March 19, 200916 yr Some other news article mentioned that Wal-Mart will be opening in November. Personally, I don't shop at Wal-Mart much, but I like to have the option available to me. However that disaster on Highland Ave is the most disgusting big box store I've ever been to, and that's saying a lot. I will not shop there again. Wal-Mart's new construction tends to be much nicer and cleaner, so I'm looking forward to the improvement (and the inevitable closure of the Highland Ave store). For you city boosters, think of it this way ... tax revenue is leaving an unincorporated suburb, and moving to city limits.
March 20, 200916 yr I was in one of the DAAP Urban Planning studios today and I saw an interesting illustration of the Madison & Red Bank site. Basically, the old Red Bank Rd was reconnected to intersect with Madison Road at the site of the current Red Bank Expressway intersection. The RB Expressway was buried in a tunnel, passing beneath the current intersection. I think there were offramps from the RB Expressway to RB Road to maintain that connection. Was this concept proposed anywhere before or is this a bright idea some students came up with?
March 21, 200916 yr I was in one of the DAAP Urban Planning studios today and I saw an interesting illustration of the Madison & Red Bank site. Basically, the old Red Bank Rd was reconnected to intersect with Madison Road at the site of the current Red Bank Expressway intersection. The RB Expressway was buried in a tunnel, passing beneath the current intersection. I think there were offramps from the RB Expressway to RB Road to maintain that connection. Was this concept proposed anywhere before or is this a bright idea some students came up with? Hey, thats my design, and my partners. We came up with that on our own. When we presented it to Roxanne Qualls and other city officials, they seemed very reseptive to the idea although the city engineer thought it would be cost prohibitive.
March 21, 200916 yr I was in one of the DAAP Urban Planning studios today and I saw an interesting illustration of the Madison & Red Bank site. Basically, the old Red Bank Rd was reconnected to intersect with Madison Road at the site of the current Red Bank Expressway intersection. The RB Expressway was buried in a tunnel, passing beneath the current intersection. I think there were offramps from the RB Expressway to RB Road to maintain that connection. Was this concept proposed anywhere before or is this a bright idea some students came up with? Hey, thats my design, and my partners. We came up with that on our own. When we presented it to Roxanne Qualls and other city officials, they seemed very reseptive to the idea although the city engineer thought it would be cost prohibitive. I liked the concept a lot -- Hopefully something like it can be integrated into that site in the future.
March 24, 200916 yr I still like the old "Central Trust" better. Well, you know they say ... we get all of Pittsburgh's sh!t down the river ...
March 24, 200916 yr Tower Place plans remake: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090324/BIZ01/303240006/1001/BIZ "It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton
April 1, 200916 yr I don't think it's too bad. Smaller than their last double decker sign. "It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton
April 1, 200916 yr Anyone know about that new steel building that's going up Downtown on Broadway. I saw the article that KZF design is renovating the old building next door - however this is new construction one block south. Is it part of the same project (the article mentions KZF bought two buildings) or is this something else entirely?
April 2, 200916 yr Pet clinic moving downtown By Lisa Bernard-Kuhn • [email protected] • April 2, 2009 DOWNTOWN – A local veterinarian is relocating his Walnut Hills practice into new offices downtown on Plum Street. Dr. Robert Biederman Jr., is opening Plum Street Pet Clinic at 427 Plum Street, according to a news release from Downtown Cincinnati, Inc. The clinic will provide prevention, surgical, medical and diagnostic services for dogs and cats as well as pocket pets, ferrets and small birds. The clinic will also house 12 cat condos and 13 dog kennels. Biederman’s Cincinnati Central Animal Hospital is located at 650 E. McMillan Street in Walnut Hills and will relocate to 427 Plum Street on Tuesday. A ribbon cutting ceremony is planned that day at 1 p.m. MORE: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090402/BIZ01/304020034
April 3, 200916 yr Ace Hardware to rock site of storied Clifton venue Business Courier of Cincinnati - by Jon Newberry Staff Reporter Four decades after its brief heyday as an underground music venue, the Ludlow Garage in Clifton is being given new life as an Ace Hardware store. That might not sound as exciting as the MC5’s revolutionary late-1960s rock anthem “Kick Out the Jams,” which once ricocheted off the club’s bare brick walls and open steel rafters, but Bryan Valerius thinks people in the community will greatly appreciate the convenience. The closest Home Depot and Lowe’s are seven miles away. Valerius, a former manager at Keller’s IGA down the block, is overseeing renovation of the structure’s main level. He’ll run the hardware store for a family-owned corporation that signed a 10-year lease. An opening is planned for the first week of June. MORE: http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2009/04/06/story6.html
April 3, 200916 yr Once-grand building could regain its glory At key Price Hill corner, senior housing planned Business Courier of Cincinnati - by Dan Monk Senior Staff Reporter Price Hill lore says Chicago gangster Al Capone slept in the once-stately apartment building at the corner of West Eighth Street and Elberon Avenue. True or not, the legend fits this rapidly deteriorating icon, which vandalism and neglect have turned into Price Hill’s public enemy No. 1. “It’s just one of those buildings everybody in the neighborhood is aware of. It’s on a very prominent corner,” said Ken Smith, executive director of Price Hill Will. “The state of disrepair makes it a thorn in the neighborhood’s side.” The Model Group recently secured an option on the property and is applying for low-income housing and historic tax credits to convert the property into housing for seniors. The renovation will cost more than $6 million and produce up to 40 new units with monthly rents between $400 and $700, said Bobby Maly, vice president of development for the Walnut Hills company. MORE: http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2009/04/06/focus12.html
April 3, 200916 yr Pet clinic moving downtown By Lisa Bernard-Kuhn • [email protected] • April 2, 2009 http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090402/BIZ01/304020034 DOWNTOWN – A local veterinarian is relocating his Walnut Hills practice into new offices downtown on Plum Street. Dr. Robert Biederman Jr., is opening Plum Street Pet Clinic at 427 Plum Street, according to a news release from Downtown Cincinnati, Inc. Good to hear! I go to Biederman for all of my cat needs and his service is very professional. The only downside was the security measures put in place because of the declining neighborhood that kind of set me off at first, but at least he is moving to a much more... upscale location :)
April 3, 200916 yr I want downtown to do well, but I can't say I'm pleased by downtown cannibalizing my neighborhood.
April 3, 200916 yr Anyone know about that new steel building that's going up Downtown on Broadway. I saw the article that KZF design is renovating the old building next door - however this is new construction one block south. Is it part of the same project (the article mentions KZF bought two buildings) or is this something else entirely? I want to know this too ... what's the word?
April 3, 200916 yr Price Hill corner, senior housing planned This building has so much potential!!! http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=cincinnati&ie=UTF8&split=0&gl=us&ei=94LWSfy1DYudlAf4jNTcDA&ll=39.105694,-84.566134&spn=0.001263,0.003449&z=19&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=39.105545,-84.566147&panoid=jOL5u-HJuqG2pysRfCVvNA&cbp=12,337.04016602488315,,0,-9.136858475894248
April 5, 200916 yr Portion of Red Bank Crossing rezoned http://www.building-cincinnati.com/2009/04/portion-of-red-bank-crossing-rezoned.html Cincinnati City Council has passed unanimously an ordinance rezoning a portion of Red Bank Crossing in Madisonville. Neyer Properties requested the zoning change at 4430 Red Bank Road from MG Manufacturing General District to ML Manufacturing Limited District to allow for The Goddard School pre-school and day care center to operate as a stand-alone use. The site's former zoning was assigned to accommodate the Gorilla Glue, Inc. facilities, located just to the north of the school.
April 7, 200916 yr Middletown wins Clean Ohio grant http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2009/04/06/daily16.html The city of Middletown will receive a $750,000 Clean Ohio Assistance Fund grant to remediate a Clark Street property, the Ohio Department of Development announced Monday. The property is being partially used by Midwest Services and Engineering, a company that repairs paper mill equipment. Midwest also has acquired buildings on the site to open a new polyurethane plant, which will create 15-20 new jobs and retain 20, according to a news release from the department. Middletown will use the grant to demolish 75,000 square feet of dilapidated and unusable office and manufacturing space on the site and clean up an area of the property that is contaminated with lead. The grant was part of $2.2 million in Clean Ohio funds announced Monday by Gov. Ted Strickland and Department of Development Interim Director Mark Barbash.
April 8, 200916 yr Pet clinic moving downtown By Lisa Bernard-Kuhn • [email protected] • April 2, 2009 http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090402/BIZ01/304020034 DOWNTOWN – A local veterinarian is relocating his Walnut Hills practice into new offices downtown on Plum Street. Dr. Robert Biederman Jr., is opening Plum Street Pet Clinic at 427 Plum Street, according to a news release from Downtown Cincinnati, Inc. Good to hear! I go to Biederman for all of my cat needs and his service is very professional. The only downside was the security measures put in place because of the declining neighborhood that kind of set me off at first, but at least he is moving to a much more... upscale location :) My cat, Sam Jackson, also goes there. I'm looking forward to the new location.
April 8, 200916 yr The city of Middletown will receive a $750,000 Clean Ohio Assistance Fund grant to remediate a Clark Street property, the Ohio Department of Development announced Monday. Uh oh. I know what property will be demolished with this! :( :( :(
April 8, 200916 yr The city of Middletown will receive a $750,000 Clean Ohio Assistance Fund grant to remediate a Clark Street property, the Ohio Department of Development announced Monday. Uh oh. I know what property will be demolished with this! :( :( :( What's that? Part of the old Black Clawson plant?
April 13, 200916 yr Anyone have any idea what the rail portion of this study entails? http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=cincinnati&sParam=30541091.story
April 13, 200916 yr The new Mt. Adams steps are pretty impressive. http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090411/NEWS01/904110361 We walked the route from the church down to Sawyer Point. I had done this before, and, in the past, once you crossed over Columbia Parkway it was sort of a ramshackle terminus (or gateway) on Martin street near Adams Landing. The new entrance is now more of an almost park-like setting, with the 1853-era restored stone arch (massive), which leads to a large plaza (with historical info-signage). Very cool....ran into a barrel-rolling woodchuck on the way down as well. I would imaging the folks at Adams Landing and Towne are quite happy about this little developent. the only negative is the hisorical info signage seems to have problems....looks like they may not have been sealed properly...noticed this at both the top of the steps and the bottom.
April 13, 200916 yr the only negative is the hisorical info signage seems to have problems....looks like they may not have been sealed properly...noticed this at both the top of the steps and the bottom. I was there Wednesday and noticed that too, but thought it was just the plastic protection for shipping/installation as they had just been installed. It'd be nice if they did a little more landscaping on the Celestial Street steps portion. Not to mention the walkway down to Oregon St. "It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton
April 15, 200916 yr Trustees OK Colerain park overhaul Visions of children frolicking through a watery "sprayground" and skateboarders kickflipping their way across Clippard Park are a step closer to reality. Trustees here gave their go-ahead Tuesday night to bid a long-discussed, $2.7 million plan to overhaul the 15-acre park at 10243 Dewhill Lane. Among improvements to the park: • An 11,000-square-foot skate park designed by Seattle, Wash.-based Gridline Skateparks Inc. • A sprayground feature similar to Parky's Pirate Cove wet playground at Miami Whitewater Forest. Other amenities on plans include two baseball fields, a basketball court, walking trails, a large playground, shelters and restrooms. MORE: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090414/NEWS0108/904150356/1055/NEWS
April 17, 200916 yr After a reasonable inquiry into the subject, I am unable to find out what is going on, so does anyone know what is being constructed at 7th and Broadway?
April 17, 200916 yr Does anyone know what they are doing at (1169 Central Pkwy, Cincinnati, OH). The building was leveled a few months ago and now there is construction equipment and a trailer there! I am hoping its not another parking lot!
April 17, 200916 yr There ya go http://www.ci.cincinnati.oh.us/cmgr/pages/-35417-/ Very cool, thank you
April 17, 200916 yr After a reasonable inquiry into the subject, I am unable to find out what is going on, so does anyone know what is being constructed at 7th and Broadway? You're out of touch with the urban core.
April 28, 200916 yr First of three Energy Star homes under construction in Mount Washington http://www.soapboxmedia.com/devnews/mtwashingtonleed0428.aspx Construction is nearly halfway completed on the first of three LEED, Energy Star-rated houses being built by Tanner Custom Homes along the 6600 block of Corbly Road in Mount Washington. Priced for between $200,000 and $225,000, the houses will all be situated on wooded, hillside lots, perfect for their three-level, vertical construction Balconies and backyard decks will bring homeowners closer to their natural surroundings. "We call them 'tree houses'," says Norma Brown, realtor with Coldwell Banker West Shell. "This is not a house I could take and put up in just a normal subdivision. When you have a hillside lot with all of the trees there, and you don't want to ruin the whole site, then go up. You're removing less soil, less trees, less everything." When completed in August, the first house will act as a show house for two similar houses that will be built across the street. Each is a fully-customizable "box", allowing for buyer choice in layout and in interior and exterior finishes. "We offer the plan because people have to have something to pretty much guide them," Brown says. "But most people seem to like the layout of the great room, or the layout of the three bedrooms on the third floor. Each homeowner will be provided with a manual on how to care for their home at closing. "A really important thing about building green is giving the homeowner a manual to continue to make sure that they're maintaining it to green build standards," Brown says. Brown says that their next step is the "universal house", which will allow for homeowners to stay in one place throughout all stages of their lives. "That's a home that you build that, whether you're 25 and buying your first house or you end up living there 50 years and you're 80, you don't have to move," she says. "The house is already set up for walkers, wheelchairs. So adjustments can be made very inexpensively."
May 5, 200916 yr God is this awful. Freestore's Cincinnati COOKS! facility underway http://www.building-cincinnati.com/2009/05/freestores-cincinnati-cooks-facility.html Construction of Freestore Foodbank's Cincinnati COOKS! facility is underway at the corner of Central Parkway and 12th Street in Cincinnati's West End. Named the Anderson Center after property donors Jeff and Darlene Anderson, the 16,000-square-foot facility will hold 25 to 30 offices, a boardroom, and a fully-functional kitchen – named the Rosenthal Community Kitchen for donors Dick and Lois Rosenthal. The new 16,000-square-foot building, designed by bdhp architecture, will allow the job training program to expand and the warehouse space to operate more efficiently. "At the most basic level, our lease with CPS for COOKS!' current space [in the former Queen City Vocational building across from the Taft High School site] will end next spring," says Brian MacConnell, vice president of communications and strategic planning for Freestore Foodbank. Many of the program's low-income participants face significant barriers to employment, and, for Freestore, the 10-week program gives them a way to connect with people, begin a discussion, and find out what other services and support those individuals might need. "Cincinnati COOKS! is a very successful way we use food to make connections with clients to bring hope and stability and self-reliance to their lives," MacConnell says. Food prepared by Cincinnati COOKS! goes to 12 Kids Cafe sites throughout the City. Last year, Kids Cafe served 85,000 meals for kids who might not otherwise get a meal after school; Cincinnati COOKS! recently served its 500,000th meal. Over 500 people have been graduated from Cincinnati COOKS! since 2001, and 70 percent of graduates have found employment in the food service industry.
May 5, 200916 yr UGH!! That'll fit in well with it's suroundings!! I feel dumber for even looking at that rendering!
May 6, 200916 yr Yes, let's remake one of the gateways into downtown Cincinnati into one of the most hideous with this gray box of shit.
May 6, 200916 yr They've put up fences around several apartment buildings slated for demolition on Auburn Ave. on the block south of Christ Hospital. Their days are numbered, but I don't know what that number is.
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