Keller believes charter vote puts Elliott Road property in limbo

Ask Bryan Keller about the outcome of Defiance’s charter amendment vote last week and he’s liable to display a certain degree of frustration.Slightly more than 64% of those who cast ballots in this fall’s election said yes to the addition of a charter section that effectively bans data centers, at least those using more than 25 megawatts of power.As the owner of Keller Development Group, Keller owns property on Elliott Road where a data center, or some other industrial prospect, might have fit.Keller had stated publicly before the charter vote that he had been working with a northwest Ohio consultant to determine whether the property — located close to his other existing business concerns on Defiance’s northside — would have worked for a data center.

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