Fairborn City Manager Deborah McDonnell said, "It's a day that we've been waiting for three years."
Wright State can now start preparing the site for it's main role, disaster training for medical providers.
McDonnell said, "This site is unique not only to the area, but to the country."
Shuttered as a cement plant in the late 1990's, Fairborn leaders tried anything to turn this brownfield into something useful.
After lots of hard work and conversations, the city and Wright State developed the National Center for Medical Readiness. Calamityville is the laboratory where the training will happen.
Renovations on the site will start next week. Students will be on site by the fall.
In a year or two, soldiers could come and use the towers and tunnels to train. The center is working on a deal with the National Guard that could bring 250,000 soldiers in to train each year.
That would be big economic news for Fairborn.
Fairborn Mayor Joan Dautell said, "They're going to need places to eat and stay. We think Ohio 235 is going to boom and we think there are a lot of communities who are going to wish they had this."
The National Guard deal is not finalized, but center leaders say the Guard is just one service interested in training at the site.