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Article: REPEATING HISTORY; Business owners who opt to restore older buildings swear by vintage feel of structures, distinctiveness of architecture.(Real Estate)
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- Crain's Cleveland Business
- Article date:
- August 6, 2007
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Byline: BRAD DICKEN
Shuttered churches, dilapidated houses and rundown buildings aren't the sort of places that spring to mind when most business owners start looking to expand their operations, but there are those who look at the relics of the past and see the future.
"Many people are just stuck in cubicles with florescent lighting and a bland work environment,'' said Deanna Bremer Fisher, director of marketing and development for the Cleveland Restoration Society and Preservation Resource Center of Northeastern Ohio.
But for the business owners and others who break away from the "bland,'' opting instead to bring new life into old buildings, ...