Business Section
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In downtown Yellow Springs, Kings Yard for sale
Home to a variety of shops and boutiques, Kings Yard in Yellow Springs’ downtown business district is for sale. For the buildings that house 11 commercial tenants, the adjacent courtyard and brick pathways, the owners are asking $1.4 million.
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After more than 50 years, Ohio Silver Company to close
After 54 years, Ohio Silver Co. — one of downtown Yellow Springs’ longest-operating businesses — is closing. Marcia Wallgren, who has owned the fair-trade jewelry store since 1974, is retiring.
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New general manager at Springs Market
Since Aug. 2, dairy and frozen foods manager Erica Rodriguez-Wyant has taken on the role as general manager, overseeing the 30-some employees and keeping Yellow Springs’ longtime downtown grocery store up and running.
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Villager offers fresh cuts, paid forward
Beginning this month, villager Jason Laveck has committed to providing two free haircuts each month from his chair at In Salon, located at 120 Dayton St., and donations to a fund he’s established will cover additional free haircuts.
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New cleaning business opens in Corry Street Plaza
A clean space where people feel at home and at peace — that’s what Quetzal Gomez, of 111 Cleaning Services, hopes to deliver for her clients in Yellow Springs and beyond.
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A local chef’s mobile ‘roots’
Van Ward, known to patrons of MAZU restaurant as a purveyor of adventurous specials and dining events, struck out on her own last month with Taproot, the “mobile kitchen” she founded with her wife, Bee Ward. The new business aims to offer private dining experiences with a vegan menu, while continuing to collaborate with MAZU.
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New aircraft manufacturing facility planned north of village
On Tuesday, July 21, American aerospace company Electra announced plans to construct a new aircraft production facility to be sited at AirPark Ohio, adjacent to Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport and three miles north of Yellow Springs.
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Shifts, expansions and evictions at Millworks Business Park
Of the 11 current businesses sited at the Millworks Business Center in the northern part of town, most are doing well, owner and landlord Allison Moody told the News last week. But some, she said, are poised to move elsewhere in the coming months and a couple left recently under less-than-favorable circumstances.
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Big changes to small-town grocery
On Tuesday morning, June 16, when around 100 villagers crowded the shoulder of Xenia Avenue to watch the ceremonial ribbon cutting — an occasion that marked the end of Tom’s Market and the beginning of Springs Market, and what could one day become a community-owned grocery store.
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At Springs Content Studio, the work is the story
Through Springs Content Studio, village resident Alissa Paolella focuses on strategy, writing, design and public relations storytelling — or, as they put it, “how you get your story out there.”
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