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City Transfers Ownership Of Home And Garage Near Rickenbacker House

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The City of Columbus is transferring ownership of the house and garage near Eddie Rickenbacker’s childhood home on East Livingston Avenue to the Rickenbacker-Woods Technology Museum and Historic Park group, a nonprofit that plans to turn the Rickenbacker home into a museum. The garage will become a community center. The transfers cost 1 million dollars. Columbus Development Director Steve Schoeny says the group will lease the properties to Buckeye Community 44, which will use the house being transferred as a leasing office for an affordable housing complex its partner, Buckeye Community Hope Foundation, is building.

Schoeny says Buckeye Community Hope Foundation is getting state tax credits and a 46 thousand dollar municipal grant to build the 12 million dollar project. The Rickenbacker house is a National Historic Landmark. The World War I flying ace was born in Columbus in 1890. His family moved into the house three years later. City Council approved the transfers last night.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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