$265 million mixed-use development planned in northern suburbs

 

A developer is working on plans to bring a $265 million mixed-use development to about 99 acres of land in a northern suburb of Greater Cincinnati.

 

Developer Larry Dillin is working with the existing property owners to put together development plans for 98.6 acres of land in West Chester Township, just north of the Streets of West Chester. There, he plans to develop North Pointe, a mixed-use development that would be a total private investment of about $265 million.

 

Dillin, CEO of Dillin Development, said his firm is focused on mixed-use land development and will be looking to sell parcels to developers or end users under the master plan for the property. His firm is working with Brooks Development, which owns the majority of the site. Dillin also is in dialogue with DK North Pointe LLC, which owns about 18 acres south of GE Aviation’s existing office buildings on Aviation Way, including that property within the master development.

 

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https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2021/09/13/north-pointe-mixed-use-development.html

 

What if there was an 11.5 mile hike bike trail along the power lines in this area that connected people, jobs, and recreation (and the new development mentioned above):

 

Edited November 6, 20213 yr by thebillshark

This would be a great amenity but I don't think Greater Cincinnati's conservative suburban counties would be willing to spend money on it. Maybe it could happen if ODOT would fund it; I'm not sure what funding sources they might have available for a project like this.

I think OKI has said hike bike trails are a priority for them.

 

I think the biggest challenge would be the ownership status of the right of way.  First and foremost the power company would have to agree to a trail.  I don't know if the power company owns any of it outright, or if they have a bunch of easements.  Then you might need new separate easements for the trail itself or to buy portions of parcels of property outright.  This may be the biggest challenge if any key property owners would fight it.  Then you may have to install some fencing or something to protect the towers holding up the lines in some way.  The only thing about the power lines that suggested to me a trail might be possible is there are no structures underneath them (but that also means you couldn't plant large trees to shade the trail.)

 

If this was going to happen you would would need a grassroots organization of people that live or work in the area to champion it, like Wasson Way has in Cincinnati.  

 

But we need trails like this.  People need as much opportunity as possible to get outside and exercise.  

lots of internet search results about this topic:

 

https://www.americantrails.org/resources/power-lines-along-trails

 

http://www.pedestrians.org/topics/row-gallery.htm

 

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2014/07/29/houstons-plan-to-make-bicycle-interstates-out-of-its-utility-network/

 

https://www.traillink.com/trail/power-line-trail-(pa)/

I rode a powerline trail in Minnesota on my bike tour in 2015. These should be lower hanging fruit for trail developers than old rail corridors. 

How good is the typical tree canopy with these kind of trails? There is going to be very little for Mariemont's Murray Path and while they are certainly better than nothing, my concern was that you can't get much tree canopy to protect users from wind and sun so they will have less all-season usage.

On 11/7/2021 at 9:36 AM, thebillshark said:

I think OKI has said hike bike trails are a priority for them.

 

 

A trail like this would score very well if they applied for OKI funds because there's an easy case that it is a transportation asset and not just recreational.

31 minutes ago, Dev said:

How good is the typical tree canopy with these kind of trails? There is going to be very little for Mariemont's Murray Path and while they are certainly better than nothing, my concern was that you can't get much tree canopy to protect users from wind and sun so they will have less all-season usage.

 

Not great. Also, I was outside Milwaukee, not Minneapolis ( correcting my previous statement that I had ridden on one of these in Minnesota)

 

Miami 2 Miami Trail:

https://tristatetrails.org/miami2miami/

 

 

The power line R/W is shared occupation with a lot of backyards:

^I found that Miami to Miami page after posting the concept above, but I cannot tell what the intended route is by looking at the map at the link. None of the roads are labeled

There are more detailed exhibits showing actual routes in this planning document:

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1den_Ocdu1kXjH1D43KbqSTVRTLOlgeAf/view

 

Edited November 9, 20213 yr by OldBearcat

Does anyone know whatever happened to the proposed hotel at MIami Valley Gaming?

I'm assuming COVID casualty? 

Yes, the hotel was delayed because of COVID-19. 

 

Also, Miami Valley Gaming is in Warren County (not Butler). 

Here’s info on the proposed hotel at Miami Valley Gaming…

https://www.journal-news.com/local/miami-valley-gaming-making-changes-upgrades-after-learning-lessons-from-covid-19/U2WFUCBM7ZGY5CQW2IRT5MNJK4/?outputType=amp

It’s delayed indefinitely as of a month ago, but they are going to expand their patio and put slots on it. They said it’s because of COVID, and they are also eliminating their buffet in favor of two restaurants


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On 2/5/2022 at 7:39 PM, SWOH said:

they are also eliminating their buffet

 

I will never step foot in there again.

Liberty Food Park gets approval; will be European-style mixed dining, recreation complex

 

The proposed Liberty Food Park recently received preliminary approval from Liberty Township trustees.

 

The facility would be the first of its type in the area. It would be located across the street from Lakota East High School and occupy over three acres of property at the corner of Wyandot and Lakota lanes. The complex would provide indoor and outdoor dining, three sand volleyball and bocce ball courts along with a live music stage, family-oriented entertainment, a bar and a variety of eateries.

 

The single, two-story building will have 13,000-plus square feet of space and sit a few hundred yards from Cincinnati-Dayton Road.

 

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https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/butler-county/liberty-township/liberty-food-park-gets-approval-will-be-european-style-mixed-dining-recreation-complex

 

looks just like Europe

24 minutes ago, ryanlammi said:

looks just like Europe

Hey it worked in Belize! 

Interesting that they're choosing to name it SIGNAGE.

1 hour ago, BigDipper 80 said:

Interesting that they're choosing to name it SIGNAGE.

Indeed...the correct name should be SIGNALISATION

1 hour ago, ryanlammi said:

looks just like Europe

 

To be fair, it looks similar to a McDonald's I drove past near Lyon.

looks just like Europe

Imagine all the minivans parked out front, reminds me of a miniature Amsterdam.

…If the trustees just kept their mouths shut and didn’t say such laughably stupid bullish!t then maybe I’d actually have a little respect for what they are trying to do. But equating whatever this is with Europe, damn that’s dumb and naïve


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$50 million apartment development under way in West Chester

 

Hills Properties has started construction on the Residences at Clocktower, a 329-unit luxury apartment community in West Chester Township.

 

Located on 8.2 acres of land at the southwest corner of Centre Pointe Drive and West Chester Township Road, Residences at Clocktower is designed to make the area a walkable community with pedestrian connections to office buildings, restaurants and gathering spaces nearby. The total investment for the project is expected to be $50 million.

 

Louis Guttman, CEO of Hills, said Clocktower is “an exciting way to begin our fourth decade of building communities” in West Chester.

 

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https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2022/04/06/residences-at-clocktower-west-chester.html

 

$7.3M land sale tied to Costco-anchored mixed-use development in Liberty Township

 

A recently recorded land sale totaling several million dollars appears to be tied to a massive mixed-use development in Liberty Towship. Anchored by a multinational retailer, the $150 million project also will include hundreds of luxury apartments.

 

Butler County real estate transactions show Washington-based Costco Wholesale Corp. acquired property on Cox Road in Liberty Township for $7.3 million. The seller was listed as Hen Jur LLC.

 

The land sale is likely part of Freedom Pointe — an 88-acre developed planned for the intersection of Liberty Way and and Cox Road, which is north of Voice of America MetroPark. The proposed development also is just across Interstate 75 from Liberty Center.

 

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https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2022/06/16/7-3-m-land-sale-tied-to-costco-development.html

 

Whole Foods to open new store in West Chester Township

 

 

West Chester Township has officially bagged a new Whole Foods.

 

The 40,000-square-foot grocery store will be constructed in the 50-acre Village North development at the northwest corner of Liberty Way and Butler Warren Road, just north of Voice of America Park and less than a mile east of the new Liberty Township Costco.

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Village North straddles the boundary of West Chester Township and Liberty Township. The 13.6-acre retail portion of the site is in West Chester; a future residential district will sit in Liberty.

 

Cincinnati-based Clous Road Partners owns and is developing the full 50-acre site. The firm, headquartered in Kenwood, is partnering with St. Louis-based Sansone Group on the retail portion. It purchased 13.6 acres through Village North Investment LLC for $7.75 million in October 2021, according to Butler County auditor records.

 

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https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2024/03/26/whole-foods-grocery-open-new-store-west-chester.html

 

1 hour ago, ColDayMan said:

Whole Foods to open new store in West Chester Township

 

 

West Chester Township has officially bagged a new Whole Foods.

 

The 40,000-square-foot grocery store will be constructed in the 50-acre Village North development at the northwest corner of Liberty Way and Butler Warren Road, just north of Voice of America Park and less than a mile east of the new Liberty Township Costco.

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Village North straddles the boundary of West Chester Township and Liberty Township. The 13.6-acre retail portion of the site is in West Chester; a future residential district will sit in Liberty.

 

Cincinnati-based Clous Road Partners owns and is developing the full 50-acre site. The firm, headquartered in Kenwood, is partnering with St. Louis-based Sansone Group on the retail portion. It purchased 13.6 acres through Village North Investment LLC for $7.75 million in October 2021, according to Butler County auditor records.

 

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https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2024/03/26/whole-foods-grocery-open-new-store-west-chester.html

 

Two huge plots being developed with this one and the Freedom pointe (where costco is). Still curious about the Hyatt house at the intersection of Cox road and Liberty way which is still under construction after multiple years. 

Pointe needed an "e"

1 hour ago, GCrites said:

Pointe needed an "e"

don't you know what that means in this towne?

Well it's very olde

City of Monroe seeks catalyst to start downtown revitalization

 

A city in southern Ohio is working to bring new life to its downtown. Monroe has been developing its downtown master plan for the last year and is ready to present it to the city council.

 

The new plans call for adding a roundabout in the northern section of the town and making driving safer. It will also begin prioritizing walkability, The revitalization of existing spaces, using them for new shops, and outdoor locations for festivals and street fairs.

 

All of these new plans are extremely early in development and rely on interest from outside parties to jumpstart the process explained Tom Smith, director of development for Monroe.

 

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https://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/news/2024/05/29/monroe-seeks-catalyst-to-revitalize-downtown.html

 

2 hours ago, ColDayMan said:

City of Monroe seeks catalyst to start downtown revitalization

 

A city in southern Ohio is working to bring new life to its downtown. Monroe has been developing its downtown master plan for the last year and is ready to present it to the city council.

 

The new plans call for adding a roundabout in the northern section of the town and making driving safer. It will also begin prioritizing walkability, The revitalization of existing spaces, using them for new shops, and outdoor locations for festivals and street fairs.

 

All of these new plans are extremely early in development and rely on interest from outside parties to jumpstart the process explained Tom Smith, director of development for Monroe.

 

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https://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/news/2024/05/29/monroe-seeks-catalyst-to-revitalize-downtown.html

 

Don’t they know that’s downtown Monroe is in Middletown.  There is no “downtown Monroe” 

Edited May 29, 20241 yr by preservationrestoration

THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY

 

Chances are you’ll miss the Millikin Road overpass on Interstate 75, even if you’re looking for it. Far more captivating is the untrammeled greenery out either window, among the last open pastures visible from the expressway between Cincinnati and Dayton, once endless farmland.

 

Now two-lane Millikin Road is in the crosshairs. Whatever the chances you miss it today, you’ll have no such luck in a decade. By then, provided things fall into place, a new I-75 interchange will have opened more than 700 acres of land to developers, and Liberty Township’s wish of creating an economic engine from scratch will be well on its way to fulfillment.

 

“This is the future,” said Joe Hinson, president and CEO of the West Chester Liberty Chamber Alliance. “As a new downtown for Liberty Township, it really becomes the catalyst that can bring Cincinnati and Dayton together.”

 

Just 54 miles separate downtown Cincinnati and downtown Dayton. The distance between I-275 and I-675 is about half that. Between them lie vast expanses of single-family subdivisions slowly collapsing the distinction between the two cities, with a convergence fated to occur sometime next decade.

 

The U.S. Census Bureau, given its touchy parameters, is unlikely to recognize the Cincinnati-Dayton combined statistical area as soon. But the mega-region of 3.2 million people is already turning heads – especially the land in the middle.

 

“That area is prime for growth in advanced manufacturing, particularly knowing we’ll have large sites with contiguous acreage that can draw on workers and amenities from both cities,” Kimm Lauterbach, president and CEO of REDI Cincinnati, said. “You really couldn’t ask for a better, more compelling story to tell when the REDI team is traveling internationally than the ability to locate companies there.”

 

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https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2024/06/26/interstate-75-millikin-exit-liberty-development.html

 

Cincinnati developer completes first buildings at $50M Clocktower Apartments

 

Hills Properties has completed the first two buildings at Clocktower Apartments on Union Centre Boulevard in West Chester Township.

 

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https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2025/01/06/hills-properties-clocktower-apartment-west-chester.html

 

Cincinnati developer breaks ground on massive apartment project at Costco site

 

One of Greater Cincinnati's most prolific apartment developers has started construction on its largest-ever project in the region.

 

Blue Ash-based Hills Properties in January broke ground on Relay 129, a 402-unit community that forms one of two bookend anchors at Freedom Pointe. The other, a Costco store, opened at the end of 2022.

 

The 23-acre residential site sits on the west side of Cox Road, directly across from the entrance to the Christ Hospital’s Liberty Township campus.

 

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I could never imagine living in an amenity desert like this.

10 minutes ago, Chas Wiederhold said:

I could never imagine living in an amenity desert like this.

Yikes that site plans is crazy haha.

2 hours ago, Chas Wiederhold said:

I could never imagine living in an amenity desert like this.

Oh, but, future commercial development (by others)!

I don't understand what's going on in that area. Is Cox Road a stump of its former self and the golf course is new, or is it the other way around?

Edited February 20Feb 20 by zsnyder

1 hour ago, zsnyder said:

Oh, but, future commercial development (by others)!

I don't understand what's going on in that area. Is Cox Road a stump of its former self and the golf course is new, or is it the other way around?

I was looking at that earlier today... one thing I could imagine is that this golf course gets redeveloped and Cox goes north to Millikin where a new interchange will be built.

 

 

1 hour ago, zsnyder said:

Oh, but, future commercial development (by others)!

I don't understand what's going on in that area. Is Cox Road a stump of its former self and the golf course is new, or is it the other way around?

 

 

The golf course was there first. 

Whole Foods-anchored mixed-use development breaks ground in Cincinnati-Dayton corridor

 

Construction is officially underway at a development that promises to bring a Whole Foods and other retailers to a site straddling West Chester and Liberty townships in the Cincinnati-Dayton corridor.

 

Village North is a 49-acre mixed-use project at the northwest corner of Liberty Way and Butler Warren Road, just north of Voice of America MetroPark.

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The first phase will build out five retail buildings on a 13.6-acre portion of the overall site located in West Chester Township. The buildings include:

• a 40,000-square-foot Whole Foods building, with an attached 9,000-square-foot multitenant building;
• an 18,500-square-foot multitenant building;
• an 8,000-square-foot multitenant building; and
• two out-lot buildings.

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https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2025/04/03/village-north-whole-foods-west-chester-liberty.html