Armco Park in Talks with Warren County

Warren County paid 1.4 mil along with Turtle Creek 1 mil., Otterbein 1 mil., and a state agency 1 mi. for a total of 4.4 mil. Something isnt right here. Many years ago Armco now Ak purchased the land and made their employees a park asking for $2.00 a pay check. Back then Armco had several thousand employees. Thinking about this, back then Armco was a family work place. Employees were thought of as assets or the backbone to the company. All appreciated the park. Over the years things have change, oh my how things do change. The park has now been sold but not to the employees who wanted to purchase it. When government, be it state, or county creates parks...along comes problems. We all have seen it. AK Park did not have these problems of vagrants, drugs, and pedophiles. Armco families unlike some citizens looked out for each others safety at the park. I wonder if AK looks at Middletown the same as they look at their employees. It appears to me they do. As time goes on you will see AKs true appreciation for the people that have sacrificed so much to help AK be what it is today.  

Hopefully the park will not become a sports complex.  We do not need another one.  We do need a park for our families.  We are always complaining that there is no place to go locally, well here it is.  Let's keep it that way.

From the day Warren County along with the other 3 agencies said they wish to buy the park, they have 90 days to evaluate the land, all of the materialistic items on the land, the partial control Shaker Run golf course has with some of the land and a mile long list of other issues before they  can be closed the deal. As for how the park will be ran would depend on how much the county will be willing to spend to operate it. I believe the park will model its self the same a Sharon Wood does.