This first surfaced back in June.  There is a post about it in the Random Dayton thread.

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=3304.msg107139;topicseen#msg107139

 

There was also some discussion about the area in the Greene Town Center thread.

 

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From the 9/1/06 Dayton Business Journal:

 

 

Vandalia eyes retail hub with land buy

Dayton Business Journal - September 1, 2006

by Tim Tresslar

DBJ Senior Reporter

 

A 200-acre parcel on Vandalia's west side is likely to include a hodgepodge of shops, offices and small houses.

 

That's the conclusion of a marketing study focused on the best uses for the land, which the city agreed in June to buy for $4.3 million.

 

Click link for article:

 

http://dayton.bizjournals.com/dayton/stories/2006/09/04/story5.html?b=1157342400^1339357

 

Hoagland is truly a class act. This is his first year on the job as city manager and he is really stepping it up....go V-town. I really hope that they can find some way to take advantage to the proximity (can't actually get ANY closer) to the airport. I have also heard that they are exploring the possibility of putting another exit along the access road... My inner-ring suburb needs some work and i am glad that someone is planning for the future.

 

A 200-acre parcel on Vandalia's west side is likely to include a hodgepodge of shops, offices and small houses.

 

 

hopefully its a well planned hodge-podge...

From the 3/22/07 DDN:

 

 

Planning starts near access road

City to install sewer, water lines on 200 acres at Stonequarry Road and Peters Pike.

By Bethany Meisinger-Reiff

Contributing Writer

Thursday, March 22, 2007

 

VANDALIA — The city of Vandalia's development plans for the land bordering Airport Access Road are steadily moving along with the March 12 hiring of Kinzelman Kline Gossman, a design and planning firm with an office in Columbus.

 

Click link for article.

 

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/neighbors/2007/03/22/ddn032207z5develop.html

 

hopefully they can figure this thing out nd get things moving, with delphi closing...we need some tax base!!!