Cafaro Co. moves HQ to Niles

NILES — Cafaro Co. will move its family to a new home in 2015.

The new 50,000-square-foot Cafaro corporate headquarters will be an updated, more open space for its 200 employees, or, as the Cafaros called them, extended family members.

"It's much more than a new building; it's a new chapter," said Anthony Cafaro Jr.

The official announcement was made this morning inside the Eastwood Mall and featured an assortment of treats for guests, architectural renderings of the structure and streamers flying from the roof at the end of Anthony Cafaro Sr.'s speech.

"For me, personally, it is a very gratifying day," Anthony Sr. said. "I am able to witness the planning, the forethought and the aggressiveness of my two sons who remind me of my father."

In addition to the new headquarters, Cafaro announced the plans for a future Hampton Inn and Suites.

The new Hampton Inn will be built on the site where the Eastwood Expo Center is located.

Cafaro Co. was founded in Youngstown in 1945. The current office building at 2445 Belmont Ave., Youngstown, was built in the 1960s and expanded in the 1970s.

"We don't intend it to [let] sit empty for very long," Anthony Jr. said.

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