$31M joint school being built in Hamilton is a Butler Tech, Miami University partnership

10 Jul 2025

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Construction crews are now busy with a $31 million project as they transform a former Hamilton industry icon’s corporate headquarters into a regionally unique school to train Butler County teens and adults to fill area jobs in booming manufacturing companies.

The joint project converting the former VORA technology park, which previously was the Knightsbridge Road headquarters for Hamilton-based Champion Paper in its final years, involves the largest partnership between Butler Tech and Miami University in the career school’s history.

The joint project, which includes funding from Butler County Commissioners and the city of Hamilton, is unique in the region and perhaps the state, said Sprankles as he showed off some renovation work creating eight manufacturing and robotics learning labs and two larger, multi-purpose labs on different floors of the four-story complex.

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