Mystery Follows Dayton Investor ; He Promised Russia That He'd Pay $100m to Fly On Mir; Now He's Proposing a $20m Chinese Cultural Center in the City Here.

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DAYTON -- A Yellow Springs businessman who got international publicity in the 1990s for arranging to visit the Russian space station Mir is now buying property in Dayton on behalf of Chinese investors who would like to build a replica of an eighth-century Chinese village, the Dayton Daily News has learned.

Peter Rodney Llewellyn met with city officials earlier this year to propose a project worth "at least $20 million" to build the village and a Chinese cultural center on land at Wayne Avenue and Wyoming Street, said Llewellyn's business partner and former father- in-law, Carmine Anastasio. It would feature summer presentations of Chinese opera and include restaurants, a Buddhist temple and a Chinese medicine facility, Anastasio said. "It would be the only one like it in the world," he said.

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Mystery Follows Dayton Investor ; He Promised Russia That He'd Pay $100m to Fly On Mir; Now He's Proposing a $20m Chinese Cultural Center in the City Here.

It's been alleged in court records that Llewellyn claims friendships with singer Dionne ...

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