For six years now, Christopher Alan, president and CEO of Dasher Lawless, has been working to renovate a facility on Dana street in Warren for his Auto Park-It project.

The project has been stalled after hitting several road blacks, including a prolonged bankruptcy and COVID-19.

After taking a look inside the facility, it's clear that the ball is rolling and the owner tells 21 News he plans to restore the city to it's former glory.

"I have one goal for the city of Warren and that's to raise expectations," said Alan. "We want our buildings to inspire, we want our buildings to engage people with creative thought," he said.

The project is focused on automated parking which means a lot of manufacturing and rehabbing Alan's buildings.

"It had leaky roofs, the foundations were collapsing, so we had to come in and re-do the entire structure," Alan said. "But when we build something back, we build it back for the next hundred years," he said.

Several council members toured the facility to see it's progress and were well pleased.

"I'm just looking forward to this facility up and running and bring some manufacturing back to the city of Warren Ohio," said Gary Steinbeck, Warren city council at large.

"This is a rejuvenation, it's to show what we can be, what we've been and where we can go," said Warren 5th ward Councilman Ken Macpherson. "This is beautiful, hats off to everybody who's made this happen," he said.

When the project is complete, it will create more opportunity for several jobs in the city like engineering, architechture and design professionals.

"I feel confident that this facility's gonna be up and running, and we're gonna be able to hire people, put people back to work and when we put people back to work, it puts money into the economy," Steinbeck said.

Alan tells 21 News that the project is only five percent finished and should be fully complete within the next six or seven years.