Saturday, October 16, 1999
Here comes CitiRama
Upscale Mount Lookout homes on city showcase tour
BY MIKE PUFER
The Cincinnati Enquirer
This year's CitiRama — the controverted, downsized, up-priced, delayed and delayed again urban version of Homearama — lets the public in for a look from through Nov. 7.
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IF YOU GO
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• What: 1999 CitiRama, a show of 10 new, decorated homes.
• Where: Spencer Hill, 800 block of Delta Avenue, Mount Lookout. For free shuttle service to the show, take I-75 to Columbia Parkway to Bains Place to Eastern Avenue. Turn right on St. Peters Street to Schmidt Field parking. From the east, take Wooster Pike and Columbia Parkway to left on Delta to right on Eastern to left on St. Peters.
• When: 4-9 p.m. weekdays and noon-9 weekends, Oct. 30-Nov. 7.
• Cost: $5; children under 12 free.
• Information: 851-6300,
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The show, at a newly excavated hillside development near Mount Lookout Square, has been the subject of Cincinnati City Council debates because of a $550,000 city subsidy. Some council members thought the show should have been built in a needier neighborhood.
The event, at what developers are calling Spencer Hill, just west of Delta Avenue, includes 10 new houses, all of which are under contract for $300,000-$435,000.
Original CitiRama plans called for 25 houses, priced $250,000-$350,000. At one time, the show was scheduled to open in August.
Features in the new houses — 2,300-3,200 square feet — include a two-story library hall, master bedroom, smoking porch, kitchen hearth room adjacent to an English garden, circular stairs to a loft studio, music room, walk-in double showers, butler's pantries and 9-foot ceilings.
Builders include Ackermann Enterprises Inc., Perry Bush Custom Homes, Classic Homes by D.R. Horton Inc., J. Hassman Construction Inc., Mercurio Homes, Prominent Builders Inc., Regency Builders and Developers, the Schnicke Co., Tuscany Group and Vineyard Homes.
Architectural and interior designs are by Roush and Roush Architects, Perry Bush, Mary Cassinelli, Jeff Stawicki, Kent Bradley, Keith Fruekes, Kenneth R. Bowerman, Tina Kohnen, Makstell Interiors, June Surber & Associates, Rob Pickett, Knickerbocker Gallery, Peppercorn Decorating and Hoffman and Albers.
The show is organized by the Home Builders Association of Greater Cincinnati.
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