A College Hill housing development that broke ground back in 2023 has only two completed homes to show for it, and now a new builder has been brought in to try to get the stalled project moving again. Station Court, a planned 31-home community, is getting a fresh start with Thomas J. Ackermann Company taking over construction duties.
The builder switch, announced through a community announcement, is intended to restart work on the project after years of slow progress, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. Station Court sits in Cincinnati's College Hill neighborhood, where 29 of the planned 31 single-family homes still remain to be built, the paper reports. Only two homes have been completed at the site so far.
The project has faced delays since breaking ground in 2023, according to the same report. No construction timeline has been announced yet.
Why Ackermann Was Chosen
CHCURC CEO Emmanuel Karikari framed the switch as more than just a change of contractors. “Station Court is an important residential investment, and bringing in a builder with T.J. Ackermann's experience and familiarity with our neighborhood is a meaningful step forward,” Karikari said, according to the Enquirer's report.
That familiarity isn't new. Thomas J. Ackermann Company worked on Gershom Grove for the 2016 event, while Witherby Meadows was part of the 2014 College Hill Citi-Rama, the outlet reports. The Gershom Grove work gives the company a prior project in College Hill, where Station Court is now taking shape.
A Long Road From Groundbreaking to Groundbreak-Again
Plans for the site go back further than the 2023 groundbreaking. A 2021 article described plans to build 31 custom homes in College Hill as part of the final phase of a mixed-use development at Hamilton Avenue and North Bend Road, according to a 2021 Cincinnati Enquirer report. An earlier project page from developer Traditions Group placed Station Court just off the corner of Hamilton Avenue and North Bend Road and described the planned homes as two- to three-bedroom residences with 2.5 baths and roughly 2,000 square feet, though it cautioned that plans, prices, timing, sizes and features were preliminary and subject to change, according to Traditions Group's community page.
For now, the headline news is simple: a new name is attached to the builder's plans, and the hope is that construction picks back up after a stretch that's seen just two of 31 promised homes completed.
