For the second time this month, Cincinnati State Technical & Community College will be promised a second downtown building.

The city will introduce legislation Tuesday night to City Council that would give the former First National Bank building to the school so it can expand its downtown presence. A vote on the donation won’t be expected until the council’s Jan. 8 meeting.

The First National Bank building at 2 N. Main St., was one of four buildings the city purchased for $300,000 from the estate of the late Perry Thatcher in anticipation of the Cincinnati State project. Cincinnati State President Dr. O’dell Owens had written a two-sentence letter to City Manager Judy Gilleland on Dec. 6 requesting the city donate the building.

“The city has no municipal purpose in maintaining title to the First National Bank building,” according to a staff report by Doug Adkins, Middletown Community Revitalization Director.

Butler County commissioners agreed at its Dec. 6 meeting to donate the former Workforce One building near the Cincinnati State Middletown building at 1 N. Main St. The building must first be given to the city of Middletown then given to the school.

Two contracts and three entities were involved in bringing Cincinnati State Middletown to downtown.

Boston-based Higher Education Partners signed a contract in April with Cincinnati State so it could be the developer of the downtown Middletown campus. A week before that contract, Higher Education Partners signed a deal with the city to purchase the former CG&E building at 1 N. Main St. for $202,000 and accept a donation of the former senior center.

The school opened with more than 350 students enrolled, more than 200 of whom were new students to the school, on Aug. 29. The school’s first semester ended this past week and will start its spring semester on Jan. 7.

With this potential donation, that would make four downtown buildings that would make up the Cincinnati State Middletown downtown campus.

“That is just a huge show of community support of what we’re trying to accomplish in Middletown, and we are certainly looking toward the future,” said Cincinnati State spokeswoman Jean Manning.

Manning said last week recent discussions concerning academic growth in Middletown have centered around in the college’s allied health, computers and business programming.

Exactly what would be done with the building is uncertain at this point since plans are being discussed to finishing the renovations of their building at 1 N. Main St. The former senior center, which is part of the cache of Cincinnati State buildings, must be renovated by 2015, according to the school’s contract with developer Higher Education Partners.

“My guess is sometime next year is when we’ll really look at it and see what our future needs will be,” Manning said.

The other buildings that were purchased for $300,000 included the former Bank One building, which is catty-corner from the main Cincinnati State Middletown building, and the Masonic Temple building, which is adjacent to the First National Bank building.

City Council last month donated that building to the Art Central Foundation, which had occupied the building for the past few years. City officials had recently said there have not been any offers to purchase the former Bank One building, though Miami University Middletown does rent space inside it.

The city also purchased the former Manchester Inn & Conference Center for $175,000 in anticipation of Cincinnati State committing to the city. College officials have no interest in the building and city officials said they plan to put the building on the market. A price tag is not yet known.

Middletown City Council meets at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in council chambers in the lower level of the Middletown City Building at One Donham Plaza.