Residents can learn more about what it will take to clean up the former Cincinnati Milling Machine industrial site in Oakley for redevelopment during a public meeting at 6:30 P.M. tonight at the Oakley Recreation Center, .
Developer and property owner Vandercar Holdings is seeking up to $3 million in Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund (CORF) program funding to remediate the 74-acre site for its $120 million Oakley Square project, a mixed-use development including a movie theater, apartments, offices, retail, and restaurants.
Attendees will be able to see the plans and provide comments on the CORF application.
Planning for the site has been in the works since 2003.
In 2008, Vision Land Development signed a development agreement with the City to build a $300 million, 2 million-square-foot mixed-use project including office space, retail, residential, hotels, and a village square.
A soft economy and delays on the $30 million Kennedy Connector road project killed those plans, and Vandercar purchased 67 of the 74 acres in December 2010.
A contractor for the demolition of the nearly 2 million square feet of dilapidated industrial buildings is expected to be named this month.
On April 1, the Cincinnati City Planning Commission will review the most recent development plan. The Oakley Community Council will provide an update at its April 5 meeting.
Vandercar Holdings developed the adjacent 440,000-square-foot Center of Cincinnati power center featuring big box retailers such as Sam's Club, Target, Meijer, and PetSmart.
Previous reading on BC:
Cincinnati to apply for federal transportation grants (4/1/10)
Oakley open house shows Kennedy Connector preferred alternative (6/25/09)
Vision Land puts Millworks plans on website (7/22/08)
Newest Millworks site plan (2/5/08)
Millworks site plan and TIF projects (11/20/07)
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Hearing on Oakley Station remediation tonight
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Just look at all that glorious surface parking! Vandercar's still got it!
^They argued in a committee meeting that people HATE garages. Well, I think that's what they meant. This project seems eerily Forest Fair Mallish.
I love how the site plan shows Disney Street and the big box stores Vandercar built previously. The plan makes it appear as if they're creating some sort of urban street with buildings fronting on to it.
The reality is that those big boxes face the other direction and turn their blank, cinderblock wall backs to Disney Avenue and this new development. I would assume, based on Vandercar's record and current plan here, that Oakley Station will do the same and this will turn out to be a completely suburban design in the heart of our city.
Yeah, this is the first time I've seen the layout. It is just another strip shopping center. Woop-de doooo.
Kinda like that awful thing that got stuck in the middle of Columbia-Tusculum.
You deserve better Oakley. (and C-T).
I agree with you guys completely. Way too much surface parking, terrible layout.
The Oakley Community Council generally supports this development, but wants it to be more family-friendly and walkable. This achieve neither.
Please do not be another Columbia Square. That place will be obsolete in ten years.
Oakley: Ask for better!
This would have been prime real estate for some sort of new urbanist development, but instead we are seeing this suburban garbage.
How many terrible incarnations have we seen since 2003? Does no one know how to develop large tracts anymore?
Or maybe that's the problem. Too many massive projects. Our cities were not developed that way, it's a fairly recent phenomenon.
Organic development is dead. We're now in the era of superblocks, megadevelopments, and planned development districts.
Not to worry, The Guv will veto the money since it will create jobs.
Ya- REALLY disappointing.
In the heart of SoCal sprawl, "Brea Downtown" was developed a little under 10 years ago:
http://breadowntown.com/images/bdt-directorymap-big.gif
And in Glendale, CA (LA County) the Americana at Brand was built only a few years ago
http://c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000BCYRYy39a.U/s/750/750/Americana-Brand-Glendale-CA-Panorama
Both were large scale developments of several blocks. Both are successful, incredibly pedestrian friendly, and have massive garages and almost no surface lots.
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