Read about the Q Blogger Tour

On Saturday, Holly and Michael Redmond, Jim Moll, and others with the Gateway Quarter led a group of a dozen local bloggers on a tour of completed projects and one under construction.

Developers of the projects* were on hand to answer questions about the Gateway Condos, Duncanson Lofts, Duveneck Flats and Centennial Row, as well as the Urban Sites Properties project under construction and 13th and Vine streets.

I would like to personally thank all of the folks at the Q and the developers for taking time out of their Saturday to lead us all around their section of Over-the-Rhine.

I would also like to thank all of the local bloggers who came out and made the event possible, and I hope you got something out of the experience.

Look for a write-up on my experience within the coming days. In the meantime, check out the blogs of others on the tour - I would expect a lot of posts on the event in the coming days.

* Buy Cincy
* Cincy Images
* CityKin
* ekalb
* Get Cincy
* Jackie Danicki
* Joe Wessels
* Northern Kentucky News
* Queen City Survey
* RRD Photo Blog
* The 'Nati Life
* Urban Cincy

Special thanks to The Model Group, NorthPointe Group/B2B Equities and Urban Sites Properties for showing us how it's done.

Northside: Colerain Connector redevelopment update

Thirty-two new single-family homes in Northside are closer to reality.

At its February 28 meeting, City Council passed unanimously a zoning change for property along Kirby Rd (see map).

Sector D (south of Robley) Ave would change from RM-2 to SF-2, and Sector E would change from SF-6 to SF-2.

The new SF-2 zoning would allow for single-family homes of medium-to-high density on lots, at the minimum, of 2,000 square feet (think townhomes).

NorthPointe Land Company is still the preferred developer for the market-rate homes. (I'm unaware of any extension granted in their preferred developer agreement, but there must have been one because it should have expired last September.)