Elevations by Burgess & Niple*: Click to enlarge
The Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati (MSD) has outgrown its offices in Lower Price Hill and has proposed a new building adjacent to the future MetroWest Commerce Park.
MSD estimated that, after adding several mandated engineering support personnel, it needs room for 157 employees and consultants.
Their current space, which is spread among three rundown buildings in the Mill Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant at 1600 Gest Street, only has room for 120 workers.
A new three-story office building would solve the space crunch and is estimated to cost $7.5 million.
Renovation of the three buildings would not create any more space and would cost $6 million, plus $1 million in temporary relocation costs.
MSD has requested a location along the north side of Gest Street, between Summer and Woodrow streets.
Hoping to jumpstart interest in the MetroWest site, the City has worked with MSD and has brought into the project the Department of Community Development and Planning, City Facility Management and the Department of Finance.
Funding for the project would come from City-issued bonds. Until the bonds are paid off, Hamilton County would lease the building from the City for use by MSD. Once the bonds are paid, the County would gain ownership.
Plans for the new building will be presented during Friday's meeting of the City Planning Commission.
Site plan: Click to enlarge
Southeast elevation: Click to enlarge
WINDOWS LIVE BIRD'S EYE VIEW
* Renderings to be revised to show three stories
Previous reading on BC:
MetroWest receives Clean Ohio funds (7/27/07)
BC: City frees $413,000 for land at MetroWest site (6/28/07)
BC: Lower Price Hill: MetroWest update (4/2/07)
Thursday, November 15, 2007
MSD needs new office building
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4 comments:
Is that a green roof I see on those renderings? That would be nice...but I could go for a little more 'urban' of a plan for that site.
Either way...new investment is certainly welcome for that run-down industrial area.
Yes, apparently the building will be designed using "green" principles. It's supposed to mirror the type of buildings that will be built in MetroWest.
This is where the strip clubs are supposed to go.
I'm all for it, but...
They should only get the new facility AFTER they have completed the maintenance and upgrades to the sewer system that have been deferred all these years.
Until then, those 37 new staffers need to be living in rental trailers at job sites to properly facilitate the work. Real field construction never takes place at the corporate HQ. If they're focused on completing their own building, they are going to be distracted from their primary mission, which is building and maintaining our sewers.
Let this beautiful building be a fitting reward for a job well done, not something that saps funds from their principal purpose.
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