17Apr09: News about development along Western Row between Innovation Way & I-71...

Found this on the web:

Stacy Frole, director of investor relations for its owner, Sandusky, Ohio-based Cedar Fair Inc., calls Kings Island one of the company's best parks in terms of attendance, profitability and contribution to the bottom line. That makes the land surrounding it "advantageous for future development," she says. Whether that includes rides or attractions or "an additional hotel or two" is a decision still years away. But it is land Cedar Fair plans to keep, Frole says.

Across the interstate on Innovation Way, developer Al. Neyer Inc. hopes to build $100 million worth of offices, residences, sit-down restaurants and service retail on 150 acres near the Lindner Center of Hope. Called Oak Park to honor the decades-old oak trees that line the property, the development will be a joint venture between Neyer and the Health Alliance.

It will create high-density urban development for the first time in Mason, says Neyer development director Chris Dobrozsi.

Missing in the city, Dobrozsi says, "are new urban apartments for young people that want to live in an urban environment close to where they work."