By Bear Creek Capital.  I had not heard of this one either.  The renderings are from August.

 

Stats:

* No official word on square footage

* 122 residential units, above ground level restaurants and retail

* Four-story office building

* Large grocery

* Nearly 1,000 parking spaces, some below ground

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aerial view of site:

 

Site plan:

(More can be seen here (PDF))

 

No, they won't stop until one of these is at every major intersection.

 

Holy shit.

Hope it brings some business to the Inn. The family went down for dinner this weekend and the place was dead. I guess everyone goes down to the boathouse of Ft. Wright. They way it looked, they must be subsidizing Montgomery's location which might just be kept for posterity.

From the 12/14/05 Community Press:

 

 

Mixed use preferred for Joseph site

BY LINDSAY BRAUD | COMMUNITY PRESS STAFF WRITER

 

MONTGOMERY -- Progress is moving quickly and Joseph's Montgomery Chevrolet, 9292 Montgomery Road should be moving to its new location by early spring.

 

Click on link for article.

http://news.communitypress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051214/NEWS01/512140371/1074/Local

 

Mixed-use plan for Montgomery

Bear Creek Capital project includes retail, office, residential and parking

Cincinnati Business Courier - November 24, 2006

by Laura Baverman

Staff Reporter

 

Bear Creek Capital has entered into negotiations with the city of Montgomery to build a $70 million mixed-use project on Montgomery Road near Ronald Reagan Highway.

 

Click on link for article.

http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2006/11/27/story4.html

 

i think that this project would be great at that spot in montgomery.  both blue ash and montgomery are putting forth great efforts to gain more high density housing and this is certainly consistent with that trend.  downtown montgomery has a very quaint feel and the sooner these dealerships are gone the better.

Project has $70M price tag

Features condos, grocery, space for retail and offices

BY JEFF MCKINNEY | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER

 

 

 

MONTGOMERY - A mixed-use development with condos, a grocery and retail and office space is being planned for this suburban community.

 

Plans call for the Montgomery Towne Center to include about 100 condos and a 45,000-square-foot gourmet grocery store, said Bill Tippmann, a development partner at Bear Creek Capital, a Montgomery-based developer.

 

Click on link for article.

 

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061209/BIZ01/612090327/1076/BIZ

^There is a thread on that already...I believe.

 

Montgomery would be a good place for a Dorothy Lane Market.

Downtown would be a better place for a Dorothy Lane Market!

 

The suburbanites arn't going to want to drive downtown, you know that. ;)

a high density development like this inside of hamilton county is a good thing...you have to look at it that way

maybe it would be a perfect area for a whole foods, that is if they dont go downtown.

Well, there's a Wild Oats or something going in at Kenwood, which is just down Montgomery from there...not sure how that would influence the decision of another similar store...

 

I've always heard that the best location for your business is near your competition.

This is an excerpt from a larger article about Bear Creek's market strategy...

 

The firm won preliminary approval Nov. 3 for Montgomery Towne Center, a 10-acre redevelopment of two former car dealerships on Montgomery Road near Ronald Reagan Highway.

 

The $70 million plans now include 90,000 square feet of medical offices, 30,000 square feet of office above 40,000 square feet of retail, a bank and 92 condominiums.

 

“It’s scaled back somewhat as costs have risen,” said Frank Davis, the city’s community development director. The developer must still earn approval from the city’s historic board and negotiate with the city for tax increment financing.

 

http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2008/11/10/story9.html

This is a nice looking project.

It has changed a lot from those preliminary renderings.  Much more traditional in appearance, the scale is smaller, and much less exposed parking.  Also the grocery is gone.  I personally seriously question whether it is economically feasible in this market.

It has changed a lot from those preliminary renderings.  Much more traditional in appearance, the scale is smaller, and much less exposed parking.  Also the grocery is gone.  I personally seriously question whether it is economically feasible in this market.

 

Do you have any of those updated renderings or details that can be shared with us?

Rando, you often talk about a Cincinnati suburb that is prime to offer options for yp's outside of the city, and often mention Blue Ash and West Chester, but with all the development in Montgomery and Kenwood of late, could this be Cincinnati's premier suburban yp area? Or is this development not what you were talking about?

This could certainly be that kind of a place.  It is just going to take one of these areas to step up to the plate and start offering those kind of offerings (plenty of apartments, affordable condos/townhouses/starter homes, decent density, quick/easy access to the suburban office market).

 

Suburbs suck, but we at least want to be competitive for those who don't desire to live the urban lifestyle we all love.  So if we're going to do suburbs, lets at least do them right and maximize our gains from them.

 

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