WEBER-DAVIS UPDATE: The Redevelopment of Ogden’s Historical Assets
The Enterprise Utah Business Journal, July 23, 2022
“We are inspired by the past but look toward the future. We take on these projects because we see the possibilities — what these buildings can become and how they can uplift our community.”
Fischer Regan Featured on Politicit
Politicit, Dec 6, 2022
Politicit host Senator John D. Johnson, with his guest, Thaine Fischer, owner and developer of the Monarch and other properties in Ogden.
Lt. Gov. Henderson visits Ogden, lauds efforts to bolster arts district
Standard-Examiner, Aug 25, 2022
Art isn’t just about painting, blending colors and creative expression. Those are key, but art can also play a bigger role in a community according to Thaine Fischer, managing partner of The Monarch Ogden, which contains space for artists and hosts regular arts activities in Ogden. “It’s about the economic and community impact it has,” he said, noting the power of art in fostering a sense of community, promoting downtown vibrancy and “breaking down walls.”
Ogden City Council allows for more bars on Historic 25th street
Fox 13, Jan 7, 2021
“I was very excited obviously 12 years we’ve been working on trying to get this to move forward,” the Ogden developer told FOX13. “It definitely is the heart of Ogden.”
Making Ogden City Right
Salt Lake Magazine, July 2, 2020
In 2020, Thaine Fischer opened The Monarch, a multi-use creative and business space whose fluid definition of what “belongs” leaves it open to a wide possibility of uses: event venues, artist’s studios, exhibit spaces. It’s located in the heart of the Nine Rails district in a converted enclosed 60,000 square-foot parking garage originally built to service the Bigelow Hotel.
Taming the Untamable North
Utah Construction & Design, April 18, 2020
Ogden City’s motto explains a lot: “Still untamed.”
That may be the motto for the county seat, committed to living a life unburdened by labels, but the county as a whole is embracing all aspects of what makes Weber County great. Whether it is through Ogden’s iconic architecture or the open space going west to the Great Salt Lake and east into the Wasatch Mountains, builders, architects, and developers are seeing the potential of Weber County.
Monarch Reigns Over Ogden Art Scene
Utah Stories, Jan 23, 2020
Ogden has added a new crown jewel to the downtown art scene on 25thStreet. The Monarch, a renovated former parking garage, lives up to its royal name. With three large event spaces, creative studios, and space for dining and retail, the Monarch promises collaboration, creativity, and art of all kinds.
Taking Flight
Utah Construction & Design, Dec 28, 2019
His firm – owned and operated by Fischer and his wife, Tahna Regan-Fischer – recently completed its latest venture, The Monarch, which opened November 1. The 60,000 SF building is an impressive restoration of a depression-era structure (completed in 1929) that originally served as a parking/service garage for the Bigelow Hotel, built in 1927 on the corner of Washington Boulevard and 25th Street.
Once ‘sparse and empty,’ the heart of Ogden is becoming a creative arts & culture district
The Salt Lake Tribune, Dec 1, 2019
Thaine Fischer walked into a 90-year-old parking garage, and what he saw surprised him.
“Besides all the pigeons and broken windows, it was the natural light,” said Fischer, managing partner of The Monarch, the newly opened artists’ center and events venue in downtown Ogden. “This had all these windows, old barrel roofs, an incredible architectural style. I was just blown away by that.”
C Within Magazine 2019 Fall/Winter 2020
issuu, Nov 29, 2019
Entrepreneur and community visionary Thaine Fischer saw not just any butterfly but the bold and beautiful monarch in a tired, beaten-down building on the corner of Ogden’s 25th Street and Ogden Avenue.
The Monarch Ogden / Start-Up Series
PBS, Nov 11, 2019
Thaine Fischer is a social entrepreneur with an extensive background in real estate acquisitions, development, and management. His latest endeavor “The Monarch” is a collaborative environment where artists, creative businesses and makers of all types can connect, inspire and create together in the heart of Ogden Utah’s Nine Rails Creative District.
THE MONARCH: OGDEN’S ART-SCENE METAMORPHOSIS
SLUG Magazine, July 3, 2019
The freedom of creativity can enable one to turn fleeting and potent moments of anguish, joy or fear into tangible relics of the human experience. On 455 and the historic 25th street in Ogden lives one of these transformations obtained through creativity and vision that is The Monarch, the multi-purpose creative epicenter of Ogden that includes a restaurant, artist studios and space for culturally enriching events.
New eatery, WB's, to bring 'wine and bites' to The Monarch in downtown Ogden
OGDEN STANDARD EXAMINER, Mar 14, 2019
It’s a coffee house by morning and a wine bar by night. And in between, it’s a little bit of everything else. A new restaurant, WB’s, is being added to The Monarch building in downtown Ogden’s Nine Rails Creative District…
With major renovation underway, historic Peery Lofts set to reopen in spring
OGDEN STANDARD EXAMINER, Feb 17, 2019
A nearly 110-year-old, historic apartment complex in east-central Ogden is getting a major facelift. The Peery Lofts (formerly the Peery Apartments) are currently being renovated by Fischer Regan Enterprises, LLC and Carbon Architects. They will likely open for occupancy by June…
2018 Community Development QLICIs, September 21, 2018
“The winners of the QLICI of the Year Awards show the diversity in the way CDEs make investments,” said Brad Elphick, CPA, chairman of the conference and partner in Novogradac & Company LLP’s metropolitan Atlanta office. “The winners not only are diverse in the businesses in which they invest, but geographically, too. They cover coast to coast.”
The Monarch is recognized for exceptional community development
Migrating Mural: Ogden Spreading its Wings with Monarch Murals Around Town
Photo by Benjamin Zach, Standard Examiner
OGDEN STANDARD EXAMINER, September 20, 2018
A nationwide art project dedicated to spreading images of the monarch butterfly across the country is making a stop in Ogden this month and next. The Migrating Mural project is the brainchild of artist Jane Kim and her business partner, Thayer Walker...
Nine Rails Creative District Showing Off Ogden’s Creative Side
NORTHERN UTAH BUSINESS, Aug 16, 2018
It’s hard to miss the surge of creativity happening in downtown Ogden right now. And chances are, it has something to do with the Nine Rails Project…
Montana transplant Thaine Fischer has love for Ogden's historic architecture
Photo by Benjamin Zach, Standard Examiner
OGDEN STANDARD EXAMINER, Jul 8, 2018
Thaine Fischer isn’t your typical developer. The Montana native turned diehard Ogden loyalist is in the midst of a $14 million overhaul of the 57,000-square-foot garage immediately east of The Bigelow Hotel…
Ogden Welcomes New Creative Catalysts
Rebuilding Downtown Ogden One Space at a Time
Northern Utah Business, Aug 4, 2017
A year ago, just after the holidays, the residents of the Historic Peery Apartments were sent packing. Today, although the building has sat empty since last March, the old girl is beginning to show signs of life. And the residents whose lives were uprooted have long since moved on... READ MORE
One year later, Ogden's Historic Peery Apartments may soon show signs of life
OGDEN STANDARD EXAMINER, Jan. 20, 2016
A year ago, just after the holidays, the residents of the Historic Peery Apartments were sent packing. Today, although the building has sat empty since last March, the old girl is beginning to show signs of life. And the residents whose lives were uprooted have long since moved on... READ MORE
Historic 25th street restaurant debuts new space, brunch menu
OGDEN STANDARD EXAMINER, August 26, 2016
Earlier this month, Zucca moved from its South Ogden location of seven years to a newly remodeled home on Historic 25th Street. Part of the renovations to the building include bringing back an iconic dragon of neon lights that hung for more than sixty years before a six-year hiatus…READ MORE
Whatever happened to ... the Star Noodle neon dragon?
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, Feb. 10, 2015
The dragon neon sign, an icon of a time when noodle parlors and other businesses owned by Japanese-Americans dominated a stretch of Ogden's 25th Street, is finally home again…
Return of the Dragon
OGDEN STANDARD EXAMINER, Jan. 28, 2015
After a year-and-a-half long restoration, the iconic neon dragon that once marked the entrance to Star Noodle Parlor returned to 25th St. in downtown Ogden…
