Wednesday, June 23, 1999
Allen House to be senior center
Hamilton Co. trades property for parking
BY ANNE MICHAUD
The Cincinnati Enquirer
After four years of standing vacant, the Allen House in Price Hill will be transformed into a senior center and recreation facility, according to city plans.
Hamilton County has finally agreed to trade the property to the city of Cincinnati in exchange for riverfront land needed for Reds baseball parking, among other things.
The trade, made public Tuesday in a report by City Manager John Shirey, is good news for members of the Dunham Senior Center, who have congregated in a run-down building without air conditioning across some ballfields from the Allen House.
“That's fantastic,” said El mer Ackman, president of the Dunham seniors, who number nearly 700. “We have some beautiful plans for that. This is the best news we've had for a long time.”
The Allen House will need some repair. Mr. Ackman said the city's Recreation Commission has promised his group can move in early next year. The commission has proposed a schedule of recreation programs including day camps, after-school care, the senior citizens center, Head Start, a teen center and a community council office.
The Allen House, on Guerley Road, and the surrounding 39 acres are valued at $1.41 million, according to Mr. Shirey's report.
In exchange for giving up Allen House, Hamilton County will receive riverfront property valued at $2 million.
Hamilton County officials want the land next to One Lytle Place to build parking to replace some of the roughly 1,100 spaces in the Cinergy Field garage that will be demolished when construction begins on the new Reds ballpark.
If county commissioners decide to build the replacement parking there, that construction could begin as early as this summer, officials have said. The garage must be finished before partial demolition of Cinergy Field begins in August 2000.
The new garage would have from 1,025 to 1,200 spaces and could cost $9 million to $10 million to build.
The spaces would be used by Firstar Center, the new ballpark and the general public.
Enquirer reporter Lucy May contributed to this story.
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