Levin Furniture
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Levin Furniture is a Pittsburgh area furniture retailer. The company was founded in 1920 by Jessie Levin in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania
Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania
Mount Pleasant is a borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It stands 45 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Population in 1900, 4,745 people; in 1910, 5,812 people; and in 1940, 5,824 people...

 as a general sales clearance center. In the 1940s, the Levin family phased out over items and began to concentrate on furniture. However, not until 1978, did the group expand from a large single store to a big box chain. In 1989, the company moved its operations into the Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...

 market, which nearly doubled their size. Currently, the company features six regular stores in Pennsylvania and seven in Ohio, plus a clearance center directly next to their original Mount Pleasant store and a bedding center in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Squirrel Hill
Squirrel Hill
Squirrel Hill is a residential neighborhood in the east end of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The city officially divides it into two neighborhoods, Squirrel Hill North and Squirrel Hill South, but it is almost universally treated as a single neighborhood...

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