The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced.

MARION — Two years after acquiring full ownership of a historic building in Uptown Marion, Jamie and Kelsie Hoth, of Marion, have turned the dilapidated Owen Block Building, which was the longtime home to the former Maid-Rite restaurant, into a thriving space with three businesses and several upper story apartments.

Background

The building, at the corner of Seventh Avenue and 10th Street, was built in 1880. In 1986 it became home to a Maid-Rite restaurant that operated there for more than 30 years, until the previous owners decided to close in 2017 .

In 2019, Jamie Hoth and Joe Hill, of San Diego, Calif., bought the building together with intentions to reopen it as a Maid-Rite restaurant

See Full Page