From BG INDEPENDENT NEWS
Bowling Green State University has purchased four properties in its neighborhood.
BGSU bought two rental properties at 141 and 145 Troup Ave., just off East Wooster Street for $280,000, according to university spokesman Dave Kielmeyer.
The homes will be used for the university’s growing program in forensic science. The two houses will be used as forensic investigation scenario houses, he said.
“We will make improvements to the houses and the landscaping,” he said. The houses are located in the middle of a residential street.
The university is also purchasing two empty business properties at 904 and 908 East Wooster Street for $351,000. The buildings are on the corner of College. The Falcon Health Center is just to the west of the properties. They were most recently operated as a book store, but have served a variety of purposes over the years.
Kielmeyer said those properties were being purchased as part of BGSU and the City of Bowling Green’s ongoing plans to improve the East Wooster Corridor leading from the intersection of I-75 into downtown Bowing Green.
The university is “buying in anticipation of what we might do there,” Kielmeyer said. He described it as “a strategic property acquisition. Those are important properties in our plans.”
Beyond saying they were looked at for future mixed-use development, he couldn’t say what was envisioned for the property.
They will be demolished sometime next year, he said, though before that they may be offered to the Fire School, held every summer on campus, for use in training exercises.
The money to buy all four properties will come out of the university’s operating funds.
The university trustees have given the administration approval in advance to make such real estate acquisitions as the opportunities arise.
