A new apartment building in Kenwood that gives residents a “curated living experience” is offering a slew of unique amenities, some of which will be available to residents by the end of November.
Aspire Kenwood, located at 4751 Aspire Blvd., is a luxury apartment building that has leased over 200 of its apartments since April. It is part of the larger Gallery at Kenwood, a $150 million project that will include a hotel, parking garage and retail upon completion.
Rent at Aspire Kenwood falls between $1,629 and $3,700 per month depending on the type of unit and term of the lease, said Lloyd Cobble, CIG Communities senior vice president of project development. Studio apartments are at the very bottom of that range.
Aspire is 82% leased and features a selection of studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments. About 30% of units were pre-leased, Cobble said.
“The rental market has been very, very strong,” Cobble told the Courier.
Aspire’s developer, CIG Communities, is heavily focusing on digital marketing to attract more tenants, Abbie Huffman, CIG Communities director of business development and brand strategy, said.
For a look inside Aspire Kenwood, flip through the photos above.
Aspire Kenwood residents are all provided with a fob that gives them access to their unit, the gym, mailroom and more. There are also Bluetooth capabilities so residents can use their phones to unlock everything.
The gym features one of Aspire’s top amenities: Peloton bikes. The exercise equipment company previously paused its sales to apartment communities, but has since revived it. Aspire is the first apartment building in Cincinnati to have Peloton bikes on site since the company’s reversal, Huffman said.
One of the benefits of having those bikes is that they serve as fitness on demand, Huffman said. While having resident events is a top priority at Aspire, she said the Peloton bikes help provide their own form of “fitness classes” – though management will probably roll fitness classes into its event offerings.
Also on its first floor, Aspire has a club room featuring a private dining room that can be reserved or used for events, a shuffleboard table and wine lockers. Aspire has hosted a few wine tasting events for its residents, Cobble said, and it eventually hopes to have a “wine club” where residents can get bottles delivered to their locker.
It all helps tie into the social offerings at Aspire, Cobble said.
On the work side, Aspire has office spaces located on floors two through five. Each space can be rented out for $400 a month, Cobble said, and they were created to use space throughout the building. Residents also will be able to take advantage of a membership-based coworking lounge equipped with its own coffee bar and beer tap once completed. CIG has a full liquor license for the property.
The newest of Aspire’s many amenities can be found on the fourth floor. The developer is finishing soundproofing on a podcast studio, adding arcade games to its golf simulator room and unveiling a new amenity to Greater Cincinnati: a Somadome room.
Somadomes are pods that take users through a self-guided meditation session, using “color light therapy” to focus and relax users. Huffman said Aspire is the first in the Greater Cincinnati area to offer a Somadome to its residents, an idea one of CIG’s regional managers had after seeing the product in a different market.
The amenity is free to use, Huffman said, and is able to be individually reserved. CIG plans to work on frosting the windows of the Somadome room in order to give users more privacy.
Residents of Aspire include anyone from young professionals to retired folks living there and seeking to take advantage of all the community has to offer. The apartments – which offer proximity to Mason, Kings Island and the highway – are seeing its studios lease the quickest. Residents all have reserved parking spaces in the roughly 801-space parking garage.
“We have a wide range of demographics and people who feel comfortable in the space,” Cobble said.
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