Origin

3 friends bicycling through the streets of their hometown Dayton Ohio. On an adventure to look through the nooks and crannies of their city. The idea; to develop a food hall built from shipping containers, found materials, and builds of their own as well. 

Those friends are Wes Hartshorn, Shannon Thomas and Scott Johnson. All three live in Dayton proper and believe in hard work, giving back to the community and attracting new energy to our city. 

Early in 2022 the three friends purchased 1.47 acres in downtown Dayton with historic concrete grain silos on the land. That was when the plan to phase out the development and start with a large renovation of a 5,000 sq foot steel building began. 

Before all that this slice of earth was home to the Stoddard Manufacturing Company and their humble beginnings sending lumber down the canal in 1887. Then In 1924 the grain silos were built for $25,000 by H.E. Iams and V.E. Herter to store 75,000 bushels of grain and supply the canal and soon to be B&O Railroad.  

The secret meaning about the cacti on the silos is that there is no meaning. Blaze on!