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What the Renovations Of Food Town Means for You.
By: Abbi Heckel
In this special episode for the Tippecanoe Gazette Greg Enslen, along with City Manager Eric Mack as well as Brad Doudican head of Woodard Development to give you the insider scoop on the once abandoned grocery store in Tipp City, Ohio.
What Happened to the Grocery Store?
The space started out as a Food Town. Tipp Cities very own local grocery store that unfortunately fell on hard times and was no longer able to keep up with expenses. That’s when La Plaza Tapitia stepped into the spotlight as a Mexican grocery store with vast cultural cuisine. La Plaza Tapitia much like its predecessor, ended up closing its doors to the public in 2022. Earlier this year in February it was decided by the Tipp City council that the property was to be purchased and updated to help bring in more foot-traffic to the quaint town.
What Do We Know Now?
The once dilapidated building is already getting a breath of new life. Brad Doudican has been hard at work with Woodard Development to clean and clear out the space to prepare for upcoming renovations and for public safety measures. The Tipp City Plaza in its entirety has already turned into a brighter hub with a shiny new parking lot. The old Burger King is no longer an eyesore to passersby. As well as small beautifications to the property and new safety measures. With so many possibilities in store for the Plaza’s future you’ll want to stay updated by checking out the Gazette in paper form but also now in video form! We can't wait to see what's in store for Tipp City…
and here is the recent Tipp Gazette article on the exclusive interviews:
Plaza Progress! How Tipp City and Woodard are Revitalizing Tipp City’s Old Grocery
Staff Reports, Tippecanoe Gazette
An exclusive walkthrough of the former grocery building with Tipp City Manager Eric Mack and Woodard Development’s Brad Doudican
On a sunny afternoon inside the old La Plaza Tapatia grocery store — aka, Food Town — the Tippecanoe Gazette scored an exclusive look behind Tipp City’s most intriguing redevelopment project. We walked the space, now owned by the City of Tipp City, while chatting with Eric Mack, Tipp’s City Manager, and Brad Doudican of Woodard Development. Woodard has been tasked with bringing new life to the Tipp Plaza—and the old grocery space, a once-bustling community anchor.
From Forgotten Space to Future Possibility
The echo of footsteps in the freshly cleared aisles signaled just how far the building has come. “When we first stepped in, we knew there was a long road ahead,” Doudican shared. Woodard Development, together with Tipp City's council and staff, began their hands-on involvement more than two years ago, culminating in the City’s purchase of the building and other adjacent property in February of 2025. “Our role started with helping the city acquire this property,” Doudican explained. "Then came a lot of property management—figuring out the leases, refreshing the building, and making the whole plaza presentable again."
City Steps Up to Address Long-Standing Issues
Eric Mack shed light on why the city purchased the plaza, stating that it had been a "major eyesore" and a source of ongoing complaints for years. "The goal was to clean up this issue for the city," he said, describing the extensive work done since the February acquisition to stabilize the property and begin the redevelopment process.
"This place had been closed for about two years," Mack noted. "A significant amount of abandoned food was left behind by the previous tenant, and, unfortunately, much of it was unusable. We coordinated with the Needy Basket food bank to salvage what we could and responsibly disposed of the rest."
Recent videos on social media showed the empty grocery store full of trash and shelves stacked with expired food. But today’s tour of the space brought a measure of relief – and an opportunity for the city to get ahead of the potential problem.
Out With the Old, In with the Clean
The city took possession of the property in February and addressed the interior issues—and the abandoned food—as quickly as possible. Woodard’s team replaced the roof, sealed up the building, addressed concrete and asphalt issues in the parking lot, and took care of security. They also repaved the entire parking lot and restriped all the parking areas.
“We started on the outside and worked our way in,” Doudican said, emphasizing the commitment to both safety and curb appeal.
Their biggest challenge was the need to remove an entire store’s worth of left-behind food. Local food pantries were invited in to take away and reuse as much canned food and other items as they could. Unfortunately, because the store had been closed for so long, most of the food was expired and had to be destroyed.
Read the full article here: https://www.tippgazette.com/news/2025/8/plaza-progress-how-tipp-and-woodard-are-revitalizing-tipps-old-grocery?rq=plaza
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