Tuesday, January 18, 2000
Grant goes for Norwood corner
BY WALT SCHAEFER
The Cincinnati Enquirer
NORWOOD — A $1.21 million federal Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) grant has been approved to reconfigure the intersection of Carthage Avenue and Montgomery Road.
Mayor Joe Hochbein said the intersection — part of the five-point spoke of Carthage Avenue, Montgomery Road, Smith Road and Norwood Avenue — has increasingly become a traffic bottleneck and also is further complicated by an entrance ramp to the westbound Norwood Lateral just south of Carthage and Montgomery.
The grant is budgeted for 2004 and will pay for 80 percent of the estimated project cost. The city will need to contribute about $300,000 to complete the project.
“This comes at a time when we are trying to develop the (15-acre) site west of Carthage Avenue and north of the lateral,” once a parking lot for the former Norwood General Motors Corp. assembly plant and, before that, site of the Globe-Wernicke furniture manufacturing company, the mayor said.
Rick Dettmer, the city's community development director, said a developer is negoti ating for the 15-acre site to create a retail and office center.
While the development plans and TIP grant are not directly linked, a change in the street configuration is a likely necessity to any site development.
“Just what happens, however, can't be determined just yet. We may merge Carthage Avenue into Highland Avenue (north of Montgomery Road) or Carthage may end at the Ross Avenue intersection (also north of Montgomery),” Mr. Dettmer said.
The fate of the architecturally intriguing Flatiron Building — a triangular brick building at the point created by Carthage and Montgomery — also is uncertain, dependent on development plans in the area,Mr. Dettmer said.
The mayor said the condition of the entire length of Montgomery Road through the city is a concern. The city received $90,000 in grants in 1996 to plan a reconstruction of the road.
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