The Craft Emporium, Downtown Bellefontaine’s first retail craft beer store, is opening its doors in the Fall 2022, offering a unique niche in Ohio’s most loveable downtown. With the craft and microbeer movement growing in popularity, owner and founder Brian Harmon wants to bring a location where connoisseurs and those […]
Last week, Small Nation hosted dozens of realtors from around the country for a downtown revitalization mastermind workshop in Downtown Bellefontaine. Members and clients of Platform Marketing, a real estate marketing consulting agency, visited Bellefontaine for a multi-day workshop focused on real estate investment ideas, redevelopment, and local marketing models specifically for […]
Keyne Strickland joined the leasing and property management team at Small Nation in February 2022. Keyne helps to prospect for new tenants, works with new clients to develop their spaces, and helps to manage communications with partners and vendors. He also helps with day-to-day management of Small Nation properties.
He comes to Small Nation from DHS […]
Salon Platinum 121, Downtown Bellefontaine’s newest salon, will open its doors on April 1st, as a sanctuary for those wanting to experience a relaxing, pampering environment with a wide array of beauty services.
Heather Henry, owner, always had a dream after completing beauty school to open a location of her own where guests of […]
COMSTOR Outdoor, Small Nation’s outdoor advertising division, recently added Mike Hibner as the new Sales Manager for the team beginning January 3rd, 2022.
Mike comes to COMSTOR with an extensive sales history including as the landscape director at Dues Nursery in Celina and as a sales consultant for Midstates Recreation, covering 29 counties in […]
Ohio Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted visited Downtown Bellefontaine on Wednesday, January 19, to tour downtown businesses with Small Nation Founder and CEO Jason Duff. The Lieutenant Governor visited businesses such as Small Nation’s coworking facility BUILD Cowork + Space, gourmet pizza restaurant Six Hundred Downtown, Four Acre Clothing Co., […]
On Thursday, December 2, Small Nation, led by Founder and CEO Jason Duff, presented to a conference of realtors in Naples, Florida. The Platform Mastermind conference, put on by the real estate marketing agency Platform Marketing, was attended by over 130 real estate agents from across the country.
Platform Marketing is a full-service […]
Over the years, 139 S. Main Street Bellefontaine has been home to many familiar names and businesses, The Belle Theatre, Sears, James Floors and most recently the Silver Elephant. Later this year, it will soon be home to Axe Ventura – a veteran owned Axe Throwing venue and […]
The transformation is underway and soon this block of three storefronts will be home to three new businesses in downtown Bellefontaine.
The trio of storefronts located at 117, 121 and 123 West Columbus Avenue was owned by Bill and Carole Barrett for many years. Small Nation purchased these over the summer and started […]
Small-town love. Farm-bred beliefs. And a keen sense of what makes a business work … even in the worst of times.
Those are some of the key values that Eli Wagler and Jacob Badenhop have relied on to help small business owners in Bellefontaine weather the COVID-19 storm.
