Velvet Ice Cream adds candy shop, vintage arcade to its Ye Olde Mill property

Dan Eaton | Velvet Ice Cream Vice President Joanne Dager, right, and Riley Sheehan, marketing assistant, show off the company’s new Jelly Belly dispenser …

Dan Eaton | Velvet Ice Cream Vice President Joanne Dager, right, and Riley Sheehan, marketing assistant, show off the company’s new Jelly Belly dispenser which will bar part of a new candy shop at the Utica headquarters. Sheehan also is Dager’s son and a fifth-generation family member in the business.

by: Dan Eaton | Columbus Business First

Posted: May 16, 2023 / 03:03 PM EDT

Updated: May 16, 2023 / 03:03 PM EDT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (COLUMBUS BUSINESS FIRST) — Velvet Ice Cream is giving some old space a sweet new use.

The Utica-based ice cream company in 2021 decide to outsource production to partners. The move freed up space at the headquarters that is now getting a fresh purpose.

The former viewing gallery, which once looked in on the ice cream making, is becoming a candy shop — one of several changes and additions for visitors to the company’s 30 acres surrounding its offices, distribution center and the historic Ye Olde Mill.

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