A Vacant Downtown Building Just Became Bowling Green’s New Jobs Hub — Ribbon Cutting Today
Bowling Green is cutting the ribbon today on a building that used to be one of downtown’s biggest eyesores — and it’s now the city’s newest hub for jobs, small business, and coworking.
The Four Corners Center + COWORK opens Thursday, Nov. 12, at 248 S. Main Street in downtown Bowling Green. The mixed-use business, coworking, and residential hub fills a historic building that Bowling Green Economic Development restored after it sat vacant — a first-of-its-kind project for the organization and an approximately $1.5 million investment in downtown.
Funding for the project included a $487,000 JobsOhio Vibrant Communities Grant, plus a grant from Meta and a rebate from Efficiency Smart. Governor Mike DeWine praised the project, saying it will “spark job growth in the community,” and JobsOhio President and CEO J.P. Nauseef said the restoration “completes the community’s vision to transform a once-vacant structure and revitalize its downtown.”
The coworking space offers private offices and cubicles, the Falcon and Bobcat Conference Rooms, and direct access to Four Corners staff. The Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce, VisitBG Ohio, the Downtown Bowling Green Special Improvement District, and Bowling Green Economic Development already moved into the building back in September — today just makes it official.
For a downtown that has watched too many storefronts go dark, this one is a rare story in the other direction: a vacant building, brought back, with jobs attached.
Photo: Wapcaplet / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) — Main Street, Bowling Green, Ohio.
