On February 10, Cincinnati City Council's Economic Development Committee will consider changes to the Keystone Parke planned development district (PD-44) that would make way for a new headquarters for the Cincinnati chapter of the American Red Cross.
The changes would add 8.8 acres of , currently zoned SF-4 Single-Family Residential and PR Parks and Recreation District, to PD-44, which was created in May 2006.
The American Red Cross has been working with developer Neyer Properties on their new three-story, 50,000-square-foot headquarters and disaster operations center since 2006, but cannot own a facility within the existing PD-44 because of the site's tax increment financing (TIF) structure and public parking garage.
The developer plans to break ground on the building this spring and, upon project completion in the spring of 2010, will sell the property to the American Red Cross.
Neyer Properties will seek LEED Silver certification for the project, with plans to install a vegetative roof, rain gardens, bio-swales, and 125 open-grid paver grass parking spaces.
The use of a geothermal heating and cooling system is also being considered.
The American Red Cross announced plans to vacate its Downtown space at due to space constraints.
Last September, council rezoned the Downtown site to a planned development district to make way for a 13-story hotel and 150-space parking garage proposed by developer Rolling Hills Properties, LLC.
Rendering courtesy of project architect emersion DESIGN.
Previous reading on BC:
City approves rezoning for Downtown hotel (9/30/08)
EDC to hear proposal for new Downtown hotel (9/19/08)
Cincinnati to apply for $1.4M grant for I-71/Dana interchange (5/21/08)
Cincinnati approves Keystone outlot, public access (5/12/08)
EDC to hear on zoning change for Keystone outlot (5/2/08)
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8 comments:
Looks like a "disaster".
Red and white, how obvious. It is probably what a five year old would come up with. Is that who designed their other projects?
Be careful not to make it look too Swiss. Maybe it also needs American flags all over it so people will know it is obviously the American Red Cross.
Seems like a reasonable request.
Why are they leaving one isolated house at the end of Evanston Ave, right next to the freeway?
Anonymous..."Is that who designed their other projects?"
No. PDT Design designed the other buildings in Keystone Parke.
CityKin..."Why are they leaving one isolated house at the end of Evanston Ave, right next to the freeway?
Nice catch! That house is still privately-owned, unlike the other ones on the east side of Evanston Avenue. My guess is that with the amount of time it took them to acquire the Keystone Parke property in the first place, they decided they'd just work around this property. That's just a guess, though.
Are Neyer Properties and Al Neyer the same thing or connected?
Who designed the other Neyer projects, Columbia Square and the building on Burnet?
^ Al Neyer, Inc. was founded in 1894:
http://www.neyer.com
I believe that Neyer Properties grew out of Al Neyer, Inc. in the mid 1990s. Separate company:
http://www.neyer1.com
Al Neyer, Inc. built Columbia Square, while Neyer Properties is involved in the project on Burnet.
The property at the end of Evanston ave is left there because neyer purchased all the properties there and the person didn't want out and wanted 250K for there property. They are really smart. They will easily get that money and the longer they wait the more money it will take for Neyer/American Red Cross to aquire that property.
The property at the end of Evanston ave is left there because neyer purchased all the properties there and the person didn't want out and wanted 250K for there property. They are really smart. They will easily get that money and the longer they wait the more money it will take for Neyer/American Red Cross to aquire that property.
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