Vintage Development Group History
Vintage Development Group takes a proactive approach to life. We believe in getting our hands dirty, working as a team and learning from each other. We promote from within and train our own people. Most importantly, we believe in our practical experience that goes well beyond an education from a textbook or instruction manual. It is the driving force of our success.
Vintage was started by Chip and Scott Marous who learned the basics of the business by starting from scratch and doing the work themselves. In 1980 they started a small-scale carpenter contractor business–Marous Brothers Construction. As teenagers, the two began by framing walls, installing doors and setting windows. With experience in the construction industry as well, their brother, Ken, joined the team in 1997.
Rapidly growing from the onset, Marous was contracted to work on its first commercial property less than a year after the company was established. In 1983, development efforts took off with the purchase of an old, neglected building in Downtown Willoughby, Ohio. This building was renovated and converted into the company headquarters, marking the beginning of a series of improvements Marous would make to the Downtown Willoughby area.
Vintage formed to differentiate the development side of the business from the construction company. Since the beginning, we have grown to successfully manage several multi-million dollar projects including multi-family units, office/retail spaces, new construction and residential subdivisions.
Still family-owned, Vintage’s employees share the same beliefs. We believe that a work ethic based on experience and that bold, progressive thinking can achieve great things
No matter the nature of the project, we are confident that our clients will be satisfied with the results because we do the work ourselves. Take a look at the restorations we have completed in Downtown Willoughby, including the News Herald Press, a distribution and corporate office facility, which underwent complete interior and exterior renovation.
Visit the innovative properties we are constructing in Cleveland, such as the upscale Marshall Place Apartments located in the Warehouse District of Downtown, which was the former home of the Marshall Drug Company, or our Battery Park development in the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood, a project of more than 300 residential units with sparkling water views of Lake Erie.
Ask for a tour and let us show you firsthand what quality development really means. After all, just like Chip, Scott and Ken Marous realized, it is best to learn by doing.
