A State Street building downtown that most recently housed PNC Bank is getting a facelift and a new tenant.

Building owner Tom Blair said the 48,000-square-foot building that also once housed National City Bank will receive a $1 million upgrade.

Blair, who has owned the building since 1993, said the lease formerly held by PNC ended last month. The bank had been long gone from the space before that.

“There will be a new tenant on the first floor, a major accounting firm,” Blair said.

Carr Riggs Ingram, or CRI, 927 College St., is moving from two separate floors at its current location to one floor. The move is scheduled to be completed by Sept. 1, said Shelly Compton, a partner at CRI.

CRI started in Enterprise, Ala., in 1997.

In 2011, Holland CPAs of Bowling Green joined it in a merger.

Holland had a 75-year history in Bowling Green, said partner in charge Lanny White. The local accounting firm has been in its same offices since the early 1980s. Compton said there are 35 people at CRI in Bowling Green.

“This will be a nice place for the employees, and it will be easier for our clients because there will be more parking options,” White said.

Compton said CRI is a full-service accounting, financial and planning firm, doing everything from tax preparation to audits.

There are 21 CRI offices in nine states in the southeastern United States.

CRI is making its presence known in Kentucky, and the office move will help as it establishes its brand in Bowling Green, the surrounding counties and throughout Kentucky, Compton said.

There will be new signage on the old bank building, Blair said, and new lighting is planned for the front. In the back, the old bank drive-through will be dismantled and an upper-level deck will allow outside access from the upper floor.

Blair said the building’s top-floor tenant, Fiserv, which takes up about 10,000 square feet of office space, will expand another 5,000 square feet. Wellcare, the third-floor tenant, takes up about 5,000 square feet.

Blair said he’s still searching for a tenant for the building’s second floor.

“We have a lot of prospects,” he said, noting he hopes to land that client after the interior and exterior renovations are completed.

Scott, Murphy & Daniel is doing the exterior work, which will include replacing glass in the front of the structure.

“It is all going smoothly,” Blair said of the project. “By fall we hope to be fully occupied.”

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