By Jordan Studer
news@wbcowqel.com

People spilled out onto the street Thursday morning during the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Warren Place. The building, located at 121 W. Warren St., that used to hold many preschoolers will now hold various businesses.

Back in November, Tonya Lohr of Tonya’s Hair Fashions purchased the building and dreams began forming.

“My concept was I never wanted to change. I had a small beauty shop. It was just kind of a God thing that we had this. We decided that I was going to relocate, hopefully bring new businesses to town,” Lohr explained.

With that concept in mind, Lohr set out to find companies who would want to begin business in Bucyrus. In addition to her own beauty shop, Tonya’s Hair Fashions, Lohr found three other businesses to join her. The official current listing of establishments in Warren Place is: Tonya’s Hair Fashions, Air Force One, Indoff Business Essentials, and Massage Therapy at Warren Place.

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The building was named Warren Place in an effort to keep the community familiar with the location if businesses do move in and out. Although there are currently four businesses located in Warren Place, Lohr is hoping more businesses may want to jump on board.

“I don’t want to take away from anywhere else in Bucyrus, I want to add to. So I’m trying to find new blood and new businesses and maybe excited entrepreneurs that are ready to partake in their own adventure,” Lohr stated.

According to Lohr, there is an open room that currently has intentions to be used as a community room. The community room will serve as a space to help whoever might need meeting space or things of that nature.

When speaking to Lohr about the big move, she admitted that she never had intended to move from her previous location. However, once this opportunity fell into place, she thought she should take the leap. Despite the worry of relocating, her clients relocated right along with her.

“I have a very loyal clientele and I really appreciate each and every one of them,” Lohr said.

Her clientele is so loyal, in fact, that her very first customer from 25 years ago this June, Sid Szydlyk, was her first client in her new salon as well.

While Tonya’s Hair Fashions and Jeanine Snyder of Massage Therapy at Warren Place pamper clientele, Air Force One and Indoff Business Essentials help with other needs. Joe Ford and his regional branch of Air Force One provides commercial and industrial heating and cooling. Jeff Booher and his regional branch of Indoff Business Essentials provides business necessities to industry, office, and home office.

As Warren Place continues to grow and thrive, the community is excited to see what is in store and the businesses are ready to take action. Booher of Indoff Business Essentials describes how exciting it was to have such a great location such as Warren Place to be located in.

“I see the potential for expansion opportunities for us. We just haven’t been able to get a bearing on what it all looks like because there has been so much construction going on… but now it’s like wow! My brain is going here this morning,” Booher excitedly explained.

Now that the ribbon ceremony has taken place, Warren Place is open for business and ready to wow the community with the amount of service that just one building can provide.