This $5.2 million rehabilitation project has taken an agricultural building and enlivened it with a restaurant, brewery, butcher, and coffee shop. 16 apartments make use of the old grain elevator.
This site had seen fires destroy earlier Farmers Exchange buildings in 1915 and 1935. This last 3-story concrete version was built in 1936 at just over 9,000 sq. ft. Condemned in 2016, Beacon Farmers Exchange LLC came to the rescue, listed the building on the National Register and applied for state and federal historic tax credits. No two windows are the same, each apartment floor plan is unique; and the original fire doors serve as security between current businesses. Not only is this building a great example of a smaller community using the historic tax credits, but it also complements the expansion of Medina’s already thriving Main Street Square, located a block to the north.
This award was presented to the City of Medina and Beacon Farmers Exchange LLC.