January 30, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, tonyt3524 said: No way this gets approved...right? No telling. I forgot that there were two separate sales: the sale of the triangular taxiway area to Blue Ash for park purposes in 2012, and then the sale of the trapezoid-shaped runway parcel to Neyer in 2017. So the two parcels have been redeveloped by different entities for different purposes. There is plenty of blame to be lobbed at both entities. The Neyer development should have been centered around a straight street that ran in alignment with the old runway. Instead, they got cute with a new-urbanist layout for the homes and then the apartments that are access through the park parking lot instead of off Reed Hartman. Will the new stadium require its own parking off Reed Hartman? If so, even more of the old airport site will be turned over to parking lots.
January 30, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, tonyt3524 said: No way this gets approved...right? The apartments likely get approved. The zoning is there for that, Developer can get it done as a matter of right. The stadium is a bit of a bigger challenge. I think if Moeller wants to commit to being a long term tenant then it will work. Plus, you have to think, Blue Ash is already a big amateur sports town. The sports complex off Grooms hosts a ton of tourney's in the area from travelling teams. Kids First has a lot of regional basketball and volleyball there. The baseball complex in Mason is not far from there too, so they bring a lot of travelling tournaments to their hotels on the weekends already. A football stadium there would only add to those potential opportunities with soccer, Lacrosse, etc that could be staged at that facility. You have to figure it would be used for more than just 5 Moeller games a year. This actually is not that bad of an idea for that area, especially given the other amenities that are already there.
January 30, 20232 yr Two points of weirdness draw my attention. 1. The property lines appear to have been shuffled/swapped by a tiny amount between Neyer/Blue Ash at some point in the past few years to enable the slight convex shape of the apartments near the stage. Why would they waste energy doing that? Seems like somebody proposed it in order to get automatic "face time" with a "stakeholder". 2. There are now several retention ponds in the Neyer area. There were no retention ponds in the past. The ponds are wasting space and not any sort of focus. They helped motivate an odd physical layout.
January 31, 20232 yr The first apartment building at least gave some semblance of walkability-- the illusion of a dense-ish city block... even if it surrounds a sea of concrete for parking. I was hoping they'd continue with that style but the second apartment completely destroyed that, weird shape surrounded by a moat of parking. It looks terrible. I really have no hope for this being a cool development anymore.
March 30, 20232 yr Blue Ash begins work on $9 million redesigned Towne Square project Work to transform what is considered the "living room" of one of Cincinnati’s suburbs and its growing downtown area is now underway. The city of Blue Ash is starting a massive renovation of its Towne Square to create a multi-use, vibrant center officials hope will bring more people to the heart of the city. Blue Ash tapped Alpha Construction to complete construction on the project, awarding the company a $9.1 million contract during a February city council meeting. Alpha Construction began excavation work this March, with demolition expected to be worked on for the next few weeks, Blue Ash’s Parks and Recreation Director Brian Kruse told the Business Courier. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2023/03/30/blue-ash-towne-square-renovation.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 30, 20232 yr 3 hours ago, ColDayMan said: Blue Ash begins work on $9 million redesigned Towne Square project Work to transform what is considered the "living room" of one of Cincinnati’s suburbs and its growing downtown area is now underway. The city of Blue Ash is starting a massive renovation of its Towne Square to create a multi-use, vibrant center officials hope will bring more people to the heart of the city. Blue Ash tapped Alpha Construction to complete construction on the project, awarding the company a $9.1 million contract during a February city council meeting. Alpha Construction began excavation work this March, with demolition expected to be worked on for the next few weeks, Blue Ash’s Parks and Recreation Director Brian Kruse told the Business Courier. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2023/03/30/blue-ash-towne-square-renovation.html Nothing like spending a lot of money on a town square that is surrounded by parking lots.
March 31, 20232 yr 13 hours ago, Ucgrad2015 said: Nothing like spending a lot of money on a town square that is surrounded by parking lots. Even funnier is the quote in the article stating that their downtown is walkable for many of their residents... Hopefully this park will help people visualize why useful walkability is so important. Hopefully once those apartments are completed on the other side of Kenwood & Cooper, people will start realizing how bad of a car sewer Kenwood is.
April 17, 20232 yr On 1/30/2023 at 3:36 PM, Lazarus said: Two points of weirdness draw my attention. 1. The property lines appear to have been shuffled/swapped by a tiny amount between Neyer/Blue Ash at some point in the past few years to enable the slight convex shape of the apartments near the stage. Why would they waste energy doing that? Seems like somebody proposed it in order to get automatic "face time" with a "stakeholder". 2. There are now several retention ponds in the Neyer area. There were no retention ponds in the past. The ponds are wasting space and not any sort of focus. They helped motivate an odd physical layout. What tool is this?
April 17, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, ohpenn said: What tool is this? https://cagis.hamilton-co.org/cagisonline/ In the top-left corner, click the little clock with a counter-clockwise arrow to view aerial imagery from the past.
April 18, 20232 yr On 4/17/2023 at 1:45 PM, jwulsin said: https://cagis.hamilton-co.org/cagisonline/ In the top-left corner, click the little clock with a counter-clockwise arrow to view aerial imagery from the past. Thank you!
September 23, 2024Sep 23 M/I Homes to build $80M townhome development at Summit Park in Blue Ash By Brian Planalp – Staff reporter, Cincinnati Business Courier Sep 23, 2024 One of the last remaining undeveloped sites at Summit Park in Blue Ash will become an $80 million townhome development from M/I Homes. Blue Ash City Council at its Sept. 12 meeting voted narrowly to approve the concept development plan. Mayor Jill Cole cast the tie-breaking vote in favor of the project after the city council split evenly for and against. The 8.2-acre site lies in the Neighborhoods of Summit Park, between the senior living facility to the east, formerly Anthology of Blue Ash, and Arabella, a community of single-family homes and condos by WP Land Co., to the west. MORE
October 31, 2024Oct 31 $129M Blue Ash mixed-use development takes critical step forward A large mixed-use development five years in the making cleared a significant hurdle in October as the developer looks forward to a possible groundbreaking early next year. The Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority on Oct. 2 took title to 6.2 acres at the northwest corner of Kenwood and Cooper Roads in Blue Ash, land destined for a $129.7 million mixed-use project called the Blue from Blue Ash-based Circle Development. The same day, the Port executed a ground leaseback arrangement with the Blue Development Company LLC, whose president and CEO, Ray Schneider, is also president of Circle Development. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2024/10/30/the-blue-blue-ash-mixed-use-development-advances.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 5Apr 5 Developers advance stadium, field house concepts in 'significant change' to Summit Park master plan The master developers behind the Neighborhoods at Summit Park in Blue Ash are moving forward with a unique and ambitious new phase that represents a significant departure from the original vision for the site. The projects are an open-air stadium attached to an apartment building and a hotel; and an indoor field house wrapped by two more hotels. They are proposed for two large, vacant development pads comprising 20 acres on the eastern side of the Neighborhoods, the 110-acre mixed-use district at the former Blue Ash Airport. Merus, formerly Al Neyer, and Vandercar Holdings, the district's master developers, submitted the projects March 28 to the Blue Ash Planning Commission in the form of a new concept development plan, the first step in the entitlement process. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2025/04/04/summit-park-stadium-vandercar-merus-fieldhouse.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 9May 9 $150M Summit Park stadium development faces uphill battle with Blue Ash City CouncilThe future of a mixed-use sports complex at the Neighborhoods at Summit Park in Blue Ash is in doubt after a contentious public hearing where one city council member wondered whether the proposal has enough votes to pass.Merus, formerly Al Neyer, and Vandercar Holdings, the master developers, need Blue Ash City Council approval to amend the district’s original development plan to build a $150 million youth-focused sports complex with a field house, a multipurpose stadium, apartments, hotels, a parking garage and surface parking lots on 20 acres near the southwest corner of Glendale Milford Road and Reed Hartman Highway.The project would create around 1,000 construction jobs and around 280 permanent jobs with more than $16 million in annual earnings, according to an economic impact analysis....But community members that attended the city council meeting were nearly unanimous in their opposition....Community members at the meeting framed the involvement of Moeller or Moeller donors as a given – and a negative.“This is the Moeller football stadium, and that’s what’s not right about this plan,” said Jim Friend, the HOA president of the Daventry neighborhood in Summit Park. He characterized the project’s supporters at the meeting as “Moeller people.”More below:https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2025/05/09/summit-park-stadium-development-blue-ash.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 19May 19 Developer proposes 300-unit apartment project at key gateway along I-71A Greater Cincinnati real estate developer is planning a large apartment project in Blue Ash, possibly leading to the demolition of a second legacy hotel at a gateway site along Interstate 71.Guttman Properties, whose office is in Blue Ash, submitted a concept plan last month to the Blue Ash Planning Commission for the redevelopment of the Quality Inn site, which sits on the south side of Pfeiffer Road, bounded to the west by Ursuline Academy and to the east by the highway.The concept plan envisions a six-story building with 300 market-rate one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments. Victor Matos, director of development at Guttman Properties, in a letter to the planning commission described the building’s design as “high-quality” and the apartments as “premium” with “top-tier” amenities including a pool and a clubhouse as well as surface and garage parking.More below:https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2025/05/19/guttman-properties-blue-ash-apartments-quality-inn.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
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