The city has earmarked about $9.6 million for road improvements, including Kettering’s asphalt resurfacing program, he said.
“It’s pretty much in line with previous years,” Bergstresser said.
Credit: NICK BLIZZARD/STAFF
Credit: NICK BLIZZARD/STAFF
The road surfacing for this year was $9.4 million compared to $8.2 million in 2023, Kettering records show.
Kettering’s capital projects are part of a 2025 budget city council approved this week that includes an $81.66 million general fund, according to city documents.
Nearly $5 million — nearly 29% — of the entire 2025 capital budget will be funded by federal and state grants, Bergstresser said.
As part of the resurfacing program, Stroop Road near the Town & Country Shopping Center will be repaved, as will Patterson Road east of Woodman Drive near Miami Valley Research Park, he added.
Those two projects are estimated at $2.4 million combined. Other significant work planned for next year includes:
•Street and drainage upgrades in the Golf Club Estates neighborhood, $2.7 million.
•Upgrades to Building 46/Kettering Municipal Courts in the Kettering Business Park, $1.25 million.
•Various parks infrastructure work, $1 million.
•Whipp Road resurfacing west of Bigger Road, $700,000.
All the roadway projects will be bid in the first quarter of 2025, with construction starting in spring and continuing throughout summer, Bergstresser said.
Next year’s work at Kettering Business Park’s Building 46 is part of a plan to invest $4.4 million in the structure to make it more attractive to potential tenants.
The city will use $1.25 million in state funds to upgrade the business park’s Building 46, which has the most vacant space at the park, Assistant City Manager Bryan Chodkowski has said.
Building 46 houses Kettering Municipal Court but has more than 110,000 square feet of “underutilized space,” Kettering officials have said.
Chodkowski said the city is open to “any potential end users. We’ve got a myriad of clients out there, largely in the health industry at the moment, and so we’d like to try and take advantage of that.”
The 120-acre business park is one of two main employment centers in Kettering along with Miami Valley Research Park.
The business park lost nearly 1,900 jobs after Synchrony Financial announced in 2020 that it would cease operations there. But it remains home to nearly 2,500 jobs and several of Kettering’s largest employers have a presence there, according to city records.
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