By: Michael Grauwelman, president, Miamisburg Mound Community Improvement Corporation
Across the country there are high-stakes redevelopment projects mired in complicated issues, multi-faceted challenges and staggering complexity. And then there’s Mound Advanced Technology Center, a decommissioned DOE nuclear weapons facility located in the geographic center of Miamisburg, Ohio. It took a determined community with strong political leadership to prevent Mound from becoming a 306-acre brownfield with 2,500 jobs lost and gates permanently padlocked against future use.