Longtime downtown business owners Dianne and Howard Pilant saw an opportunity and an opening when their rental property kept losing its tenants.
“We’ve owned the Downtown Laundromat for 13 years and a few years ago when the owner of a building right next door passed away, we thought it would be a good business venture to buy his place,” Dianne Pilant said. “We rented it out for a few years, saw businesses come and go and finally we thought ‘well, maybe we should just take it over ourselves.”
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