The building at 20 Eaker St. changed hands for $675,000, records show. The seller was Dayton Ice Tower, LLC. The purchase includes 1.188 acres, with a separate parcel — also part of the purchase — listed as just over a tenth of an acre.
Records give the sale date as August 30. Montgomery County auditor’s documents show that street addresses tied to the purchase cover 20 to 60 Eaker Street.
This is familiar territory for the Catholic high school, which for decades has been located nearby at 505 S. Ludlow St.
In 2021, the school paid $710,000 for a property on South Perry Street, with accompanying parcels on adjoining Eaker.
Records at the time showed the school bought the former “Taj Ma Garaj” building at 300 S. Perry, with 90, 88 and 82 Eaker.
The school has had an active investment history in recent years. It has built practice football fields and the Roger Glass Stadium through carefully placed purchases at the corner of Longworth and Eaker streets.
The school also built a tennis court complex along Ludlow as well as a former Dayton Daily News Eaker Street warehouse more than a decade ago, transforming it into a student conditioning center.
A representative of CJ said an interview on the purchase would be possible Thursday.
Chad Diggs — former owner of the building, the seller and the agent in the transaction — deferred to CJ. “I’m going to go through them on this. I did sell them the building,” he said Wednesday.
The number for Dayton Frozen Solutions, the cold storage company which formerly occupied that address, was no longer in service Wednesday.
In a 2021 interview, Meixner said the school’s 15- to 20-year master plan has called for an expansion of its campus where possible.
Founded in 1973 through the joining of Chaminade and Julienne high schools, Chaminade Julienne said it serves 52 different zip codes across the Dayton area today, representing more than 46 different grade schools.
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