Linden Park meeting tonight

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A community meeting will be held tonight to present the conceptual design of Linden Park Commons.

A review of schematic design by neighborhood residents is considered crucial in getting the plans approved by City Council.

The $8 million project, which is to be built at Hamilton Avenue and North Bend Road, also has a funding gap of $1.8 million and is seeking City funding.

Due to the current housing market, the scaled-down project now includes a three-story mixed-use building on the former site of Shuller's Wigwam. Included within the building will be 13,000 square feet of retail space and 19 market-rate condominiums with an attached parking garage.

A second phase will include 24-28 detached single-family homes to the east.

Dropped from the project is the vacant Kroger store on the northwest corner of the intersection. That property is still privately held and the College Hill Urban Redevelopment Corporation (CHURC) is working to acquire it.

Bloomfield, Schon & Partners has agreed to develop the Masonic Eastern Star site to the west of Kroger. Those plans should be available early next year.

The meeting will be held at 7 PM at the College Hill Recreation Center, 5545 Belmont Avenue.

The meeting is being sponsored by the CHURC and College Hill Forum. Staff from Neyer as well as members of the Linden Park Committee will be available to answer questions.

Further reading on BC:
Linden Park project to break ground in 2008 (7/24/07)
College Hill: Linden Park Commons update (4/24/07)