Business View Civil & Municipal | Volume 2, Issue 11

130 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 2, ISSUE 11 AT A GLANCE GARFIELD HEIGHTS, OHIO WHAT: A full-service suburb of Cleveland; population 26,000 WHERE: Cuyahoga County, Ohio WEBSITE: www.garfieldhts.org s, Ohio T he vibrant City of Garfield Heights in Cuyahoga County, Ohio – just a short 15-minute drive from downtown Cleveland – was founded in 1904 as South Newburgh, although its unofficial history long predates that. When President James A. Garfield was a child in the 1840s, he visited his uncle who lived there. So, in 1919 it made sense to use Garfield’s name when real estate developers wanted something more enticing than ‘South Newburgh’. As years went by, Cleveland grew and so did Garfield Heights. It’s where many Polish and Italian immigrants raised their families and established a caring community. That still holds true today in this diverse city of approximately 26,000, where citizens are blessed with a full range of services, including the Marymount Hospital and the Garfield Heights City School District public school system. The area also offers a favorable business climate, which consistently attracts a mixture of industrial, Room to grow