Tuesday, January 26, 1999
Developers are building 2-acre park in Blue Ash
BY WALT SCHAEFER
The Cincinnati Enquirer
BLUE ASH — Construction of a small community park next to a seven-acre nature preserve on Kenwood Road south of Pfeiffer Road will begin this spring.
Duke Construction and Neyer Construction, which are building the adjacent Pfeiffer Wood office development, have agreed to build the park, City Manager Marvin Thompson said Monday.
Construction of the park — slightly less than two acres — is expected to cost between $300,000 and $400,000.
The city bought four homes — isolated by surrounding office development — to create the park. Three of the four already have been razed. The city paid about $560,000 for property. The former homeowners were amenable to the project, Mr. Thompson said.
The as-yet-unnamed park “will have a small lake to be used for children's fishing and ice skating. There will be two fountains in the lake. ... The lake also will be used for storm-water retention” for drainage from the new development, Mr. Thompson said.
“Most of the ground around the lake will passive with benches and picnic tables ... (and) a gazebo.
“The new Kenwood Road bike path, being built (as part the Kenwood Road corridor improvement project now under way), will meander through the park,” Mr. Thompson said.
The adjacent wooded nature preserve was included in the overall development plans for the Pfeiffer Woods development.
The office building was recently completed.
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