In October 2004, Fairmount Properties celebrated the Grand Opening of First & Main, a 200,000 square foot mixed-use retail, office, hospitality and residential development in Hudson, Ohio's gracious and lively downtown historic district. This development serves a well-established market place which blends prosperous long-term residents with new young families, who have abundant disposable incomes that average more than $130,000. This broad trade area includes some of Cleveland's most coveted consumer groups and is characterized by many of Ohio's finest homes and educational Institutions. High quality national, regional and select local apparel, home furnishing and specialty retailers, along with a 20,000 square foot gourmet market and six award winning restaurants are set within three European styled main streets. This development is seamlessly integrated with Hudson's existing downtown district and features well known retailers such as Talbots, Ann Taylor Loft, Chico's, Coldwater Creek, Gymboree and JoS. A. Bank Clothier.

In 2002, Fairmount Properties won a national RFP competition to develop Brunswick Town Center which includes 300,000 square feet of retail, 75,000 square feet of office space and 300 residential homes. The residential portion of this development offers a variety of product types, including town-homes, condominiums, single-family homes and a grouping of upscale, high-end residences overlooking Brunswick Lake. The retail component features a vibrant main street which winds through the development and opens to an expansive outdoor gathering space at the bank of Brunswick Lake. Anchors of the retail development include a 75,000 square foot state-of-the-art Giant Eagle grocery store, (The very first LEED certified supermarket in the state of Ohio) and a 95,000 square foot Home Depot, each with non traditional layouts and facades conducive to a pedestrian scaled town center.

Fairmount Properties, in partnership with University Circle Incorporated and Case Western Reserve University, led the renovation and re-merchandising of the University's East building. Phase I is a mixed-use retail, residential and institutional-based College Town in the heart of University Circle's internationally known cultural center. Phase I construction, completed in the spring of 2004, added a number of new restaurants and specialty tenants along with outdoor seating, dining and recreation space.

This historic Walker and Weeks designed church is located on the eastern campus of Case Western Reserve University. Fairmount Properties led a redevelopment process resulting in the redevelopment of the entire property into an $8 million world headquarters facility for Nottingham Spirk, a product invention and development company with sales of over $30 billion.

The $275 million first phase of The Flats East Bank development has broken ground. For more information, please visit www.flatseast.com

Along with a multitude of public and private partners, on September 24, 2010 Fairmount Properties celebrated the commencement of site work for this new and exciting $75+ million pedestrian scaled, mixed-use "College-Town" district. Located in Historic Downtown Kent and less than a 5 minute stroll along the KSU Esplanade extension (scheduled to open in 2012), this project will create a physical and contextual link between the KSU campus and downtown. Included in the project will be 49,000+ sq ft of engaging street level retail space including apparel, home, gift and specialty stores, new restaurants all with outdoor patio seating, residential units geared to young professionals as well as 74,000+ sq ft of new class A office space. Additionally, KSU is partnering to develop a new hotel and conference center facility a part of the district. New parking and transit resources will be provided by an adjacent multi-modal transportation facility (the "Kent Central Gateway" project, recently awarded a $21 million grant through the Federal Transportation Administration) which combines 370+ structured parking spaces and commercial space with a regional bus transfer hub. With a planned Grand Opening in Fall 2012, this project will provide the regional residents and workforce as well as KSU students, faculty, and staff a one-of-a-kind new and vibrant place to live, learn, dine, shop, work and recreate while helping to recruit and retain the "best and brightest" professionals so important to the economic future of Northeast Ohio.

On November 18, 2010 along with its construction and joint venture partner Premier Development Partners, Fairmount Properties celebrated the groundbreaking of the new Kent State University Regional Academic Center in Twinsburg. This project marks the first time KSU worked with an outside developer to execute one of their traditional classroom facilities. With this development KSU, the second largest public university in Ohio, demonstrates its continuing commitment to providing students with pathways to affordable and accessible higher education. To better serve the community with additional opportunities for growth, the new 44,000-square-foot, two-story building will be constructed in the heart of Twinsburg, accessible and visible from I-480. The new facility is regionally situated with more than one million citizens within a 30-minute drive and will be able to serve 1500 students. Once completed in the fall of 2012, the Regional Academic Center will offer a full range of programs, from traditional associate and baccalaureate degrees to master's degrees and executive training programs. A true public-private partnership, the Fairmount Properties team was able to achieve $1.4 million in cost savings by taking advantage of the federal Build America Bonds program and the new facility was financed with the help of the Summit County Port Authority.

Click here to watch a short clip from the groundbreaking ceremony: http://www.kent.edu/news/video/twinsburgcenter.cfm

In December 2010, Fairmount Properties was selected to partner with the University of Toledo Foundation to develop the first phase of the larger Dorr Street Gateway project on a 23 acre site at the front door of campus. Phase one is planned to be a 76,000 square foot building with 108 beds of student housing on two levels over ground floor retail and restaurants. The retail anchor is the main University of Toledo Barnes & Noble bookstore and will potentially feature a Starbuck's. Presently the University of Toledo and the immediate surrounding population and trade area are lacking good dining and retail options. The project will enhance the gateway to the University of Toledo and create a live-work-play district for the campus population and with the surrounding neighborhoods. This project will become the signature front door entry connected physically and programmatically to the UT campus. Groundbreaking occurred August 10, 2011 with a grand opening scheduled in the fall of 2012.

Link to the University's Live Webcam

Link to Lofts at Gateway

Link to Toledo Blade Ground Breaking Article

Link to The Independent Collegian Article

Link to Toledo Blade Dorr-Secor Article

After requesting proposals from the national development community, in January 2011 the University of Rochester (UR) selected Fairmount Properties to re-develop a 16-acre "Gateway" site at the front door of its 534-acre campus and immediately adjacent to its Medical Center, anchored by the 739-bed Strong Memorial Hospital. This new and exciting pedestrian scaled College Town district will include over 100,000 sq. ft. of street level retail and restaurants, all with outdoor patio space, and spacious sidewalks as well as a 30,000 sq. ft. two-level bookstore and a gourmet market. Also included in the plan are 150,000 sq. ft. of new Class A office space and 150,000 sq. ft. of fashionable market rate residential space targeting UR faculty & staff, medical residents and the proximate population of creative young professionals. Additionally, the current plan includes a 150-room hotel and conference center facility as well a combined 55,000 sq. ft. community health and wellness center for mind, body and spirit. Lastly, the local transit authority has expressed a desire to include a multi-modal transit facility as part of this development that would provide parking and transit resources for the broader community. Founded in 1850, UR is one of the country's top tier research universities and the largest employer in a 9 county area.