New corporate headquarters could replace Forest Fair Mall [Video]

FOREST PARK, Ohio — Greater Cincinnati’s most persistent zombie mall may have finally met its match in a $95 million development that could replace the 90-acre Forest Fair Mall property with a new corporate headquarters for Hillman Solutions Corp.

Details of the project were revealed in a Thursday meeting of the Butler County Land Bank, which agreed to use proceeds from a 2021 state grant to cover $7.9 million in demolition costs.

“It makes this site possible to be redeveloped,” said Forest Park City Manager Don Jones. “A lot of details still to be worked out but I think this was a great day for the city of Forest Park, city of Fairfield, Butler County, Hamilton County, and the whole region.”

A concept plan, presented to …