Two years ago:
- Cincinnati City Councilmember John Cranley introduced the Regional Transportation Act, a motion that would restructure the finances and control of SORTA.
- A Community Reinvestment Area agreement was amended to give the eight upper units at East Walnut Hills' Schoolhouse Lofts a 15-year property tax exemption.
- Grant money was being channeled into the Local Initiatives Support Corporation's Recoverable Grant Pool to provide more funding for the pre-development of market-rate housing.
- In the West End, a neglected three-family with severe structural problems was razed by the City.
- $25 million in federal economic stimulus funding for public infrastructure at The Banks put the project ahead of schedule, but may have driven up its costs.
- Cincinnati City Council was considering a funding transfer to help prepare an Evanston site for the $12.5 million King Studios project.
- In Columbia Tusculum, Cincinnati City Council was considering extending a Community Reinvestment Area tax exemption agreement for the renovation of a three-story, ten-unit apartment building.
- The Cincinnati Museum Center unveiled a new website with readers' memories of Cincinnati Union Terminal, hoping it would help pass an upcoming tax levy.
- Cincinnati City administration reported that its hazard abatement funding levels were to low to administer a large-scale deconstruction and salvage program.
- The Go OTR 5K Run/Walk and OTR Summer Celebration highlighted everything that Over-the-Rhine has to offer.
- An abandoned and blighted Westwood multi-family owned by absentee landlords was razed by the City.
- I took a tour of Sedamsville.