


residents, outside of small, specially designated taxation neighborhoods, pay no income tax to help fund essential township services such a fire departments, EMS and police among others. Explore Video & story: Butler County’s first Costco opens to thousands of eager shoppersĪlmost all Liberty Twp. Explore New homes ready for residents near Liberty CenterĪdding to the pending population density along Liberty Way are 70 luxury townhouse homes that just opened some units and remains under construction across the street from proposed new apartment complex and hotel.Īnd dozens more rental apartments – and other multi-housing complexes - will soon be constructed about a half mile east on Liberty Way as part of the $139 million Freedom Pointe project anchored by Butler County’s first Costco, which opened in November. We don’t want to be dependent on apartments, but we also don’t want to be left behind.”Īccording to preliminary plans provided by the developer, the bottom floor of Liberty Center’s Taylor Street Garage would be reserved for residents of the new apartment complex. “And we don’t want to see our economic engine not grow because we don’t have what the rest of the world wants us to have. “The apartment boom in America is real,” said Farrell, who added “you don’t want to be the township that has none.” That’s far more than what the township plan envisioned,” he said.īut fellow Trustee Tom Farrell said adding apartments meets a statistically proven need for such structures. “Since that time, there have been additional approved, not yet-built apartments along the 1.5-mile stretch of Liberty Way, now totaling 1,713.

Minniear said the original township approval plan for the $350 million Liberty Center, which opened in 2015 and is the largest development in the township’s history, included 239 apartments on the grounds.
