Mrs. Beth Paddock

Beth Paddock - President Beth Paddock is the President and Owner of PSawards. Mrs. Paddock has worked in the family awards and recognition business for over 20 years. Her grandfather founded Pete Sudyk Trophies in 1958 on Superior Ave. in downtown Cleveland. After her father (also named Pete Sudyk) retired, Beth and her husband Dorian moved the company (now called PSawards) to Midwest Ave. in Garfield Heights.
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Beth is a member of Awards Associates of America (a national buying group) and serves as head of the Great Lakes Region, and on the corporate catalog committee. She serves as Secretary of the Board of Directors for Greenwood Village Condo Assoc. Mrs. Paddock is also a member of the Akron Human Resource Council (Akron SHRM). She is an outdoor enthusiast who enjoys spending time with her two dogs.

Owner Beth Paddock said she is moving the business because access to her store, at 1545 Superior, has become difficult since this fall, when street parking largely was curtailed on Superior between East 17th Street and West Third Street to allow for "bus only" lanes.

Mrs. Paddock is the third generation of the Sudyk family to run the business, which sells engraved plaques, trophies and other incentives.

The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority has tried to accommodate the company, to the point of cutting in six parking spaces with 30-minute meters in front of the two-story brick building that houses the Sudyk family business.

But Mrs. Paddock said because those spaces are the only ones available for several blocks, they constantly are filled and effectively are unavailable to her customers who might stop in briefly to pick up merchandise.A city-owned pay parking lot abuts the building to the west.

In addition, Mrs. Paddock said, the new parking spaces eliminated a loading zone in front of the store.

Because the store has no rear entrance and the metered parking spaces at the curb are usually filled, delivery trucks must stop in front of the city parking lot and her employees must meet the trucks with a four-wheel cart.They then unload their merchandise and push the cart back to the front door.

"We would have stayed here forever," Mrs. Paddock said."But due to the parking situation, yes, we are forced to move."

Roger Carran, whose Bassichis Real Estate owns the building housing the trophy store and other buildings along Superior and St. Clair, indicated that Mrs. Paddock isn't the only one who has been hurt by the removal of street parking.

Beth Paddock President bpaddock@psawards.com