2025 City Commission Development Update - August 13, 2025
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2025 City Commission Development Update - August 13, 2025
The City of Dayton's Planning, Neighborhoods, and Development team presented an overview of active development projects across the city, covering the last 6 to 12 months. The update highlighted partnerships, leveraging city dollars to attract private and other public funding, and reported over $2 billion in total investment since 2021, with the city contributing no more than 6%.
Discussion Items
- West Dayton: $79.2 million in active projects, including: Dayton Children's West Side Urgent Care ($10M private), Boys & Girls Club of Greater Dayton ($20M total, $250K city), DuPont Polymers expansion ($19M, retaining 82 jobs and creating 5), Dayton Police Station West Pod ($9.2M city ARPA), Welcome Home program ($5.4M total, $4.2M city), Greater West Dayton Business Incubator ($3.5M total, $1M city ARPA), Foo Bank community center ($2M private), Exoberger LLC restaurant ($500K total, $50K city), and strategic demolition ($500K).
- North Central Dayton: $73 million Magnus Capital housing project (260 workforce units, $2M city ARPA); Commodore Windsor Group ($8M, 43 units); Salem Avenue Rebuild ($6.7M city, Phase 5 from Emerson to Ellsmore); Longfellow School Housing ($40M, $1.5M ARPA, 125 senior units); Welcome Home in Dayton View Triangle & Fairview ($5.4M total, $4.2M city); Main Street Rebuild ($9.6M public); Hoover Senior Loss Phase 3 ($16.9M total, $1.5M ARPA, $1.2M home funds, 40 senior units); Cambridge House Apartments 2 ($15.2M, 54 affordable units).
- Northeast Dayton & Airport Area: $23.6 million in projects: Dayton Phoenix Group expansion ($4.5M, $200K city, retaining 223 jobs, creating 115); Point Housing Project ($3.1M, $1.5M ARPA, 19 market-rate units); Kinship Care Housing ($16M, $1.2M ARPA, 26 affordable units for multi-generational families). Additional $131M investment: Sierra Nevada Corporation hangars 3 & 4 ($100M, $4.3M city, 50 new jobs, currently employing ~65); Jovi Aviation phase 1 ($5.1M, 30 new jobs); Wright Brothers Airport North Point Developers Building 1 ($26M, 600 new jobs).
- Southeast Dayton: $131 million in new construction, including: On Maine project at former Fairgrounds ($110M, $7.8M city bond/general fund, 300 jobs, digital innovation center); University of Dayton Recreation Plex expansion.
- Greater Downtown: Almost $200 million in projects: Dayton Convention Center Hotel Development ($55M public-private); $43 East Third Street Redevelopment ($9M, $1.5M city, 60 jobs); 239 Wayne Avenue St. Paul's Church ($22M private, boutique hotel and retail); Center City Redevelopment ($110M, $10M city, 217 affordable housing units).
- Overall Investment Snapshot 2025: Total investment $743.5M, city contributed $59M, ratio $12.60 to $1 (every $12 invested, city provided $1). Housing units: 772 affordable, 112 market-rate. New jobs pledged: 1,160; jobs retained: 305.
- Historical Investment (Jan 2021 - Jul 2025): West Dayton over $300M (city $8.4M, 2.8%); North Central $228M (city $17.1M, 7.5%); Downtown $720.8M (city $36.2M, 5%); Southeast $279.4M (city $5.8M, 2.1%); Northeast/Airport $605M (city $10M, 1.6%).
- Community Engagement: Continued work with partners on placemaking, branding, wayfinding, neighborhood plans, environmental justice, strategic corridor improvements, and information sharing.
Key Outcomes
- The presentation was informational; no votes or formal decisions were taken. The update summarized current and planned development activity across Dayton's neighborhoods.
Meeting Transcript
This is the 2025 City Commission Development Update presented by the team of planning neighborhoods and development. The development update overview. Today's update is focused on activity over the last 6 to 12 months, work reflected goals of adopted plans throughout the city, focus on key partnerships, drive more dollars, which drives more dollars to neighborhoods addressing key citizens' concerns, and all city dollars leveraging private and other public funding. Let's begin with West Dayton. In 2025, there's $79.2 million worth of active development projects in Southwest Dayton. First, we'll highlight Dayton Children's West Side Urgent Care. This $10 million project is a total private investment and it is touted as the first full service urgent care for children in the City of Dayton. Next, the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Dayton. This is a $20 million total investment project, $250,000 coming from the City of Dayton. This will help with demolition and construction of a new facility on their property located on West Stewart Street. It also will help in the development of a team workforce development and trainings training center. DuPont Polymers on Nicholas Road is investing $19 million to do to expand their service product to address those issues in the electronics field. They're going to retain 82 jobs and create five new ones. And then the Dayton Police Station at Wright Factory, which is the West Pod. $9.2 million of city investment through our ARPA dollars, and it's for the new construction of our C our West Pod and other site improvements. Other active projects at West Dayton, totaling almost $12 million, includes Welcome Home, the Welcome Home program at Wolf Creek in Madden Hills, $5.4 million of total investment is being realized with $4.2 million coming from the city and in terms of funding and land donation. The Greater West Dayton Business Incubator has decided to stay in the Wright Dunbar District. $3.5 million of total investment. City funding is $1 million in ARPA funding. The Foo Bank, located on Bank Street, is $2 million in total private investment for a new community center. Another retailer is coming to Wright Dunbar in Exoberger LLC. $500,000 in total investment for this restaurant, this dining restaurant, with city funding at $50,000. And then of course, there's always commercial strategic development strategic demolition at a total of $500,000 to help realize other development activities in the geography. North Central Dayton. Magnus Capital out of Grand Rapids is in the process of a $73 million $73 million housing project, which will yield $260 new units of how workforce housing. The city has contributed $2 million through our ARPA program. The Commodore Windsor Group is investing $8 million in $43 Market Ray units of housing located on the corner of Grafton and Grand. Salem Avenue Rebuild is investing, so the City of Dayton is investing $6.7 million for the continued rebuild of Salem Avenue. Phase 5 will be included from Emerson Avenue to Ellsmore Avenue. And then lastly, the Longfellow School Housing Project, $40 million project with $1.5 million in ARPA funds to help yield a $125 new mixed-income senior unit housing. Other active and new projects at North Central, which will yield $70, $47 million worth of additional investment, again is welcome home, which will focus on Dayton View Triangle and Fairview Neighborhoods, $5.4 million in total investment, $4.2 million in funding and land donation from the City of Dayton. Main Street Rebuild, $9.6 million in public funding, is being invested in rebuilding Main Street. This rebuild will help to for safe passage for both pedestrians as well as for motorists traveling up and down Main Street. Hoover Senior Loss is the third phase of the Hoover Senior Development Complex. $16.9 million in total investment will be realized with City, the City of Dayton providing $1.5 million in ARPA funding and $1.2 million in home funding. 40 units of senior housing will be realized out of this project. Cambridge Bridge, Cambridge House Apartments 2, $15.2 million of public-private investment for $54 units of affordable housing. We will now talk about Northeast O North Dayton investment. 2025-26 will see $23.6 million worth of projects in this geography. Dayton Phoenix Group is investing $4.5 million for an expansion project at their facility. The City of Dayton is providing $200,000 in funding. They're going to retain $223 jobs and create $115 new jobs. The Point Housing Project is a $3.1 million public-private housing project located at the point near Dayton Children's. This project received $1.5 million in ARPA and is to create $19 units of market rate single family housing. And then lastly, the Kin Care Housing Project Kinship Care Housing Project is a partnership with Citywide, the City of Dayton, and Dayton Children's. $16 million of public and private investment will yield $26 affordable housing units for multi-generational families. This project is designed to help those families, those children who may end up in the foster care system and provide support for those caretakers who've agreed to care for those children. The City of Dayton has provided $1.2 million in ARPA funding for this project. Addition projects in the Northeast and Airport area is seeing $131 million of investment. Sierra Nevada Corporation, hangers three and four, is $100 million of continued investment as Sierra Nevada continues to grow at the airport.
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