A corner lot in Cincinnati's Evanston neighborhood that had sat empty for two decades now has company: two brand-new modular townhomes built mostly off-site and assembled at the corner of Hackberry Street and Holloway Avenue. The project comes from Neighborhood Builds Modular, which plans to list the pair of homes this week.
According to Local 12, the developer acquired and subdivided the parcel into two addresses, 3331 and 3333 Hackberry St., to make room for the twin townhomes. Each home measures roughly 2,100 square feet across three stories, with three bedrooms and two-and-a-half bathrooms apiece. Every unit also comes with its own one-car garage and a small, separated backyard, the station reports.
Built in a Factory, Finished on Site
What sets the project apart is how it went up. Rather than framing the homes board by board on location, Neighborhood Builds Modular had most of each structure built off-site before trucking the pieces in for final assembly on the long-dormant corner lot, per the same Local 12 report. That approach, commonly known as modular construction, involves manufacturing home sections in a factory setting and then piecing them together once they arrive at the site, which can speed up the build timeline compared to traditional stick-built construction.
Neighborhood Builds Modular appears to be treating the Evanston project as something of a test case. A search-result snippet from the Cincinnati Business Courier describes the two townhomes as a proof of concept for factory-built housing in Cincinnati, though that characterization comes from a limited snippet rather than a fully reviewed article. The Business Courier separately confirms that the developer acquired an Evanston corner that had been empty for two decades and developed the pair of modular homes on it.
What the Public Records Show
City permit records offer a partial paper trail for the two addresses. A data extract from the City of Cincinnati's permit database lists new-building permits tied to both 3333 and 3331 Hackberry St., naming Schnicke Design Build Remodel LLC and Monarch Homes, LLC among the entities associated with the filings. The extracted record is incomplete, however, and does not lay out the full permit history or construction timeline for either property.
It is not yet clear what the new townhomes will list for when they hit the market this week. One of the two new addresses, 3331 Hackberry Street, already appears in online listing data: a page for the property on searchnorthernkentucky.com, tied to MLS #1873218, currently states that the listing is no longer on the market or has been removed. No verified listing price, sale price, or closing date for either new home has been confirmed.
Nearby Hackberry Street offers a glimpse of the area's older housing stock by comparison. A listing for 3316 Hackberry St., a separate property built in 1886, describes an 1,810-square-foot home with a reduced asking price of $270,696, according to homes.com, though that figure does not reflect a confirmed final sale price. The evidence available does not establish broader trends for Evanston's housing market beyond the two new builds themselves.
