Present at the Creation….of a new commercial strip.  A windshield tour of OH 741 north of Sprinboro, as the hot new commercial zone south of Dayton, with some basic key maps.  I was around here long enough to witness some of the changes, the big one when they four laned 741 between Austin Road and Springboro village. 

 

First Set

 

 

 

 

 

 

Getting ready to enter into sprawlspace.

 

 

Next Set:  +/- to Pennyrile Road

 

 

 

That red roof is going to be a local landmark. Ye  Olde Springeboro in rear view mirror 

 

 

The fake old-timey street lights sort of give some definition to this banal roadscape, but perhaps some black-painted modernist ones would work just as well.

 

 

 

New Kiplinger building to the left. Kiplinger is a financial advice operation, I think.  They used to publish “Changing Times” , a newsletter that offered investment advice.

 

 

Ranch houses converted into offices, and in one case a new office built to the scale of a ranch house.  I need to take some close-ups of that.

 

 

We leave the decorative street lights behind at this point

 

 

 

Approaching the Settlers Walk area

 

 

New Coffman development to the left, Village Park.  New Dorothy Lane Market and strip centers off camera to the right.

 

 

Airport to right

 

 

Pennyrile Road intersection.

 

 

Next set.  To Waldruh.  This is the Austin Road area

 

 

 

 

SouthTech business park to the left, Airport stuff to the right. 

 

 

 

Approaching Austin Road.  Big field on the left was going to be a Kohls and Walmart and strip centers, but this was stopped.  There will be some retail here, but limited. 

 

 

Coming up to and cresting the ridge at Waldruh (forested area on the right).  This ridgeline  property to the left would be a great location for maybe a 4 or 5 story midrise spec office building or corporate HQ due to the view.  A good landmark building site.

 

 

 

Next set,  to about Spring Valley Road

 

 

Great view downhill.  I-657 bypass visible in the distance.  Lexis-Nexis corporate campus in the woods to the left.

 

 

The frontage to the right is the Mills-Morgan/Oberer development The Exchange.  A mix of strip centers, food places, and offices

 

 

 

 

I will be looking at some of this in more depth as part of a future thread on real estate speculation & development along the Montgomery/Warren County line.

 

It's Pennyroyal. ;)

 

I've driven 741 all my life and remember when most of it was farms. Crazy.

The guy in the red car looked relieved to get away from you and back to his subdivision.

 

Interesting series!

and in one case a new office built to the scale of a ranch house.

 

Genius...American enginuity never ceases to amaze :wtf:

Everytime I hear or drive through Springboro, I always think of the show "Weeds" on Showtime, because Agrestic (the subdivion where nancy and friends live) reminds me of Settlers Walk and Springboro....in fact sometimes when I'm driving through I'll sing the theme song! hope you like the lyrics! :)

 

For your viewing pleasure:

 

Little boxes on the hill side, little boxes made of ticky tacky.

Little boxes, little boxes, little boxes all the same.

There’s a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one,

And they’re all made out of ticky tacky, and they all look just the same.

 

And the people in the houses all went to the university

Where they were put in boxes, little boxes, all the same.

And there’s doctors and there’s lawyers, and there’s business executives

And they’re all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

 

And they all play on the golf course and drink their martini dry

And they all have pretty children and the children go to school

And the children go to summer camp and then to the university

Where they all get put in boxes and they all come out the same.

 

And the boys go into business and marry and raise a family

In boxes, little boxes, little boxes all the same.

There’s a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one

And they’re all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

 

Demonsprawl!

Everytime I hear or drive through Springboro, I always think of the show "Weeds" on Showtime, because Agrestic (the subdivion where nancy and friends live) reminds me of Settlers Walk and Springboro....in fact sometimes when I'm driving through I'll sing the theme song! hope you like the lyrics! :)

 

For your viewing pleasure:

 

Little boxes on the hill side, little boxes made of ticky tacky.

Little boxes, little boxes, little boxes all the same.

There’s a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one,

And they’re all made out of ticky tacky, and they all look just the same.

 

And the people in the houses all went to the university

Where they were put in boxes, little boxes, all the same.

And there’s doctors and there’s lawyers, and there’s business executives

And they’re all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

 

And they all play on the golf course and drink their martini dry

And they all have pretty children and the children go to school

And the children go to summer camp and then to the university

Where they all get put in boxes and they all come out the same.

 

And the boys go into business and marry and raise a family

In boxes, little boxes, little boxes all the same.

There’s a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one

And they’re all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

 

 

 

 

Actually written about Daly City, California, an aging suburb of San Francisco

Hah...yeah Ink, i was using the Kentucky spelling! 

 

Seriously, the inspiration of this thread was this urban cross section concept from landscape/urbanist writer Grady Clay (I think he cribbed it from Patrick Geddes). Clay had written 'bout this years and years ago in an article in the Louisville Times "Scene" Saturday supplement, with a pullout section where you could do your own "urban cross section" of Louisville and mail it in to him (he was based in Louisville at that time & used that city as a basis for some of his writing & concepts).

 

 

I vaguely remember the method, as a way of driving through a city and noting how things change, something like that, so decided to play around with this a bit as something different for a pix thread.

 

Actually written about Daly City, California, an aging suburb of San Francisco

 

 

...and like a lot of notable Califas postwar stuff it has its own book and  website

 

By the looks of it this builder did a lot in the Sunset district, too.

 

These little boxes are a lot littler than one finds in Settlers Walk.  Dayton has a lot of little boxes in the 1950s suburbia.