As of the beginning of the year, Local affordable housing program Yellow Springs Home, Inc., villager-owned landscape company Fox Trot Services and a new tattoo parlor called Studio Uncommon all have a new home at Millworks.
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On a sunny afternoon last week, Yellow Springs Dog Park coordinators and organizers gathered at the park’s future 1.3-acre site beneath the water towers at Gaunt Park. Owing to the recent financial donations to the project from villagers David Butcher (at left) and Richard Lapedes (second from left), the dog park is slated to open to the public this September. From Lapedes’ right is Tom Everhart, the “chief petting officer” of the Dayton-local nonprofit Wagtown, which has been instrumental in developing the YS Dog Park; Wagtown’s founder and CEO, and the park’s primary consultant, Beth Miller; villager and dog-enthusiast Linda Rudawski; and Village Public Works Director Johnnie Burns. The pups, from left, are Betty, Sesto and Stella. (Photo by Reilly Dixon)
“It needed to be done,” Moody said this week. “It was a mess back there.”
Moody is the newest owner of Millworks, a four-acre industrial park at 305 N. Walnut St. The purchase price was $1.5 million.
A commercial realtor who lives in Yellow Springs, Moody is looking forward to improving the property to meet the needs of its nine commercial tenants.
“I look forward to being a calm and steady support to these businesses,” she said. “I’m not making any changes except improving the actual property.”
Moody said she was drawn to Millworks because of its historical importance to the town, first as an early, 19th century cannery along the railroad and later as the longtime home of DeWine-Hamma Seed Company.