Regional Growth: The Port Authority's Role in Driving Redevelopment

Laura N. Brunner, President/CEOPort of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority

www.cincinnatiport.org513.621.3000

@PGCDA

Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority

www.cincinnatiport.org

GO Cincinnati:

Bond Hill : Origins

Redlining: Cincinnati Map

Bond Hill 50s - 60s -70s

From Bond Hill: Origin and Transformation of a 19th Century Cincinnati Railroad Suburb, Varady, 2004

Old Woodward High school, 1959

1970s re-branding and brochure

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Bond Hill - Roselawn Today

Woodward Students – Building Technologies

Bond Hill Academy

Allen Temple AME

St. Aloysius

Reds Community Fund

Seymour/Reading Corridor

Allen Temple AME GroundbreakingOctober, 2013

MidPointe Crossing:Seymour/Reading CorridorOctober 31, 2013

“10 commercial projects worth watching in 2014”- Cincinnati EnquirerJanuary, 22, 2014

Seymour Plaza

January 9, 2014

December 3, 2013

Seymour Plaza/TechSolve II:

Seymour/Reading Corridor

• 25 acre site• 230,000 sf available for office, retail, institutional, or

residential• Daily traffic count of 166,800 on I-75/Paddock Road

Interchange & 37,000 at Reading/Seymour intersection• 75,000 daytime employees within 3-mile radius Earning $4.2 Billion payroll• $2.5 Billion of household purchasing power• $100 Million of unmet retail demand• 43 percent home owner-occupancy rate

Seymour Plaza, Club Aqua, December 2013

De-risking broken sites takes public investment

Industrial History: South Mill Creek Corridor

Queensgate 100

Cargo Market Study

Return vacant properties to productive use• Hamilton County Land Reutilization Corporation • Non-profit, quasi-governmental entity• Established by R.C. 1724• Cuyahoga County Landbank

HCLRC - Hamilton County Landbank

Hamilton County Landbank Historic Stabilization

Regal Theater1201 Linn St. West End

Focus Neighborhood: Walnut Hills

Preserve Neighborhood Character

Hamilton County Landbank

Developed Focus Neighborhood Strategy

Factors in selection: • # of foreclosures• # of code violations/condemnations• Level of public and private investment• Educational and historic resource• Community engagement• Capacity of a lead community-based organization•

Focus Neighborhood Strategy

Walnut HillsEvanstonMadisonvilleAvondaleNorwoodSt. BernardFairfax

Short-Term

Focus Neighborhood Strategy

Price HillNorthsideSouth CumminsvilleCollege HillNorth College HillMount HealthyColerain Township

Long-Term

Focus Neighborhood Strategy

3351 Woodburn, Evanston

Moving Ohio Forward:

Key Partners - Landbank

Public Finance

PACE : Property Assessed Clean Energy gcpace.org

Bond Hill: O’ROURKE - WOODWARD TECHNICAL TRAINING

Evanston: Building Value Collaboration and Community Benefits

Thank you

Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority

Laura N. Brunner, President/CEO

www.cincinnatiport.org

513.621.3000

@PGCDA