The Hauer Music Facebook page posted a status entry this morning, Dec. 7, saying, “It’s official. Hauer Music will be relocating to the former Krispin’s building in Centerville on 725. Moving updates will be added.”
Jim Hauer, co-owner of Hauer Music, said the Facebook post was premature. “We haven’t signed a contract yet,” Hauer said. “But we’re very close to finalizing the lease” on the 15,000-square-foot building. The music store is scheduled to vacate its existing facility by March 31, and would open in the new location shortly afterward, Hauer said.
Dayton Metro Library officials announced in September that they had reached an agreement to purchase the Hauer Music building in downtown Dayton and renovate it to serve as its operations center, housing about 60 employees who handle information technology for the library system and who are responsible for selecting, acquiring, cataloging and processing new materials.
At the time, Jim Hauer, grandson of Hauer Music’s founder, said he was glad the music store would help to “sustain the library’s service to the arts and literature community,” and he said Hauer Music would look for a new location with the intention to “continue for the next 75 years as the premier music store in the Miami Valley.”
Krispin’s Furniture founder and co-owner Dan Grubb announced in March that the store would close for good following a going-out-of-business sale that ended in late July. Grubb said he and his wife Becky wanted to retire and decided the shut the doors rather than to aggressively seek to sell the business, which was founded in 1978.
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