Two years ago:
- The first annual Cincinnati Bloggers Convention at the Mercantile Library was a success.
- Clifton Town Meeting continued its fight for a promised plaza on the former site of Bender Optical on Ludlow Avenue.
- A short-lived series on the walkability of local buildings began using the online Walk Score tool.
- The Mill Creek Restoration Project was seeking volunteers for its Laughing Brook wetlands project at Salway Park.
- Carson School in West Price Hill was demolished.
- Receivership 101, part of the City of Cincinnati's Home Grown Expert Roundtable Series, showed how the legal remedy can be used to get blighted properties into the hands of those who can redevelop them.
- Cincinnati City Council's Economic Development Committee was considering a rezoning request that would bring two new six-unit apartment buildings and a rehabilitated ten-unit apartment building to the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Charlton Street in Corryville.
- Cincinnati City Council also was considering the transfer of federal HOME funding for Forest Square, a new 21-unit senior housing project in Avondale.
- An ordinance was pending that would fund infrastructure improvements at the CitiRama 2010 site at Rockford Woods in Northside.
- The U.S. Green Building Council was seeking input on how it could improve its green rating system.
- A Northside single-family was razed for some reason.
- I visited Wyoming.
