March 19, 201213 yr Apparently the owners of the Chiquita building are being sued by one of the tenants over the new sign. I'm not sure of the details, but it was on the Cincinnati business journal.
March 21, 201213 yr ^ they're Being sued by the owners of the land upon which the Chiquita building sits, citing the 62 year lease signed in 1985 that prohibits signage on the building. They're also suing Nielsen & the city of Cincinnati. The owners of the land (not building) are car dealers who owned an Oldsmobile dealership that was previously on the site. They also own the giant parking lot that covers almost an entire city block at 7th & sycamore and own another large surface lot on 9th. They moved their dealership to Symmes township after leasing the downtown land for the skyscraper. Columbia Something is the name of their company, hence the original name of the building, the Columbia Center.
March 21, 201213 yr http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/print-edition/2012/03/16/nielsens-move-to-cincinnati-triggers.html Nielsen’s move to Cincinnati triggers lawsuit over new sign Premium content from Business Courier by Jon Newberry, Staff Reporter Date: Friday, March 16, 2012, 6:00am EDT "Columbia Development Corp., owned by Cincinnati’s Joseph family, has sued Nielsen Co. and the city over a $77,000 sign the global information and media company recently installed high atop the tower, at Fifth and Sycamore streets. Nielsen just moved more than 500 employees from Covington into the 29-story office building. But Columbia, a tenant in the building since it opened in 1984 and owner of the land on which it’s built, wants the sign removed. [...] The site of the Chiquita Center was once the home of Columbia Oldsmobile, a dealership the Josephs moved to Symmes Township in 1982 to make way for the building. Ron Joseph’s father founded the family business; Joseph Auto Group is now the city’s largest by sales, with more than $500 million in annual revenue. [...] When the tower was developed in the early 1980s, it was known as Columbia Plaza. It was renamed when the late Carl Lindner, who had acquired control of Chiquita Brands International Inc. But Columbia didn’t sell the site when the tower was developed in 1982. Rather, it entered into a 62-year ground lease with the developer, Prudential Insurance. That ground lease is still in effect, even though the building’s ownership has changed hands. It’s now owned by investors through California-based Triple Net Properties."
March 28, 201213 yr Kao USA moving headquarters to 312 Plum Business Courier Kao USA Inc. has picked the 312 Plum Building as its new corporate headquarters. The owner of the downtown Cincinnati office building, a joint venture between Nashville-based Smith/Hallemann Partners and Harbert Management Corp ., signed a long-term lease with Kao USA, according to a news release. The beauty care manufacturer will relocate its corporate headquarters and occupy 55,000 square feet of space, taking the entire 10th and 11th floors and a portion of the ninth floor. Cont "It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton
March 30, 201213 yr http://cincinnati.com/blogs/developingnow/2012/03/28/city-considers-eden-park-station-for-micro-brewery/ The city of Cincinnati is investigating whether a 118-year-old red brick pump station and water tower behind Krohn Conservatory could be sold and converted to a micro-brewery. this would be great!
March 30, 201213 yr See the Cincinnati Beer/Brewing News thread for a discussion on the topic. "It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton
March 30, 201213 yr ^ just saw that, thanks. Should have known, this forum has a topic for everything.
April 2, 201213 yr ^ Okay and thanks, OCtoCincy! I think we all know that "the news" could go ANY which way--so let's hold our breath and anticipate the best. (I guess...)
April 2, 201213 yr ^ I would doubt it would be bad. I think the release I saw said something about about extensive partnership between city & state.
April 3, 201213 yr They've already announced they're going there, right? I assume this is just more details?
April 3, 201213 yr Of course its good news. Assuming Kasich is involved - he isn't going to be if it's bad.
April 4, 201213 yr That would be an assume skit . . . if Kasich showed up anywhere, anytime someone in Ohio got a job - from the janitor at McDonald's up to the new CEO at Proctor and Gamble
April 13, 201213 yr Drug maker Forest Pharmaceuticals heads to Blue Ash Premium content from Business Courier by Jon Newberry, Staff Reporter Date: Friday, April 13, 2012, 6:00am EDT - Last Modified: Thursday, April 12, 2012, 11:02am EDT Forest Pharmaceuticals will shift most of its local operations from Oakley to Blue Ash, where it’s building a 173,000-square-foot drug packaging facility that will open in 2013. The move will bring 125 jobs to Blue Ash, at the corner of Kenwood Road and Osborne Boulevard, said Judy Clark, Blue Ash’s economic development director. It’s not clear how many, if any, new jobs it will create in the region. Forest Pharmaceuticals is based near St. Louis; it’s a subsidiary of New York-based Forest Laboratories Inc. Forest would provide only limited details about the project. Location: http://g.co/maps/xx7s7 -- Blue Ash runs out of big parcels Premium content from Business Courier by Jon Newberry, Staff Reporter Date: Friday, April 13, 2012, 6:00am EDT - Last Modified: Thursday, April 12, 2012, 11:04am EDT Forest Pharmaceuticals’ purchase of a 17-acre site on Kenwood Road in Blue Ash was the last large parcel available for development in the city, said Judy Clark, the city’s director of economic development. Future developments that require more than 10 acres will have to involve redevelopment of previously developed sites and existing buildings, she said.
April 13, 201213 yr Author Why is Ohio not getting any major job announcements? Like the 6000 jobs that Apple is making in Austin?
April 13, 201213 yr Ohio has - but is generally not posted here or in other threads. Ohio is now ranked #2 in job creation (up from #48 a few years back) and #1 in the Midwest (Bureau of Labor Statistics, March 2012), and a lot of it is due to the natural gas/oil exploration in eastern Ohio. People are literally flooding what hotels are out there and even going as far as camping so they have a job that is secure. I didn't know about the latter until I picked up a copy of Steubenville's newspaper a few weeks back and was shocked that people were renting RV's just to live in so they could work! Here is just a list from this area for March that received tax credits: Pilot Chemical Company of Ohio, City of Middletown (Butler Co.) & City of Sharonville, Pilot Chemical Company of Ohio expects to create 38 full-time positions, generating $2 million in additional annual payroll (and retaining $10.9 million in existing payroll) as a result of the company’s expansion project in the City of Middletown (Butler Co.) and City of Sharonville, Hamilton Co. This project has two project locations within 15 miles of each other. Pilot Chemical Company manufactures and distributes specialty chemicals to household and industrial detergent, personal care, lubricant, oilfield, emulsion polymerization, textile, enhanced oil recovery, metal treatment, and agricultural industries. The TCA approved a 50 percent, six-year tax credit to Pilot Chemical Company of Ohio. RoundTower Technologies, Inc., City of Blue Ash (Hamilton Co.) RoundTower Technologies, Inc. expects to create 47 full-time equivalent employees generating $5.1 million in additional payroll (and retaining $4.4 million in existing payroll) as a result of the company’s expansion project in the City of Blue Ash, Hamilton Co. RoundTower Technologies is an IT Solutions Consultant focused on Data Storage and Virtualization. Their core focus is Storage and Virtualization, and they help clients solve their business problems by recommending solutions to help protect, leverage and control their information. The Ohio Tax Credit Authority approved a 50 percent, sevenyear tax credit to RoundTower Technologies, Inc. Then, there is dunnhumby that is bringing 550 jobs and staying in downtown Cincinnati, the lure of Nielson Media and Omnicare from Covington, and others. In eastern Ohio, it's the construction of a major steel plant (V&M) in Youngstown to produce piping and other items for the drilling industry, a cryogenic processing plant in Cadiz that is a $1 billion investment with 500 construction jobs and <70 permanent jobs, and a proposed second cracker plant in Wheeling, WV (across from Steubenville) that could bring thousands of jobs and hundreds of permanent positions. I mean, Monaca, PA just won out for Shell's cracker plant that is going to bring nearly 10,000 construction jobs and hundreds of permanent positions in a $3.2 billion investment (other sites included West Virginia and Ohio). A $900 million plant in Hanoverton (Columbiaia County) to process natural gas will employ hundreds when it is completed in five years. http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,22242.0.html http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,23808.0.html Lots of exciting stuff happening in Ohio!
April 17, 201213 yr Why is Ohio not getting any major job announcements? Like the 6000 jobs that Apple is making in Austin? It's not like Apple picked Austin randomly. I believe they located there because they wanted to be close to Intel. Similar to DunnHumby expanding in Cincinnati because they do work with other Cincinnati-based companies.
April 21, 201213 yr http://www.statesman.com/business/technology/officials-apples-austin-expansion-not-a-done-deal-2253021.html It's for 3,600 jobs and even Austin has to offer large incentives. You'd have to offer me incentives to move to Austin, too.
April 21, 201213 yr Author Kind of insane when it has made MANY billions in profits and is worth 600 billion itself.
April 24, 201213 yr http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2012/04/24/cincinnatis-jobless-rate-drops-below-8.html. While the unemployment rates discussed in this article have been politicized beyond all usefulness, this article reports the unadjusted March non-farm wage and salary numbers for the Cincinnati metro already discussed here.
May 2, 201213 yr An article from the media pubbing downtown/OTR in Cincy. Page 3 has some interesting stats. http://www.wcpo.com/dpp/news/local_news/From-ghost-town-to-night-on-the-town-Downtown-Cincinnatis-revitalization
May 2, 201213 yr An article from the media pubbing downtown/OTR in Cincy. Page 3 has some interesting stats. http://www.wcpo.com/dpp/news/local_news/From-ghost-town-to-night-on-the-town-Downtown-Cincinnatis-revitalization Probably the worst comment section I've ever read.
May 2, 201213 yr An article from the media pubbing downtown/OTR in Cincy. Page 3 has some interesting stats. http://www.wcpo.com/dpp/news/local_news/From-ghost-town-to-night-on-the-town-Downtown-Cincinnatis-revitalization Probably the worst comment section I've ever read. The comment section is absolutely horrible and absolutely typical. The haters can't stop the progress though, so let em hate.
May 5, 201213 yr An article from the media pubbing downtown/OTR in Cincy. Page 3 has some interesting stats. http://www.wcpo.com/dpp/news/local_news/From-ghost-town-to-night-on-the-town-Downtown-Cincinnatis-revitalization Probably the worst comment section I've ever read. The comment section is absolutely horrible and absolutely typical. The haters can't stop the progress though, so let em hate. WKRC won't be outdone, here's their own take on the topic: http://www.local12.com/news/local/story/Over-the-Rhine-May-Now-Be-Too-Cool-For-Crime/TaOR7iCKOkuXxL3JECJfsQ.cspx
June 6, 201213 yr Author http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/realestate/commercial/cincinnati-comes-back-to-its-ohio-river-shoreline.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
June 13, 201213 yr Hyatt Regency Cincinnati to undergo $17M renovation Business Courier The Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Cincinnati will undergo a $17 million renovation. The city of Cincinnati is selling its ground lease on the downtown property to New York-based Lamco LLC, a subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., for $2.1 million, according to a city news release. The city will put in the remaining $1.55 million of the property value to the deal. In exchange, all 485 rooms, public spaces and hotel support areas will be upgraded and renovated. Renovations are scheduled to begin later this year. Cont "It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton
June 13, 201213 yr Good news about the Hyatt, that place has looked tired for 20 years! Stayed there for a night a few years ago when my prior employer had a conference downtown. It was certainly tired then.
June 13, 201213 yr Good news about the Hyatt, that place has looked tired for 20 years! Stayed there for a night a few years ago when my prior employer had a conference downtown. It was certainly tired then. For real! Hopefully this puts the heat on the Hilton, Millennium and Cincinnatian to consider upgrades as well.
June 13, 201213 yr I hope they paint the roof yellow to make it look even more like Pac-Man from the air.
June 29, 201212 yr Author http://www.wlwt.com/news/money/Company-to-build-NKY-e-commerce-center-hire-up-to-700/-/9837682/15347326/-/mmovie/-/index.html
July 1, 201212 yr ^They have I-675/Rt. 35 going northbound as well (I think near Monroe?). "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 1, 201212 yr Author I think Ohio is slowly rolling them out. There is one far east of Columbus on I-70 westbound. The Indy metro has the same kind of signs.
July 2, 201212 yr Seems a little redundant in that the Artimis signs always seem to have the travel times on them, too.
August 5, 201212 yr Amazon set to nearly double Hebron, KY facility - add 900 jobs. http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20120805/NEWS0103/308050027/Amazon-hire-hundreds-Ky-?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE
August 6, 201212 yr They're reportedly working on moving to a same-day delivery model for most goods. I'm going to be seriously impressed if they pull that off, but many of my Amazon Prime deliveries have already been next-day deliveries, even though the service only promises 2-day shipping. I know there's a dark side to the breakneck pace of their logistics operation (the frenetic pace of activity inside some of their fulfillment centers has gotten media attention from several outlets), but they remain one of my favorite disruptive innovators out there. And, of course, 900 jobs is still 900 jobs.
August 6, 201212 yr ^^ I can get things within 12-18 hours from Prime living in Cincinnati. Really awesome service.
August 9, 201212 yr Royal Saudi Air Force orders 193 engines from GE Aviation GE Aviation received an order from the Royal Saudi Air Force for 193 engines to power 84 twin-engine Boeing F-15SA aircraft. With this order, worth more than $1 billion, the Royal Saudi Air Force becomes the largest operator of F110 engines other than the U.S. government. http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2012/08/08/royal-saudi-air-force-orders-193.html
August 11, 201212 yr Author Im curious, Anyone know of which company that is bringing 10,000+ jobs to the area? I just heard it on the news, but not the company.
August 17, 201212 yr ^maybe the expansion of Amazon? ======== Park + Vine becomes first OTR business on Google Street View http://www.blogotr.com/otr/park-vine-becomes-first-otr-business-to-bring-google-maps-indoors/
September 27, 201212 yr I guess this is Obama's fault for winding down efforts in the middle east..... BAE's military production leaving West Chester "Defense contractor BAE Systems is ending military production at its West Chester plant and will transfer the work to Sealy, Texas, by April. About 160 employees will lose their jobs as a result, beginning in November, the company said this morning. All commercial armored vehicle, transparent armor and JLTV engineering work will continue in West Chester, BAE said." http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20120927/BIZ/309280012/BAE-s-military-production-leaving-West-Chester?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s
September 27, 201212 yr I am sad to see any jobs and companies leave the state and the region, but if it had to be someone, I am glad it is West Chester!
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