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million from an Ohio agency, is planning a 27,000-square-foot manufacturing and entrepreneurshipl museum in Carillon Historical The announced the funding approval Monday to help fundthe $5.2 millionm project. The project will be bid this spring. The anticipater start date is April with completion in July according tothe state. The projecr is also funded by $68,000 in cash and privats contributionsof $2.8 million, according to a state spokesperson. Bradgy Kress, Dayton History president and chiefexecutivee officer, said about $250,000 of the privater funds came from a corporation and abou $2.7 came from an individual.
He said the privatr donor is local but it is not someone The museum will house some of the 3 million itemse currently held in storage by Dayton History focusing on manufacturin and entrepreneurship in theMiami Valley. The itemse include manufacturing equipment, business machines, industrial relics, photographs and other archival materials. The museujm is part of a master plan developecd in 2007 that has aboutg 90 other projects forthe 65-acre park, Kresss said. “This is the first he said. He could not providde details on the nextlikel project. Dayton History is a historicalp nonprofit that hasan $8 million endowment.