Author Topic: Cincinnati: Oakley - Oakley Station (Read 78653 times)

OCtoCincy · « **Reply #350 on:** February 27, 2012, 03:10:27 PM »

^ somehow, I bet it ends up being the taxpayers. Vandercar is a joke. Filed for Personal bankruptcy a few months ago and the City is still supporting him.

OHSnap · « **Reply #351 on:** February 27, 2012, 04:52:07 PM »

I live in the area and this store has the lights on inside 24/7. Who pays that bill?

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My guess is the real estate company that's been trying desperately for years to unload that empty box.

I seem to recall a few years ago when Wal-Mart left a second empty box in Columbia Township reading somewhere about a proposal to ensure that the original tenant would be on the hook for the costs of redeveloping an abandoned store. (Maybe it was NYT?) I think both of Wal-Mart's sh**boxes in Columbia Township are currently empty, despite the attempts to turn one into a flea market.

A flea market?!

GCrites80s · « **Reply #352 on:** February 28, 2012, 12:00:02 PM »

Where is the older Wal-Mart?

OHSnap · « **Reply #353 on:** February 28, 2012, 12:43:58 PM »

Quote from: GCrites80s on February 28, 2012, 12:00:02 PM

Where is the older Wal-Mart?

On Ridge north of Highland, on the west side of Ridge just south of the train tracks. There was a cheapo Big Lots-style home improvement store there that never seemed to have a ton of traffic. Come to think of it, maybe that's still open - been awhile since I paid attention. There's a new McDonald's in front of it, along with Aldi.

Wal-Mart then moved to Kennedy at Highland, and now to Red Bank. I've heard that Red Bank store is little improvement.

unusualfire · « **Reply #354 on:** February 28, 2012, 01:55:22 PM »

Walmart was never on ridge. Sams club was.

dmerkow · « **Reply #355 on:** February 28, 2012, 01:55:35 PM »

To get the various buildings right at Ridge and Highland. The building behind the new McD's was first Kroger's attempt at a warehouse club store, it later became a Sam's Club, then sell off home goods store that is now in Tri-County I think. Across the street from that was a KMart. Walmart was around the corner on Highland next to Home Depot.

unusualfire · « **Reply #356 on:** February 28, 2012, 02:00:26 PM »

Home Emporium. Im not sure why they never got anything into the old Kmart building. It's been vacant 15 years it seems. That stretch has been suffering. I was shocked when the KFC closed. There was a bank in the old Kmart parking lot as well and it closed only being there less than a year.

OHSnap · « **Reply #357 on:** February 28, 2012, 02:24:09 PM »

Quote from: unusualfire on February 28, 2012, 01:55:22 PM

Walmart was never on ridge. Sams club was.

I stand corrected. The point remains, however.

jmecklenborg · « **Reply #358 on:** February 28, 2012, 03:58:04 PM »

>Where is the older Wal-Mart?

Around the country, it's amazing how much of a wayfinding landmark "the old Wal-Mart" has become.

jjakucyk · « **Reply #359 on:** February 29, 2012, 12:07:16 AM »

Kroger is little better in that respect. Cincinnati is littered with abandoned and repurposed Kroger stores. Some from the last few decades are obvious due to the standardized designs, but some of the older ones are much harder to spot as they're quite small and nondescript. Has anyone ever tried to document those? I remember it coming up for discussion a while back, but it could've been at City-Data.

Let's hope these Oakley developments don't end up going that way. Still, if it does happen, one saving grace is that these big box buildings are real easy to tear down, and with their sites already graded mostly flat, any sort of future redevelopment/densification will be much easier.

jdm00 · « **Reply #360 on:** February 29, 2012, 02:47:08 AM »

Quote from: OHSnap on February 28, 2012, 02:24:09 PM

Quote from: unusualfire on February 28, 2012, 01:55:22 PM
Walmart was never on ridge. Sams club was.

I stand corrected. The point remains, however.

Sam's was on Ridge and became a Home Emporium. It is now empty, though the outlots have both an Aldi and a McDonald's (which was newly-built last fall replacing the one across the street).

There was a Wal-Mart around the corner on Highland (you would go right into the parking lot if you get off at the Ridge/Kennedy exit going south on 71). It is now gone; I think it closed when the Wal-Mart in Fairfax opened. There is a Home Depot in the same shopping center, which remains open and (near as I can tell) plenty busy. I think that abandoned Wal-Mart is where the flea market (?) is.

GCrites80s · « **Reply #361 on:** February 29, 2012, 04:03:35 AM »

So the super '90s teal, pink and purple McDonalds has been torn down and replaced with one of the new coffee'd-out ones. Guess it was about that time.

OCtoCincy · « **Reply #362 on:** February 29, 2012, 04:55:35 AM »

BizCourier online reported today that Council just approved an amendment to the Oakley Station plan. Changing the residential development from 250 to 307 units.

taestell · « **Reply #363 on:** March 01, 2012, 03:11:41 AM »

Quote from: jjakucyk on February 29, 2012, 12:07:16 AM

Kroger is little better in that respect. Cincinnati is littered with abandoned and repurposed Kroger stores. Some from the last few decades are obvious due to the standardized designs, but some of the older ones are much harder to spot as they're quite small and nondescript. Has anyone ever tried to document those? I remember it coming up for discussion a while back, but it could've been at City-Data.

Let's hope these Oakley developments don't end up going that way. Still, if it does happen, one saving grace is that these big box buildings are real easy to tear down, and with their sites already graded mostly flat, any sort of future redevelopment/densification will be much easier.

I would love for someone to create an "abandoned big box stores" Google Map for Cincinnati if it doesn't already exist.

GCrites80s · « **Reply #364 on:** March 01, 2012, 04:42:11 AM »

One for Columbus would look like a frosted doughnut with sprinkles.

unusualfire · « **Reply #365 on:** March 01, 2012, 04:48:18 AM »

Is Oakley Station is that in the Cincinnati city limits or Columbia Twp?

jjakucyk · « **Reply #366 on:** March 01, 2012, 05:29:03 AM »

It's all within the city limits.

unusualfire · « **Reply #367 on:** March 01, 2012, 05:37:09 AM »

The city should just annex Columbia twp. Then maybe the Kennedy Connector will be done.

Edit. It looks like it starts this spring.

http://communitypress.cincinnati.com/article/C2/20111202/NEWS/312020002/Kennedy-Connector-project-moves-forward

Sherman Cahal · « **Reply #368 on:** March 02, 2012, 03:24:29 AM »

I'm still curious as to why the ACoE built the floodwall for a roadway that will punch right through it for the connector.

OCtoCincy · « **Reply #369 on:** March 02, 2012, 03:59:18 AM »

^ I'm sure they'll figure it out.

DetroitExPat · « **Reply #370 on:** March 04, 2012, 10:09:49 AM »

So they really are starting construction? Traffic on Ridge is a mess all the time. Maybe this will help alleviate some of it.

The stretch of Ridge just north of Highland is depressing. They never built Ridge Pointe on the site of the old KMart and now the Home Emporium is gone. It makes the area look worse than it actually is.

Anyways I am excited they are remodeling the Target down by Oakley Station. I got worried that when they opened the one in Blue Ash that it would be left to become decrepit and run down. Maybe Target doesn't subscribe to the Walmart model?

dmerkow · « **Reply #371 on:** March 04, 2012, 02:01:32 PM »

Hyde Park and points east will keep that Target going.

CincyGuy45202 · « **Reply #372 on:** March 04, 2012, 03:59:55 PM »

I think Kennedy Connector is supposedly on track to start "this summer" Nothing seems to have started yet though.

GCrites80s · « **Reply #373 on:** March 05, 2012, 04:45:47 AM »

I went to that Target quite often when I lived in both Corryville and Oakley, so add Uptown to the list that finds that Target useful.

taestell · « **Reply #374 on:** March 09, 2012, 04:12:35 PM »

Quote from: DetroitExPat on March 04, 2012, 10:09:49 AM

Anyways I am excited they are remodeling the Target down by Oakley Station. I got worried that when they opened the one in Blue Ash that it would be left to become decrepit and run down. Maybe Target doesn't subscribe to the Walmart model?

I've seen very few abandoned Target big boxes, and have seen several older Targets renovated.

unusualfire · « **Reply #375 on:** March 10, 2012, 10:41:38 AM »

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20120309/NEWS/303090176/City-wants-seize-half-house

OCtoCincy · « **Reply #376 on:** March 12, 2012, 05:00:28 PM »

Tree clearing for Kennedy connector started today! Article said somewhere around 220 trees will be cleared.

The_Cincinnati_Kid · « **Reply #377 on:** April 06, 2012, 03:29:02 AM »

Construction starts (finally) on Oakley Station project
Theater, apartments coming to former Milacron site
Business Courier by Jon Newberry, Staff Reporter
Date: Friday, April 6, 2012, 6:00am EDT - Last Modified: Thursday, April 5, 2012, 5:00pm EDT

After a decade of false starts, a $120 million project to redevelop the former Cincinnati Milacron complex in Oakley is finally under way.

The old Milacron and Kirk & Blum Kirk & Blum Latest from The Business Journals Follow this company manufacturing plants totaling 1.7 million square feet have been reduced to piles of rubble, and construction on the 74-acre Oakley Station mixed-use project is scheduled to begin this month.

http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/

CincyGuy45202 · « **Reply #378 on:** April 07, 2012, 05:07:01 AM »

^ Still no where near thrilled about this project. So suburban, so car centric.

But I am happy that they upped the apartments from 250 to 302 to increase the density.

OHSnap · « **Reply #379 on:** May 16, 2012, 06:32:47 PM »

I noticed a couple of days ago that a row of temporary electrical drops and meters were being constructed on the grounds of the former Precision Automated company (or whatever it was) on Ibsen, where the Kennedy Connector is planned. One assumes this is for construction trailers for the road building.

kjbrill · « **Reply #380 on:** May 19, 2012, 03:24:49 AM »

Quote from: CincyGuy45202 on April 07, 2012, 05:07:01 AM

^ Still no where near thrilled about this project. So suburban, so car centric.

But I am happy that they upped the apartments from 250 to 302 to increase the density.

They upped the number of apartments to increase the profit, it had absolutely nothing to do with the density. Anyone who thinks this is an urban styled development has apparently never lived in an urban environment in their life. I have not, but at least I know the difference.

GCrites80s · « **Reply #381 on:** May 19, 2012, 06:41:09 AM »

^Increasing the density is what increased the profit.

Sherman Cahal · « **Reply #382 on:** May 19, 2012, 07:35:01 AM »

Quote from: OHSnap on May 16, 2012, 06:32:47 PM

I noticed a couple of days ago that a row of temporary electrical drops and meters were being constructed on the grounds of the former Precision Automated company (or whatever it was) on Ibsen, where the Kennedy Connector is planned. One assumes this is for construction trailers for the road building.

Construction begins Monday on the Kennedy Connector.

BlackBengal · « **Reply #383 on:** May 20, 2012, 01:07:52 PM »

Is the point of the Kennedy connector to reduce traffic congestion on Ridge?

taestell · « **Reply #384 on:** May 20, 2012, 04:29:32 PM »

I think the point is mostly to provide access to the new Oakley Station development. Although capacity will be increased and it will probably reduce congestion on Ridge (for now), it does nothing to address the confusing tangle of highway on- and off-ramps in the area.

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Author Topic: Cincinnati: Oakley - Oakley Station (Read 78653 times)