Phoenix Buys Another Chapter of GE Lighting History

Phoenix Investors has scooped up another piece of GE’s lighting legacy, paying $2.5 million for the shuttered 65 acre Circleville Lamp Plant — a onetime powerhouse that employed more than 1,000 workers before going dark in 2017. According to Lamptech, the site opened in 1948 as GE’s principal fluorescent factory, producing everything from PowerGroove tubes to circline lamps to halogen A19 bulbs after the company’s last incandescent plant closed in Warren, Ohio. It was the end of an era built on technology first incubated at GE’s famed Nela Park pilot plant in Cleveland.

The Circleville sale adds to Phoenix Investors’ growing portfolio of GE real estate assets, following its 2022 acquisition of the historic Nela Park campus in East Cleveland. With Nela Park long recognized as GE’s lighting innovation hub and Circleville once its most diverse fluorescent production site, Phoenix now controls key landmarks from both the experimental and high-volume chapters of GE’s lamp-making empire.