Austin Pike area site of new fire station

Miami Twp. facility will serve as a future joint fire district station with Miamisburg.

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By Kristin McAllister, Staff Writer Updated 1:21 AM Thursday, March 11, 2010

Future development at Austin Pike has prompted Miami Twp. officials to choose the new interchange area for construction of its new fire station.

“We need to get down there and be in place before it’s too late,” said Miami Twp. fire Chief Matthew Queen. “With the building expected to take off, we need to be ready.”

The new station also will help with service runs to the Crain’s Run Road residential area and Miamisburg School District’s new elementary and preschool buildings near that development. It also will serve as a future joint fire district station with the Miamisburg Fire Department.

“It will handle the whole southwest corner of the township and all that comes with the Austin Boulevard project,” said Queen, adding that the area now is serviced by department headquarters on Lyons Road.

“It’s the busiest station we have,” he said.

Township Administrator Greg Hanahan said the township has two parcels identified for the $3 million station. He said the township has set aside money for the last several years in anticipation of the need for a new station.

One parcel is owned by Miamisburg City schools and situated near where a new proton therapy cancer treatment center is planned in the southwest quadrant of the Interstate 75 and Austin Pike interchange.

The second parcel, owned by the township, is just north of Austin Pike and the Dayton Wright Brothers Airport.

Queen said the new facility will replace Station 47 at 8600 Miamisburg-Springboro Road, a 57-year-old building in the center of the township’s southern border.

Because nearly all four township fire stations are more than 50 years old, Queen said the township is budgeting for more new stations at some point, likely on the west and north sides of the township.

Queen said the new station will house between four and eight of his department’s 65-member staff. Start of construction is slated for this summer.

Contact this reporter at  (937) 225-9338 or kmcallister @DaytonDailyNews.com.

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