Butler Township will soon enjoy the benefits of a new $18 million nursing care facility that has broken ground just south of Interstate 70 and east of North Dixie Drive. The “transitional care” facility is phase one of a more extensive residential campus to be known as Stonespring, and it promises many positive spin-offs.

A livable community
At build-out, Stonespring will occupy almost 23 acres and feature a 43,000-square-foot care center, assisted-living apartments, and doubles for independent living. The development will include new internal private streets, exercise trails, ponds, a Montessori school, and amenities such as a coffee shop and beauty salon for residents. The model for this project can be seen on a campus by the same developer, Carespring, near West Chester Township south of Dayton. “Butler Township officials visited this campus and we were impressed by the quality of every aspect,” said Development Director Jeff Bothwell. “One of many advantages to the township will be a greater variety of housing to accommodate every generational need. Township residents can remain township residents even as their housing needs mature.”

Getting there
The main access from the west will be a rebuilt Cloverleaf Road, which is currently a cul-de-sac. The cost of rebuilding will be paid – at no cost to general taxpayers – through tax increment financing, which will use taxes derived from Stonespring’s construction. The rebuilt Cloverleaf Road will connect with Singing Ridge Boulevard to the east, currently a dead-end street. The new looped street network will allow access to the township’s planned government center, the proposed, privately funded Wright Brothers Memorial sculpture, and private professional offices anticipated in conjunction with the senior residential campus. Planned roadway rebuilds, along with new township administrative and police offices, will be completed with tax increment financing at no cost to general taxpayers, Bothwell said.