Experience
Representation of Delhi Township
Dinsmore represents Delhi Township, Ohio, and handled the redevelopment of a vacated shopping center into a 15 acre mixed-use development known as Delhi Towne Square, which includes Delhi Athletic Club, a cultural arts center and event center, preschool rooms for Oak Hills School District, as well as a 180-unit apartment complex. We successfully completed a subdivision of the site, negotiated a 100-year ground lease with the multi-family apartment developer, as well as a lease with Oak Hills School District for classroom space on the site. We also handled the public financing aspects of this project.
Legal Counsel to the Liberty Community Authority
Dinsmore is legal counsel to the Liberty Community Authority (“LCA”), created pursuant to Ohio statute and comprised of private developer and Butler County/Liberty Township representatives, which manages and maintains the multiple public parking garages, and storm water facilities supporting the expansive mixed use project, known as “Liberty Commons” – one of the largest residential, commercial and entertainment projects in southwest Ohio.
Representation of the Village of Silverton
We represent the Village of Silverton and handled an innovative statutory land swap transaction with the Cincinnati City School District, whereby the school district obtained a new site for redevelopment of a Montessori school and the Village obtained a 10 acre parcel of land. We further represented Silverton in the assemblage of certain adjacent parcels, thereby creating an attractive site for redevelopment. Subsequently, we continued our representation of the Village in negotiating the essential contract and easement agreements allowing for the development of approximately 200 luxury apartments. We handled all aspects of the transaction, including site development agreements and public financing of the project. This project serves as a gateway project for the Village of Silverton, Ohio. Additionally, we represented the Village in its acquisition of its new city hall and redevelopment of the former city hall into a brew pub.
Resolved a Major Crisis for $50 Million Retail Project
On behalf of Kroger, we worked with the City of Newport (“City”) and the Kentucky Department of Transportation (“Department”) to resolve a major crisis involving an improperly installed storm water system underneath the interior roadway that services the Newport Pavilion retail project. We created a mediation path and restructured a transactional model, including additional private and public financial resources, to allow a contractor to drill shafts into the collapsed area and repair/retrofit the storm water pipe. We worked closely with the City, the developer and the Department to ensure the success of the $50 million retail project and to stabilize critical public infrastructure for the surrounding community.
Task Force to Revise Ohio Condemnation Laws
Working pro bono, and at the behest of the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, Richard served on a task force created by the Ohio General Assembly to review and rewrite the state’s eminent domain laws. The task force provided testimony and written reports to certain subcommittees to review the statutory processes and constitutional parameters as to the exercise of eminent domain. Their recommendations were incorporated into the new law, known as Amended Substitute Senate Bill 7 (127th General Assembly). Senate Bill 7 serves as the structure for Ohio’s condemnation laws.
National Development Counsel for Senior Living Developer / Operator
We serve as national development counsel for Cameron General Contractors and Resort Lifestyle Communities, which are affiliated entities currently among the most active developer/operators of senior living retirement communities in the United States. To date, we have handled the acquisition and development of more than 20 such retirement communities in a variety of locations from the east coast to the Pacific Northwest, as well as numerous places in between. Our work encompasses all phases of the ground-up development process, including site selection, due diligence, land acquisition, securing zoning and other governmental approvals, obtaining governmental incentives, negotiating municipal and private development and cost-sharing agreements and obtaining both construction and permanent financing.
Project Counsel to an International Health Care Service System
We served as project counsel to our client, an international health care service system, to negotiate a master services agreement pursuant to which an international commercial real estate services firm managed all owned, leased, and sub-leased portfolio of the client’s properties to create efficiencies between our client’s internal facility management, property management, and construction departments and its service providers. In addition to the master services agreement, Dinsmore also negotiated various sub-agreements, including property management, transactional management/brokerage, portfolio administration, project management agreements, which governed specific elements of the relationship between our client and the real estate services firm, including tenant build-outs, portfolio management, leasing, acquisitions, dispositions, and property management. The negotiation required in-depth knowledge of the operations, management and structure of the client’s portfolio of facilities, the service provider’s operations and services, and coordination among the client, its third party consultants, and its service provider.
Real Estate Counsel for Joint Venture
We have acted as real estate counsel for a joint venture between the Miller-Valentine Group and Jeffrey R. Anderson Real Estate, Inc. which redeveloped a 10 acre assemblage site into approximately 200 luxury apartments and 60,000 square feet of commercial space. We handled all aspects of the transaction, including structuring the joint venture, site development agreements, and financing of the project. This project is intended as a gateway project for the Village of Silverton, Ohio.
Provided Counsel to a Church
We represented a nondenominational church in Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio, in obtaining multiple zoning variances to allow for expansion of their assembly building, parking, and vehicular movement areas.
Governmental Incentives
Dinsmore and Shohl represented national healthcare provider in obtaining Ohio tax credits to develop client’s facility for diagnostic healthcare services
Project Counsel for $150 million Mixed-Use Project
We served as project counsel for a regional multi-family apartment developer in connection with the re-development of a $150 million mixed-use project containing approximately 330 residential units, a boutique hotel, approximately 200,000 sq. ft. of office space, and a 1,400 space public parking garage on the Scioto Peninsula in downtown Columbus. Over a two year period, our team negotiated the purchase, sale and development agreement, and various interrelated land use agreements necessary for facilitating the creation of a new “festival street;” assisted in forming a new community authority which utilized a tax-exempt bond issuance to finance the public improvements supporting the project; collaborated with the Columbus Franklin County Finance Authority to issue tax exempt bonds, utilizing a ground lease/capital lease structure, to receive sales tax exemption savings on the materials used in construction of the apartment buildings; formed a joint venture entity to utilize capital contributions of equity investors and to take advantage of the project’s location in a qualified opportunity zone; and negotiated terms of an approximately $60 million construction loan. Further, our development team negotiated an option of right of first offer as to the public parking garage and laid the groundwork for phase II expansion in the event our client wishes to expand its development footprint.Throughout the project, our team collaborated with the city of Columbus, Columbus Downtown Development Corporation, Columbus-Franklin County Finance Authority, and counsel for two collaborative developers.
Local Counsel for University Developer
We act as local counsel for a national university-centric developer, which has a focus on student housing. We obtained concept plan approval for an approximately 11 acre in-fill redevelopment of a former hospital site into a mixed use project known as the District at Clifton Heights, adjacent to the University of Cincinnati. The construction value of this project will exceed $300 million dollars and comprises approximately 1,400 apartment units, 300,000 square feet of retail space (including a theater and other entertainment uses), and a nationally branded hotel. This approval was the culmination of months of neighborhood engagement and collaborative planning with city staff, neighborhood associations, and university stakeholders involving permitted uses, vehicular movement and parking and public spaces.
Acquisition, Leasing, Financing and Development of a Shopping Center
Acquisition, Leasing, Financing and Development of Shopping Center
Acquisition, Leasing, Financing and Development of Shopping Center
Acquisition, Leasing, Financing and Development of Shopping Center
Development, Leasing and Sale of Shopping Center
Government Incentives
Governmental Incentives
Governmental Incentives
Governmental Incentives
Leasing and Financing for Shopping Center
Leasing and Financing for Shopping Center
Leasing and Sale of Shopping Center
Leasing and Sale of Shopping Center
Leasing and Sale of Shopping Center
Leasing and Sale of Shopping Center
Leasing and Sale of Shopping Center
Leasing and Sale of Shopping Center
Leasing and Sale of Shopping Center
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