7 IHOPs coming to Dayton-Springfield area

The IHOP chain will re-enter the Dayton-area market after a decades-long absence and is considering a Beavercreek location near the Mall at the Fairfield Commons as one of its first local restaurants.

The IHOP chain will re-enter the Dayton-area market after a decades-long absence and is considering a Beavercreek location near the Mall at the Fairfield Commons as one of its first local restaurants.
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By Mark Fisher
March 16, 2015
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The company developing local IHOP restaurants says it intends to open seven locations in the Dayton-Springfield area over the next few years, starting with its first in Beavercreek this summer.

“There is a huge potential in this market,” Michael Dixson, CEO of Prestige Development Group said in a release.

Plans call for developing a new IHOP location every eight months on average until reaching seven restaurants.

A week ago, Beavercreek City Council approved plans for the first of the chain’s re-entry into the Dayton-area market, 5,000-square-foot IHOP that will be located near Target in the 2400 block of North Fairfield Commons Road, across from the Mall at Fairfield Commons. It is scheduled to open “later this summer,” Prestige Development officials said.

Jamila Hull, a spokeswoman for Prestige Development, said the company chose Beavercreek for the initial re-entry into the Dayton-area market because of its “great retail presence.”

Each restaurant, including the Beavercreek location, will create as many as 80 jobs, Prestige Development officials said.

Las Cruces, New Mexico-based Prestige Development Group is a nationwide developer specializing in restaurant, retail, and medical properties.

IHOP operates multiple restaurants in the Columbus and Cincinnati areas. But the closest IHOPs to Dayton are in West Chester, Mason and Richmond, Ind. The Dayton area had IHOP locations in the 1970s and 1980s, including one near Ohio 725 and Ohio 741 near the Dayton Mall and one on Shiloh Springs Road near the former Salem Mall, but those restaurants closed about 25 years ago.

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About the Author

Mark Fisher, a 1981 graduate of Ohio State University and a 1976 graduate of Beavercreek High School, is a third-generation Dayton-area resident who has worked for the Dayton Daily News since 1983. He covered higher education and K-12 education accountability issues for nearly 20 years before taking over the food and dining beat in 2006.