The highly desirable community of Anderson boasts excellent park system, hillside vistas, low crime rate, great schools and proximity to downtown. Founded in 1793, the township was named after Virginia’s surveyor Richard Clough Anderson. It is the only township in Ohio with a green space program that protects hundreds of acres of natural environment. It has several parks, tennis courts, swim clubs and golf courses. A two-mile-long bike-hike path called the Five-Mile Trail opens in spring 2008. The new community hub, Anderson Towne Center, is anchored by Macy’s and a 104,000-square-foot Kroger store (the biggest Kroger in the country), plus several retail stores and restaurants. A Metro park & ride facility is located here; also the township administrative offices. A two level, 14-screen movie theater is scheduled to be built this summer; also a 325-seat amphitheater for concerts and corporate sponsored events. Building of some 60 condos behind the Towne Center is in the offing; plus a man-made lake with cascading waterfall, an oriental garden and wetlands areas. The township is home to River Downs; the amusement park Coney Island, and Riverbend, summer venue for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and its new 4,000-seat amphitheater called National City Pavilion to open in May 2008.