Tuesday, August 7, 2007

City eyes Avondale aquatic center

An ordinance to build a family aquatic center in Avondale is currently in the Education, Health and Recreation Committee.

Passage of the ordinance would allow the City to execute a restrictive covenant with the trustee of the Otto Armleder Memorial Trust, National City Bank, to develop the complex as the the Otto Armleder Memorial Family Aquatics Center.

The City would also enter into a disbursement agreement with the bank to receive $1.9 million for the complex, which would be built at 3630 Reading Road, adjacent to the Hirsch Recreation Center.

The Cincinnati Recreation Commission (CRC) first applied for the trust proceeds in 2000.

The CRC currently operates one Otto Armleder Aquatics Center at 226 Stark Street in Over-the-Rhine. A second will open in 2008 at the Dunham Recreation Center in Price Hill.

The next meeting of the Education, Health and Recreation Committee is September 4 at 3 PM.

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