A Trotwood manufacturing company wants to expand its business by using the vacant Kmart building at 5353 Salem Ave. as a storage facility.
Paul Kasperski, president of Phoenix Tube Company, 5800 Wolf Creek Pike, submitted a request to the city to have the Salem Avenue property rezoned from Regional Business District to Industrial Planned Unit Development Zoning District.
Tonight, three of the five-member Trotwood Planning Commission voted to recommend that the Trotwood City Council approve the rezoning request, along with the company's preliminary development plan to occupy the existing 117,000 square-foot facility as a light manufacturing warehouse and distribution facility.
Two of the commissioners did not attend the meeting.
Next month, city council members are expected to vote on the resolutions concerning the rezoning request.
If approved, it is unclear when renovations on the Kmart building would begin.
Phoenix Tube Company makes steel tubing for a variety of uses including furniture, satellites, support poles and fencing.
Read more about the company's plans in the newsprint edition of the Dayton Daily News.