CLEVELAND - Babyland General, home of the Little People and Cabbage Patch Kids, hopes to be in its new complex by the end of the year and, while the date is not a firm one, May 8, 2010, is the tentative date for the grand opening.
Work has been underway since May 2007 on the new site of Babyland General, on NOK Drive in Cleveland.
Little People and Cabbage Patch Kids creator Xavier Roberts said at the groundbreaking work plans for the new facility had been underway for quite a while. It will total almost 70, 000 square feet, which will include retail space, offices, a historical archive of Cabbage Patch Kids, a conference center, warehouse and the home place to 110 million Cabbage Patch Kids and their adoptive parents worldwide.
Roberts said the new location and facility is more than just his ideas. When completed, the operations in downtown Cleveland, in a real doctors' clinic turned Babyland General Hospital, will move to the new location off Hulsey Road on property once occupied by the Cherokee Indians. As part of the groundbreaking ceremony two years ago, Babyland officials invited Attorney General Johnny Chattin of the V Georgia Tribe of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation to bless the ground in an official Native American ceremony.
Announcement of the tentative timeline for making the move and holding a grand opening was made this weekend in conjunction with Babyland General's annual Fall Fest Celebration.
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