Two years ago:
- Price Hill Will began its rehabilitation of 723 Mt. Hope Avenue, part of its Buy-Improve-Sell program in East Price Hill's Incline District.
- The walkability of Saratoga Liberty Housing, SouthShore, the Burnet Avenue redevelopment, 723 Mt. Hope Avenue, and Seneca Place was evaluated using the online Walk Score tool.
- Matt Strauss, director of the Price Hill Housing Resource Center, gave his opinions on saving urban housing stock.
- A condemned and abandoned house in the West End was razed by the City.
- I visited Over-the-Rhine.
- Cincinnati's Department of Community Development decided it would not increase the threshold of units eligible for the City's Rental Rehabilitation Program from ten to four.
- Cincinnati City Council was considering accepting $600,000 from the Ohio Department of Transportation for the relocation of City public services facilites necessitated by the I-75 Mill Creek Expressway project.
- Cincinnati City Council was also considering the Downtown Cincinnati Improvement District's 2010-2013 services plan.
- The Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber and Agenda 360 won the 2009 Organizational Championship Award from the Alliance for Regional Stewardship.
- Minority-owned design firm WA Inc. joined GBBN Architects at its headquarters at 332 E Eighth Street, Downtown.
- A Northside home, whose owner had passed away and left the structure to vermin, was razed.
