Parkway Cleaners Coupons

About Parkway Cleaners Mission to our customers: Our mission at Parkway Cleaners is to meet all of our customer’s needs with quality workmanship at a reasonable price. Vision for Parkway: To be the recognized name in the Dry Cleaning business. Parkway History 1915 John Ciccarone Sr., who migrated form Italy in 1905, opened a "On Time Cleaners" in a small self-contained 1500 square foot plant in West Chester. 1935 John Sr. formed a partnership in Wilmington, DE. And opened a 50,000 square foot plant that served 3 states called "Tri-State Cleaners" (DE, PA, NJ). They only served wholesale accounts because that was probably 90% of the business at that time. They were one of the largest operations at that time in Delaware. 1950 John Sr. retired from the Dry Cleaning business. 1953 John Ciccarone and brother Frannie Ciccarone opened up a 3000 square foot retail plant at one of the first shopping centers in Wilmington, DE. (Merchandise Mart) The name was Parkway Cleaners and the reason was that John felt it was a word that people would be familiar with because of certain roads and such that were called Parkways. Something people would recognize and remember. 1959 John Ciccarone leaves Wilmington and moves into 3000 square foot self-contained plant on Montgomery & E. Gay St. Original store 1959 Frannie Ciccarone remains in Wilmington and eventually sells his cleaning business to John’s oldest son Donny who moved the business to the Newark, DE area. 1971 Tommy Ciccarone Sr. is part of the labor force that constructed the now Gay St. store. 1973 Tommy Ciccarone Sr. takes over Parkway Cleaners as father John moves to his business now of developing (Omega Industries). Tommy Sr. took over the cleaners with the Gay St. store and the Market Place store. Below, from left: Tommy Sr., Mario Andretti, and John Sr., taken at the Market Place shopping center that John, Frannie, and Mario Andretti developed and built. 2001 Tommy Sr. owns and operates locations and a 15,000 square foot plant, which is one of the biggest in Chester County. 2003 Tommy Ciccarone Jr. recently graduated from Virginia Tech University and now helps manage the day to day operations of the business. Below, from left: John Ciccarone, father John Sr. and Frannie Ciccarone. Parkway Cleaners [email protected] 2005 Tommy Sr. & Tommy Jr. now continue to run their multiple locations along with offering a FREE Pick Up & Delivery Service to customer’s homes and offices serving Chester County and the surrounding areas. 2006 Parkway adds to its services by adding a “Wash & Fold” service for your everyday laundry needs. In addition to this service they have added a new “Sprinter” van to meet the growing Pick Up & Delivery Service. (Pictured Teddy Martin & Tommy Jr.)