Generation Dayton: Wright Dunbar Redevelopment

Description

Join us for our June Speaker Series event on Tuesday, June 22nd as we hear from Dillin and CityWide about development taking place in Wright Dunbar, including The West Social Food Hall. 

Located adjacent to the National Aviation Heritage Museum and the original Wright Bros Cycle shop, this project is the first-phase in a planned series of Opportunity Zone investments by Dillin, LLC in the Wright-Dunbar Village Historic District within the City of Dayton.

The West Social Food Hall will feature five food stations, a coffee shop and bar to serve the surrounding neighborhood and destination diners on a fully permitted +/-0.32-acre parcel (the ‘Property’) located at 1100 W. Third Street in this re-surging area of investment along 3rd Street in the Wright-Dunbar neighborhood – home to aviation pioneers Wilbur & Orville Wright and the celebrated author and poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. This event will be held from 4:30 - 5:30 PM at the Dayton Area Chamber, 8 N. Main. St. in Downtown Dayton. 

About the Speakers
Over the course of his career, Larry B. Dillin, President of Dillin, LLC has successfully deployed over $10 billion in real estate investments around the globe. Known for honesty, integrity, creativity and problem solving capability, Dillin makes a difference and is inspired to leave a legacy with each project.
 
Larry’s career is all encompassing. In addition to his international real estate consulting experience with Fortune 500 companies, his experience includes on-site construction work, engineering, project management, community real estate consulting and master planned developments. Larry encourages visionary thinking, consensus building and problem solving tactics as his standard approach. His effectiveness as a change leader has contributed to the success of local, regional, national and international projects. 

John Gower’s areas of expertise have included urban design and development planning, visioning and implementation, historic preservation and adaptive reuse planning and place and asset-based strategic planning and implementation for the Greater Downtown and the city as a whole. His work continues with the City and CityWide with the crossover fields of place-making, strategic economic planning and adaptive reuse on downtown projects. Work contributions to Dayton community place and asset based collaboratives have included Greater West Dayton, DaVinci and the Riverfront Master Plan.

Generation Dayton is a program intended to connect the region's young professionals through networking, professional development, and community service opportunities. To learn more about Generation Dayton, click here.