Community support of Linden Park decisive

In front of a standing-room-only crowd, the College Hill community voted 224-1 in support of the Linden Park concept plan.

The concept plan will now begin its movement through the City Planning Commission and City Council. The College Hill Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation and developer Al Neyer, Inc. are seeking $1.8 million in project gap funding from the City.

The project at the corner of Hamilton Avenue and North Bend Road will include 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 24-30 detached single-family homes to be built to the east of the mixed-use building.

More specific design details will be established if the City approves the concept plan and the budgeting of funds.

An updated site plan was not available at the time of this post. It will be posted as soon as it becomes available.

Further reading on BC:
Linden Park meeting tonight (9/4/07)
Linden Park project to break ground in 2008 (7/24/07)
College Hill: Linden Park Commons update (4/24/07)

Linden Park meeting tonight

Artist's concept

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)

College Hill: Linden Park Commons update

Here are a few tidbits via the College Hill Forum:

Sales for Phase One, which covers the former Shuller's Wigwam property, have begun.

The sale of land agreement for the former Kroger property is in the works and should come through within the next few months.

On the southwest corner of the intersection, land is now under CHCURC control which will become the site of a metal gateway sculpture. This should be installed by the end of the year.

A similar sculpture will go on the south side of the business district at Hamilton and Llanfair avenues. This sculpture will be installed after the City completes its new fire station on the site.

Linden Park Commons will be a mixed-use development featuring retail, office and 28 condos/townhomes. The $25 million development is being done by Neyer.

WINDOWS LIVE BIRD'S EYE VIEW (looking north)
Urban Ohio: Linden Park Commons

(NOTE: This is the first post regarding this project on the blog. The Urban Ohio link above will take you to the Urban Ohio discussion forums for background on this project. The link will open a new browser window.)