Business First wrote
Love of history drives area restoration
Friday, October 5, 2007
by Jeff Bell
Pete Loscocco enjoys the sense of history he experiences every time he walks into the Alpha Building at the corner of Long and 17th streets in the King Lincoln Arts & Entertainment District.
He said that feeling is a big reason why he and his wife, Laurie, have taken on the renovation of a building that had fallen on hard times in an impoverished neighborhood long before they bought it three years ago.
“It really was a situation where my interest in history, old buildings and Columbus intersected,” said Loscocco, a Columbus area resident and vice president with Hexion Specialty Chemicals Inc. “My interest first and foremost was restoring an old building with a lot of history and hopefully making it work as an investment as well.”
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