Sorry for my recent absence...been a little crazy...and wow, do I have a lot to catch up on...

 

So there was a special open house for Realtors and agents at the Overlook at Eden Park today, and I kind of crashed the party...so without further ado...

 

Our viewing platform:

 

 

..and our ride:

 

 

Arriving on the top floor:

 

 

Inside the penthouse apartment:

 

 

 

Let's work our way around the building...First, the Twin Lakes, the river, Bellevue and Dayton:

 

 

The upper Twin Lake:

 

 

Interstate 471 and The Water's Edge:

 

 

Looking upriver:

 

 

Walnut Hills and East Walnut Hills (for the most part):

 

 

Victory Parkway Bridge:

 

 

This is the sister building to the ugly office building that the Overlook is replacing:

 

 

A receeding series of buildings (The Edgecliffe, Edgecliff at the Point, not sure, and then the Madison on the horizon):

 

 

Ammons United Methodist Church:

 

 

The Alms Hotel:

 

 

The Madison:

 

 

St. Francis's steeple:

 

 

Anyone know what that square steeple thing is in the center of this shot?

 

 

Looking north:

 

 

 

The Alexandria and the Walnut Hills Presbyterian Church steeple:

 

 

Peebles Corner:

 

 

Looking up Kemper Lane:

 

 

A neighbor's back yard:

 

 

The Volterra Condominiums are just behind the trees:

 

 

Windsor School:

 

 

Peeble's Corner-ish:

 

 

View towards the northwest:

 

 

Vernon Manor:

 

 

UC and such towards the back of this shot - Hughes High School to the left, then Calhoun, old St. George, and Crosley to the right:

 

 

Some of the great houses on Nassau:

 

 

Looking west:

 

 

Condos on Fulton:

 

 

Christ Hospital:

 

 

The peak of the Baldwin Building:

 

 

Yes, that's the Cincinnati Southern Railroad Bridge...along with the Kroger building, and the park's new wind turbine:

 

 

Mt. Adams, the water tower, and downtown:

 

 

Downtown:

 

 

Holy Cross Monastery:

 

 

Mary looks down on the Ascent, and is well pleased:

 

 

View to the south:

 

 

The Vietnam Veteran's Memorial:

 

 

A little rooftop veranda action:

 

 

Newport, and three bridges (Daniel Carter Beard, L&N and Taylor-Southgate):

 

 

The Lunkenheimer Mansion:

 

 

...and one more river view:

 

 

 

...please let me know if I got any of the landmarks wrong, or point out any others I neglected to mention...and if anyone's interested in any high resolution versions, just let me know!

 

 

Holy cow, those views are incredible.

Great shots.

 

I can't get a good sense of the context on the shot where you asked about the sqare looking steeple thing. My first guess was Hoffman Elementary in Evanston.

Wonderful views and a pretty good catch-up. It's good to see you've returned.

These are wonderful!

Welcome back.  Love those shots, esp. of the water tower in Eden Park.

I must have gotten there just after you came down from the top... they shut down the elevator after it started raining. But me and the person i was with (the realtor) decided we still wanted to get up there.... so we walked  :|

 

Great views...and you can tell that these are going to be great units...

Cool views.  Good to see you back here!

I can't get a good sense of the context on the shot where you asked about the sqare looking steeple thing. My first guess was Hoffman Elementary in Evanston.

 

Cramer - oh, nicely done!  I pulled up a picture of the Hoffman School on the auditor's site, and the steeple definitely looks right:

 

 

...and if you look at the lines of site, it's right where you expect - here's a butchering of a google map of the area, with site lines indicated as:

Blue = Alms Hotel

Red = Hoffman School

Green = St. Francis

 

 

...just as the picture shows:

 

 

...dude knows his Evanston...

 

 

UCPlanner - yeah, I had walked back home probably 15-20 minutes before the rain hit...but no doubt, it would have been well worth the walk up for those views.  Just would have sucked for the pictures.  As it was, conditions were far from ideal, but I chatted with one of the main agents on the project, and am going to try to trade pictures for access to take pictures from, so hopefully we'll see some shots from nicer days later...

 

And definitely, these units will be killer...3200 square feet each?  Makes you wish you were loaded!

 

what a score to get up there while its under raw construction like that. good show!

 

looks like the water tower is right in your face from that apt isnt it? and check out the ascent, that was cool.

Now you are worthy! ;)

Stunning!  Cincinnati is so lush and hilly...  Damn just beautiful.

Damn nice views! And who says Cincinnati is a dead town?

 

Any hope here?

so lush and green... why would anybody take a desert wasteland like Phoenix over this!?

Any hope here?

 

Well, the building was purchased five years ago, so I suspect that if the plan had been to redevelop it, that would have happened a while ago.  And if you google 2181 Victory Parkway in Cincinnati, you get a number of businesses located there - Chilltime Productions, Cincinnati Academy of Design, Neighborhood Development Corporation Association of Greater Cincinnati (link is to a Citybeat article on them), Audley & Associates (home appraisers), Ward/THG Insurance Adjusters, CCSI & Associates (accounting), Hargrove Contracting & Engineering, etc., etc.

 

Of course, that's not dispositive of anything - for instance, the Greater Cincinnati Library Consortium came up with 2181 Victory Parkway, but if you go to their website, they seem to have relocated to Blue Ash.  But it seems to me that there's nothing in the works for that building as things currently stand...

 

Never go away again, RiverViewer.  Those shots are spectacular.  I expected to see a few shots of the building and maybe Eden Park, but you blew me away!

A correction, and some added data:

 

A receeding series of buildings (The Edgecliffe, Edgecliff at the Point, not sure, and then the Madison on the horizon):

 

Here's a corrected labeling of the buildings:

 

 

First, the Edgecliff at the Point is actually completely hidden by the Edgecliff - the building you see here is River Terrace on Ingleside, which I believe are condo's, but would love to be corrected if I have that wrong!

 

And second, I finally figured out what the "not sure" building is (with the help of Bill Cobb's pictures) - the Riverview Senior Center, 2538 Hackberry:

 

 

Here's a map:

 

Blue = The Edgecliff

Yellow = River Terrace

Green = Riverview Senior Center

Orange = The Madison

 

 

 

Say, I keep forgetting to ask - I've been labeling the two buildings on the far horizon as "The Madison", but I believe the Madison is the one on Vista - does anyone know what the other one is?

 

And many thanks to everyone for all your kind words!

 

I feel this part of town doesn't get enough love so I'm bumping this.

Man this city has a lot of trees

I think that's what makes this area so great.

The photos are very nice. Cincy is such a lovely and under-apperciated city!

These are some fantastic views surrounding the new construction. Of course, from such lofty heights it's difficult to determine the state of the areas being viewed. In image number 25, captioned Volterra Condominiums, the 3 story large Victorian house at 2201 Kemper Lane just seen in the lower left hand corner (corner of Kemper and Nassau St.) can be bought for less than $5k!-not a typo. (Hamilton Co. auditors site has it valued at $172,500)  It makes me wonder just how bad IS this neighborhood? Lots of historic homes seen there-is there any chance for a recovery someday? Will the neighborhood's depressed housing values impact values of the Overlook tower? Otherwise, this is a wonderful set of panoramic images showing the far-reaching beauty of the Queen City. Thanks!

That particular place is in foreclosure, has had its stained glass windows removed, and has been boarded up for a good while now...I hope it's not indicative of the state of the neighborhood, but I guess the market will decide that for me!  But yeah, you've really got to get up the hill a decent bit further before you start worrying about the state of the neighborhood.

 

Thanks for the revival, and the kind words!

 

Just for clarification, I was not trying to put down the neighborhood, As a historic preservationist with plans to relocate eventually to Cincinnati, I sincerely wish that many areas now considered marginal can be saved and brought back. Walnut Hills (not just Eastern W.H.) has an amazing collection of historic buildings and features once-grand homes that would be the envy of many cities in other parts of the country. To see much of that disappear due to neglect would be tragic. Personally, as an outsider, I do not feel Cincinnati promotes it's historic resources adequately. When a friend and recent transplant to Cincinnati turned me on to the City's wealth of historic structures about a year ago, I was completely taken by surprise, as I thought I was quite familiar with what was "out there" in most of the country. I visited Ohio some years back and didn't even consider a visit to Cincinnati thinking there was nothing old or interesting to see there. I visited Cleveland and then old towns in eastern Ohio along the River. (from East Liverpool to Marietta) Had I known then what I know now, I would have made a bee-line to the Queen City. As for the Kemper Lane house, I know it's recent history and looked into buying possibilities, but must pass for now despite it's bargain-basement price.

 

The new condo tower under construction will likely raise property values nearby. What a wonderful set of views the residents will soon enjoy.

Personally, as an outsider, I do not feel Cincinnati promotes it's historic resources adequately.

 

I agree with this statement 100%. We are not taking advantage of what we currently have.