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MARCH/APRIL 2016
Revitalizing a
Landmark:
The Carlisle Building,
Chillicothe, Ohio
BroadBand Communities showcases the Carlisle Building,
a historic landmark in downtown Chillicothe, Ohio. The
building's recent makeover as housing and ofce space for
the Adena Health System included state-of-the-art fber
optic broadband and managed Wi-Fi. Thanks to Misty
Tuttle of Horizon Telcom and Ty McBee of Adena Health
System for gathering the information for this profle.
By Masha Zager / Broadband Communities
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he Carlisle Building, built in 1885, is located in
the heart of Chillicothe's downtown. A beautiful
and beloved building that some Chillicothe
residents thought of as a "castle," it housed a variety of
stores and apartments over the years until vandals set
fre to it in 2003. Severely damaged, the building sat
condemned and vacant for a decade. Several attempts to
restore it failed, and it began to have a negative efect on
the neighborhood around it.
Te board of trustees of Adena Health System,
a regional health care provider headquartered in
Chillicothe, asked management to consider whether
Adena could help restore the building for the
community's beneft. Ty McBee, business development
director, says Adena had an emerging need for housing
to support its graduate medical education program and
decided the building was well-suited for that purpose.
"At the beginning of our analysis, the graduate medical
education program was pretty new, so it didn't quite
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hit us early on," he says. "But as we
continued to look, it became evident."
In 2014, Adena partnered with Te
Chesler Group, a Cleveland developer
that specializes in renovating historic
buildings. When Adena signed a 15-
year lease for most of the space, Chesler
bought the building and undertook
a $7 million project to restore it to
its former glory – and equip it with
the kind of broadband that medical
students require both for educational
purposes and for entertainment in their
limited free time. Horizon Telcom, an
incumbent telco based in Chillicothe
since 1895, was selected to install a fber
network and provide services.
Te facility now includes medical
student housing as well as ofce space