Mayor Booker Opens Renovated and Expanded Shifman Mattress Factory

Mayor Cory A. Booker and Shifman Mattress Company CEO Michael Hammer cut the ribbon this morning to open a 24,000-square foot expansion of the company’s bedding factory at One Mott Street, which increases its factory space to 84,000 square feet in a state-of-the-art facility. Shifman Mattress Company, a high-end bedding company, has operated in Newark for 115 years, and this expansion of its factory to 84,000 square feet also includes a state-of-the-art...