August 7, 200618 yr I haven't heard any news. I have heard both late fall and early 2007. I don't believe they even have permits yet. So we shall see.
August 7, 200618 yr i saw an advertisement in a resent print version of the business courier for this the other day. my rumor sources tell me that all initial planning and "design" has been essentially scrapped. the ad was a rendering...the site compiled of three buildings two of which 4 or 5 floors and the third approaching 10. just as the original renderings...that ad doesnt mean crap. the architecture also seemed more in tune with the baldwin tower development (but hopefully better!) and less like the slick white boxes of before. maybe someone else has seen that rendering too
September 4, 200618 yr How weak is this? "Keystone Parke"? Eeeeeeeeeeeee? Now this has truly been cemented as a suburban urban development. All they need now is a fucking clock tower. The plan has been altered slightly. Neyer claims that the old plan was nearly six years old and that it has been updated to be less "suburban" (their word). We shall see. (No.) The three buildings will be 4, 7 and 10 stories. Building setbacks will be 0 feet from Dana Ave, 7 feet from Realistic Ave and 28 feet from I-71. There will be a one-level parking garage under the four-story building and a four-level garage under the other two buildings. The parking structure will hold 1415 spaces and a surface lot will hold 163, for a total of 1578. This is well above the 1150 that the zoning code requires. The timeline for completion is the same as I posted in this post, except that Phase III (the 10-story building) has been pushed back to 2008-2009 and the project completion date is now 2010 (instead of 2009). This will be considered by the City Planning Commission as THE FINAL development plan for PD District #44. It will pass. Here are some new renderings:
September 4, 200618 yr I do kind of like the architecture on the tallest building. It is a far sight better than the plain brown boxes a mile north!
September 4, 200618 yr So, where's the Ike's? "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
September 4, 200618 yr I agree, if they have to build office space there, the new rendering does look a lot better than the original. At least now they are a little more vertical and not identical.
September 4, 200618 yr I think they look pretty good too. Grasscat what exactly do you find so wrong with these buildings?
September 5, 200618 yr I definately approve of this plan......the bldgs come to the street, parking is hidden from plain sight, and it is utilizing an otherwise underutilized piece of land.
September 25, 200618 yr Focus on tenants, funds as Evanston project to begin Cincinnati Business Courier - September 22, 2006 by Laura Baverman Staff Reporter As Neyer Properties gets set to break ground on the first building in Evanston's $100 million Keystone Parke office development, plans are under way for more than $6 million in improvements to Dana Avenue and the adjacent Evanston Playground. Click on link for article. http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2006/09/25/story15.html
October 22, 200618 yr I-71, Dana project set to rise up BY MIKE BOYER | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER Ground will be broken Wednesday morning for the first phase of a $100 million office park at Interstate 71 and Dana Avenue in Evanston that could eventually employ 2,000 people. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061022/BIZ01/610220330/1076/BIZ
October 22, 200618 yr While I'd much rather see this investment downtown, this is still needed investment in the urban core. Plus the income taxes accrue to the city.
October 22, 200618 yr i agree and i think this project if fully completed could possibly do good things for that area. however, what i am curious about with all of these office projects along 71 is where are the new tenants coming from? i do hope they are not coming from downtown.
October 22, 200618 yr Glad to see First Financial may benefit as well. The four story building isn't all that bad.
October 23, 200618 yr i agree and i think this project if fully completed could possibly do good things for that area. however, what i am curious about with all of these office projects along 71 is where are the new tenants coming from? i do hope they are not coming from downtown. Sadly so far they pretty much have been. I agree with Kendall though, at least this is within the city of Cincinnati.
October 25, 200618 yr 'Gateway to Evanston' unveiling Neyer set to break ground By Greg Paeth Post staff reporter After about six years of quiet real estate acquisition work, Neyer Properties planned to unveil its $100 million Keystone Parke project during a groundbreaking ceremony today at Dana Avenue and I-71 in Evanston. Click on link for article. http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061025/BIZ/610250331/1001
January 18, 200718 yr Bids are now being accepted for Phase I, the 65,000 SF office building. I can't find a deadline date for when they stop accepting them, but I would think it would be a month or two.
April 13, 200718 yr there is now earth moving equipment and another construction trailer on site...work might be getting started pretty soon.
July 9, 200717 yr Keystone Parke TIF agreements established Building Cincinnati, 7/5/07 Cincinnati City Council has approved an ordinance authorizing a service agreement and a development agreement with Neyer Properties for the Keystone Parke office project on in Evanston. The agreement establishes a Tax Increment Financing (TIF) district for the site of the project's first phase, a $15 million, 67,000 square foot office building. The TIF district contains land with a Dana Avenue frontage, roughly between Realistic and Floral avenues. The City also established a TIF fund into which debt service for the issued bonds can be depositied. The project, which is estimated to cost $100 million, will include three buildings totalling 465,000 square feet of Class A office space. Streetscapes along Dana Avenue and a refurbishing of the adjacent Evanston Playfield are also part of the project. Parking will be supplied in the lower levels of each of the three buildings and on surface lots. An early estimate for completion of the three phases was 2010. This has not been officially revised. Layout of Phase I TIF: Click to enlarge WINDOWS LIVE BIRD'S EYE VIEW GOOGLE AERIAL MAP http://buildingcincinnati.blogspot.com/2007/07/keystone-parke-tif-agreements.html
July 9, 200717 yr We have already bid Phase II. Phase I was publicly bid, but I think Phase II is going to be negotiated. I have no idea on when construction will start for Phase II. As far as that third building along Dana, I have not seen anything about that yet. I will post the completion date for Phase I once I see a schedule.
August 28, 200717 yr I'm pretty sure that this must be some default heading the Enquirer uses for any development update story; they seem to use it all the time. Keystone Parke takes shape August 28, 2007 | CINCINNATI ENQUIRER PHOTO: At this time next year, this space will likely be filled with parked cars and office workers. The site, on Dana Avenue in Evanston, has almost instant access to Interstate 71 and is near Xavier University. Enquirer/Leigh Taylor EVENDALE - Construction has begun on the first phase of Keystone Parke, an office complex being built in Evanston by Neyer Properties of Evendale. Click on link for article.
November 9, 200717 yr Keystone Parke photo update, 11/3/07 Building Cincinnati, 11/6/07 Structural work continues on the first of three office buildings for Keystone Parke in Evanston. Pictured here is a four-story, 69,000-square-foot office building at the corner of Dana and Realistic avenues, adjacent to I-71. At buildout, Keystone Park will also include a 10-story, 240,000-square-foot office building with restaurant and retail space; a 7-story, 160,000-square-foot office building; and improvements to Evanston Playfield. http://www.building-cincinnati.com/2007/11/keystone-parke-photo-update-11307.html
February 27, 200817 yr Group relocating HQ to Evanston BY THE ENQUIRER The Cincinnati Area Chapter of the American Red Cross will relocate from downtown to Evanston with the construction of a 50,000-square-foot headquarters and disaster operations center. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080227/NEWS01/802270423/1056/COL02
April 26, 200817 yr Park-like space plants seeds for city towers Keystone Parke is lesson in sustainable design BY MELISSA HALLER | CINCINNATI BUSINESS COURIER April 25, 2008 EVANSTON - As the first building in the $100 million Keystone Parke project conspicuously rises at Dana Avenue and Interstate 71, its developers hope the campus takes root at another intersection, this one theoretical: where classical and urban design meet the forward-thinking and eco-friendly approach of the Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design rating program. Click on link for article.
April 26, 200817 yr I hate it when developers try to to justify the crappy design of their buildings. This project, while potentially a friendly economic neighbor, completely turns its back on the neighborhood...physically. Not that Dana is the most pedestrian friendly street in the city, but there could have been at least SOME sort of attempt to address that side. This project is basically a corporate lifestyle center though i guess that is the new trend. The designer "took clues" from the classical architecture of downtown, he added. The windows serve not only to make the building appear modern but also to provide natural light. Good ole classical cincy architecture. Thats one of the most innovative uses of windows that ive heard of.
April 26, 200817 yr I hate it when developers try to to justify the crappy design of their buildings. This project, while potentially a friendly economic neighbor, completely turns its back on the neighborhood...physically. Not that Dana is the most pedestrian friendly street in the city, but there could have been at least SOME sort of attempt to address that side. This project is basically a corporate lifestyle center though i guess that is the new trend. Yup, this is pretty disgusting from Dana. I'm sure it will be a nice corporate complex, but it basically walls off the surrounding neighborhood.
April 27, 200817 yr I gotta say, the biggest surprise to me is how close it is to the street....for some reason I thought it would be more set back. It's underwhelming, but any development in Evanston is a good thing. I hope (and think it will happen) that XU does a better job with regard to the community at the Xavier Square development (or whatever it's called).
April 27, 200817 yr The other side of that street is so industrial and will remain so. I'm more interested to see how it will feel facing the park which is where any real street life will be at.
May 31, 200817 yr Take a tour of Keystone http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080530/BIZ01/305300059/1076/BIZ *There is a video with the story.
November 13, 200816 yr Keystone Parke project wins $1.4M grant http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2008/11/10/daily50.html Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher today announced the award of a $1.4 million state grant to the Keystone Parke project site in Evanston. Click on link for article.
November 13, 200816 yr It's nice seeing buildings of this scale along 71 as your going towards downtown.
November 13, 200816 yr Yeah, 71 is really urbanizing with the highrises being built in Kenwood, Norwood, Evanston, Baldwin Building, and hopefully more to come with an expanded Rookwood.
November 13, 200816 yr Yeah too bad about the Center of Cincinnati fiasco...that could have been really cool and added to the urbanity of the corridor.
November 14, 200816 yr Yeah, 71 is really urbanizing with the highrises being built in Kenwood, Norwood, Evanston, Baldwin Building, and hopefully more to come with an expanded Rookwood. Huh, an Interstate urbanizing....that might be an oxymoron. Its all great and wonderful to have these highrises as seen from the interstate, but how are these structures connected to their communities. Two words: They're not! The Evanston development turns its back on Evanston itself. The Rookwood developments: ugh! and well...Kenwood is Kenwood and the bs around the Baldwin Center is awful too. This development is, for the most part, bad. It is taking away from the CBD. I know that most of the tenants considering moving to this Evanston development are moving from downtown. And I know of another firm moving from downtown into the Kenwood tower. This is BAD! Atleast Keystone Parke is IN the city. Atleast...
November 14, 200816 yr ^Well once they realize how friggin' cool downtown Cincy is getting, they're gonna be like "aaaaaaahhhh crap!"
February 3, 200916 yr Cincinnati EDC considers altering Keystone Parke plan for American Red Cross http://www.building-cincinnati.com/2009/02/cincinnati-edc-considers-altering.html *Images and site plans with article link* On February 10, Cincinnati City Council's Economic Development Committee will consider changes to the Keystone Parke planned development district (PD-44) that would make way for a new headquarters for the Cincinnati chapter of the American Red Cross. The changes would add 8.8 acres of property bounded by Realistic Avenue, I-71 and Evanston Avenue, currently zoned SF-4 Single-Family Residential and PR Parks and Recreation District, to PD-44, which was created in May 2006. The American Red Cross has been working with developer Neyer Properties on their new three-story, 50,000-square-foot headquarters and disaster operations center since 2006, but cannot own a facility within the existing PD-44 because of the site's tax increment financing (TIF) structure and public parking garage. The developer plans to break ground on the building this spring and, upon project completion in the spring of 2010, will sell the property to the American Red Cross. Neyer Properties will seek LEED Silver certification for the project, with plans to install a vegetative roof, rain gardens, bio-swales, and 125 open-grid paver grass parking spaces. The use of a geothermal heating and cooling system is also being considered. The American Red Cross announced plans to vacate its Downtown space at 720 Sycamore Street due to space constraints. Last September, council rezoned the Downtown site to a planned development district to make way for a 13-story hotel and 150-space parking garage proposed by developer Rolling Hills Properties, LLC. Rendering courtesy of project architect emersion DESIGN.
February 20, 200916 yr Site of American Red Cross HQ added to Keystone Parke http://www.building-cincinnati.com/2009/02/site-of-american-red-cross-hq-added-to.html Cincinnati City Council has passed unanimously an ordinance that will allow a new headquarters for the Cincinnati chapter of the American Red Cross to be built at Keystone Parke in Evanston. The ordinance amends Keystone Parke's planned development district (PD-44) to include an additional 8.8-acres of property south of Evanston Park, formerly zoned for single-family residential and recreational use. Neyer Properties will build the new three-story, 50,000-square-foot disaster operations center, which it will then sell to the American Red Cross upon completion in 2010. The development will include a vegetative roof, rain gardens, bio-swales, and 125 open-grid paver grass parking spaces, and is seeking LEED Silver certification. Construction is scheduled to begin this spring. The American Red Cross announced plans to vacate its Downtown space at 720 Sycamore Street due to space constraints. Last September, council rezoned the Downtown site to a planned development district to make way for a 13-story hotel and 150-space parking garage proposed by developer Rolling Hills Properties, LLC.
February 20, 200916 yr Red Cross going green with headquarters Capital campaign to fund efficient disaster operations space after more than 50 years in previous location http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2009/02/23/focus1.html The American Red Cross Cincinnati Area Chapter has fundraising well under way for its new disaster operations center and headquarters off Interstate 71 at Dana Avenue. Click on link for article.
February 20, 200916 yr So where exactly is this building going to be built? Is it going to replace one of the other two buildings in Keystone Parke or is it going to be built closer to the Evanston Park?
February 20, 200916 yr So where exactly is this building going to be built? Is it going to replace one of the other two buildings in Keystone Parke or is it going to be built closer to the Evanston Park? No, it's an additional building. Site plans from Building Cincinnati article on 2/16/09:
February 20, 200916 yr Ah! Thanks for the clarification Uncle Rando. I guess I shouldn't have been so lazy and just clicked on the link. My bad, my bad.
March 9, 200916 yr Cincinnati trades surplus property for American Red Cross HQ http://www.building-cincinnati.com/2009/03/cincinnati-trades-surplus-property-for.html Cincinnati City Council has approved unanimously and ordinance allowing the City to swap property with developer Neyer Properties, which aid them in constructing a new headquarters for the American Red Cross in Evanston. In return for 3604 Evanston Avenue, the developer of the new building at Keystone Parke will receive a portion of 3556 Evanston Avenue that it says it needed to provide adequate parking. The City will use its newly-acquired property to expand Evanston Park. Last month, council approved an amendment to the Keystone Parke planned development district (PD-44) to add the 8.8-acre building site to the development plan. The new three-story, 50,000-square-foot disaster operations center is scheduled to break ground this spring, with completion in 2010.
May 18, 200916 yr Neyer Properties requests additional parcel to be added to Keystone Parke http://www.building-cincinnati.com/2009/05/neyer-properties-requests-additional.html Cincinnati City Council's Economic Development Committee on Wednesday will hold a public hearing about a request by Neyer Properties to add an additional parcel to its planned development district (PD-44) at Keystone Parke in Evanston. The additional 6,750-square-foot parcel at 3556 Evanston Avenue, which just recently came under Neyer's control, would provide an additional 25 spaces for a planned parking lot at the new headquarters for the Cincinnati chapter of the American Red Cross. The developer was unable to delay the February hearings and approval of the final development plan for PD-44 due to construction timelines. Ground was broken last month for the three-story, 50,000-square-foot headquarters and disaster operations center, which will be sold to the American Red Cross following completion in 2010. Neyer Properties is seeking LEED Silver certification for the building.
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