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.
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative kicks off National Volunteer Week festivities with a Thank-A-Thon to recognize long-time volunteers, then hosts two service projects in Price Hill.
Price Hill's "super-volunteer" Patti Hogan was profiled in a recent Soapbox story by Liz McEwan, and they appeared on WVXU's "Cincinnati Edition" April 9 to discuss Price Hill's struggles and successes.
It might take a village to raise a child, but Patti Hogan proves that it takes just a few dedicated volunteers to pick up trash and help improve their West Side neighborhoods one street, one house and one empty lot at a time.
Price Hill Will received a $500,000 grant from Wells Fargo March 18 to help expand revitalization efforts in the Cedar Grove area of West Price Hill.
Cincinnati’s 52 neighborhoods are a patchwork quilt of different sizes, shapes, allegiances and demographics cobbled together into a diverse and sometimes non-cohesive unit. The 2015 Neighborhood Summit looked to erase boundaries and emphasize the results of successful partnerships among our neighborhoods.
This Saturday marks the first stop on a city-wide tour of LEED certified and otherwise energy efficient residences and communities in the area.
The proposed Ohio River Trail West was recently awarded over $1 million from a federal congestion mitigation/air quality grant, which will go toward Phase I of a 20-mile off-road bikeway and greenway that connects downtown to Shawnee Lookout in North Bend.
If there’s one individual in Cincinnati who embodies the calendar's January transition from past to future, it has to be City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld. Just 30, he has his finger on the pulse of today's defining urban trends while looking to possible statewide (and even national) office.
DAAP students from the University of Cincinnati have spent the past two years working to propose sustainable ideas to Cincinnati neighborhoods about what can be done with vacant lots.
Soapbox photographer Scott Beseler presents the year in photos, a collection of his home page "masthead" images from throughout 2014. See how many local spots you can identify.
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