Credit: Reddit user mr_sneakerhead
Anyone who’s hung around the Cleveland subreddit or dabbled in urban exploration themselves probably knows at least the bits and basics about the so-called rubber duck factory warehouse in University Circle. As for the whole story, many specifics are still mysteries, but Belt Mag did about as thorough a job as anyone laying it all out.

Anyway, there’s a new mystery: how did it catch fire? More than 50 firefighters battled a blaze this weekend around 10:30 a.m. on Sunday that sent smoke into the sky that was visible from downtown. The massive fire basically destroyed the rubber duck factory warehouse building, and what wasn’t consumed by the flames was to be demolished by the city Sunday afternoon, according to the account at Cleveland.com.

This article appears in Sep 23-29, 2015.

Vince Grzegorek has been with Scene since 2007 and editor-in-chief since 2012. He previously worked at Discount Drug Mart and Texas Roadhouse.

2 replies on ““Rubber Duck Factory” Warehouse Burns Down”

  1. All wrong, this is the old Woodhill building. They still exist and sell plumbing and bathroom supplies. Two years ago I’m the person who had the job of clearing out this warehouse. The only thing we didn’t throw out was those few boxes of ducks you see in the picture, I figured someone would get a kick out of finding them, not claim the building is something it’s not.

  2. I always considered the rubber duck factory warehouse to be more of a nickname, and not the real name for the building. Whenever a fire like this mysteriously breaks out, It never seems like it’s truly an accident. Guess someone is interested in the location, but not tearing down the building.

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