I am all for new development, but has anyone ever been stuck in that part of Blue Ash at 5:00?  You already sit at the main lights for 5 cycles, I can't imagine another 420,000 s.f. of space adding to people in their cars at the end of the day.

 

 

Duke planning office park with Blue Ash airport view

Former Whiting facility razed for $60 million project

Joe Wessels

Courier Staff Reporter

 

A $60 million office park near Blue Ash Airport, in the planning stages for five years, will break ground later this year.

 

Indianapolis-based Duke Realty Corp. is marketing "The Landings of Blue Ash" as a three-building, 420,000-square-foot development on Carver Road, where the Whiting Manufacturing facility once stood. Construction is scheduled to begin in the third quarter, said Kevin Rogus, Duke senior vice president.

 

Each building will be a four-story, 140,000-square-foot class A structure with 35,000-square-foot floor plates and runway views.

 

...

 

It would be better if some of the office parks offered access to roads other than Reed Hartman, and the City timed the lights on Reed Hartman to actually progress traffic \

 

 

I heard from a fly on the wall that a Target is proposed on the South side of Cross County/Ronnie Regan highway at Plainfield road, near where the Hartzell Church is (Interesting that there is a large parcel owned by the county back there - probably landlocked residue from the construction of cross county Parcel 612-0080-0643-00).

 

Anybody know anything about this...wishful thinking from the Target fans?  Found nada on the Blue Ash website

proposals i heard were to level the existing kroger/kmart complex at plainfield and hunt, and build a new kroger/target combo.  but i have never heard anything about using vacant land.  i am pretty sure the kroger and kmart will be redeveloped (kroger will temporarily occupy the vacant thriftway building closer to dowtown blue ash during construction) but i dont know if it still involves a target.  the piece of land north of cross county is now occupied by the chabad jewish center and the land south has been a dump site for yard waste and such

I have heard that the Hartzell Church, next to the yellow hatched area, has had an offer made on their land, and that the residences just east of the them towards Plainfield Road, in the dark green area will be acquired as well, and that no parcels will be acquired in Sycamore Twp, light green. Target and Kohls/and/or Home Depot -- All just speculation and conjecture

well piece that with the yard waste fill and you have quite a bit of land...have never heard anything of this through my blue ash channels however

I heard on channel 5 this afternoon that it is confirmed that Target is looking to build at/near the Plainfield exit.  In fact, people in that area (who are in Sycamore Twp.) have signs up and stuff in their yards that are against the new store.  I had no idea as I haven't been in that neighborhood for years.

 

A lot of the citizens feel that Blue Ash is just trying to put that development as far away from the "center" of Blue Ash as possible, so that the city will reap all of the benefits (tax revenue) and none of the problems (traffic, visual blight).

 

Unclear to me was the exact location they were talking about.  The bottom parcel in the map that Mr. Sparkle posted would make the most sense because it butts right up against a neighborhood.

 

The story wasn't posted on channelcincinnati.com when I checked a few minutes ago, but I'll get it up here if I see it.  It was one of Michelle Hopkins' "Taking Action" segments.

Saw that bit on 5...they did have a site plan in the background, so its out there (150,000 SF Target, does that have food), the story teaser did mention Kohl's as well, but they were not mentioned in the bit. The Hartzell Church, the building with the long drive leading from the neighborhood from the south, is definately part of the development.

 

100 bucks say that the developer approached the City about the site, not the otherway around, so the issue about Blue Ash placing the development away from the city center is not valid. They want those parcels, and the happen to be in BA

I drove by here over lunch, and got two pictures.  Here's the first, more of a display at Blossom and Larchview:

 

 

You can't read the sign on this one, but just after taking this shot my batteries died, so I couldn't get a better one.  But this is what the signs look like - the text of many of them is something like, "Please don't ruin our neighborhood with a strip mall" - this from a bit further west on Larchview:

 

^ RiverViewer, thanks for the pics.  That first one was the one that I saw on TV that was the most memorable.

 

P.S> I forgot to add in my last post that the Target isn't expected to be open until late 2008 at the earliest.

The 7/13/05 Northeast Suburban Life picks up the story:

 

 

Developer targets Hartzell property

By Forrest Sellers

Staff Reporter 

 

BLUE ASH - Dillonvale resident Carl Ketterer is used to sitting on his porch and seeing landscaped homes and trees.

 

Ketterer said he may soon be looking at the back of a retail store.

 

Blue Ash City Manager Marvin Thompson has confirmed an interest by Target in building a store at the southwest corner of Ronald Reagan Cross County Highway and Plainfield Road. He said several smaller stores would also be part of the project.

 

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More from the 7/20/05 Northeast Suburban Life (I have edited out parts of the article about Sycamore Square.  They can be seen in that thread.):

 

 

Sycamore residents fight back

By Forrest Sellers

Staff Reporter 

 

SYCAMORE TWP. - The standing-room-only crowd packed within Bechtold Lodge was a visible sign of discontent.

 

Sycamore Township residents were gathered in opposition to a proposed Target store at the southwest corner of Ronald Reagan Cross County Highway and Plainfield Road.

 

Standing at a podium before the crowd, Sycamore Township Trustee Cliff Bishop asked for a show of hands from those excited by the plans.

 

No one raised a hand.

 

(continued)

 

Staff reporters Tami Sanderson and Lindsay Braud contributed to this story.

 

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Target plan off mark, say some

Sycamore residents don't want 'big box' in backyards

 

By Maggie Downs

Enquirer staff writer

HAVE YOUR SAY

 

County Commissioner Phil Heimlich plans to host a public meeting about the proposed Blue Ash Target store development at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Deer Park High School.

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It appears that they broke ground and should be building in earnest pretty soon.  From the 8/9/05 Enquirer's Local Briefs section:

 

 

Office park work starts soon

 

Construction will begin soon on a 550,000-square-foot office park, owned by Duke Realty Corp., which broke ground in Blue Ash last week. The Landings of Blue Ash will be a three-building office park featuring a large, landscaped center courtyard. The first building should be completed by fall 2006. The 23-acre site at 9999 Carver Road is just off Reed-Hartman Highway and runs along the edge of the Blue Ash Airport.

 

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From the 8/11/05 Enquirer:

 

 

Residents gather to protest store before it's proposed

By Maggie Downs

Enquirer staff writer

 

DEER PARK - Hamilton County Commissioner Phil Heimlich was given a large green piece of poster board Wednesday night.

 

On it, Margie Selm had glued photographs of the 36 houses that would abut a proposed Target store and related strip mall.

 

"We are families," said Selm, a 28-year-resident of Larchview Drive in Dillonvale. "Not just squares on a map."

 

(continued)

 

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From the 8/24/05 Northeast Suburban Life:

 

 

Dillonvale development battle continues

By Erin Hively

Staff Reporter 

 

SYCAMORE TWP. - Sycamore Township's trustees received 550 letters last week from residents of Dillonvale urging them to stop a developer from moving into their neighborhood.

 

Though no deals have yet been made, development company Midland Atlantic Properties is proposing to buy 24 acres from Hamilton County and the adjacent 8 acres owned by the Hartzell United Methodist Church to build a Target, Kohl's, and several other retail stores along Reagan Cross County Highway near Plainfield Road.

 

Hamilton County allows the township to use the landlocked, wooded parcel as its leaf dump.

 

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From the 9/1/05 Enquirer:

 

 

Blue Ash to welcome new offices

Duke plans 3 five-story buildings

By Mike Boyer

Enquirer staff writer

 

BLUE ASH - Duke Realty Corp. plans to break ground this month on its first speculative office building here in five years.

 

The developer plans to construct the first of three, five-story office buildings on 22 acres off Carver Road, south of the Blue Ash Airport.

 

All three buildings, totaling 534,000 square feet, will be known as The Landings I, II and III and cost about $80 million.

 

...

 

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050901/BIZ01/509010379

 

From the 9/24/05 Enquirer:

 

 

Sycamore would buy county land

Residents want to protect it from development

By Feoshia Henderson

Enquirer staff writer

 

SYCAMORE TWP. - Sycamore Township trustees have offered to buy 15 acres of county-owned land on the border of Blue Ash and Sycamore Township, which residents hope to keep from being developed.

 

Cliff Bishop, trustee president, said the township offered the county about $75,000 for the land. The trustees sent the offer to the Hamilton County commission last week, but have not yet gotten a response.

 

"It's not based on anything in particular. It might start a negotiation," Bishop said.

 

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From the 10/7/05 Enquirer:

 

 

County asked not to sell land

Site in Blue Ash now used for compost; neighbors don't want big developments

By Feoshia Henderson

Enquirer staff writer

 

SYCAMORE TWP. - Hamilton County commissioners have received more than 4,000 letters that a Dillonvale neighborhood group sent them, asking that they not sell county-owned land near their neighborhood for private development.

 

Dillonvale resident Gayle Radke, a member of citizen-led Homeowners Opposed to Retail Development, said the group sent 4,224 form letters signed both by neighborhood residents and others who live throughout the county.

 

"Our group is substantial in size. Everybody took some letters and went to the streets," Radke said. The IGA in the Dillonvale shopping center, which residents fear would be hurt economically by any development, was a popular place to find supporters, he said.

 

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From the 11/5/05 Enquirer:

 

 

Another bid for compost site

Developer offers $100,000 for property

By Feoshia Henderson

Enquirer staff writer

 

BLUE ASH - Midland Atlantic Properties has offered to buy county-owned land along Ronald Reagan Highway that a neighborhood group is trying to keep as a leaf compost and recycling site.

 

Hamilton County Commissioner Todd Portune confirmed the Midland Atlantic offer. It was for $100,000 or the land's appraised value minus the cost of cleaning up the compost site, whichever is higher.

 

The county has allowed Sycamore Township residents, who live across the property's border, to use part of the land as a compost site for about 20 years.

 

(continued)

 

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From the 11/10/05 Enquirer:

 

 

Blue Ash site soars in value

By Kimball Perry

Enquirer staff writer

 

BLUE ASH - Sycamore Township trustees have offered to pay $75,000 for county-owned property to stop a proposed retail development.

 

The developer, John Silverman's Midland Atlantic Properties, offered about $100,000, or the land's appraised value minus the cost of cleaning up a compost site, whichever is higher.

 

But an appraiser told Hamilton County commissioners Wednesday the property was worth much more.

 

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From the 12/4/05 Enquirer:

 

 

PHOTO: Signs opposing the proposed Super Target store and strip mall appear on Plainfield Road at Cross County Highway in Blue Ash. The signs are seen throughout Sycamore Township and neighboring Blue Ash.  The Enquirer/Glenn Hartong

 

PHOTO: The Dillonvale Shopping Center in Sycamore Township is usually busy with shoppers. Some think a Super Target store would put local stores out of business.  The Enquirer/Glenn Hartong

 

Community wonders what Target would do

By Feoshia Henderson

Enquirer staff writer

 

SYCAMORE TWP. - Dillonvale IGA owner Mark Ossege gets about 20 letters a week from school, church and civic groups asking for a donation of food, money or gift certificates.

 

He tries to oblige.

 

"We can't do everything, but I try to answer about 15 of those," said Ossege, a Blue Ash resident whose store has anchored the Dillonvale Shopping Center for 35 years.

 

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Project abandoned.  The little guy wins one for once.  From the 12/8/05 Enquirer:

 

 

PHOTO: Paul and Carol Oliver of Sycamore Township celebrate Hamilton County Commission President Phil Heimlich's decision not to sell county land that would have been developed into a retail area featuring a Super Target store.  The Enquirer/ Sarah Conard

 

PHOTO: Supporters and opponents of the proposed Blue Ash retail development make their opinions known during a meeting Wednesday at Deer Park High School. The development would have been anchored by a Super Target store.  The Enquirer/ Sarah Conard

 

Opposition hits mark, stops Blue Ash Target

Developer wants to work with community on other plans for area

By Feoshia Henderson

Enquirer staff writer

 

DEER PARK - In a move wildly cheered by hundreds packed into the Deer Park High School auditorium, Hamilton County Commission President Phil Heimlich on Wednesday sided with a Dillonvale neighborhood group, saying he would not support selling county land to a developer who wanted to build a Super Target there.

 

Heimlich said he weighed the development's potential tax benefit against the wishes of those in Sycamore Township who would be most affected by it. He said commissioners would not take a vote on this issue.

 

Sycamore Township residents have used part of the 15-acre site as a leaf-composting center for nearly two decades, and many want to keep the land for that use. They also were concerned about problems from increased traffic.

 

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From the 12/14/05 Community Press:

 

 

PHOTO: Supporters of the Target proposal who stood outside the auditorium before last week's meeting were questioned by those who opposed the development about their motivations.  ERIN HIVELY/COMMUNITY PRESS STAFF

 

Decision disappoints some homeowners

BY ERIN HIVELY | COMMUNITY PRESS STAFF WRITER

 

Not everyone was happy with the Commissioner Heimlich's decision Wednesday night. Several residents had hoped to sell their properties to developer Midland Atlantic Properties.

 

Before the meeting, supporters of the Target proposal passed out yellow signs that read, "Yes! Target" to fellow supporters.

 

"I want it," said Penelope Lane resident Shirley Ervin.

 

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There will probably be some sort of development on the parcels they already own...

 

there was some nasty talking going on about this at the cincinnati.com discussion boards

From the 9/23/06 Enquirer:

 

 

Blue Ash Target to be blocked

Commissioners side with residents

BY KIMBALL PERRY | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER

 

Hamilton County commissioners plan to approve a lease on Monday that will ensure that a Super Target won't be built in Blue Ash - thanks to a fierce fight by Sycamore Township residents - for at least 10 years and maybe as long as 50 years.

 

Last year, Midland Atlantic managing principal John Silverman proposed a development off Plainfield Road and Ronald Reagan Highway to be anchored by a Super Target store.

 

The development was planned for Blue Ash but butted up against the Sycamore Township border. It would have required Silverman to buy a 15-acre lot now owned by Hamilton County but used by Sycamore Township for leaf composting and yard-waste disposal.

 

(continued)

 

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County blocks Super Target store

THE ENQUIRER

 

A Super Target won't be built on the border of Sycamore Township and Blue Ash after Hamilton County commissioners agreed Wednesday to lease the county-owned property to Sycamore Township for 12½ years.

 

The development was a big issue in the Dillonvale area of Sycamore Township in the last 15 months because residents feared the congestion, traffic and other negatives they thought would come with a big store development off of Plainfield Road, south of Ronald Reagan Highway.

 

The property - now used by Sycamore Township as a yard waste and mulching site - will be leased to Sycamore Township for $1 per year to remain a yard waste site.

 

 

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The county's getting $1/year for land that's worth millions, to be a yard waste receptacle?  That means my county property tax dollars are going, in effect, to subsidize frickin' Sycamore Township residents getting a multi-million dollar mulch site and not having to worry about cars on their precious frickin' streets.  Thanks, Commissioners...

And Hamilton County taxpayers don't subsidize a lot of what is happening in Cincinnati...?

 

 

Really, I see your point,  but it would be interesting to see a comparison however.

I have no doubt they do.  Though much of it is for the general benefit of all, not for mulch-receptacles.

 

I was mostly just pointing out that these things do go both ways - the complaints from the Cunningham crowd are always the other way 'round...and here we're sitting on millions of dollars worth of real estate for the sake of the burbs, and for no real material benefit.  Just an example to keep in mind is all...

The county's getting $1/year for land that's worth millions, to be a yard waste receptacle?  That means my county property tax dollars are going, in effect, to subsidize frickin' Sycamore Township residents getting a multi-million dollar mulch site and not having to worry about cars on their precious frickin' streets.  Thanks, Commissioners...

Actually its a useless parcel b/c it was landlocked by the cross county hwy construction.

 

At least set the lease amount to a value that will cover the County's cost of the paperwork for the lease, which is probably more than a buck.

 

^the land would also need to be leveled which would probably cost a good amount

Duke snaps up hot property

3 towers planned for last major Blue Ash site

LAURA BAVERMAN | [email protected]

March 9, 2007

 

BLUE ASH - Duke Realty is at it again in Blue Ash, locking up 29 acres for a $100 million office project on the last large contiguous piece of developable property in the city.

 

Located between Reed Hartman Highway and Kenwood Road on Osborne Boulevard, the site is expected to have three 175,000-square-foot office buildings, mirroring the developer's Landings project near the Blue Ash airport, and a parking structure. Ten additional acres would be sold as outlots for a hotel, restaurant and smaller build-to-suit office building.

 

...

 

http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2007/03/12/story01.html

interesting.  hopefully they have better luck than the last two guys.  the scary thing is that there is still pleanty of developable land in blue ash...its just that most of it has 1960's/70's warehouse and distribution centers on them.  there have already been a number of "industrial teardowns" in blue ash, including this one and the site on the southeast corner of reed hartman and pfiefer.  i would only expect this to keep happening until blue ash turns into one giant developer office building.

blue ash is about as blessed as an edge jurisdiction can get, but they still have zero pedestrian activity in their faux stripmall of a 'downtown'. people from blue ash call the city dead because they don't see anyone walking around, but if the same standard was applied to blue ash, then their jurisdiction would even more moribund.

Back in the news.  These stories appeared in two different Community Press papers on the same day, 7/30/07.  I don't know which one's which, though, since they're not labelled.

 

 

GRAPHIC: Proposal for discount store

 

Sycamore Twp. again has Target on its back

BY RICH SHIVENER | [email protected]

 

BLUE ASH - Developers are revisiting plans for a Target store here, an idea that nearby residents and Hamilton County officials rejected in 2005.

 

Steve Brandt, a local representative of Target, said the plans are in the beginning stages, and there is no projected date of when the retail store would open.

 

A Blue Ash concept plan, submitted by architects in April, shows an outline of a 137,000 square foot "free-standing discount store" off Plainfield Road, just south of Ronald Reagan Highway.

 

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Township officials against development

BY ROB DOWDY | [email protected]

 

SYCAMORE TWP. - A potential new retail development in Blue Ash is already getting harsh criticism from township officials and residents.

 

Developers have revisited possible plans for a Target store in the city. A similar plan was rejected two years ago in Sycamore Township.

 

A Blue Ash concept plan, submitted by architects in April, shows the outline of a 137,000-square-foot "free-standing discount store" off of Plainfield Road south of Ronald Reagan Highway.

 

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The city should sell it to Sycamore township for its fair market value.  Then they can mulch all the yard waste they want to mulch...unless, of course, what the Sycamore township residents really want is for Cincinnati to continue to subsidize their mulch facility and low-traffic status by not selling the land to Target or just to a real estate developer - which is my guess...

RV, the land you speak of is not part of the current plan (and was owned by the County); that land sits far back off of Plainfield, West of the Church. In the new graphic the irregular shaped gray Building at the bottom of the image is the Hartzell Church, which stays according to the graphic. The land occupied by the current plan is a vacant parcel (used to be a Hardee's), and underutilized "office condos". Not that different from the current view from the backs of the houses. In fact the new development will probably offser better screening to the neighborhood that what is there. Kmart on Hunt Road will be gone tho.

 

 

 

And...

There will probably be some sort of development on the parcels they already own...

HOME OWNERS OPPOSED TO RETAIL DEVELOPMENT

http://www.hotrd.org/Pages/default.aspx

 

Here's a PDF of the Project site, showing road improvements:

http://www.hotrd.org/MapsAndImages/PublishingImages/ba_traffic_study.pdf

Yeah, I missed that - sorry...but if I'm looking at the right plot of land (3955 Hunt), the county assesses the 24 acre lot at $1.7MM - that's a pretty significant asset...and it doesn't look like it would be all that difficult to access the site with an easement from the church...but at this point, that won't happen...

 

if you live in the suburbs and you are faced with suburban style development, why is anyone suprised?

Blue Ash has target on its back again

Protests quashed larger store; traffic flow still an issue

By Steve Kemme, Cincinnati Enquirer, October 19, 2008

 

Two years ago, the opposition of Sycamore Township residents and the intervention of Hamilton County officials sunk a Super Target development proposed for a 40-acre site on Plainfield Road in Blue Ash.

 

Now another Target development is proposed for the same location, but it's much smaller than the previous one.

 

The old proposal called for a Super Target - which is about 40,000 square feet larger than a regular Target - a department store and other retail. Midland Atlantic Properties needed to acquire a piece of county-owned property to build the entire development.

 

(continued)

 

 

Once again, I wonder why this is the kind of stuff that Blue Ash settles for.  They are best positioned to be that suburban boom town for this region (West Chester is a little different).  They could be doing mixed-use, some density, and attracting young people hand over fist with the number of jobs they have out there that attract young people.

Blue Ash airport 'all-star' development team adds homebuilder

 

 

The team that is transforming the former Blue Ash airport into a massive mixed-use development added a single-family homebuilder.

 

M/I Homes joins the development team of Al Neyer, Vandercar Holdings, MKSK and Towne Properties as the single-family partner on the project.

 

More below:

http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2016/07/14/blue-ash-airport-all-stardevelopment-team-adds.html

Master plan submitted for massive Blue Ash project

 

 

The development team planning to transform the former Blue Ash airport into a mixed-use project submitted their concept master plan to the city this week.

 

More below:

http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2016/07/14/master-plan-submitted-for-massive-blue-ash-project.html

Huh, my senior project was creating a park plan for the Blue Ash Airport. It seems that isn't happening!

Too bad we couldn't have gotten something more like this for Oakley Station instead of the crap that ended up getting built there.

^ It's unbelievable that Blue Ash and Liberty Township are figuring out New Urbanism but somehow Cincinnati can't.

Huh, my senior project was creating a park plan for the Blue Ash Airport. It seems that isn't happening!

 

Quite a nice park was built there, it begins in the lower right corner of the rendering and extends from there off screen.

Too bad we couldn't have gotten something more like this for Oakley Station instead of the crap that ended up getting built there.

 

Yeah, Oakley Station is just a money grab by coke-head developers.  The problem with Oakley Station and Rookwood is that they are semi-regional draws but at their core steal retail activity away from traditional neighborhood business districts.  If each had been limited to redevelopment as single-family homes and multi-families, then traditional storefront retail on Madison and Montgomery would have benefited.