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Post by district5 on Mar 8, 2007 20:27:45 GMT -5
Last Updated: 7:45 pm | Thursday, March 8, 2007
The Cincinnati Enquirer
College Hill's new fire station could be development catalyst
BY JANE PRENDERGAST | JPRENDERGAST@ENQUIRER.COM
COLLEGE HILL - A new firehouse - only the second Cincinnati has built in almost 25 years - is to come next year to College Hill.
City officials are negotiating to buy some property at Llanfair and Hamilton avenues for the $3 million station, expected to be built in early 2008.
The location pleases members of the community council, the College Hill Forum. The station and new $25 million Linden Park Commons condo and business development will be "perfect bookends" for a revived business district, forum president Elizabeth Sherwood said.
"We think this will help attract new quality businesses to our neighborhood," she said. "It's all good."
The station will have three bays, each of them big enough to fit modern-day fire equipment. Some stations currently in use were designed for horse-drawn fire equipment and make it difficult for the modern trucks that are heavier and bigger to fit, said Marc Monahan, president of Cincinnati Fire Fighters Union.
Stations now are designed with doors in front and back so trucks can pull directly through - that's easier and safer for the drivers, he said, and more convenient for citizens because trucks don't have to block traffic while they back in.
They also have separate sleeping and showering facilities for men and women - something the current College Hill station doesn't have.
"We are hopeful that this building trend will continue so that someday all of our firehouses will have separate male and female facilities," Monahan said, "as well as other modern health and safety items such as diesel exhaust removal systems."
The union favors any upgrading of facilities as long as new station locations don't hurt response times, he said. The new location - it's about three blocks from the current one on Marlowe Avenue - should not hurt response time, he said.
The new stations were among hundreds of recommendations made by consultant TriData in a report last year. The city hired the Virginia company after the 2003 on-duty death of Firefighter Oscar Armstrong and asked for a map of the fire department's future needs.
A new firehouse in Bond Hill - the first the city built since a new station went up in Northside in 1982 - should be in use this summer, said District Chief Fredrick Prather, a department spokesman.
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Post by Box_2565 on Jan 5, 2008 19:04:22 GMT -5
O.K. - I hear that the land has been purchased for this station. Is anyone aware of any other forward movement on this project?
Steve
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Post by district5 on May 21, 2008 15:44:44 GMT -5
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 Building-Cincinnati.com
Cincinnati names two additional green roof sites
Two Cincinnati buildings have been named as green roof demonstration sites that will be available to the public for interactive educational purposes.
The projects will be installed upon the Metropolitan Sewer District's (MSD) new Wastewater Engineering Center in Lower Price Hill and on Fire Station No. 51 in College Hill, currently being designed by the Facilities Management division of the Public Services Department.
Vice Mayor David Crowley and Councilmember Chris Bortz requested that two sites be identified in a March 18 motion referred by City Council.
The City already has installed one green roof on top of MSD's Galbraith Road complex in Hartwell.
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Post by Box_2565 on Nov 8, 2008 18:52:41 GMT -5
If you look at the updated page for Engine 51 the preliminary drawing for the station have been posted!
Steve
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Post by gitrdone15 on Nov 10, 2008 7:59:38 GMT -5
I see that on the drawing of the new building they have two trucks in the bay. Any word if any additional apparatus will be stationed there?
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Post by Box_2565 on Nov 13, 2008 8:27:32 GMT -5
The Tri-Data report recommended that a transport unit be stationed at the new house. Where the money would come from to create another unit will be the issue.
Steve
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Post by Box_2565 on Feb 5, 2009 14:22:47 GMT -5
A ground breaking cermony was held today for the new station. Scheduled completion date is sometime during 2010. There are a couple of photos showing the event on the page for Engine 51. Engine 51 photos.
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Post by district5 on Feb 10, 2009 21:35:41 GMT -5
Monday, February 9, 2009 Building-Cincinnati.com
Cincinnati, College Hill celebrate groundbreaking for new LEED fire station
The City of Cincinnati has broken ground on the new Fire Station 51 at 5801 Hamilton Avenue in College Hill.
The new $3.8 million, 12,000-square-foot facility replaces the existing College Hill fire station at 1654 Marlowe Avenue, built in 1914.
The first "single unit" fire station built by the City since Over-the-Rhine's Fire Station 5 in 1958, the firehouse will accommodate one engine company and will feature an oversized apparatus bay to house additional future resources.
The project is the combined effort of the City's Facilities Management Division of the Department of Public Services; architects Moody • Nolan, Inc.; engineers Dynamix Engineering, Ltd and CDS Associates, Inc.; and landscape architects Groundwork Design Collaborative, LLC.
"With this new firehouse, the Cincinnati Fire Department will be better able to serve the community," says Fire Chief Robert Wright. "Firefighters will also have an opportunity to directly interact with residents of the College Hill neighborhood."
Fire Station 51 also is being constructed to U.S. Green Building Council LEED Silver standardsand will include the use of natural light, low flow plumbing, rain gardens, pervious pavement, rain water collection that will fill the pumper truck, and vegetative and reflective roofing.
Construction should be completed in 2010.
This is the second fire station replacement project undertaken by the City in the past two years.
Fire Station 9, completed in 2008 in Paddock Hills, was the City's first LEED-certified public building and its first new fire station since 1982.
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Post by Box_2565 on Mar 14, 2009 15:05:36 GMT -5
Construction is moving along on the new station. I added a photo taken March 4th that shows the beginning of walls going up.
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Post by district5 on Nov 12, 2009 22:44:00 GMT -5
YOU’RE INVITED to join us to dedicate Cincinnati’s newest Fire Station No. 51 5801 Hamilton Avenue College Hill
Monday, November 16, 2009 • 10am
For more info, contact Capt. Michael Washington @ 513.378.6725
Located at the corner of Llanfair & Hamilton Avenues, Fire Station 51 will help the Cincinnati Fire Department deliver quality services to College Hill and the surrounding communities, especially with the addition of Ambulance 51. The new fire station is approximately three times larger than the previous station with a total square footage of about 12,000 square feet.
Unique features of the environmentally built fire station include an innovative rain collection system and rain garden, pervious parking lot, vegetated and reflective roofs, and use of natural lighting throughout the building.
Parking for the ceremony will be available across the street at the College Hill Presbyterian Church located at 5742 Hamilton Avenue.
The community is welcome. Lunch will be provided immediately following the ceremony.
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Post by Box_2565 on Nov 14, 2009 12:16:23 GMT -5
Have the 51's moved in and if so has Ambulance 212 become Ambulance 51?
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Post by district5 on Nov 18, 2009 17:53:10 GMT -5
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Building-Cincinnati.com
College Hill's new green fire station a 'significant investment'
The City of Cincinnati dedicated its newest public building on Monday with a community open house for Fire Station No. 51, prominently located at the corner of Hamilton and Llanfair avenues in College Hill.
A crowd of more than 200 toured the 12,000-square-foot facility, which is three times larger than the current single-bay station at 1654 Marlowe Avenue.
"It's unbelievable," said Amy Finnegan, president of the College Hill Forum. "We have waited a long time for this."
New features include a dayroom, conference room, fitness room, and kitchen for the firefighters, who typically spend at least one-third of their careers in-house.
The station is also better integrated into the community.
"I was talking with retired councilmember Tom Luken, and he was saying that he never knew where the firehouse was in this community," said Cincinnati Fire Department Chief Robert Wright. "Well, now he knows. He pointed that out, that finally it took a place of prominence in the community, so that people would know that the Fire Department was here to protect them."
Safe in multiple ways
Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory said that public safety is the City's number one priority, and the addition of Ambulance 51, multiple bays, and better ingress and egress will improve response times to the station's service area.
"This new firehouse will dramatically improve the ability of the Cincinnati Fire Department to serve this neighborhood and the surrounding communities," he said.
Mallory also said that the station will be the City's first public building to pursue U.S. Green Building Council LEED Gold certification, noting such green features as an innovative rain collection system and rain gardens, pervious concrete parking lot, vegetated and reflective roofs, low E triple-pane glass, and natural lighting.
Modeling has shown that the new building will be 28 percent more energy efficient than typical new building construction.
A significant investment
City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. said that Fire Station No. 51 represents a significant investment and anchor for the business district.
"So, as this neighborhood continues to thrive with investments from public and private sources, it really helps to raise all boats," he said.
Everyone in attendance seemed to agree.
"We want to be a positive anchor point for this community, and we hope that development is one of the big things that grows from this investment from the City of Cincinnati," Wright said.
"College Hill is one of the greatest communities of the City of Cincinnati," Mallory said. "College Hill deserves this investment that's been made by the City of Cincinnati. And I can't think of a better partner to have in any community than the Cincinnati Fire Department."
"This anchor builds our community," Finnegan said. "It's a place for us to gather. It's a piece of pride for us. We have to thank the City of Cincinnati for all of our opportunities that they give us."
This is the second fire station built in the City since 1982. Fire Station No. 9 in Paddock Hills opened in February 2008 and has achieved LEED certification.
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Post by district5 on Nov 24, 2009 18:16:20 GMT -5
For the record...
Engine 51 moved into the new station on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at approximately 17:30 hours. The first run from 5801 Hamilton Avenue was at 17:36.
Ambulance 51 (formerly A-212) moved in on Monday, November 23, 2009. Their first run as A-51 was at approximately 09:50 hours.
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Post by district5 on Jul 6, 2010 20:55:48 GMT -5
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 Buildingcincinnati.com
Former Cincinnati firehouse to be sold
The City of Cincinnati plans to sell the former Fire Station No. 51 at 1654 Marlowe Avenue in College Hill to the highest bidder.
Bidding for the 3,800-square-foot building will start at $55,000, the fair market value as determined by the City's Property Management and Real Estate-Relocation Services Division.
The vacant single-bay firehouse, built in 1914, originally served as a substation for the Cincinnati Police Department.
Cincinnati Fire Department's Engine 51 took over the property in May 1926 following a volunteer-fueled renovation that required only $2,000 in City funds*.
Engine 51 relocated to a new $3.8 million, 12,000-square-foot facility at the corner of Hamilton and Llanfair avenues in November 2009.
* Approximately $24,000 in 2009 dollars.
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