Economy Linen and Towel Service to build new facility
A local company plans to invest about $20 million in West Dayton to build a new state-of-theart laundry facility that is expected to create at least 70 new jobs.
Economy Linen and Towel Service says it wants to construct a 78,000-square-foot facility on vacant land at 2100 McCall St. that will “streamline” its operations and expand its ability to provide health care laundry and linen services.
The project is a major win for an area that for years has struggled economically for a long time but more recently has been targeted for new housing, retail, shops and amenities, including a new library.
“The proposed project will help revitalize West Dayton and generate momentum for other projects along the U.S. 35 corridor,” wrote Ford Weber, Dayton’s economic development director, in a memo in support of the sale of the McCall Street property.
Economy Linen, which is headquartered downtown, says it is a leading linen rental and laundry services provider whose clients include hospitals, medical facilities, restaurants and hospitality businesses.
The fourth-generation, family-owned company launched in Dayton in 1931. Today, it employs about 270 workers at facilities and distribution centers in Dayton, Cincinnati, Columbus, Zanesville and Indianapolis.
Belle of Dayton releases rye whiskey
The Belle of Dayton distillery in Dayton’s Oregon District released its first barrel-aged spirit, Detrick Straight Rye Whiskey, on Saturday.
Bottles of what Belle of Dayton’s founders say is the first rye whiskey distilled in Dayton since Prohibition — with a name that is part of Dayton-area distilling history — are available for $70 at the distillery at 122 Van Buren St. just off Wayne Avenue.
Those who would like to sample the four-grain, pot-distilled, 104-proof rye whiskey prior to buying a bottle can do so at the Van Buren Room, the cocktail bar that is adjacent to the distillery.
Supplies are limited, and there will be a twobottle-per-person limit. The Detrick Straight Rye Whiskey is a blend of four 53-gallon barrels, with an average of four years of age spent in barrel. The blend includes one barrel of rye that has been aging for six years, one barrel of four-year, and two barrels of rye that have aged for three years, LaSelle said.
Brewery, cocktail bar adding patio covers
Belle of Dayton and Branch & Bone Artisan Ales plan to add new patio covers to provide patrons with shade and protection from the weather at a time when some people only feel safe drinking outside because of the pandemic.
“COVID has changed the dynamics for a lot of operators, especially in light of the anticipation that those protocols be in place throughout 2021,” said Brian Weaver, with ALT Architecture, who is helping with the patio roof project designs.
The Dayton Landmarks Commission recently approved plans for new outdoor roof coverings for patios at both businesses, which are located less than half a mile apart.
Belle of Dayton, located at 122 Van Buren St. in the Oregon District, makes spirits and has a cocktail bar called the Van Buren Room.
Branch & Bone, at 905 Wayne Ave. in the South Park neighborhood, is an independent brewery.
Belle of Dayton plans to add a roughly 600-squarefoot standing seam metal roof, with wood construction that attaches onto the building, said Holly Hornbeak, a city of Dayton planner.
Branch & Bone plans to install a 450-squarefoot plywood roof decking with a standing seam metal roof and wood posts, according to landmark commission report.
Branch & Bone opened in 2018 and opened a patio in September 2019. The Van Buren Room’s patio opened last summer.
City, Dragons extend agreement
The city of Dayton has approved extending its stadium and plaza lease with the owners of the Dayton Dragons for up to 30 more years, as the team considers entering into a new player development license to remain in the Cincinnati Reds’ farm system but move up to the High A Level.
Palisades Arcadia Baseball Club’s current lease for the stadium and adjacent plaza is set to expire in September 2030.
But an amendment approved Wednesday night by the Dayton City Commission gives the owners three additional 10-year terms, meaning the lease would run through September 2060.
“The short story is that we’ve secured another 30 years of professional baseball here in Dayton,” said Joe Parlette, Dayton’s deputy city manager.
The company will pay the city $10,000 per year, or $300,000 over the life of the agreement.
Palisades Arcadia Baseball Club also will have the option to purchase the stadium. The option expires September 2031.
Plans made for former DP&L plant
Recreation and housing could one day be situated on the site of a former Dayton Power & Light (DP&L) plant, with a riverfront locale that suggests waterfront housing, dining and shopping possibilities, the development director for the property’s new owner said Tuesday.
There may be manufacturing opportunities, as well, said Pat Ford, business development director for Frontier Industrial.
Earlier this month, Frontier bought the former 365-megawatt power station property, with about 200 acres, off the Great Miami River in Miamisburg for just over $866,000.
Buffalo, N.Y,-based Frontier describes itself as a “world-class, comprehensive, industrial contractor offering a wide range of demolition and redevelopment services.”
“We really believe this is one of Montgomery County’s greatest treasures,” Ford said in an interview
with the Dayton Daily News Tuesday. “I mean, the architectural details and this art-deco design are priceless”
The plant’s towering stacks may be incorporated into a future design for the site, if their structural integrity allows that, Ford said.
Which leads to the question — what will Frontier tear down and what will the company retain there? “That’s what we’re working on now,” he said.
“Considering our proximity on the Great Miami river, we see some recreation there, we see some housing there,” he said. “We think it’s ideally situated to have some waterfront housing.”
Frontier’s business is positioning energy, manufacturing and industrial sites for redevelopment. The company deconstructs properties, remediates environmental problems and “turns them actually from brown fields to jobs fields or home fields,” Ford said.
I-75 warehouse property sells
A nearly 90,000-squarefoot industrial/warehouse site at 4600-4700 Lyons Road, minutes from the Interstate 75, has a new owner.
Lyons Road Investment LLC bought the Miamisburg property for $2,933,000 from Lewis and Michael Inc., Montgomery County records show. Iyad Moreb is the buyer.
The 89,744-square-foot building came with 8.6 acres.
Listed by Apex Commercial Group as the “Miamisburg Commercial Center,” the property is near both the Austin Road and the Ohio 725 interchanges with I-75 in a fast-growing area south of Dayton.
Iyad Moreb is listed in a state filing as the statutory agent for the purchasing limited liability company. Moreb Wholesale, also in Miamisburg, is a family-owned distributor of goods for convenience stores, gas stations, smoke shops and vape shops.
Moreb said Wednesday the purchase “was just a real estate investment.” He said several tenants will remain in the building, and he added that the building will not be used for an expansion of his wholesale business.
Current tenants include Groenveld USA (Timken Division) and Competitive Edge Athletics, a gymnastics club.
Records give the sale date as last Friday.
Elsewhere, a limited liability company has paid $800,000 for the property of a former Original Rib House restaurant property on East National Road.
CAT Vandalia LLC bought the property from Brusman Corp., Montgomery County records show. The 1.3-acre site is just west of the National Road/ Interstate 75 interchange, exit 63.
As this news outlet recently reported, the Original Rib House property was sold to a Cincinnati-based real-estate developer who is working with Chipotle officials to put in a Chipotle Mexican Grill at the site, according to Robert Zavakos, senior vice president of the commercial real estate firm NAI Bergman, who represented the seller in the transaction.