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BELLEFONTE, PA-Equipped with $3.5 million in incentives assembled by the Governor's Action Team, locally based Cleveland Brothers breaks ground for a new 85,000-sf Caterpillar parts and distribution center that will anchor the Centre County Industrial Park at Rockview. This is one component of Cleveland Brothers' $30-million consolidation and expansion plan under way across five counties, initiated by its acquisition of Murrysville-based Beckwith Machinery.

In November 2005, Gov. Ed Rendell announced plans to transfer the 135-acre Rockview State Correctional facility to the Centre County Chamber of Business and Industry for development into an industrial park. The Cleveland Brothers' facility will anchor the park.

The other components of Cleveland Brothers' expansion are a 40,000-sf sales and service facility that was just completed in Lancaster County; an expansion of its 400-sf lab to 900 sf in the Chambers Hill area of Harrisburg; a 9,000-sf expansion of its existing 28,000-sf facility in Turbotville in Northumberland County; and renovation and expansion of existing operations in Murrysville in Westmoreland County. The latter will become the company's new headquarters. A new 50,000-sf sales and service facility is also under construction in New Stanton near Murrysville.