Cornelius Frolik

2 weeks ago | daytondailynews.com | Daniel Susco |Cornelius Frolik

Families “would rather have their loved one in their life versus going to celebrate their life at a pole with teddy bears hung on it,” he said. Foward said homicides in the Dayton community are up more than 13% this year, and it’s not even summer yet, which is when gun violence and bloodshed sometimes spikes. Foward said the NAACP Dayton Branch fully supports Dayton Mayor Jeffrey Mims’ push to launch a violence interruption program. But he said the violence needs to end immediately.

2 weeks ago | daytondailynews.com | Josh Sweigart |Cornelius Frolik

The permit says the fireworks were sponsored by Caresource. They were provided by Arthur Rozzi Pyrotechnics and scheduled for 9:15 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., fired off from Kettering Fields. for not giving the public more warning about the fireworks display, which rivaled a Fourth of July event. The city posted on social media shortly before 9 p.m. that it would take place. ExploreThe explosions could be heard across the city and neighboring suburbs.

2 weeks ago | daytondailynews.com | Cornelius Frolik

Officials hope these repairs and investments will help find a firm to revitalize the long empty, former KeyBank building at 34 N. Main St. (also formerly called the Paru Tower and Society Bank). This “sets the stage for us to aggressively go after redevelopment,” said Dayton City Manager Shelley Dickstein.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Cornelius Frolik

Jun. 5—The Cornell Meat King Supermarket in northwest Dayton burned down last Halloween, but the rubble left behind from the fire and an emergency demolition remains on the site. The city filed misdemeanor criminal charges against the property owner, Safi Husam Ali, after officials say he stopped communicating with the city about cleaning up the site.

3 weeks ago | daytondailynews.com | Cornelius Frolik

The first building proposed for the 38-acre onMain site is a state-of-the-art “Digital Transformation Center” at South Main and West Stewart streets that will be home to Ohio’s second innovation hub. onMain officials say the six-story building will be an anchor and a gateway into the district that they hope will completely remake the area just west of Miami Valley Hospital and the University of Dayton campus.