SYLVANIA, Ohio — Madeline's Patisserie in Sylvania has had many different looks since 2012: a fine dining restaurant, a French bistro and most recently, a bakery.
A bakery cranking out croissants.
"We really just wanted to focus on the croissants, put our all into that and we can grow from there," the patisserie's director of business development Allison Carpenter said.
Carpenter said the patisserie, on average, makes over 10,000 croissants a week, serving them up for more than just customers in Sylvania.
A bakery with a client list that includes contracts with Delta Airlines, the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, the University of Michigan, the University of Notre Dame and Michigan State University.
But even with Carpenter saying business is on a roll, the employees' working space needs a change.
"Right now we're working out of a restaurant space, so as you can imagine, our team rolling out croissants and laminating in our former dining room is not the most efficient way to produce croissants," Carpenter said.
So in December last year, the bakery made a purchase of land at 4815 North Holland-Sylvania Road.
An agreement made between the bakery and the city, Sylvania's mayor Craig Stough is happy to see workers, and dough, stay in town.
"What the city is going to see is the payroll tax that's going to come from this property," Stough said. "And with 30-40 employees coming along, that's going to be a pretty good number."
Madeline's currently has 15 employees, but Carpenter said that number will grow significantly with the expansion.
"We'll be adding approximately 100 jobs over the next several years and we expect our croissant production to grow along with that," Carpenter said.
But the bakery is staying grounded in its roots, even with a national reach.
Carpenter said Sylvania is home, which made a relocation just down the road an easy choice.
"Our hearts just lie in Sylvania," Carpenter said. "They were very good to us over the past 12 years. We wanted nothing more than to stay in Sylvania. So to find this empty lot here and be able to build a facility that works for us is just awesome."