Crane going up today.

WOW! Glad to see tangible work on this!

April 1, 2014:

 

 

I laughed out loud when I saw where the crane was anchored...this is the former site of Taco Casa, the single row building that held up construction back in 2001-02.  They built around it, then whoever owned it tore it down soon after the notch had been built.  I bet they did it out of spite!

 

Today

 

A Columbusite, living in Michigan, randomly posting pictures of this particular project in Cincy. Intriguing. :wtf:

 

Thanks for the photo update, nonetheless. Also, welcome to UO! (Only three posts...I think I can still say that!) :wave:

Actually I'm from Michigan, and moved to Columbus last year (after a year of living in Missouri). I visited Cincinnati for the first time yesterday and took about a thousand shots. Only a few of the shots were of active construction though.

 

I've been lurking on UO for a year, but just haven't had a lot of contribute. Thanks for the welcome. You're the first to say that!

Actually I'm from Michigan, and moved to Columbus last year (after a year of living in Missouri). I visited Cincinnati for the first time yesterday and took about a thousand shots. Only a few of the shots were of active construction though.

 

I've been lurking on UO for a year, but just haven't had a lot of contribute. Thanks for the welcome. You're the first to say that!

 

A thousand shots?  More photos to come I hope!

Yeah, that is kind of my hobby. Those shots include Cincinnati, Covington, and Newport. I've got about 30,000 photos on Flickr under the same user name, mostly of Midwestern cities, but I have a backlog of photos so it will be awhile before I get my Cincinnati shots posted there.

 

I'll be posting some more construction shots for some other projects today.

Try to remember to let us know when you post the 1k on flickr :)

Try to remember to let us know when you post the 1k on flickr :)

 

Well I'm about halfway through posting my shots from that day. Only a couple hundred of the better ones though. http://www.flickr.com/eridony

 

Anyway it's been 3 months since I visited and the last pictures in this thread are mine. How is the progress on this building going?

It still looks a lot like it does in your photos, but with several more stories added. No cladding or anything like that yet.

Thanks for following up, Eridony!

Here's my shot from earlier this month:

 

From the weekend walk around downtown. Taken with my phone.

 

 

 

 

That's looking good. The west side of downtown now needs some energy!

That's looking good. The west side of downtown now needs some energy!

 

This is where 4th and Race and the Dunnhumby development come in.

I also got a shot of it this weekend. From the freeway.

 

September 5, 2014:

 

Balconies, nice. I bet they are 100% pre leased.

^Actually I believe only a few units will have balconies

Glass going in.

Nov 23 2014:

Been watching this get built and I think it looks pretty good.

Yeah it really fills in the skyline more than I expected when viewed from Mt. Adams or coming down I-71. 

Does anyone know if the garage exterior is going to remain the same or will it be re-clad or somehow reconfigured?

It's, unfortunately, staying the same. Honestly, if they could just do away with the green I'd be happy.

I got to tour this last week and it looks pretty good. Apparently there will be a really nice rooftop deck as well with fire pits, grills, lounge etc. which is pretty cool.

I think this is the best looking project Neyer has ever built.  But that's not really saying much.

I like this building, but are they going to do anything with the garage. It just looks awkward with a new shiny apartment building on top with an aged garage at the bottom

Nope. The most they're doing is extending the rows of glass down a story or so to "weave" the structures together. They'll look like distinctly different structures though.

^I kind of like that look, actually.  It makes it feel like the location is in demand and valuable.  Lots of buildings are constructed with the ability to add on later, which usually never happens.

I don't mind it in theory. I actually kind of like it generally because it shows that they were built at different times. Being matchy matchy isn't something I'm fond of.

 

But in this specific situation I just REALLY wish the garage was better. It's an ugly garage. If this looked like that sexy garage on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland designed to hold a tower later then I'd be fine with it. But as it is this garage is bad even by parking garage standards. At least it has ground level retail though.

It's so fugly it's amusing. It's like from an alternate universe where the USSR took over Sweden.

I'm surprised by how much this building adds depth to the skyline when viewed from Mt. Adams and Walnut Hills. 

It really does. It's not a crazy tall building but its presence is a lot more notable than a lot of much taller buildings. The fact that it's on the edge of the city and there's nothing in front of it really makes it stand out. It makes me quite excited about the prospect of the much taller building at 8th and Sycamore.

I wonder if they'll ever build anything tall in the lot to the east on the land going downhill to Culvert and Eggleston. Might hurt the view for the non-corner units in this building. Do people have any recourse if something like that happens and hurts your property value?

^ That's called NIMBYism, and while they may try, pressuring the city for down-zoning or whatever, nobody has a god-given right to a particular view just because they were there first. 

Mt. Adams residents have done a lot to protect their views.  I'm not familiar with the particulars of it but I know that there is a hi-rise ban in Mt. Adams itself thanks to that single tower next to Rookwood Pottery. 

 

Eggleston was originally lined by a series of warehouses similar in size to the Baldwin Building so homes on Kilgour and Baum historically had their views blocked to some extent.  I think it would be foolish to permit any buildings higher than that now along Eggleston because they would not only dominate views from Mt. Adams but they would de-motivate other office and residential construction on the city's endless empty city lots. 

 

That's why I'm very much in favor of a 4-floor height limit in OTR because it motivates faster redevelopment of existing buildings and a faster push into the West End and other fringe areas. 

 

Mt. Adams residents have done a lot to protect their views.  I'm not familiar with the particulars of it but I know that there is a hi-rise ban in Mt. Adams itself thanks to that single tower next to Rookwood Pottery. 

 

Eggleston was originally lined by a series of warehouses similar in size to the Baldwin Building so homes on Kilgour and Baum historically had their views blocked to some extent.  I think it would be foolish to permit any buildings higher than that now along Eggleston because they would not only dominate views from Mt. Adams but they would de-motivate other office and residential construction on the city's endless empty city lots. 

 

That's why I'm very much in favor of a 4-floor height limit in OTR because it motivates faster redevelopment of existing buildings and a faster push into the West End and other fringe areas.

 

It would be interesting to see tiered regulation on building height in OTR. Say 4 stories max north of Liberty, 6 Stories Liberty to 12th, then like 10 South of that and along Central. The city already has a kind of stair stepped thing going on and regulations like this would accentuate that effect. Also I would love to see the juxtaposition of something sleek ,thin, tall and modern compared to all the brick down there.

It should be four floors everywhere outside of the CBD except the north side of Central Parkway until the basin has almost zero empty land left. 

I don't agree with the four story number. There are way too many examples of taller buildings already in existence in OTR. I'd raise that number to 6 as that allows new buildings to fully fit into the existing range of building heights in OTR and like you said allow for taller along Central Parkway (and possibly Liberty as well since it needs some height to help make its extreme width feel more enclosed and less open).

Why not just make it 4 stories with a conditional use of 6 stories if you are along Central Parkway or Liberty or if you are next to an existing 5-6 story building you can match the height?

Six story buildings on Liberty St. will mar the views of the church steeples and Music Hall.  They will tend to be large block-long buildings made of cheap U-Square styrofoam.

No they won't. That wouldn't get by the historic board. EIFS hasn't made an appearance yet in OTR and that's why (amongst other reasons).

Until the historic board is made up of appointees from the current mayor as terms expire. Watch for that.

WHY ARE URBANITES ARGUING FOR 4 STORY HEIGHT MAXIMUMS!!!!

 

While the intention is good, capping at 4 stories is crazy low.  I prefer more midrises to a few high rises, (DC is a one of my favorite cities), but capping OTR at 4 stories is a joke.

 

Back to 7@Br0adW@y

 

I believe they are aiming for a mid-late March opening. 

I agree 4 story limitations is stupid. Cincinnati has to stop thinking so small ll

I think I recently read that March 9 is the ribbon cutting date for the apartments.

Seven at Broadway apartments show leasing strength

Bowdeya Tweh, [email protected] 8:07 a.m. EST March 3, 2015

 

The newest apartments on Downtown's east side are preparing to open and nearly half of the building's 111 units have been leased.

 

Officials from the city of Cincinnati and the Seven at Broadway development team are hosting a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday morning to celebrate the project's completion. The more than $22 million project added a seven-story building at Seventh and Broadway streets on top of an eight-story parking garage.

 

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/money/2015/03/03/seven-broadway-apartments/24295733/

Complete?! There is still a whole column of windows that need to be installed, not to mention that more than half of the exterior is still bright yellow, waiting on the cladding.  Seems premature to have a ribbon cutting at this point.