From the 7/1/05 Enquirer:

 

 

PHOTO: Rachel Perkins stocks tin snips in the new Home Depot store in the Buttermilk Town Centre in Crescent Springs. The store opens July 28.  The Enquirer/Patrick Reddy

 

PHOTO: The new Home Depot will be the first store to open in the Buttermilk Towne Center in Crescent Springs.  The Enquirer/Patrick Reddy

 

Home Depot first at center

Buttermilk development tenants are getting ready

By Cindy Schroeder

Enquirer staff writer

 

CRESCENT SPRINGS - A Home Depot store that's expected to open here in a month will be the first of 22 stores and restaurants opening in the $56 million Buttermilk Towne Center.

 

Shoppers can check out the 102,513-square-foot store at its grand opening on July 28.

 

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From the 7/6/05 Kentucky Post:

 

 

Home Depot set for plaza's first store opening

By Stephenie Steitzer and Joshua Rinaldi

Post staff reporters

 

The Crescent Springs Home Depot grand opening on July 27 will mark the first opening of a store for the Buttermilk Towne Center shopping plaza.

 

Matt Daniels, principle owner of developer Bear Creek Capital, said they have tenants for all but two lots in the main plaza and half the spaces in the out lots.

 

 

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From the 7/23/05 Enquirer:

 

 

PHOTO: Some people building something.

 

Buttermilk center arising

Home Depot opening Thursday first of 22 stores for $56M development

By Cindy Schroeder

Enquirer staff writer

 

CRESCENT SPRINGS - The city's two newest businesses haven't even opened, but customers already are stopping by Chipotle Mexican Grill and Home Depot.

 

On Thursday, several would-be customers tried to patronize Chipotle's while managers were training the staff of the quick-service burrito joint at 525 Buttermilk Pike. The restaurant opens Thursday night for a charitable fund-raiser and at 11 a.m. Fridayfor normal business.

 

 

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Getting in and out of that Chipotle is going to be a mess. It's in a corner bumped up against the on-ramp for I-75 and Buttermillk. Plus on one side of the building their is a McDonald's and on the other a gas station. Talk about nightmare.

 

The retaining wall they're talking about in the article is going to be huge. I'd compare it to the size of the retaining wall on the river.

From the 10/6/05 Enquirer:

 

 

Shopping center takes shape

Reactions mixed to Home Depot as anchor store

By Mike Rutledge

Enquirer staff writer

 

Nick Berry, a former Crescent Springs council member, won't know what he thinks about Buttermilk Towne Center until he sees what other stores and restaurants plan to move into the new development.

 

The project is anchored by a Home Depot, which left some city officials disappointed while pleasing others. City leaders are more positive about the Remke Markets store that also is planned.

 

 

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Can I just say that the name "Buttermilk Towne Center" makes me want to vomit buttermilk?  Is Buttermilk the name of a place, or is it a random word somebody chose?

Can I just say that the name "Buttermilk Towne Center" makes me want to vomit buttermilk?  Is Buttermilk the name of a place, or is it a random word somebody chose?

 

It's near Buttermilk Pike, the big road through Cresent Springs.

 

This place is extremely disapointing and lame. If I wanted this crap, I could just go ten minutes out to Florence. Furniture stores and chain Mexican restaurants suck.

This place is what Legacy Place in Green Twp. was going to end up being if it got built.  Promises of something grand, delivery of something bland.

From the 1/19/06 Enquirer:

 

 

PHOTO: Bricklayers work on the future Remke Market building Wednesday at Buttermilk Towne Center in Crescent Springs. The 46,000-square-foot grocery will feature a drive-up pharmacy, sushi bar, coffee shop with fireplace, a deli and a chef who prepares meals for takeout. The store is scheduled to open in March.  Carrie Cochran/The Enquirer

 

Building Buttermilk Towne Center

Remke Market takes shape as opening date draws near

 

Bricklayers lay block on the 46,000-square-foot Remke Market, one of the anchors for the $56 million Buttermilk Towne Center, developed by Bear Creek Capital LLC, off Buttermilk Pike near Interstate 75 in Crescent Springs.

 

 

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I agree with the previous posts.  This is a worthless development.

From the 3/9/06 Kenton Community Recorder:

 

 

PHOTO: A construction worker works to finish the awning of the new Remke Markets in the Buttermilk Towne Center. The grocery store will open March 12.  AMANDA VANBENSCHOTEN/COMMUNITY RECORDER STAFF

 

Buttermilk Towne Center coming along

Officials say center on schedule and Remke's opening new store soon

BY AMANDA VAN BENSCHOTEN | COMMUNITY RECORDER STAFF WRITER

 

CRESCENT SPRINGS --On March 12, Remke Markets will become the third tenant in the Buttermilk Towne Center, and officials say the development is moving along as expected.

 

"I think it's right on track," said Mayor Claire Moriconi. "I think they're doing very well. They were working on Remke in the middle of winter, in the cold and everything. They just kept going all winter long."

 

 

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From the 11/28/06 Erlanger Recorder:

 

 

City wants Towne Center fixes

BY AMANDA VAN BENSCHOTEN | COMMUNITY RECORDER STAFF WRITER

 

CRESCENT SPRINGS - City officials have asked Bear Creek Capital to make about 10 improvements to the Buttermilk Towne Center, per the development agreement signed a year and a half ago.

 

"It's minor things, it's all stuff that's gotten lost in the shuffle," said Mayor Claire Moriconi. "It's not hurting the project. It's just part of the agreement. All in all, we work very well with them."

 

The city's concerns range from excess trash to a new sidewalk to cracked asphalt, according to a memo presented at a November 27 caucus meeting of council.

 

 

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LA Fitness is now under construction at the Buttermilk Town Center.  It is being built between Remkes and Ashley Furniture.

I shake my head every time I drive by. Crescent Springs cleared all that land thinking they were getting a "Life Style" center similar to Rookwood. All they really got was suburban blight even less interesting that the Center of Cincinnati development (also by Bear Creek).

 

I think the wooded trailer park it replaced looked much better.

^ Bear Creek did the same thing in Newport.  They promised "Rookwood Commons" while planning "Center of Cincinnati".  What a terrible company.

That crap is a "towne center"?!?

 

I just stumbled on this thread and ... it's nothing more than a strip mall. And a damn ugly one at that.

I do the same thing AlabamaEx.  It could have been even worse if they named it Buttermilk Pike Towne Centre. The whole development is a joke.

On Google Maps you can still see the trailer park that occupied this site.  There is still a trailer park on the other side of Beechwood.  I don't think people have as much reason to get upset over a trailer park being bulldozed as opposed to the perfectly fine homes that were mowed down in Norwood.  Still, you have to wonder why the hell the world needs all these stores. Anyway, an overall hideous development. 

Agreed.

Awwwh!!! The smell of suburban 'big box' crap in the morning, or afternoon, or evening. It doesn't matter when or where, it just stinks all the time.

At least it used to be a hill. They moved a lot of dirt for this.