City to see new renovations, home growth this year

Suttman building being redeveloped, 330 homes in plans inMiamisburg.

Miamisburg has several high-profile projects on tap for 2021, including renovations to historic and recreational buildings, construction of the first residential developments in two decades and improvements to a 90-year-old bridge.

Perhaps the biggest project from an economic development standpoint is the renovation of the former site of SuttmanMen’s and Boys’Wear, which operated for more than a century before it closed in 2013.

Dayton-area commercial real estate development company Simplify Real Estate is spending $2.2 million to renovate the twostory, 12,610-square-foot historic building. There are no proposed uses for the building yet, but the developer is looking at a mixed use retail/residential development, which would include a brewpub to open on the first floor and apartments units to be offered on the second and third floors.

Because it is “literally in the heart of downtown,” the building is a staple for the city, said Miamisburg Mayor Michelle Collins.

“To know that we could have lost the building due to disrepair ... was just too much to really think about,” Collins said. “To have a developer that believes in Miamisburg enough to spend the money and the resources to restore that building to theway it was in its former glory just means the world to us.”

The renovated building at 24-32 S. Main St. is only part of downtown Miamisburg’s economic resurgence. Thrive at Market Square, a recently launched small business incubator, is expected to help more entrepreneurs to open for business throughout this year, joining several new storefronts that have opened in the city’s downtown area or recently