$15 million Springboro condo project in final phase

Dayton developer Charlie Simms is about to begin the final section of a condominium project valued at $15 million on the north side of Springboro.

Parkside Row will be a 56-home community and another piece in the puzzle completing Settlers Walk, a 750-acre planned development that was started more than a decade ago just east of Interstate 75.

“I think the big picture is Cincinnati and Dayton coming together. People taking jobs in different places and coming together in the middle there,” Simms said before the Springboro Planning Commission signed off Wednesday on the plan for the final section.

The commission conditionally approved Simms Development’s plan after a presentation by Elmer Dudas, the city’s development director. Woolpert Engineers agreed to changes identified by city staff, Dudas said.

While earth-moving equipment worked at 4.9-acre Parkside Row development Thursday, construction continued just east on a 32,000-square-foot office building for the Kettering Medical Network along Ohio 741.

This summer, Kettering Medical Network expects to be providing outpatient services and doctor’s offices along the road, known in Dayton as Springboro Pike and in Springboro as Main Street.

“We study the needs of the community. We believe in offering services in the communities that we serve. We saw that there was a need for a medical office building in Springboro,” said Elizabeth Long, media and public relations manager for the medical network.

Just south of Parkside Row is Gardner Park, featuring a pond ringed by a hiking trail.

East across Ohio 741 is a shopping center anchored by Dorothy Lane Market. The shopping center sits on the edge of the 1,300-home Settlers Walk neighborhood and just south of the Dayton Wright Brothers Airport.

“One of our first buyers is a private pilot with a plane over at the airport,” Simms said.

Simms Development is also building condominiums in two places in Dayton, while scouting locations along the Warren-Montgomery line and east of Dayton.

“We’ve got some things on the board, but nothing I can talk about,” Simms said. “We’re looking at downtown, Beavercreek, south and east.”

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