Taking Action in Cincinnati
UrbanCincy | Connecting The Region With Its Urban Core.
by Barbara Didrichsen
2M ago
Barbara Didrichsen, January 3, 2024 It’s the same nightmare every city neighborhood fears: a young child ends up in intensive care after being hit by a car. The media shows up to cover the community’s anguish, advocacy groups and city officials hold meetings, and – sometimes – announce long-term fixes. That’s what happened in Lower Price Hill, a Cincinnati neighborhood sandwiched between three urban highways. Click on this link and you’ll see that State Street is a major connector between three urban highways that surround the community. The child was hit by a car turning off busy State Stre ..read more
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A Standing Ovation for Newport’s New Premiere Music Venue
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by Phil Armstrong
3y ago
Ovation, the 25-acre mixed-use development planned by Corporex to transform the northwestern corner of Newport, has completed its first phase of construction with the addition of PromoWest Pavilion at Ovation—a music venue that promises big things for the river’s edge. The $40 million concert venue aims to attract hundreds of thousands of fans every year with over 180 acts, both big and small. PromoWest Productions, which operates six music venues as well as the Bunbury Music Festival, considers the Newport venue to be their third crown jewel, alongside Express Live! in Columbus and Stage AE ..read more
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Redefined Over-the-Rhine Intersection Prioritizes Pedestrians
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by Guest Contributor
4y ago
The following is a guest post by Indianapolis based planner Jeffrey Tomkins with a forward from Micha Paldino, Clifton Heights resident, and founder of creative storytelling agency, Fallon Thatcher. It has been edited lightly. “With the area in and around Findlay Market expanding with new restaurants, bars, and lifestyle concepts, the neighborhood is primed and ready for a conversation around how we provide a safer and more beautiful experience. This is timed nicely with ongoing construction of FC’s stadium set to open in March 2021 that will bring even more focus on how pedestrians utilize t ..read more
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Website Restored, What’d We Miss?
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by John Yung
4y ago
Check, one, two. Hey is this thing on? Well hello there! It’s been a year, what did we miss? All kidding aside much has happened over the past year. While our team was alive and well, doing what we do, the site crashed. We can discuss how much effort we had to put into restoring the site from the archive but the long and short of it is that the back end server and hosting needed to be rebuilt almost entirely. Thank you, Travis, for all your hard work! In lieu of a broader update, we have decided to focus on catching up on some of the major developments in Cincinnati over the past year. Here’s ..read more
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What happened to the Liberty Street road diet?
UrbanCincy | Connecting The Region With Its Urban Core.
by Travis Estell
4y ago
Since 2013, the number of pedestrians killed or injured in car crashes in Cincinnati has been on the rise.  In 2018 alone, 428 pedestrians were struck by vehicles in the city, including 13 Cincinnati Public Schools students. One of those students, 15-year-old Gabriella Christine Rodriguez, was tragically killed while crossing Harrison Avenue on her way to school. On January 18, Mayor John Cranley proposed $900,000 worth of pedestrian safety improvements across the city, including the addition of new crosswalks, improved signage, sidewalk bump-outs, and the conversion of some off-peak parki ..read more
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CNU’s 2018 Transportation Summit: A New Traffic Model for Brent Spence Project
UrbanCincy | Connecting The Region With Its Urban Core.
by Guest Contributor
4y ago
The underlying assumption of the Brent Spence Bridge project is that the level of congestion warrants relief with a new bridge and freeway expansion. The problem of congestion will be solved with new freeway capacity. However, that simple formula does not account for all the costs of the freeway expansion or the benefits not running a freeway through the urban core. Two important pieces missing from the Brent Spence Bridge project cost/benefit analysis are the value of urban land and induced demand. As noted in a prior article, urban land is valuable. The sustained growth in Over the Rhine is ..read more
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CNU’s 2018 Transportation Summit: Lessons for Greater Cincinnati
UrbanCincy | Connecting The Region With Its Urban Core.
by Guest Contributor
4y ago
CNU’s 2018 Transportation Summit was September 16-17 in New Orleans. The purpose of the summit was to bring together people focused on the revitalization of urban neighborhoods disrupted by freeways. In attendance were people from Massachusetts, California, Colorado, Texas, Wisconsin, Washington DC, and two members from CNU Midwest, Chris Meyer and Brian Boland. There were many takeaways from the summit but three lessons seem applicable to Greater Cincinnati. The first is that freeways and urban fabric are incompatible. Urban fabric in Greater Cincinnati typically consists of fine-grained parc ..read more
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New Coffee shop Focuses on Community Connections
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by Addie Sherman
4y ago
Tucked away on the charming and growing business district in East Walnut Hills is a new coffee shop that is only a few months old. Urbana Café, the Pendleton coffeeshop that began by operating out of a Vespa at Findlay Market, opened it’s second brick and mortar location in East Walnut Hills this summer. However, this new location has an unexpected twist when you compare it to other coffee shops in the city: it’s decision to remain “unplugged.” Why? I spoke with owner Daniel Noguera to find out: For Daniel, it’s all about taking a second to unplug and reconnect. His aim is to “Build community ..read more
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Foundation Event a Deep Dive into Bath House History
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by John Yung
4y ago
For decades these peculiar historic buildings sat hidden in plain sight. Maybe it was a house with two front entrances or a church. Maybe a building had a lot of hard concrete floors. In Over-the-Rhine, these could have been breweries, factories, or….a bath house? Highlighting the history of one of the neighborhoods more hidden quirks, the Over-the-Rhine Foundation will host an event later this month in a former bath house. A Sanborn Map showing the Pendleton Bath House “In the early 20th century, the high cost of in-home plumbing and water heaters meant that Cincinnatians bathed at commercial ..read more
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EDITORIAL: City Should Move Forward on Liberty Street
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by Travis Estell
4y ago
Liberty Street was originally built as a typical 30 foot wide city street, but was widened to 70 feet in 1955 to serve as a connector to Interstate 471 and Reading Road. The widening required a significant number of building demolitions and physically severed the neighborhood into two halves. Over the past fifteen years, as the southern half of OTR has redeveloped, the northern half has seen much less investment–and most of this has been in the area around Findlay Market, not along Liberty Street. It is uncomfortable as a pedestrian to cross Liberty Street, as the walk light changes almost imm ..read more
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