One of the largest undeveloped properties in Dayton’s Central Business District could go up for sale very soon.
Dayton Public Schools has sent out notice that it intends to sell the former site of Patterson Co-op High School, which is located at 118 E. First St. across from Memorial Hall.
The school closed in 2001 and was demolished about seven years later. Today, the 1.63-acre property is a grassy field.
As required under Ohio law, Dayton Public Schools in early August offered the property to community schools and college-preparatory boarding schools in the district, which get 60 days to respond.
After that, the school district can send the property to public auction or sell it to local subdivisions, taxing authorities, park districts, publicly funded universities, libraries or nonprofit institutions of public education.
“The next step is the school district is free to offer it for sale to either the city or the port authority or to auction or to private businesses,” said Adil Baguirov, president of the Dayton Public Schools Board of Education.
The property sits in a burgeoning part of downtown near some major employers, community anchors and recent housing and commercial development projects.
