Posted March 22, 200619 yr For background on the rehab of this building: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=1585.0 From the 3/21/06 Enquirer: Odd Fellows Hall gets tenant Information technology firm to occupy historic site BY MIKE RUTLEDGE | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER COVINGTON - The Odd Fellows Hall finally landed its first tenant Monday evening - a local company founded months after a 2002 fire almost destroyed the 150-year-old building. TiER 1 Performance Solutions, an information technology firm, plans to move its 30 employees into the building's fourth and fifth floors when those interiors are finished. In a salute to the building's architectural past, TiER 1 is considering using cables to hang a mezzanine below the fifth floor's soaring ceiling - much like the original building had a suspended ballroom believed to have been designed by John Roebling, designer of the Roebling Suspension Bridge. Full story text is available at http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060321/NEWS0103/603210357/1059/rss13
March 22, 200619 yr Downtown Covington is struggling to fill it's store fronts. This would have been better news if it were an outside company. If the wedding district does well, maybe we'll see some of the vacant fronts fill up.
May 27, 200619 yr From the 5/26/06 Enquirer: Odd Fellows Hall might house restaurant BY MIKE RUTLEDGE | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER COVINGTON - As the fourth anniversary passed this week of the blaze that gutted the historic Odd Fellows Hall, more prospective tenants were considering occupying the rebuilt five-story structure at Fifth Street and Madison Avenue. "We are actually waiting for a proposal from a restaurant, for the first floor, and we're working on the pricing for the second and third floors," said Tony Milburn, who owns the building with Kelly and Damian Sells. Full story text is available at http://news.nky.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20060526/NEWS0103/605260422
August 11, 200618 yr From the 8/10/06 Enquirer: Odd Fellows Hall reborn BY MIKE RUTLEDGE | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER COVINGTON - Fast-growing Tier 1 Performance Solutions didn't slow down last month when it moved across the intersection of Madison Avenue and Fifth Street into the reborn Odd Fellows Hall. Tier 1, an information technology firm with 30 employees in Covington, has the best of old and new with this more spacious fourth-floor location, said company partner Lloyd Fields. Full story text is available at http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060810/NEWS0103/608100421/1059/rss13
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