What goes on? I haven't seen cruising since the early 2000s. Is it like it was then?

^ In the wake of that, I noticed that sometime this week CPD rolled out those huge, very bright lights and placed them strategically all around Calhoun/McMillan. Today, I saw this announcement:

 

Street Closures

 

District 5 is utilizing Crowd Calming Measures south of the University of Cincinnati Campus on October 6 + 7, 2017.

 

Calhoun Street between Jefferson + Clifton Avenues will be closed from 12:00a - 4:00a both days. W. McMillan between Jefferson + Clifton Avenues will have No Parking 11p - 4a.

 

So they will be closing the same stretch of street again this weekend. That whole area has really become a sight to see on weekend nights. It has to be a huge headache for UC administrators. They've invested so much into those few blocks and on weekend nights the whole area is complete and utter bedlam. I can only imagine the phone calls these 18 year olds living in the fancy apartments overlooking this must be making to their moms, who in turn must be calling in complaints to UC on a near nonstop basis.

I had no idea that area was an issue, at least it is being addressed. Still a shame that the problem exists.

Crews are building landscaped islands in the rebuilt MLK between I-75 and Dixmyth near The Forum Apartments.  Also, part of the completed bike path was ripped up and is going to be rebuilt.  Not sure what the problem was. 

My source tells me that an out-of-town owner has sent eviction notices to everyone in this building on Burnett.  Everyone needs to leave by January 1.  The building is going to be renovated and the rents doubled. 

^ I wonder if that means it will become student housing. I've heard that was a nice building when it first opened, I think it even has a pool. I know I've seen some old photos of it somewhere.

^ I wonder if that means it will become student housing. I've heard that was a nice building when it first opened, I think it even has a pool. I know I've seen some old photos of it somewhere.

Indoor pool?

Apparently there is or used to be a pool on the roof.  But when you look on google earth you can't see anything. 

^You're right, these older aerial photos from the auditor show what appears to be a pool on the northwest corner of the roof. It looks like it was enclosed under skylights up until 2013 or so, when the skylights were closed up and a new roof was put on.

 

 

I'm thinking the old photos of this I've seen might have been in a book, maybe the Bicentennial Guide or one of those other old walking tour books.

 

The guy I know who lives there who is getting booted says he's paying $450/mo for an efficiency.  I don't know what utilities are included.  He's moving to McMicken St. 

 

In related news, another guy I work with rents a house on Coy St. (quiet side street off of Straight).  Their rent is getting jacked from $1,100 to $1,600.  I happened to look on Craigslist last week out of curiosity and saw a lot of the mediocre houses around UC trying to get ridiculous rent.  I have the sense that even with all of the new apartment construction over the past five years demand hasn't quite been met.  And with the owners of homes and old apartment buildings raising their rent to close to the price the new buildings are charging, the decision to rent the new buildings is a lot easier for students with the means to do so. 

 

 

Trump doesn't want people getting Master's Degrees so the demand for the housing could soften soon.

These photos are from Saturday, Jan 13. 

 

Deaconess:

 

Doomed MOB:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

jmecklenborg[/member] - thanks for the photos! What does "MOB" mean in "Doomed MOB"?

Medical Office Building.  Seemingly all of the hospitals have a "medical office building".  I believe that doctor groups who aren't actual hospital employees pay rent to have offices in the mob's and be affiliated with the hospital's branding. 

^ Wow, I didn't know this project was actually underway already. Isn't this one something like 800 beds? Is the whole old Deaconess site being scrubbed and redeveloped, or is the hospital being rehabbed and new construction being built around it?

Does anyone know what is going on with the small building that was built over the past year at the SE corner of Highland & McMillan?  It looks like it could be a bank or something like that.  It has been finished for several months but nothing has moved in. 

 

Who remembers the ghetto cinder block store that used to be there?  I wouldn't doubt that the McMillan Manor developers bought it just to tear it down. 

There was talk of Staggerlee's moving into the building, but those plans fell through. It's supposed to have apartments on the second floor and retail on the first. Not sure what the plan is, though.

I heard that it will be the new location for Staggerlee's.

The Verge Apartments are getting a Bank of America...branch?  Or will it just be an ATM?

 

Bank of America has zero branches in Ohio.

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/12/04/bank-of-america-opening-first-retail-branch-in.html

The Mad Frog is for sale:

https://www.sibcycline.com/Listing/CIN/1609042/1-E-McMillan-St-Mt-Auburn-OH-45219

 

Sez 6 apartments upstairs.   All of those windows have been bricked up my entire lifetime. 

 

Deaconess Hospital demolition 2/18/19

 

Saw this photo on a listing for a multifamily on Riddlecrest...here we see the crazy blueness of "The Deacon":

Progress on large development for the SE corner of Reading & MLK:

 

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2019/05/09/port-approves-financing-package-for-major-uptown.html?iana=hpmvp_cinci_news_headline

 

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Under the resolution, the Port will take ownership of 5.8 acres in Avondale where Terrex Development & Construction and Messer Construction plan to build a mixed use project with a 158-room hotel, two, 180,000 square foot office buildings and a 1,400-space parking garage

The financing package includes two key components:

 

-The Port will issue bonds to build the project that are backed by a 30-year tax-increment financing district created around the site. The TIF allows property taxes from the increased value of the property to be put back into improvements to the site.

 

-The Port also will acquire the site during the construction period and for another four years thereafter, then lease it back to the developers. That structure allows savings on construction costs because the Port-owned projects do not pay sales taxes on building materials.

 

 

They cut it awfully close but The Deacon is now ready for occupancy for the fall semester.  And it is hideous, inside and out:

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2019/08/21/take-a-look-inside-the-120m-deacon-project-near-uc.html?ana=twt

I think that would be a pretty nice place to live as a student or if you're young and work in that area.  

My cousin lives there and so I had reason to step inside The Deacon yesterday.  Wow, what an incoherent design motif.  You feel like you're in a parking garage and they have random ikea-ish furniture sitting around, "art", and a big ugly hanging plant-thing.  The "urban loft" thing is completely out-of-control, nationwide.  People are going to look back at pictures of these places in 20 years in balls of uncontrollable laughter. 

I saw a man sleeping on the W. Clifton retaining wall last night, with his head on the downhill side.  I've definitely never seen somebody sleep on the top of this wall before!

 

This year-old thing just had its front facade removed...

 

Yeah - I got a photo of them doing the brick removal last week. They're probably having problems with water infiltration, probably the result of trying to cut too many corners.

 

Cincinnati Children’s acquires former TriHealth medical office in Avondale for $2M

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2023/06/14/cincinnati-childrens-acquires-office-avondale.html?cx_testId=40&cx_testVariant=cx_6&cx_artPos=0#cxrecs_s

 

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538 Oak St is pretty unremarkable: single story, surrounded by surface parking. But this is interesting because it shows CCHMC is continuing to grow its presence in this area, and will have facilities on three of the corners of Oak/Reading. 

 

I hope they tear down the existing building and replace it with something more substantial. I'm very curious to see what CCHMC has planned for the block bounded by 71, Taft, Reading, and Oak. 

It appears that the Superior Credit Union is being demolished this week:

 

 

 

 

From around 1970:

^Wild to see how much that areas has changed. 

 

What was the large structure on the SE corner of McMillan and Ohio? It kinda looks like a school, but I'm not sure. 

52 minutes ago, jwulsin said:

^Wild to see how much that areas has changed. 

 

What was the large structure on the SE corner of McMillan and Ohio? It kinda looks like a school, but I'm not sure. 

 

It's the old Friar's Club.

On 8/16/2023 at 4:41 PM, Lazarus said:

From around 1970:

 Wow! Where did you find that? I think I see Mr. K's. Also looks like the Burgundy's/PrimeTime building is getting started. Next to that I am spying a very old school McDonald's restaurant design. 

1 hour ago, Rabbit Hash said:

 Wow! Where did you find that? I think I see Mr. K's. Also looks like the Burgundy's/PrimeTime building is getting started. Next to that I am spying a very old school McDonald's restaurant design. 

 

Somebody posted it on Facebook.  I don't know where he got it. 

 

The row buildings that face both McMillan and Calhoun just east of the Shell station were still there until about 2005. 

 

 

 

The Crossroads Center to build new $18M headquarters in Cincinnati

 

A Cincinnati nonprofit expects to break ground in September on a new $18 million headquarters location in partnership with Model Group. The Crossroads Center will demolish existing structures from 2114 Reading Road to 2136 Reading Road in Walnut Hills and construct a three story, 30,000-square-foot building in their place.

 

The nonprofit, a 70-year-old community agency that helps those with substance abuse disorders and mental health issues, is “homeless” in its current space at 3033 Burnet Ave., according to Dr. Roberto Soria, its CEO and chief medical officer.

 

The 100,000-square-foot former hospital campus, located on 5.7 acres in the heart of Uptown, was owned by the Hamilton County Mental Health and Recovery Service Board, whose original plan was to locate four nonprofits in that space together: the Crossroads Center, the Talbert House, Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services and the Addiction Services Council.

 

County officials worked on the plan for nearly two years, at the end of which, in September 2022, they sold the Burnet Avenue complex to UC Health. Around that time, the whole plan fell through, Soria told the Courier, leaving the nonprofits who had moved there, including the Crossroads Center, to race for an alternative even as the existing complex decays around them.

 

More below:

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2024/05/02/the-crossroads-center-new-headquarters-walnut-hill.html

^UC Health declined to comment for the article, but the Crossroads Center CEO said he understands the plans are to raze the existing buildings at 3033 Burnet for parking. I really, really, really hope there is more to UC Health's long-term plan than just parking for the block bounded by MLK, Burnet, Donahue, and Highland. The site is 5.7 acres and relatively flat. It is situated at the "entrance" to the hospital complex and should be home to a well-designed, prominent building. 

100% agreed, but the Uptown institutions have shown time and time again a lack of vision or any forward thinking with their existing footprints. 

1 hour ago, jwulsin said:

^UC Health declined to comment for the article, but the Crossroads Center CEO said he understands the plans are to raze the existing buildings at 3033 Burnet for parking. I really, really, really hope there is more to UC Health's long-term plan than just parking for the block bounded by MLK, Burnet, Donahue, and Highland. The site is 5.7 acres and relatively flat. It is situated at the "entrance" to the hospital complex and should be home to a well-designed, prominent building. 

Story is updated with comment from UC health 

I'm out of the loop, is this related to the Crossroads at the corner of Vine & Liberty? Would this move in any way effect that location?

2 hours ago, ucgrady said:

I'm out of the loop, is this related to the Crossroads at the corner of Vine & Liberty? Would this move in any way effect that location?

 

Unrelated.... except that their names are very similar and both organizations are looking to move to new locations.

 

"Crossroad Health Center" is a totally separate organization, currently based at Vine and Liberty. Here is info from December of last year indicating that the Crossroad Health Center is looking to move:

 

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It’s likely some of the funds will be used to help fuel a planned move. Crossroad Health Center is looking to relocate from its current home at the corner of Liberty and Vine streets, across from St. Francis Seraph Parish, to the Over-the-Rhine Recreation Center, located at 1715 Republic St. near Findlay Market.

 

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2023/12/14/crossroad-health-center-otr-grant-mackenzie-scott.html

 

 

The vacated block now owned by UC Health on Burnet is absolutely huge. 700 ft. North-south by 365 ft. East-west.

 

Will need to connect (or re-connect?) Stetson St. and Rochelle St. to Burnet Ave. to have a semblance of urbanism/walkability in the area. 

I don’t know what relationship UC has with UC Health, but it would be feasible location for student housing for UC.