Posted July 14, 200420 yr http://www.deerfieldtownecenter.com/ 400,000 Sq. Ft. Lifestyle Center Traffic Count: Mason-Montgomery Road 45,000 ADT Grand Opening July 29, 2004 Deerfield Towne Center is located on Mason-Montgomery Road at Irwin Simpson Road in one of Cincinnati's most affluent and highly desirable I-71/Northeast communities. This Lifestyle Center in Northern Cincinnati will complement its sister center in Rookwood Commons. Deerfield Towne Center is anchored by Borders, Bed Bath & Beyond, Wild Oats and Dick's Sporting Goods. The tenant mix is similar to what you have come to expect from other Anderson Real Estate Lifestyle Center projects. Demographics: 1 mile: 3,784 Population: 1,369 Avg. Household Income: $86,361 Demographics: 3 miles: 68,022 Population: 24,874 Avg. Household Income: $99,347 Demographics: 5 miles: 142,682 Population: 52,529 Avg. Household Income: $96,211 For Leasing Information Contact: Jeffrey R. Anderson Real Estate (513) 241-5800 Tenants of Deerfield Towne Center - Coming Soon! Beauty/Health • Becoming Mom • Gold's Gym • Merle Norman • Old Thyme Herbs • Pure Concept Salon/Aveda • Salon LA • Venetian Nail Salon Children Stores • Children's Place • Gymboree • Justice Dining & Cafes • Abuelo's Mexican Food Embassy • Claddagh Irish Pub • Macaroni Grill • Maggie Moo's • McAlister's Deli • Mimi's Cafe • Nothing But Noodles • Panera Bread • Qdoba • Red Star Tavern • The Polo Grille For The Home • Arhaus Furniture • Bed, Bath & Beyond • Bombay • Bugaboo Moosetraks • Kirkland's • Norwalk Furniture • Oreck Vacuums Gifts & Novelties • Daylight Florist • E.B. Gameworld Grocery • Wild Oats Home Entertainment • Borders Books & Music • Ovation Audio/Video Jewelry • Kay Jewelers Men's & Women's Apparel • Ann Taylor Loft • C.J. Banks • Camille La Vie • Christopher & Banks • Coldwater Creek • Lane Bryant • New York & Company • Skeffington's • Talbots • White House/Black Market Shoes • Birkenstock • Track-N-Trail Specialty • Aquarium Adventures • Archiver's • Bankhardt's Fine Luggage • Celebrity Kids Portrait Studio • Cincinnati Bell • Claire's • Dick's Sporting Goods • Framer's Market • Huntington Bank • Sharper Image • Sprint • Sunglass Hut http://www.anderson-realestate.com/asp/profile.aspx?propid=86
July 15, 200420 yr Why is it considered a "Lifesyle Center"? It looks nothing like Easton Town Center which is what I think of when I hear lifestyle center.
July 15, 200420 yr Here is a letter that a Deerfield Trustee wrote me in reply to my email. I was disappointed about the layout of "Deerfield Towne Center" and called it a "strip mall". Dated 2/24/04 Mr. XXXXXXX, Thank you for your e-mail and for taking the time to share your thoughts on this matter. I cannot comment on the specifics of the Wal-Mart case as it has not yet come before the Trustees. I assure you that I will carefully consider the facts of the case and render a decision that is in accordance with the law and in the best interests of all residents of Deerfield Township. As far as Deerfield Towne Center is concerned, I must disagree with your assertion that it does not resemble Rookwood. In fact, it is shaping up to be all that and more, as was expected. The restaurants are all top notch and include some that are new to Cincinnati. The retail shops are coming on line, and are very much in line with the upscale Rookwood shops. True - the center includes Dick's and BBB, but I feel we have been lacking a quality sporting goods store in the area, so I think it's a welcome addition. I would have preferred Galyon's, as was originally planned, but they went elsewhere. I think at the root of some of your angst is a belief that the government has, or should have, more control over development than it in fact has. This is America, after all, and property rights are, and always have been, one of our most sacred constitutional rights. The Courts (thankfully) have upheld this, viewing zoning laws as an infringement upon those rights. Consequently, zoning laws are very strictly interpreted by the Courts, with the benefit of the doubt most always going to the property owner. While as elected officials, we most certainly have an obligation to listen to those we represent, we are also sworn to uphold the law. Resident input is of critical importance in any zoning case, but is not the only information that can or should be considered. The Wal-Mart case is a site plan review, not a zone change. As such, the Trustees must function as triers of fact in a quasi-judicial setting. This is in contrast to a zone change, whereby trustees take on more of a policy-making/legislative role. As far as luring other retailers to the area, we have very limited ability to do so. We cannot offer abatements like Mason, because we have no offsetting income taxes. The only real tool we have is Tax Increment Financing, which we have used creatively and successfully to help make Deerfield Towne Center, Waterstone, and Governors Point the outstanding developments they are, or will be. Best regards, Randy Kuvin
July 17, 200420 yr I see they are still using watered-down postmodern architecture for strip centers. This stuff was cutting edge "high design" in the 1970s, now bowdlerized into a shopping center aesthetic I wonder if the neomodernist, deconstructionist stuff thats being done by Gehry, Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Koolhass, will become similarly watered down into "styling" for shopping centers. But those demographics are interesting. I didn't know that area was that affluent. Average income $99K? in the 3 mile radius? Wow.
July 29, 200420 yr POLO FIELDS? Someone explain New lifestyle center opens in Warren County Deerfield Towne Center, a new upscale shopping and dining development, is now open for business in Warren County, according to developer Jeffrey R. Anderson Real Estate. 420,000-square-foot center is located at the intersection of Mason-Montgomery and Irwin Simpson roads in Deerfield Township. It is the site of the former Cincinnati Polo Fields, according to a news release. The center is hosting its grand opening activities today. "The demographics have indicated for quite some time that this area is more than ready for a lifestyle shopping center to call its own," said Mark Fallon, director of leasing for Anderson, in a news release. Deerfield Towne Center is anchored by Bed Bath & Beyond, Borders Books, Dick's Sporting Goods and Wild Oats. Other retailers include Coldwater Creek, Ann Taylor Loft, Talbots, Camille La Vie, Arhaus Furniture, Bugaboo Moosetraks, Ovation Home Theater and Aquarium Adventures. Restaurants include Claddagh Irish Pub, The Polo Grille, Abuelo's Mexican Food Embassy, Nothing But Noodles and Red Star Tavern.
July 29, 200420 yr POLO FIELDS? Someone explain It's what was there before it got paved over. Honestly, I don't know anything about any former polo fields. They probably had some there at some point. Not being from Deerfield Twp. and not being a polo fan, I know absolutely nothing about this.
July 29, 200420 yr Wow they have built that fast. I known nothing of it, before Monte first posted this.
July 29, 200420 yr Before the Towne Center they were just wild fields in my two years of visiting. When were they Polo Fields?
November 9, 200420 yr Abuelo's to open Nov. 15 at Deerfield Abuelo's Mexican Food Embassy Restaurants will open its first Cincinnati-area restaurant Nov. 15. The location, at Deerfield Towne Center, is 7,800 square feet and seats about 240 diners, according to a news release. This is the second Ohio store for the Lubbock, Texas-based company. The first is in the Easton Town Center in Columbus. Abuelo's also plans a restaurant at the Crestview Hills Town Center, under construction at the former Crestview Hills Mall. In addition to Abuelo's, six new stores totaling 25,000 square feet will open at Deerfield Towne Center by Dec. 1. According to a news release, slated to open are Bankhardt's Luggage and Gifts, I Love Cincinnati, Kay Jewelers, Missy & Jack, Nothing but Noodles and Ovation. Deerfield Town Center, a 415,000-square-foot lifestyle center in northeast Cincinnati developed by Jeffrey R. Anderson Real Estate Inc., is now 93 percent leased.
November 9, 200420 yr I have eaten at abuelos in Dallas...it is very good! Glad to see one near, even if it is in a sea of parking madness!
November 9, 200420 yr According to a news release' date=' slated to open are Bankhardt's Luggage and Gifts, [b']I Love Cincinnati[/b], Kay Jewelers, Missy & Jack, Nothing but Noodles and Ovation. Oh, the irony.
November 10, 200420 yr According to a news release' date=' slated to open are Bankhardt's Luggage and Gifts, [b']I Love Cincinnati[/b], Kay Jewelers, Missy & Jack, Nothing but Noodles and Ovation. Oh, the irony. LOL
November 10, 200420 yr I agree there is not much need for a garage in a far suburb and that would be proposterous to a developer probably, but this is a design of yesterday, I think it would have been way more cool had it been designed to the curb with the parking hidden in the rear.
March 3, 200520 yr More development near the site...from the 3/3/05 Enquirer: Ready or not, project OK'd for Deerfield Zoning approval stands for theater, condos By Erica Solvig Enquirer staff writer DEERFIELD TWP. - This Warren County community is getting a new movie theater, 160 condominiums, and some more offices even though residents didn't want them and trustees couldn't agree on the preliminary plans. Even after two votes and much discussion, trustees Randy Kuvin and Lee Speidel couldn't agree this week on the conditions they wanted developers to follow when building the proposed Deerfield Village Square. So instead, the township's zoning commission approval stands. E-mail [email protected] http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050303/BIZ01/503030360/1002/BIZ
March 3, 200520 yr Why do they call that a lifestyle center? When I think lifestyle center, I think small specialty stores set in an urban environment exempt from the normal suburban big box store.
March 3, 200520 yr ^ OMG that is disgusting. Mason also has a movie theatre proposed on 741. It is getting bad around here just in the short time I lived here.
March 4, 200520 yr Why do they call that a lifestyle center? When I think lifestyle center, I think small specialty stores set in an urban environment exempt from the normal suburban big box store. I dunno...seems like everyone has their own definition. I always thought of it as a live/work/shop/play development, but it seems these days that any crappy outdoor mall or office park is called a "lifestyle center".
May 18, 200520 yr "Village Square". Huh. From the 5/18/05 Cincinnati Post: Deerfield center adds movies, condos Project includes 150 new homes By Alexander Coolidge Post staff reporter The developers behind the Deerfield Towne Center in Mason have plans to install a 16-screen movie theater as well as 150-unit condominium complex, part of a second phase to the lifestyle center that just opened last August. http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050518/BIZ/505180342/1001/RSS04
May 18, 200520 yr Deerefield does has some very good restaurants but it just seems so...boring when ever i'm out there. One bar is open until 2 and i just cant imagine going to a bar or whatever until 2 and then walking out accross the parking lot and going home in your suv. It just seems so dull compared the excitement that comes with staying out until 2 downtown.
May 18, 200520 yr Well edale you just described life in in the Deerfield/Mason/West Chester area, that is why I am always in the city.
May 19, 200520 yr Another movie theater in Mason. Aren't they still planning on building one in the proposed "City" Park or whatever it's called center.
June 12, 200520 yr From the 6/12/05 Enquirer: Project seeks $50M expansion Deerfield Towne Center developers await approval for more stores, condos, offices By Jennifer Edwards Enquirer staff writer DEERFIELD TWP. - The developers of the Deerfield Towne Center will learn this week whether they can move forward with a $50 million expansion that includes a movie theater and housing. Village Square would be the second phase of the 415,000-square-foot "lifestyle center" that opened last fall on the west side of Mason-Montgomery Road in Warren County north of Fields Ertel Road. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050612/NEWS01/506120359/1056/rss02
June 12, 200520 yr Mason-Montgomery is already as bad as Fields-Ertel. The developments need to be controlled, too much building, not enough improvements to roads and the communities will hurt because they can't control it. I think the growth is good, anywhere in the Cincy metro, because it helps the entire region, but when these huge developments and no road improvements, people will just sit in there cars and keep destroying the envirionment.
June 15, 200520 yr Complaints already...from the 6/15/05 Enquirer: Expansion has township uneasy Deerfield Twp. wants changes in Towne Center plan By Jennifer Edwards Enquirer staff writer DEERFIELD TWP. - Residents and officials here want to scale down the expansion plans of a popular shopping center that include a movie theater, offices and more than 100 condominiums. The Deerfield Township Zoning Commission early Tuesday tabled a site plan request for the second phase of Deerfield Towne Center. The hearing will continue July 18. E-mail [email protected]. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050615/NEWS01/506150388/1056/news01
June 15, 200520 yr Like we need another theatre around here. Deerfield Township trustees are dumb asses. I have told that to them in emails and I will say it again. EDIT: I will go a step further and say that Deerfield Township trustees make Cincinnati City Council look like geniuses. Did I get my point across now?
June 15, 200520 yr Growth is only good for the region when it's actual growth. When it's redistribution, then it's not good. Unless you think vacant buildings and expensive duplicative public services are good. It's been called "leapfrogging" in other parts of the country, and it's really just starting to ramp up around here.
August 18, 200519 yr From the 8/17/05 Enquirer: Deerfield approves development Village Square would house condos, shops By Jessica Brown Enquirer staff writer DEERFIELD TWP. - A project that would bring a 16-screen cinema and 150 condominiums to the Deerfield Towne Center cleared a major hurdle Monday. The township zoning commission approved the developer's site plan for the $50-million-plus addition called Village Square. The expansion will include a 16-screen Regal Cinema, three two-story buildings that would hold 150,000 square feet of office space, and condos starting at $300,000 each. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050817/NEWS01/508170393/1056/rss02
September 26, 200519 yr It looks like Deerfield Village Square is not going to happen. Over a movie theater! HAHAHAHAAAA!!! Anyway, from the 9/22/05 Pulse-Journal: Deerfield Towne Center II denied Residents, trustee express concern over movie theater Thursday, September 22, 2005 The expansion of a Deerfield Twp. outdoor mall hit a roadblock Tuesday. The second stage for the Deerfield Towne Center II — Deerfield Village Square was denied after residents and Trustee Lee Speidel expressed concerns about a movie theater proposed for the project and its effects on the surrounding community. Contact Christopher Magan at (513) 696-4525 or [email protected] http://www.pulsejournal.com/hp/content/news/stories/2005/09/22/pj0922deerfieldtrustees.html
September 27, 200519 yr Cinema, condo plans in limbo By Jessica Brown Enquirer staff writer DEERFIELD TWP. - A project that would bring a 16-screen cinema to Deerfield Towne Center has hit a snag, and a decision on whether it can proceed is now in the hands of a Warren County judge. Township trustees last week cast a split vote on plans for the more than $50 million expansion called Village Square, which would put a Regal Cinema, 150 condominiums starting at $300,000 each, and 150,000 square feet of office space behind the Towne Center, a shopping development on Mason Montgomery Road. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050927/NEWS01/509270358/1056
October 5, 200519 yr From the 9/29/05 Pulse-Journal: Developer appeals site plan denial Deerfield Twp. outdoor mall’s cinema at center of controversy Thursday, September 29, 2005 A developer is appealing the denial of a site plan for the second phase of an outdoor mall in Deerfield Twp. Casto Deerfield Limited and Casto Reality filed an appeal Thursday in Warren County Common Pleas Court. C. Francis Barrett, representing the developer, called the denial by township officials arbitrary and unreasonable. Contact Christopher Magan at (513) 696-4525 or [email protected] http://www.pulsejournal.com/news/content/news/stories/2005/09/29/pj0929towncenterappeal.html
December 28, 200519 yr From the 12/22/05 Enquirer: Deerfield approves cinema, despite Long Cove opponents By Jessica Brown Enquirer staff writer DEERFIELD TWP. - A 16-screen movie theater will be built behind Deerfield Towne Center next year, despite opposition from people living in million-dollar Homearama homes behind the site. After listening to residents' concerns for more than two hours, township trustees Tuesday night voted 2-1 to approve plans for the 66,000-square-foot Regal Cinema and three office buildings totaling 59,000 square feet. Trustees Barbara Wilkens Reed and Randy Kuvin voted for the project; Trustee Lee Speidel opposed it. E-mail [email protected] http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051222/NEWS01/512220348/1056/rss02
December 29, 200519 yr Have you guys seen this subdivision? It is the quintessential NIMBY development…SERIOUSLY! They built this subdivision after Deerfield Towne Center was already built. What is really amusing is that people are buying $2 million dollar homes in there even though they will have to exit their neighborhood everyday looking at the ass end of a Wal Mart Super Center. So typical of suburbanites to think that development stops once they move in. I have been to the neighborhood several times and checked out the model and the homes are gorgeous but so out of place. As for the theatre, I am actually against it, but not for the reasons the NIMBY above mentioned. It is over saturation… It is Deerfield & Mason not working together again. The area already has the Rave Cinema’s in West Chester & the Showcase Cinema at King’s Island and yes the Cinema De Lux actually in Springdale isn’t too far either and on top of that Mason has a new theatre proposed on Kings Mills. I really don’t know why Deerfield has trustees, they approve everything that is presented to them and have continued to make poor judgment calls. Every time I pass Deerfield Towne Center my head hurts from the horrid design. The local residents are naïve to what Deerfield could have had and are so quick to embrace the “strip mall” because they are just happy to have some retail near them so they don’t (god forbid) have to drive to Kenwood.
May 3, 200718 yr From the 5/3/07 Pulse-Journal: Official: Despite dining defections, Deerfield Towne Center's doing fine Property manager says overall sales are good; report shows a low comparative vacancy rate. By Denise G. Callahan Staff Writer Thursday, May 03, 2007 There is no shortage of eateries at the Deerfield Towne Center, but at a recent township meeting, one woman asked, "Where did all the restaurants go?" In recent months diners have watched as the Macaroni Grill, the Red Star Tavern and Nothing But Noodles all have folded their menus and shuttered their doors. Contact this reporter at (513) 696-4525 or [email protected]. http://www.pulsejournal.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/05/03/pjm050307restaurants.html
May 4, 200718 yr They are full of crap, Deerfield Towne Center is a failure. The journalist failed to point out that Maggie Moo's, the Aquarium store and a few other stores have also closed. How does an ice cream shop close? Oh I know, they put it in a mini strip mall surrounded by surface lots and made the entire center a nightmare for pedestrians. There were talks about Anderson moving on, possibly leaving Cincinnati... I say good riddance. I am not an architect but even I can recognize that the glorified strip malls they build are piss poor. I had personally ripped into several of the former Deerfield Township trustees that supported this project. The township is run by clowns.
May 18, 200718 yr Deerfield project 'urban in the suburbs' BY LAURA BAVERMAN | CINCINNATI BUSINESS COURIER May 18, 2007 IMAGE: Towne Properties modeled its Beacon Hill brownstone-style community in Deerfield Township after the well-known neighborhood of the same name in Boston. Courtesy of Towne Properties DEERFIELD TWP. - Tucked behind the bustling restaurants and shops of Deerfield Towne Center is a new Towne Properties community that brings the hidden courtyards, window boxes and gaslights of Boston's famed Beacon Hill brownstone community to Cincinnati's growing northern suburb. The $45 million project - also named Beacon Hill - when complete will feature 106 townhomes and 36 rowhouses reminiscent of the historic 19th century downtown Boston community.
May 18, 200718 yr That rendering doesn't show Brownstones. I will agree that they look more urban than most suburban projects but lets remember Deerfield Towne Center is a parking lot nightmare of failed suburban planning.
June 3, 200718 yr From Community Press Mason-Deerfield, 5/31/07: PHOTO: Some Long Cove residents point toward the Wal-Mart Supercenter landscape buffering as the proper way to take resident concerns into consideration. At left is the Wal-Mart Supercenter as viewed from behind Hampton Bay Place. At right is Regal Cinemas from the same spot. Eric Bradley/Staff PHOTO: The back of Regal Cinemas as viewed from behind Hampton Bay Place. Eric Bradley/Staff Cinema still has Deerfield Twp. residents worried BY ERIC BRADLEY | [email protected] DEERFIELD TWP. - With the soon to be opened Regal Cinemas rising in sight of their homes, some Long Cove residents who opposed the development are now more worried than ever. The 16-screen theatre west of Deerfield Towne Center is scheduled to open in late June. Residents from the upscale Long Cove neighborhood bordering the site spoke against the cinema complex plan during a Deerfield Township trustee meeting in December 2005. http://news.communitypress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070531/NEWS01/705310362/1002/RSS01
June 12, 200718 yr "Tucked behind the bustling restaurants and shops of Deerfield Towne Center is a new Towne Properties community that brings the hidden courtyards, window boxes and gaslights of Boston's famed Beacon Hill brownstone community to Cincinnati's growing northern suburb." Yea, I'm sure that if I ever visit the new "Beacon Hill" in Deerfield, I will immediately feel like I'm in Boston. Especially driving into and out of the glorified parking lot to reach it. (sarcasm off, for now)
June 12, 200718 yr Wow, a townhouse project in the area that doesn't have a front loaded garage. What will they think of next!!!
June 19, 200717 yr Say what you will about the placement of this development, but I applaud Towne for undertaking such a traditional urban design, their site selections just strikes me as an odd fit with the surrounding uses. It looks like a great product though. Here are a few pictures I took of it yesterday. For instance, look what you see as you drive down the main drag (there may be something planned to block this, that I am unaware of--at least I hope there is)
June 19, 200717 yr Hey Beacon Hill is pretty suburban... not soulless though. These pics are decent. Better than most.
June 19, 200717 yr It's nice to see that they completely obliterated every tree imaginable in order to build this. You can build density in suburbia, but this still isn't even what suburbia is supposed to be. Preserve some darn trees/nature and maybe we'll be getting somewhere with this.
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