Price Hill is on Cincinnati's western edge overlooking the downtown basin. Locals love long-standing family-owned business like Incline Public House, Primavista and Somm Wine Bar. Once home to Pete Rose and the headquarters of Slush Puppies, Price Hill still houses a major food manufacturing plant for hometown-based Kroger. Mt. Echo Park offers sweeping views of the Cincinnati skyline, and Cincinnati Christian University resides along Glenway Avenue, attracting young students from all over the world to this unique and historical area of town. Groups like Price Hill Will and Cincinnati Landmark Productions are helping to revitalize the area with new entertainment options, local businesses and neighborhood restorations.
Soapbox writes this week about Cradle to Cincinnati's "Happy to Wait" initiative, a partnership with Ryan Mulligan, assistant professor of fine arts at UC's College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. See his students brighten up the Price Hill Health Center in this video slide show.
Price Hill Will recently received a $100,000 two-year placemaking grant from The Kresge Foundation to use the arts to help the neighborhood's physical transformation, economic benefits and cultural growth.
The Price Hill Health Center has been getting a facelift this summer as part of Cradle Cincinnati's newest initiative, Happy to Wait, to make neighborhood health centers more welcoming environments.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Santa Maria Community Services partnered together to create Block by Block, which sends Block Captains out to visit moms and soon-to-be-moms in Price Hill.
Larry Bourgeois' career path took him around the world, across the country and eventually to Cincinnati, where he holds a relatively quiet position of both local and national influence in the specialty coffee industry and the culture of "third places."
The Warsaw Federal Incline Theater will add another landmark to Price Hill's incline district and another success on Cincinnati's growing list of creative placemaking projects that prove the arts' ability to drive economic development.
Summer Reading continues a 40-year tradition at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County in July, as students strive to keep their skills sharp and become All-Star Readers.
When she arrived in Cincinnati in 2012 on assignment for public radio, Amy Scott didn't plan to spend the next two years detailing the lives of students and faculty members at Oyler School. Her documentary film about the role of schools in historically embattled communities like Lower Price Hill will have its first public screening May 22.
Lower Price Hill's Community Matters targets September to open its Washing Well project but still needs support from local businesses, corporations and individuals to purchase the final washing machines.
In the third installment of our series on key buildings coming back to life, we look at what two nonprofit development groups are doing to restore former neighborhood anchors in Price Hill and Walnut Hills.
Our Partners
