The old Ivex paper mill and bag manufacturing plant on the Chagrin River, just east of downtown Chagrin Falls, looks like the perfect setting for a horror movie. It's packed with thickets of disused pipes and battered machinery once used to make paper. It's dark, damp and cold inside, as only a vacant building can be on a frigid day in January.

But if developer Robert Darden and his partners have their way, the mill could be reborn soon as a $7 million, 80,000-square-foot mixed-use development with an inn, a restaurant, a microbrewery, a movie theater, a business center, offices and retail shops.

It all depends on whether voters in the village of Chagrin Falls approve new zoning for the old industrial complex in a special election on Tuesday, Feb. 3.

With additional money from grants and their own pockets, they'll breathe fresh life into the industrial complex, parts of which date back to the 1850s.