The 1,450-space parking garage continues to grow and structural steel is being erected for the Cincinnati Herald's 46,000-square-foot building at the Uptown Consortium's Burnet Avenue project site in Avondale.
The $52 million first phase of the large-scale neighborhood redevelopment is being built on a cleared site bounded by .
This phase will also include a six-story medical office building for Children's Hospital Medical Center, street-level retail, and a future sub-phase 60 market-rate condominiums .
Also included is a photo of the 900-space parking garage being built by Children's Hospital Medical Center at , the construction of which has been chugging along rather slowly.
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Previous reading on BC:
Model hired to plan Harvey Commons (2/19/08)
Herald Building granted CRA tax exemption (2/18/08)
GCF grant to fund Gateway Center study (2/14/08)
Council to consider CRA LEED tax exemption for Herald Building (2/12/08)
Children's Hospital garage photo update, 12/24/07 (1/3/08)
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The Herald Building will house the Cincinnati Herald, a publication aimed toward African-Americans. It's a racially-polemic rag, with sloppy writing, poor journalism skills, and no serious editing. It' s owned by a black state rep who has no qualms in taking public funds and tax breaks. Perhaps he considers this rparartions for the 1967 riots, which burned Burnet down.
Newspaper publication today is a dying business. One that spews racial rhetoric and promotes one race over another should not be funded by taxpayers. Is this white elephant smack dab in the middle of the Burnet Avenue renovation a good idea? I think not.
The planners and city had such an opportunity to build a completely new square/identity here learning from the errors of Hyde Park and Oakley squares, each islands divided by busy through streets. And O'Bryonville and Clifton, buildings right up to the street, no place to breathe (Burnet is not a through street, Harvey and Forest are). Already Burnet doesn't look like the plans Goody/Clancy from Boston came up with. Their renderings were all flash. What good were they? Was their only purpose to appease the neighborhood residents at the meetings until they forgot about it? Right now this "revitalization" is turning into just another anywhere street with buildings right up to the sidewalk. So much more can be done here, the space is there and the few old buildings nearby architecturally outshine any of those in the other squares, offering inspiration to draw from as well. Build something interesting for a change with a well thought out footprint to begin with.
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