I think you are looking at the houses on Donahue. Rochelle is the farther north of the two, and there doesn't appear to be a house on lot 220.

^-Your right, there is a gap where 220 should be, its probably 222 though I don't know the exact number.

 

The one being rehabbed, is a green house (or was one I think they stripped off the paint, but haven't been down in a few months) that they tore the gables off to put on a roof top deck, its a pretty high end rehab.  I have mixed opinions on it but at the very least the building which sat abandoned for like 5 or 6 years didn't get torn down.

New pictures posted on the Biz Courier confirm that this is the Eden Ave & Donahue Block. 

New pictures posted on the Biz Courier confirm that this is the Eden Ave & Donahue Block.

 

Right, the Business Courier republished the story we put up on UrbanCincy: http://www.urbancincy.com/2012/05/latest-phase-of-stetson-square-takes-on-new-urban-form/. That row of buildings in question is NOT coming down. The four new buildings are being built in that vacant area bounded by Eden, Rochelle, Gerard, and Donahue.

 

Here:

If you need more evidence, here's a site plan.

i was in 3019 Eden Ave. this past weekend for the first time in a few years -- dear lord the place is unbelievably roughed up.  It's only ten years old but has a bad odor throughout due to innumerable spills in the hallway carpet.  The elevator doors are scratched and the digital readout is halfway burnt-out.  The whole place desperately needs to be repainted and the plaster repaired.  What kind of rents are they commanding?  It's fast stooping to the level of the Forum or Mont Michelle Apartments!

i was in 3019 Eden Ave. this past weekend for the first time in a few years -- dear lord the place is unbelievably roughed up.  It's only ten years old but has a bad odor throughout due to innumerable spills in the hallway carpet.  The elevator doors are scratched and the digital readout is halfway burnt-out.  The whole place desperately needs to be repainted and the plaster repaired.  What kind of rents are they commanding?  It's fast stooping to the level of the Forum or Mont Michelle Apartments!

 

This is what happens when all your tenants are college students, and the parents are paying rent. No one is truly held responsible, so its basically a free for all frat house.

No there are very few college students in that building.  It appears to be mostly med students and foreign families.  Lots of Indian and Arab families with 2-4 kids living in the larger apartments. 

A good number of the tenants are from the middle east (UAE, SA, etc) who are having their children treated at CCHMC. If you go in, you'll notice a lot of signs are in Arabic. There are also quite a few attending physicians/fellows/residents/med students that live in that building too. It's a convenient place to live when you are working 30 hr shifts. I had a friend who recently moved out of there and to downtown. It's ridiculously expensive, but it gets a lot of people who are coming in from out of town and don't know any better (or if their respective foreign government is footing the bill). But I agree that it's very dumpy

i was in 3019 Eden Ave. this past weekend for the first time in a few years -- dear lord the place is unbelievably roughed up.  It's only ten years old but has a bad odor throughout due to innumerable spills in the hallway carpet.  The elevator doors are scratched and the digital readout is halfway burnt-out.  The whole place desperately needs to be repainted and the plaster repaired.  What kind of rents are they commanding?  It's fast stooping to the level of the Forum or Mont Michelle Apartments!

 

This post instantly reminded me of the 'Forum Smell'. It never leave your mind, haha. With all the moving in and out you are bound to get scratches and dents on the walls, but i can only imagine what ten years of it will do to drywall hallways & stairwells if it is not constantly kept up with.