex sites the agency is leasing across the country.
Morrison said he could not disclose the terms of the lease though said it was a “long term” one. The USPS spokeswoman said she did not have the requested information.
The USPS has said it was overloaded during the 2020 holiday season, with more employees being out because of the coronavirus. It also saw an influx of online shopping orders, likely because foot traffic in brick-and-mortar shops was down because of the pandemic.
The goal is for packages to move through the USPS system more quickly and prevent the kind of delays residents in Cleveland and across the country saw last year Such delays resulted in multiple semitrucks being parked on Broadway Avenue, waiting to get let into the USPS processing center.
Industrial Commercial Properties purchased the former transmission plant in February 2020 for $9.7 million. It is the second owner of the building after General Motors sold it, though the Detroit auto maker still operates a metal fabricating plant directly north.
Morrison said USPS approached the Industrial Commercial Properties at the right time. The Solon-based development company had just finished interior work.
“Candidly we were fortunate that the Post Office showed up when they did, as it lined up with the completion of our improvements,” he said, adding that the company expects to list the property for sale in the next month or two.
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