Dublin City Schools cancels plan to buy Cardinal Health building for $37 million ...Middle East

DUBLIN, Ohio (WCMH) -- Dublin City Schools is withdrawing from an agreement to buy Cardinal Health's headquarters for $37 million to serve as a high school.

Superintendent John Marschhausen's announcement came during a Monday board of education meeting, six months after the district said it was pausing the agreement to buy Cardinal's 250,000-square-foot west campus at 7200 Cardinal Place. Marschhausen said the decision "was made in collaboration with the city of Dublin and our friends at Cardinal Health." Watch a previous NBC4 report on the district's Cardinal Health agreement in the video player above.

"The Cardinal Health west building is a valuable asset to the Dublin community as a whole," the superintendent said Monday. "We continue to have ongoing meetings and collaboration and there's continued dialogue about potential future uses, but the opportunity to purchase that building in May is no longer on the table."

Now, the district is forging ahead with a 60,000-square-foot expansion to Dublin Scioto High School that will allow for 500 to 600 additional students. Set to break ground on May 22, the expansion will balance enrollment to about 2,000 students at each of the district's three high schools, as Scioto is currently home to about 1,400 students while Dublin Coffman serves 2,000 and Dublin Jerome has 2,400.

Scioto's addition announcement came last August after Marschhausen paused the Cardinal agreement. Earlier that month, the city's planning commission signaled they were unsupportive of the zoning changes needed to repurpose Cardinal's building. Dublin schools had entered into the purchase agreement in spring 2024, which allowed the district more than a year to determine if the building could be configured to serve as a school.

"Our enrollment projections indicate, by moderate projection, that we'll have 2,000 new high school students by 2034. We're still going to need room for about 1,500 additional students by 2034. But, this is the short-term solution," Marschhausen said of the Scioto expansion in August.

Also in December, the district unveiled the redrawn neighborhood boundaries for its elementary and middle schools for the 2025-2026 school year. The superintendent has long said redistricting was needed given Dublin is one of the fastest-growing districts and the upcoming Bishop Elementary will be overcapacity when the building opens this fall.

Dublin schools will also be redrawing the boundaries for the district's high schools this year, with the expectation the boundaries will take effect at the start of the 2026-2027 year. That process is the first redistricting of Dublin's high schools in about two decades.

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