The East Price Hill Improvement Association (EPHIA) wants the site of the former Whittier Elementary School to become the home of a new state-of-the-art police station for District 3.
According EPHIA President Dan Boller, Jr, the District 3 station is outdated and suffers from a lack of adequate parking.
Fearing a long-term vacancy of the school, Boller and the EPHIA would like to work with the City to acquire the site and to prepare a master plan for a new District 3 station building. In the interim, the site could be used for spillover parking.
The former school is located at 945 Hawthorne Avenue, directly behind the current District 3 station.
Whittier Elementary had been scheduled to receive a new school building as part of Cincinnati Public Schools' (CPS) facilities master plan. In preparation, Whittier students were moved into the new Rees E. Price Academy on Considine Avenue in August 2006.
In November 2006, CPS removed the new Whittier school from its $1 billion building program due to low enrollments and cost overruns.
City Manager Milton Dohoney is expected to produce a feasibility report in early November.
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
East Price Hill wants Whittier, new police station
