WEST CHESTER TWP. — Trustees are likely to buy a $4.3 million building at West Chester and Beckett roads that would house most of the township's departments.

        The move opens the police building at Cincinnati-Dayton and West Chester roads for the township administration staff when its five-year lease expires in Centre Pointe Office Park, off Muhlhauser Road, in about a year and a half.

        The police building previously held the administration staff before it moved to its current quarters.

        “We just couldn't pass it up,” said Trustee President Dave Tacosik. “The big plus is we won't have to go to the community in a few years and ask them to build us a big city center.”

        The purchase is expected to eventually save taxpayers about $15 million, because it alleviates the need to build a new facility, said Township Administrator Dave Gully.

        Trustees are expected to pass an emergency resolution at their 7 p.m. meeting tonight to buy the building and property, which is valued at $12.6 million.

        The building has sat empty for almost a year after the company that constructed it went bankrupt.

        The township's police, court, maintenance, planning and zoning and other departments will be housed there, Mr. Gully said.

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