10/3/2023 0 Comments Ray warrick hamilton township![]() ![]() “This place has good bones,” Schon says as he stands in a vast courtyard of broken concrete, gravel, struggling weeds, and scattered piles of post-industrial junk. That’s what developer Ken Schon has steadfastly maintained for more than a decade as he and his partner, Steve Bloomfield, have worked to turn this 15-acre monument to a shattered past into a future for young couples, outdoors lovers, empty nesters, and free enterprise. There’s a meandering river, the Little Miami Bike Trail, a quaint traffic-slowing bridge, hills all around, and a sea of trees. Yet, when you’re there, it’s like being in the middle of nowhere. Go the other direction for a few miles and you can play 18 on a TPC golf course. As the crow flies, the old factory stands only a couple of miles from I-71 and Kings Island. But, somehow, at night as you cross the winding bridge over the Little Miami River, the imposing brick tower that looks down on the remains of the Peters Cartridge Factory brings you back to those Saturday matinees where indiscriminate killers with “mother issues” roamed. A flash of lightning briefly stabs the river valley’s ink-black darkness, and for only a moment, your brain has a Pavlovian response.
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