Thursday, March 25, 1999
Franklin pursues vets' home
BY DAVID ECK
Enquirer Contributor
FRANKLIN — City officials today will pitch Franklin as Ohio's first new retirement community for military veterans in more than a century.
Franklin officials will make a 10-minute presentation to the Veterans Home Network Committee in Columbus, said Mayor James Mears. The committee includes state legislators.
“We approached them,” said Mr. Mears, who is also a vice president of the Warren County Veterans Commission. “We think we ought to take care of our veterans.”
Franklin is competing against nine other Ohio cities for the project, which could cost about $10.5 million. The federal government would pay 65 percent of the costs with the state paying the balance.
Other cities in the running: Georgetown, Cambridge, Chillicothe, Marietta, Gallipolis, Belpre, South Point, Pomeroy and McConnelsville, said Michael Entinghe, assistant to the director of the Ohio Veterans Home in Sandusky.
City officials will tout Franklin's Interstate 75 location between Cincinnati and Dayton, and that more than 270,000 veterans live within a 50-mile radius.
A site decision is expected in about a month, Mr. Entinghe said.
The proposed 168-bed facility would be the state's second veterans home. The other — built in the mid-1880s — is in Sandusky. It would feature nursing care and assisted living, Mr. Entinghe said.
The home would open in 2001 and could employ between 100 and 125.
The project would be a convenience to area veterans and a source of pride for this growing Warren County city, Mr. Mears said.
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