Managing Editor’s Note:
If you’ve noticed dust settling around The Brandery building in Over the Rhine, that’s because new General Manager Mike Bott is overseeing a massive remodeling project. The building's first-floor space is being renovated for a new class of startups (
applications being accepted now) while graduates Choremonster, Road Trippers and Venue Agent will maintain workspaces on the third floor.
Soapbox Media, also a web-focused startup, can be found in the space as well.
In addition to dedicated space at
The Brandery on Vine Street, we will also maintain office space in Northside as part of a collaborative office suite we will share with startup local nonprofits.
While the Brandery caters to and nurtures high-tech startups, the collaborative space in Northside serves as a new home for disparate, community-focused nonprofits.
In Northside, at the corner of Hamilton Avenue and Blue Rock, the space currently occupied by Shop Therapy will soon serve as the home for The Urban Legend Institute, the retail store element of the literacy and creative-writing focused nonprofit
WordPlay. With creative and marketing support from
Possible Worldwide, WordPlay plans to offer preview tours by July.
The second floor of the building houses the offices of the educational nonprofit as well as two other nonprofits:
parProjects, which is focused on building a community arts center and providing arts programming in Northside, and
350.org, the local arm of the national environmental nonprofit. (Full disclosure:
Soapbox's managing editor sits on the Board of the nonprofit WordPlay.)
One thing that has not changed is the best way to reach
Soapbox with your story ideas, questions and comments. Connect with us via email. But if you want to send us a letter, old-school postal-style, you can find us:
Soapbox Media via The Brandery
1411 Vine Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Soapbox Media via WordPlay
4041 Hamilton Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45223
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