$4.9M freed up for Brown Street redevelopment in Dayton
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
DAYTON — As the city continued a slow recovery from Sunday's windstorm that blacked out power to hundreds of thousands of residents, city commissioners heard some good news at their meeting Wednesday evening, Sept. 17, about the redevelopment of Brown Street.
The Army Corps of Engineers has released about $4.9 million for the project for water and sewer work. It's money that had been held up because of needs following Hurricane Katrina.
With the money now freed, the University of Dayton will be able to move forward with plans to redevelop a parcel of former NCR Corp. industrial land between Brown and Main streets, said Ted Bucaro, the school's government relations director.
UD will combine that money with $3 million from the Clean Ohio Fund to help tackle the project. The school could break ground in six to eight months, Bucaro said.
The city remains under a declaration of emergency because of Sunday's storm, Commissioner Matt Joseph said. The declaration will be lifted once power is fully restored and all streets are cleared of wires and debris.
Waste collection remains on its normal schedule and there's been no problem with water service, he said, and police report that call volume has been normal since the storm.
Mayor Rhine McLin, along with Montgomery County commissioners Dan Foley and Deborah Lieberman, have been in Israel with a 20-member business delegation.
The group has been on a nine-day trip in an attempt to recruit Israeli technology companies to the Dayton area.
McLin and the visit have been featured in the Jerusalem Post newspaper, Joseph told commissioners.
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