Scores of new apartments and a new upscale hotel have just opened in a section of downtown Dayton that less than eight years ago had few places to live and no places to stay.
By late 2024, a prolific duo of developers — Crawford Hoying and Woodard Development — will have completed about $250 million worth of projects in a northeast area of downtown they have helped rebrand as the Water Street District.
The district already has seen massive changes in those eight years, but its transformation continues with the addition of new housing and hotel rooms, and the developers are working on their largest Dayton project yet — the Delco, the rehab of the former Mendelsons building.