Attention Neighbors – especially Beacon Hills! Back in February I shared an update on the work being done in Fairfield and Forest Park on the Forest Fair Mall / Cincinnati Mills mall redevelopment. At the recent July 2nd Springdale City Council meeting there was an update shared by way of Forest Park on the redeveloping … Read more
Attention Neighbors – especially Beacon Hills! You may have starting hearing about progress by Forest Park and Fairfield redeveloping the Forest Fair / Cincinnati Mills mall… Wednesday evening I attended Fairfield’s Planning meeting where they rezoned their part of the Commercial to General Industrial uses. Take look at the size of those buildings – … Read more
Anyone looking for more frequent updates and if you are on Facebook I encourage you to join the Springdale Community Group. Feel free to tag me in any questions over there too, I try to keep up with it as much as possible. As for recent meetings, there are two items I wanted to highlight: … Read more
City Council met on September 21st and aside from some zoning and committee updates there was both an executive session and then a statement regarding the proposed relocation of the Springdale Community center to the new Artisan Village (formerly Tri-County Mall). The full joint statement from the developers and City is below. If anyone has … Read more
In the June 15th City Council meeting the agreement to evaluate a transition from our current Community Center to a fitness center at the new Tri-County Mall redevelopment (Artisan Village) decision date was moved from the end of June to the end of September. Summer has flown by! So there are only a couple weeks … Read more
City Council typically moves to an lighter meeting schedule during the height of summer going down to one meeting a month. There tends to be less administrative and legislative work that happens around this time, however with the development work at the mall Council decided to keep the regular meets – though the agendas have … Read more
City Council meet on April 20th for its regular meeting with a light agenda. One item worth discussion is the Ordinance that setup the new Urban Redevelopment and Tax Increment Equivalent Fund (TIF) for the former Tri-County Mall. The idea of the TIF can be daunting – don’t let the technical language be a instant … Read more
I have always thought that transparency in local government and active engagement with as much of the public as practical leads to better outcomes. I believe the best time to communicate is early and often – it does not have to wait until everything is set, in fact, that would be far too late! The … Read more
The developers for the Tri-County Mall redevelopment provided an update on the progress they have been making on designs for the very ambitious project undertaken. They presented the current state of the concept plan (links to presentation and video of presentation at the meeting below). Full presentation link here Full video of presentation at the … Read more
There has certainly been a lot of work going on to address concerns raised about the proposed Community Center transformation into the new Fitness Center at the Mall re-development. After the first Community Engagement Meeting City Administration reports it has been spending a significant amount of time on the detailed planning of the potential relocation … Read more