Bellefontaine leaders plan to save 100-year-old downtown building
The city of Bellefontaine and a local contractor plan to partner to save a more than 100-year-old building from demolition. The old post office, at the corner of West Chillicothe Avenue and South Detroit Street , was built in 1913 and has been vacant and locked up for decades, Bellefontaine Mayor Ben Stahler said. The post office moved across the street to a different building in the ’60s, he said, and the historic property was last used as a Mexican restaurant during the early ’90s. RELATED: Historic downtown Springfield building could become apartments “Really we couldn’t find anybody in our community that was even willing to have this building for a dollar because of the known expense that they would have to put into the building to bring it up to speed,” he said. It was slated to be demolished, he said, until someone came forward. Local contractor , Ron Coleman, said he was interested in saving the building. “They said it was going to come down,” Coleman said. “I was like, “No...