Jason Geise, president and co-owner of Dickman, told the Dayton Daily News Monday he intends to move Lyons Electric to the just-purchased building this winter, dissolving the Lyons Electrical supply name and changing it to Dickman Supply.
“We will be keeping the Lyons Lighting showroom,” Geise said. “There will be 16 employees with intentions of adding four more. The business will be Electrical and Industrial wholesale.”
Nearly three years ago, Dickman acquired the Lyons Electrical Supply and Lighting Showroom on Webster Street in Dayton.
The lighting showroom will also move to the newly purchased Fourth Street location, Geise said.
The industrial warehouse at 1341 Fourth has about 60,000 square feet of rentable space, according to a real estate marketing web site.
The seller in the Nov. 18 transactions was Becker Building Co., with the city of Dayton being recorded as relinquishing less than a tenth of an acre of property to Becker on the same date that Becker sold to Geise.
The building at 1341 Fourth has been home to Becker Electric Supply and Kendall Electric. The latter company acquired Becker — which at the time had locations in Ohio, Indiana, and Georgia — in 2019.
According to its web site, Kendall Electric has a location at 769 Center Drive in Vandalia, as well as many other locations in nine states. In 2022, Kendall applied for a Montgomery County grant to build a 115,000-square-foot building for $19 million in Vandalia.
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