Three years ago:
- The City of Cincinnati received $3 million in Clean Ohio Revitalization Funds for environmental remediation work at the MetroWest Commerce Park site.
- It was discovered that Vladimir Putin is a Cincinnati property owner!
- The Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, Cincinnati.com and CincyTechUSA were sponsoring a "Best Blogs" contest.
- Frost Brown Todd signed a deal to move its 300 employees into the Great American Tower at Queen City Square, making the City's new tallest building 80 percent leased.
- The Ohio Housing Finance Agency began administering the Grants for Grads program, providing down payment and closing cost assistance to graduates of Ohio's colleges and universities in an effort to keep them from leaving the state.
- Thirty-six photos of Covington's Westside neighborhood, South Fairmount, the West End, Downtown, Northside, Over-the-Rhine, and Downtown Covington were added to the Building Cincinnati galleries.
- The Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments won a Special Achievement in GIS Award for its implementation of ERSI's geographic information system technology.
- 3CDC unveiled a redesigned website featuring more photographs and in-depth information on its development projects.
- A Linwood house that suffered a one-alarm fire was razed by the City.
