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K4 & ADCM Named to Business Courier "Fast 50"
February 4, 2005—Two Brown County (Ohio) natives, Jeff Klump, AIA and Larry Hatfield, AIA have made the Business Courier’s “Fast 50” list with two of their companies: K4 Architecture, LLC and ADCM, Inc. K4 and ADCM were named #8 and #28, respectively, out of 30,000 tri-state companies. Having grown from six employees in 1999 to 60 employees, K4 is headquartered in Cincinnati and has satellite offices in Ohio (Bethel, Mount Orab, and Yellow Springs) and in Michigan (Southfield).
Klump, president of K4 and a Ripley native, graduated from Ripley-Union-Lewis-Huntington High School. Hatfield, K4 vice president, was born in Georgetown and graduated Georgetown Exempted Village High School.
One of Klump’s first architectural experiences working in his hometown was serving as the original design architect for the Union Township Public Library renovation. Cincinnati Magazine recognized the project as being among the “Best of Cincinnati” in its annual “Best of the City” issue in December 2003.
Klump and Hatfield opened the satellite office because they wanted to be more involved in their hometown community. The company, known as K4/Stine Architects & Engineers, is managed by Jeff Stine. Stine, who has had his own firm in Bethel since 1984, has completed projects for clients that include Western Brown Local Schools, the Village of Bethel, and the Village of Mt. Orab.
K4 /Stine and ADCM have completed two design/build projects in Brown County—Ripley Federal Savings Bank and Lake Waynoka Recreation Center—while Larry Hatfield recently completed a 3D rendering of a proposed Brown County Courthouse. K4 purchased and renovated the old Mt. Orab Municipal Building to serve as K4/Stine’s main office; the current office in Bethel will also continue to operate.
“This is a great opportunity to be involved with significant projects within my hometown and the Brown County community, and to be work with well-managed local organizations,” commented Klump. “It’s an honor to be able to give back to the communities that have done so much for me in my life.”