I guess you still can. We seem to be doing OK without one. Joe Koch, president of Koch Construction, makes many of the same points as Lucente. We customize the inside and they all have a full basement. Those interested in condos, according to Lucente, tend to be older and have accumulated a wealth of items that they associate with fond memories.
Basements tend to be storage sites of such goods rather than places to work or entertain.
Most of the rest came from Youngstown's west side. Koch, who began as a carpenter under the tutelage of his father, grew up in Austintown and graduated in 1976 from Austintown Fitch High School. It was 1988 when the former owners of Stanjim, wanting to fully retire, asked Koch if he were interested in buying that part of their business they hadn't sold. And that's how he became a developer and contractor. Township Zoning Inspector Michael P. Kurilla Jr. has watched Lucente and Koch expand and transform Austintown's residences.