The Hub Coffee House and Café has been open in the first-floor corner of the building since 2005. McAnly was a 21-year-old EKU student when he died in a car wreck in October 1980, according to news archives. McAnly II and other young people of our community whose abilities, activities and achievements made us proud and who passed away while in the prime of their lives,” a dedication plaque on the building reads. McAnly II Youth Memorial Building, according to news archives. The Hub Frankel department store closed on July 19, 1995, after the Frankel family and the owner of the building couldn’t come to an agreement on a lease, according to archives.Īn agreement was signed in 2001, naming the building the William H. The new Gilcher Hotel closed in 1963 due to lack of business, according to news archives. A new Gilcher Hotel, sometimes called Hotel Gilcher in old newspaper advertisements, was opened in 1917 in the space east of Hub Frankel. According to news archives, the Gilchers went on to construct a building for the Hub Frankel department store on the corner. The southeast corner of Third and Main streets was home to the Gilcher Hotel in the early 1900s, but the building famously burned to the ground in 1914. The property bought by The Malcolm Bryant Corporation has housed numerous businesses over the years, most notably the Gilcher Hotel and the Hub Frankel department store. “They genuinely see an opportunity to help build this community, and I look forward to working with them on future projects.” “I have known Madison for several years now and have recently gotten to know Malcolm, whose reputation throughout the state for quality development is already well-known,” Lassiter stated. It is wonderful when our students come back to Danville to make a difference,” Roush stated. “I look forward to working with Madison and The Malcolm Bryant Corporation. “… We have some idea about what we might do there.”Ĭentre College President John Roush and Economic Development Partnership CEO Jody Lassiter also provided statements in the company’s press release. “We’re working on some concepts on what we might do there,” he said. Silvert said there is still “a little space left” open on the second floor of the building and “the third floor is open.” This is an investment in Danville, not an investment in real estate.”
We hope to assist the community in future development as well. “We won’t accomplish that by investing in one building alone. “When we choose a community in which to invest, we do so very carefully, and with the intention of helping that community build great places, so that it can be the best that it can be,” Silvert said.
Silvert said Danville is a “community that is really on the precipice of greatness” with a “downtown that is ripe for revitalization.” He has a passion for Danville, and now, so does our whole company.” Without hesitation, he said that Danville hit all of those notes. He said that we needed to invest in a community with a strong higher education presence, that was business friendly, and had a downtown that could be a regional center of excellence. Bryant stated in the news release that when Silvert was named president of the company earlier in 2017, “we asked him where we should go next.
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