Four friends had been talking for years about how they could invest and make a difference in downtown Tiffin’s revitalization. Nothing made sense until they walked through 33 Court Street, an 1890s 4-story, 10,000 square foot building. The partners purchased the building in March 2017 and were committed to building in as much sweat equity as possible, but they still found their project pushing cost overruns. Challenges included investment into an inoperable elevator, and parking was negotiated with the adjacent Elks Club, but they enjoyed lots of good advice from other downtown investors as well as one of Tiffin’s façade enhancement grants. The reward was seeing the tenants start to move in only 20 months later in November 2018 into five luxury residential units with a ground floor art gallery.
