We present the detection of OH maser emission associated with the H_2O masers recently found in the Galactic center by Levine et al. (1995) and by Yusef-Zadeh & Mehringer (1995). The 1612 MHz OH masers were found in high-sensitivity maps created by combining 17 VLA observations taken by Van Langevelde et al. (1993) as well as in new observations with the ATCA. Both Levine et al. (1995) and Yusef-Zadeh & Mehringer (1995) consider the H_2O emission to be clues for recent massive star formation, by associating it with a supergiant and an H2 region. The newly found OH masers show the typical double peaked spectra for evolved oxygen-rich stars and do not stand out amongst other OH/IR stars in this region, neither in H_2O nor OH maser characteristics. We conclude that the H_2O maser detections are associated with evolved, low to intermediate mass stars and that these H_2O masers thus cannot be regarded as signposts for massive young stars or star forming regions.