and Western railroad. The relocation was ultimately rejected due to environmental concerns, objections by Terrace Park village officials, a lack of funds, and a decreased demand for the interchange following the completion of the Appalachian Highway (State Route 32), which connected to I-275. ODOT completed half of the cloverleaf interchange, but a stub to the west dead-ended in a field. In 1988, ODOT once again considered connecting the unfinished interchange, connecting it to Round Bottom Road in Union Township. The connection would have provided access to a light industrial park that Tipton and Associates proposed for a large farm property to the west of the interchange, known as the Gatch property. However, the plan was opposed by a coalition of 16 groups, including the Cincinnati Nature Center. A team of anthropologists from the University of Cincinnati team also discovered Native American relics dating to 12,000 BCE on the proposed site. In the early 1990s, a $ access road, which corresponds to the present-day SR 450, was built from the I-275 interchange directly into the Park 50 TechneCenter entrance on U.S. 50. It was funded by the industrial park's developer and a grant awarded by the Appalachian Regional Commission in 1986. ODOT gave it an internal designation of U.S. Route 50 Temporary (U.S. 50T) but did not put up signs identifying it as such. However, the western half of the I-275 interchange remained unfinished. The Gatch property was eventually redeveloped in 1995 as Milford Commerce Park. Despite hopes of becoming the county's third largest industrial property, its occupancy rate fell short of expectations. Hoping to attract retail tenants with a more accessible road configuration, the developer, Cincinnati United Contractors, spent $ to build Milford Parkway from U.S. 50/SR 131 in Milford, across the East Fork, and through the property, dead-ending about from the I-275 interchange. The parkway's route had been shifted to avoid a series of archaeological sites associated with the Ohio Hopewell people. Its connection to SR 131 passed through what had been an unplatted portion of Greenlawn Cemetery. After excavation, Miami Township officials discovered that the land may have contained unmarked graves of Black people from the late 1800s and early 1900s. CUC also paid half of the $ cost to pave and connect the unfinished interchange to Milford Parkway, with the remainder funded by Clermont County and Milford. The rebuilt interchange opened on November 17, 1999, shortly after