Courtesy City of Mason
The big ones are gone. The huge trees which lined the driveway to WLW-AM s tower and transmitter were removed this week to make way for a $30-million retail and office complex along Mason s booming Tylersville Road corridor.
Restaurants, office buildings, a public storage business, car wash, daycare, bank and convenience store with gas pumps are planned around the iconic diamond-shaped radio tower and transmitter building on the 27 acres.
Workers chip tree limbs into mulch near the WLW-AM tower site entrance.
Credit John Kiesewetter
WLW-AM, which has promoted itself as The Big One, will continue to use the historic Blaw-Knox tower, only one of six in the U.S., and the transmitter building which housed the 1934 one-of-a-kind 500,000-watt transmitter. A fence will be built around the iHeartMedia s transmitter building, the adjacent red brick house and a guard tower in the center of the property. A smaller tower to the east of the transmitter, and the bi