Downtown

Downtown Cincinnati is the place to live, work, and play populated by restaurants, cafes, bars, arts and culture venues around every corner, plus a long-awaited and busy Kroger's that anchors recently-renovated Court Street Plaza. The downtown urban core is alive with programming, including music during the summer and ice skating in the winter, and features the largest living room 'television' in the region overlooking The Genius of Water at Fountain Square. Downtown has experienced dramatic expansion and population growth with residential developments, including condos and apartments in all price ranges, many of which boast scenic views of the hillsides and the river and offer unparalleled access to nightlife and recreation.

Five retailers will be provided with pop up shop space for free this holiday season, mainly around Fountain Square.

Five retailers to score free rent and $1,000 for holiday pop up shops

Downtown Cincinnati Inc. and the City of Cincinnati are partnering for Cincy Pop Shop, which will help activate vacant retail spaces in the Central Business District during the holiday season.

James Avant of OCD Cakes won $15,000 at The Big Pitch.
Artworks awards $15,000 to Obsessive Cakes in The Big Pitch

A baker who struggles with OCD and anxiety, James Avant, sailed through The Big Pitch at Rhinegeist Brewery on Oct. 7 to win $15,000 to seed his budding business Obsessive Cake Disorder. The audience choice award of $5,000 went to Scott Beseler of The Lodge in Northern Kentucky.  

Nathan Heck teaches the next generation about innovation and creative capital where science, engineering meet.
Artrageous cultivates next gen innovation where science, art, history, engineering meet

Innovation and creativity are sought after traits in the startup community, but nurturing and encouraging those qualities in the next generation in an era focused on STEM and standardized testing can be difficult. Nathan Heck addresses that challenge through his web series Artrageous with Nate. http://www.artrageouswithnate.com

The executive chef of Orchids at Palm Court, Todd Kelly, was featured on the CBS Morning Show Oct. 7.
Chef Todd Kelly of Orchids at Palm Court featured on CBS This Morning

Executive Chef Todd Kelly of the award-winning restaurant, "Orchids at Palm Court" at the Hilton Netherland Plaza Downtown Cincinnati Hotel appeared on "CBS This Morning: Saturday" on Oct. 7.

Ei8ht Ball Brewing hosts a fundraiser.
Women craft brewers host beer tasting to benefit Women Helping Women

Amelia BEERhart: Celebrating Women in the Craft Beer Industry presents an opportunity to not only honor strong women who brew beer, but also to honor strong women who have survived domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking.  

Art Academy receives AED for neighborhood

 Realtors With Heart will present a new AED to the people of Over-the-Rhine 10:30 a.m.Thursday morning, Oct.13 on the corner of 12th and Jackson Streets at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

A rendering of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra's first Friday Orange performance.
CSO launches Friday Orange, invites patrons to experiment and engage in uniqueness

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is inviting you to reimagine your symphony experience with its new initiative — Friday Orange — an idea that stemmed from the desire to make the CSO more energetic and inviting.

Kathleen Cail and Nestor Melnyk present their survey for Access Cincinnati at a People's Liberty launch event in August.
People’s Liberty project grantee, Access Cincinnati

Longtime friends Kathleen Cail and Nestor Melnyk are in the midst of designing and launching Access Cincinnati, which focuses on Cincinnati's accessibility. Thanks to a grant from People's Liberty, they will launch their idea in early 2017.

Fourth and Walnut Centre, former First National Bank building, downtown
Four Cincinnati buildings to be added to the National Register of Historic Places

Four Cincinnati buildings — the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Building, the First National Bank Building, the Reakirt Building and the former Eastern Hills YMCA — are on the short list to be added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Streetcar expansion momentum builds in NKY

A consensus is emerging in Newport to bring back streetcar service to Northern Kentucky to attract the kind of economic development momentum surrounding the Cincinnati Streetcar.

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