Cincinnati City Council has passed unanimously an ordinance that will allow a new headquarters for the Cincinnati chapter of the American Red Cross to be built at Keystone Parke in Evanston.
The ordinance amends Keystone Parke's planned development district (PD-44) to include an additional , formerly zoned for single-family residential and recreational use.
Neyer Properties will build the new three-story, 50,000-square-foot disaster operations center, which it will then sell to the American Red Cross upon completion in 2010.
The development will include a vegetative roof, rain gardens, bio-swales, and 125 open-grid paver grass parking spaces, and is seeking LEED Silver certification.
Construction is scheduled to begin this spring.
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 emersionDESIGN.
Previous reading on BC:
Cincinnati EDC considers altering Keystone Parke plan for American Red Cross (2/3/09)
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)
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The best thing about this is that it is yet another project that is happening right now. We need as many of these as possible to help bring us through this economic downturn. The site was going to be developed at some point, and what better time than now?
What's so great about this project. It involves once again displacing people from homes they've been in all their lives and not giving them fair market value for them.
Why is this project so great? Granted a few people will be employed for a short period of time but what about the people in that neighborhood that are being displaced. What will happen to them and how many private homes will this property suck up in the name of so called progress.
I think that's a question better asked of the developer, who acquired the properties over the course of nearly a decade.
What happened to any residents is something only they can answer.
This is about greed again. I'm a resident of this community and it is down right shameful of what some of you are calling progress. The residents that have been here all there lives are not getting far market value. For the record (via auditor's page) Neyer started aquiring these properties within the last 2yrs. There is still one person that has yet to sell his home. He knows his value and demands more money. I think the city of cincinnati is praying on residents in this economy. We've been in a depression/recession for longer than we are willing to admit and HISTORICAL AREAS such as Evanston is why soooo much development is going on right now. There is a major development further down Dana ave next to Xavier University. The properties where purchased on the cheap and the developer made at least 300k in the process. And if by approval of the City of Cincinnati it is even more distasteful. To my understanding they are looking to come down even further on Dana avenue to Wabash. It runs paralel to the strip of Evenston ave on that side of I71. If this is true let it be known now that it's going to take more that FMV to take these homes. These homes are comparable to the homes in Hyde park and Oakley with is only a few miles away and this area is considered a Historical community. My point in short is we know our value now and will not be told otherwise. This isn't an area in which they can take by imminent domain either. But with all the corruption that's been happening I'm sure we'll see the laws change right before our eyes.
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