Avondale

Avondale is Cincinnati’s fourth largest neighborhood and home to the nation’s second oldest zoo, the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. Burnet Avenue runs through the community and serves as headquarters for two of the region’s top hospitals and research centers: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati Medical Center. The neighborhood abuts both Xavier University and UC main campuses. The developing Cincinnati Innovation District is anchored by 1819 Innovation Hub on Reading Road, just off of interstate I-71 at the Martin Luther King Dr. exchange.

Northern cardinal at winter feeder.

It’s a scary time for birds

Plus, 12 ways to help keep our local birds a bit safer during the fall and winter.

Toddlers ages 2 to 3 at Little Stars can explore the classroom designed just for them.
On-campus early learning centers grow young minds and spark scholarship

A snapshot of the synergistic role early learning centers play in the academic fabric of a few of the region's universities.

Rendering of IRS site
Building the Cincinnati basin and beyond

Community tactics include infill construction, adaptive reuse, restoring existing multi-family housing stock plus planned development to provide more housing.

Multifamily housing that exists in Paddock Hills was built before zoning and is in suboptimal condition, Orr said.
The impact of Connected Communities, part two

More perspectives about the city's zoning-change proposal.

The proposal's intent is to craft a zoning regulation that minimizes parking requirements.
Connected Communities feedback from neighbors in East Price Hill, North Avondale, and Mt. Airy

Multifaceted zoning legislation to increase housing has disconcerted critics on the ground while others see middle housing as a balancing factor to improve housing stock.

Main Street Ventures and Innovation Hub foster aspiring entrepreneurs. Pictured: Three winning teams from the 2024 Launch It: Cincy pitch competition.
Main Street Ventures forges path for aspiring entrepreneurs with 1819 Innovation Hub

At the heart of MSV’s work: ”How do we keep great talent from our regional universities in the city for years and decades to come?”

National Park Service awards major grant to historic African American cemetery

United American Cemetery is the final resting place and a memorial to the lives of dozens of people who were leading figures of Cincinnati’s Black history.

ArtWorks' Civic Studio artist in residence Asha White (second from left) with the Studio's team of artists catalogued Greater Cincinnati's 218 existing monuments and their subject matter as part of the New Monuments Initiative.
Artworks’ monumental task

The New Monuments Initiative strives for more inclusive Cincinnati memorials.  

Expansive elephant mural depicts feelings of peace, joy, togetherness, and community

Cedric Cox's recently completed Cincinnati Zoo mural has given new life to a stretch of Forest Avenue at Irving Street in Avondale.  

Melaine “Lani” Lomax is Cincinnati Recreation Commission's resident pickleball specialist.
Bend your knees and communicate: Great pickleball (and life) advice

Pickleball’s burgeoning popularity in the Queen City has happened organically as people found new ways to keep fit and make friends.

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