brian korte

I did a quick search but I haven't seen this one mentioned before: 221-235 W. 12th St, corner of 12th/Central, the Strietmann Bakery Building, 88,000 square feet, to be developed by Grandin Properties. This building is a monster. It is currently listed on the Auditor's website as being owned by CW REALTY INVESTMENTS LLC, however there is a resolution before council to support Grandin's efforts to obtain Historic Preservation Tax Credits, so I'm assuming it has been sold or will be closing soon.

The most intriguing part about this project is the potential land swap with the Hamilton County Park Board for the strip of land south of the building that runs between Gilbert and I-71. Neyer is proposing potentially constructing multiple buildings and green space on that stretch.

North of Liberty action: 3CDC just closed on 1709 Vine St. Looks like a nice big project. I know they've also been doing a lot of stabilization work on 1724 Vine St.

Not to mention new Bike Share stations at Cincinnati State and Hoffner Park. The bike lane will get more use than ever this summer.

Gotta start beating those negativity drums again with Seelbach's effort to focus on Phase 1b ramping up.

They're going to invest $11M to rehab the building. Absolutely nothing to scoff at and good for them for stepping up. I'm excited to see the steeples restored and for the businesses in that corridor to benefit from the increased activity. Heck, perhaps this will be the push needed to speed up the development of the Calhoun-Vine-McMillan corner.

Article in the Enquirer confirms it: http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2015/03/08/crossroads-expanding-to-clifton/24611011/

I think this is an appropriate response: "Whoa, if true." While I liked the idea of this becoming a boutique hotel its hard to argue with any entity (even if it is a mega church) that is willing to step up and preserve the building including restoring the steeples. Sad to say I watched them burn down from my front stoop.

That is good news. I wonder what other projects are combined in? Model Group's project is about $19 million overall, since they hauled in a few more buildings recently. Here is the latest Biz Journal article I could find... http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2015/01/28/exclusive-model-group-expanding-redevelopment.html?page=all Maybe includes the Findlay Market's investments into their incubator kitchen and "Roots" grocery store.

For those interested here is the presentation that Steve Leeper gave to council about 3CDCs past and future projects: http://city-egov.cincinnati-oh.gov/Webtop/ws/council/public/child/Blob/41946.pdf?rpp=-10&m=1&w=doc_no%3D%27201500280%27 As was mentioned previously, the most exciting part to me is the $25M price tag for a Ziegler Park renovation. That's a lot of dough for a small area. It also mentions 38,000 sqft of commercial space included in the Ziegler Park renovation. That's a lot of space! Gotta be infilling the lots by Peaslee Center to get that.

While that's partly true I think it is more circumstances and perception. These are all upcoming projects: 3CDC in OTR = 15th and Race (yes, downsized), Mercer III (also downsized), Memorial Hall, Music Hall, Taft's Ale House, YMCA, Ziegler Park, Globe Building, and North of Liberty PDA (not developer but overseer). 3CDC in CBD = 4th and Race, 8th and Sycamore

1207 Elm, next to the church-to-be-event space across from Washington Park just sold to Mark Greene Construction LLC for $316,500. 3 story building. Probably for residential conversion?

I'm not 100% sure but I don't think the upper floors of Japp's / The Drinkery are occupied by either residential or office. The Hanke Exchange buildings are still searching for some upper floor office tenants I think. The New York Dry Cleaners building (1214 Main St) is completely unoccupied, though construction has been ongoing in the commercial space for quite some time with what is rumored to be a convenience store. Both 1200 and 1208 Main St are currently unoccupied but Urban Sites recently won tax credits and will be starting construction soon to build out apartments in the upper floors and commercial on the first floor. The old Circle A market building (1304) is also completely unoccupied and has orders from the city to bring it up to code. This is the same owner as the New York Dry Cleaner building, Fady Issac. The upper floors of the H&A market (1329) are unoccupied. 1426, 1428 and 1430 (The Northern Row) are unoccupied but are currently being converted into single family homes and should hit the market this quarter. I believe everything else either has residential or office space.

John Huber Homes has listed the 1325 Republic infill homes on the market. 3 new build single family homes, 3 stories, 3 bed 2.5 bath. Two of the three are currently listed at $589,000 and $599,000. http://www.comey.com/p/1325-B-Republic-St-Cincinnati-City-OH-45202/mls_cincy/1437521

1735 Elm St just sold to a 1735 Elm LLC (incorporated by Patrick Muck, a vascular surgeon) for $280,000. 4,500 sqft, 3 stories.

Both were approved by Planning Commission this morning. 1610 Pleasant is one of the City owned properties under the 3CDC preferred developer agreement. Part of the planned selling of many city owned properties north of liberty.

Even under that scenario a super majority of Council still sets the policy.

These properties sold to Custom Carving LLC, incorporated by a Luke Bennett, for $251,000. Custom Carving LLC also owns and is renovating 4250 Fergus and 1436 AP Jones in Northside.

On the agenda for the Planning Commission tomorrow: "A zoning change from residential-mixed and commercial community mixed to Planned Development District at 3001-3025 Woodburn Avenue, 1520-1530 Lincoln Avenue, and 1521-1523 Gilpin Avenue in Evanston for a 96-unit apartment development by Towne Development Group" This is the block on Woodburn across Lincoln Ave from their other apartment development.

Pretty big news if he can pull it off: Developer planning grocery store in Over-the-Rhine http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2015/02/04/exclusive-developer-planning-grocery-store-in-over.html?ana=twt&page=all

219 Wade just hit the market (I was wrong, it's $530K): http://m.cbws.com/property/details/256362/MLS-1434338/219-Wade-St-Cincinnati-City-Downtown-Area-OH-45202 Urban Sites is selling 208, 212, 214 and 215 Wade St.

$550,000 Urban Expansion single family home about to go online. Urban Sites is about to sell 4 properties to developers.

The Biz Courier caught up: http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2015/01/28/cincinnati-investor-buys-another-property-along.html

Bearcat Journal, in their excessive and overly whiny monthly expansion talk thread: http://cincinnati.247sports.com/Reply/BearcatNation54-Reply-34981023

This is from a University of Cincinnati sports message board but I found it very interesting. The context is that Santa Ono and Mike Bohn (athletic director) were recently in Dayton to meet with alumni and promote the university and athletics (and fund raise). A young man who was at the event posted the following about his experience. I'm going to post the entire thing for those that might be interested in expansion or athletic stuff and bold what is relevant to this thread: