UNION TOWNSHIP, OH (FOX19) - A Cincinnati-based developer is set to break ground on the first urban apartment development in Clermont County.

The $13 million Lofts at Ivy Pointe will include 133 efficiency, one-and two-bedroom residential rental units in a four story elevator building on three acres located at the entrance to the Ivy Pointe Business Park. The development is in close proximity to the headquarters of Total Quality Logistics, Jungle Jim’s and a planned Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

The groundbreaking is scheduled for Monday, March 11 at 9am.

HARRISON, OH (FOX19) – The 2012 Pondarama Water Garden Tour for the east side and Northern Kentucky will happen this Saturday and Sunday.

The self-guided tour runs from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. and includes ten places in 7 counties.

The first home on the tour is one in Boone County with a bog garden, which helps purify the water, linked by a 100 foot stream to a pond, with an outdoor kitchen next to the pond, a hot tub built into the landscaping, and a state-of-the-art chicken coop.  They will serve some food to visitors.  The next stop, in Dry Ridge, lets you watch fish from air chairs suspended from a tree. Subsequent stops are in Taylor Mill, Covington at a florist and garden center, Cold Spring, and Fort Thomas.  On the Ohio side, the tour has stops in New Richmond, Batavia, Anderson Township (with a fish cave), and Morrow.

BATAVIA, OH (FOX19) – The Village of Moscow has the highest dollar amount of damage and Tate Township has the most buildings damaged in the latest assessment of damage in Clermont County caused by Friday’s tornado.

Clermont County building inspectors have now reassessed several structures impacted by the March 2, 2012 tornado and severe weather that impacted the county.  A total of 303 buildings or structures were impacted in Franklin Township, Tate Township, Washington Township, and the Village of Moscow.  The assessment indicates that 55 structures were destroyed, 28 suffered major damage, 153 had minor damage, and 67 sustained slight damage.  The estimated value of the structures impacted by the storms is $14.8 million with a total estimated damage loss of $3.8 million.