Finney Law Firm and Ivy Pointe Title have opened their office in downtown Cincinnati at 635 Main. For us, this has been a much-anticipated and long-awaited development. This office replaces our Mt. Adams office on Celestial Street in the historic Rookwood Pottery Building. We hope you enjoy this new office as much as we have enjoyed crafting it.
Why downtown? First, this office joins a post-COVID resurgence for downtown, which is seeing a return of office workers, a huge growth in residential development and a host of new hotels and restaurants, bars and other entertainment venues. Second, many of our major corporate clients are downtown-based and some are downtown-focused. Third, the office is located strategically just one block north of the Potter Stewart U.S. Courthouse (which houses the Federal District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals) and three blocks immediately south of the Hamilton County Courthouse. Ample parking surrounds the new facility.
We are jazzed about our ability to revive an historic 150-year-old building into a sparkling new facility, with energy-efficient HVAC and lighting, and cutting-edge smart technology throughout. In this revival, we have retained many of the original historic features of the building. We hope you come by for a closing, a deposition, a mediation or a meeting with our attorneys and staff.
The project took the best of our creativity (I know, I know, we are attorneys) and resources, partnering with a host of talented consultants, architects, designers, and contractors. (I learned so much by doing this project and am glad to share my experiences as well as our list of consultants, contractors and materials that have made it a rousing success). We combined a smart initial purchase of the property with federal and state historic tax credits and City of Cincinnati residential and commercial tax abatements. My transactional team handled the tax details and legally divided the building into three condominiums, our office and two residential condos.
Many have asked me: How was City Hall to deal with on this project? I can say without exception that each City department with which we dealt has been exceptionally prompt and professional: Historic Conservation, the Building Department, the Economic Development Department, and even the Mayor and City Council.
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Thanks to our loyal clients while we completed this master work, to my attorneys and staff who were endlessly patient while I got it finished, and to our whole design and construction team who endured my endless questions, prompts and concerns, while each providing exceptional products and services. You simply would not believe the hard work, long hours and creativity needed to bring this project to fruition by our design and construction team members.