Several Cincinnati projects have been awarded Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credits by the Ohio Department of Development (ODOD), it was announced Tuesday.

Among the recipients:

Nonprofit community development corporation Price Hill Will continues to rack up awards for its housing programs, winning its second award in two weeks.

The most recent award comes from a statewide group, the Ohio Housing Finance Agency (OHFA), which presented Price Hill Will Executive Director Ken Smith with its 2012 Spirit of Homeownership Excellence Award at its June 20 board meeting.

Cincinnati City Council last week approved a sale and development agreement, a Community Reinvestment Area (CRA) LEED tax exemption agreement, and a job creation tax credit agreement with Rough Brothers, Inc. – a move that will bring 100 jobs to the City immediately and an additional 20 within the next three years.

The City will sell 20.5 acres in Bond Hill to the company for $1.34 million for the construction of a $4 million, 150,000-square-foot headquarters and manufacturing facility, built to U.S. Green Building Council LEED standards. The company will invest an additional $8 million in equipment.

NEIGHBORHOOD: Mount Auburn
YEAR BUILT: 1904
USE: Two-family dwelling
OWNER: HPL Realty Company LLC (The Christ Hospital)
ASSESSED VALUE: $47,140
HAZARD: --
CONDEMNED: --
ORDERS: --
REASON RAZED: Razed for a surface lot for oversized vehicles that cannot fit into The Christ Hospital's West Garage, which will be the only garage open during the hospital's $265M expansion. The expansion project includes a new 332,000-square-foot orthopaedic and spine center, a new materials management building, and a 900-space visitor parking garage.

On June 20, Cincinnati City Council unanimously approved a five-year lease agreement with The Sunset Players to renovate and tenant the Dunham Arts Building at , bringing Price Hill a new community arts center.

In return for free rent, the community theatre group will transform the building into "the Arts Center at Dunham", updating the building's electrical systems, making the building ADA-compliant, and rebuilding the stage extension. The building's upper level will contain a performance venue, and the lower level will include art studio space.

The City of Cincinnati's Director of Buildings and Inspections will hold a public hearing Friday at 9 A.M. in the Main Conference Room of the Building Development and Permit Center, , to determine if the following buildings should be declared a public nuisance and entered into the City's hazard abatement program:

• , Spring Grove Village (single-family, 1890)
• , West End (single-family, 1875)
• , Avondale (three-family, 1916)
• , Mount Auburn (multi-family, 1910)
• , Walnut Hills (multi-family, 1895)
• , East Price Hill (single-family, 1913)
• , Northside (single-family, 1883)
• , East Price Hill (two-family, 1904)
• , Avondale (three-family, 1925)
• , South Fairmount (single-family, 1900)
• , South Fairmount (single-family, 1900)
• , Northside (commercial warehouse, 1900)
• , East Price Hill (single-family, 1885)
• , West Price Hill (single-family, 1915)
• , South Fairmount (single-family, 1865)
• , South Fairmount (two-family, 1889)

Anyone with pertinent information or evidence of any building's historic significance is encouraged to testify.

Previous reading on BC:
Public nuisance hearing, 5/25/12 (5/24/12)
Public nuisance hearing, 3/30/12 (3/30/12)

NEIGHBORHOOD: South Fairmount
YEAR BUILT: 1890
USE: Two-family dwelling
OWNER: Houses For Rent II LLC
ASSESSED VALUE: $18,380
HAZARD: --
CONDEMNED: --
ORDERS: November 2010, for windows, soffit, cornice, gutters and downspouts, sewer connections, clogged yard drains, and cracked walkways. Prior orders issued three times between 2007 and 2009, all closed for compliance.
REASON RAZED: Razed by the owner to close orders.

By October, a report on eliminating parking minimums for developers Downtown and in Over-the-Rhine should be presented for consideration by Cincinnati City Council.

The report from Department of City Planning and Buildings Director Charles C. Graves III is in response to an April motion submitted by Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls and signed by councilmembers Laure Quinlivan, Chris Seelbach, Yvette Simpson, Cecil Thomas and Wendell Young asking the City solicitor to have an ordinance prepared to do so within 30 days.

The Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation's (3CDC) most ambitious mixed-use project to date broke ground yesterday morning in Over-the-Rhine.

The three-phased, $59 million Mercer Commons project will remake 2.67 acres of vacant buildings and lots, creating 154 condominiums and apartments; 17,600 square feet of commercial space, and 359 parking spaces.

Cincinnati's Historic Conservation Board on Monday voted to approve a staff report endorsing a certificate of appropriateness (COA) for Cincinnati Union Bethel's renovation and expansion of the Anna Louise Inn, which provides affordable, permanent supportive housing for women in Downtown's Lytle Park Historic District.

The approval, a clarification of a COA issued last year, is the first step made necessary following a lawsuit settled by Common Pleas Court Judge Norbert Nadel, who remanded the case back to square one after finding that a Zoning Board of Appeals decision that the building was a conforming use was incorrect.

NEIGHBORHOOD: East Westwood
YEAR BUILT: 1969
USE: Multi-family dwelling
OWNER: 2015 Weron LLC (Alexandria, Va.)
ASSESSED VALUE: $592,960
HAZARD: September 2010, adding open and broken windows and excessive debris.
CONDEMNED: December 2008, following a fire that damaged joists in multiple units and left a hole in the roof. A criminal case was filed in April 2009, but dismissed two months later.
ORDERS: Many between 2002 and 2008, all closed due to compliance.
REASON RAZED: Declared a public nuisance and entered into the City's hazard abatement program.

One week ago, Cincinnati City Council passed a package of ordinances to finance public improvements at the Oakley Station project.

The package included a cooperative agreement, which further defines the terms of a development agreement between the City, developer USS Realty, and the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority; a service agreement, establishing a project-based tax increment financing (TIF) district to finance the site improvements; and a special assessment agreement, defining the duties of both the City and USS Realty in collecting assessments on the property, which will help service the TIF bonds.

NEIGHBORHOOD: West End
YEAR BUILT: 1900
USE: Mixed-use
OWNER: Bright Star Baptist Church
ASSESSED VALUE: $71,800
HAZARD: September 2008.
CONDEMNED: May 2007. Collapsed ceiling, water damage, and compromised floors. Cornice and window repair needed, with the possibility of glass falling over the public right-of-way. By early 2010, the south masonry wall began to collapse and the chimney was in danger of doing so as well. Condemnation orders were re-issued to a new owner, West End Renaissance Village, in June 2010. This case is currently in criminal status. In April 2012, Bright Star Baptist Church, a partner in the Renaissance Village project, acquired the property through quit claim deed for $5,000.
ORDERS: February 2003, ordered vacated and barricaded by the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority for excessive rubbish, tuck pointing, and plaster. Re-issued
REASON RAZED: Razed by the Community Revitalization Agency to close orders and to make way for its proposed Renaissance Village development, the redevelopment of 64 sites bounded by York, Baymiller, Findlay, and Linn streets.

NEIGHBORHOOD: Fairview
YEAR BUILT: 1880
USE: Single-family dwelling
OWNER: Gregory K. James
ASSESSED VALUE: $37,380
HAZARD: --
CONDEMNED: July 2008, issued to a new owner for attempting to convert the building to a two-family. The building had no water service since June 2006. Winds from the remnants of Hurricane Ike tore off the roof that September. A criminal case was filed in November 2009, resulting in a plea of no contest, two years of probation, a 180-day suspended jail sentence, and a fine of $100 and court costs. In May 2011, James' probation was extended an additional year.
ORDERS: May 2006, ordered vacated and barricaded following a fire that caused an estimated property loss of $50,000, displaced 18 people, and resulted in a nail puncture wound to a firefighter. Prospective buyers appeared in January 2007, promising to have the property rehabbed in two months. By August 2007, much of the work had been performed without the proper permits and in an unsatisfactory manner.
REASON RAZED: Razed by the property owner to close out code violations.

At its meeting last Wednesday, Cincinnati City Council approved the creation of three Interim Development Control (IDC) Overlay Districts, which will remain in effect for 90 days.

The IDCs, which temporarily regulate the establishment of uses, construction of new buildings, or the demolition or alteration of existing structures, were passed to address pressing issues facing three key areas:

The rezoning of portions of Race Street in Over-the-Rhine not only will clear the way for two proposed developments, but will solidify its return to a walkable, mixed-use district.

Cincinnati City Council last Wednesday approved rezoning from RM-1.2 Residential Multi-Family District to CC-P Commercial Community-Pedestrian District, allowing for more intensive uses such as animal services, banks, restaurants, funeral homes, and medical clinics.

Cincinnati City Council last Wednesday unanimously passed two ordinances that will aid in the development of low-income and affordable housing.

The first ordinance approved a HOME Investment Partnerships Program Rental Rehabilitation funding agreement with Haddon Hall Senior Apartments, LLC (Wallick-Hendy Development Company), with which the City will provide a 15-year, $200,000 loan for the rehabilitation of 114 residential units for seniors at the historic Haddon Hall, in Avondale.

The Camp Washington Community Board has applied for an $800,000, three-year community development grant to establish the Camp Washington Urban Farm Project.

The grant, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Community Services would be used to address the "food desert" problem in the neighborhood by establishing several community garden sites, creating a distribution network, and provide the foundation to expand into vertical integrated urban farming using vacant former industrial spaces.

The nonprofit working for a $165 million renovation and restoration of Music Hall has floated a proposal for a 99-year renewable lease with the City of Cincinnati, but it's unlikely that the City will bite.

The proposal by the Music Hall Revitalization Company (MHRC) is the latest in a series of ideas to raise money for a project that will address the estimated $40 million to $50 million in deferred maintenance to the building's structural and mechanical systems.

The American Sign Museum opened its new home in Camp Washington with a ceremony on Saturday morning.

The $3.3 million project transformed the building , built in 1912 and once home to the Oesterlein Machine Company and the Fashion Frocks clothing plant, into 20,000 square feet of display space for the museum's approximately 4,000 artifacts of Americana.

NEIGHBORHOOD: Mount Adams
YEAR BUILT: 1884
USE: Single-family dwelling
OWNER: Greenview Homes Ltd.
ASSESSED VALUE: $400,000
HAZARD: --
CONDEMNED: --
ORDERS: April 2010, for decks, electric fixtures, weather tightness, siding, cornice, gutters and downspouts, and garage. Building sold in June 2011.
REASON RAZED: Demolished for the construction of a trio of three-bedroom, LEED-certified townhomes, available for more than $1 million.

Tomorrow, a day-long celebration will honor the City's most iconic bridge.

RoeblingFest 2012, to be held from 11 A.M. to 11 P.M. around the intersection of Park Avenue and Court Street in Covington, will feature music, food and drink, local arts and crafts, a dedicated Kids' Zone, and a closing fireworks display by Rozzi's Famous Fireworks.

The Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI) is requesting statements of qualifications for consultant services to collect traffic volume data on approximately 142 freeways, ramps, and major roadways in Boone, Campbell and Kenton counties in Northern Kentucky.

OKI, Greater Cincinnati's metropolitan planning organization, utilizes traffic count data as part of its regional travel demand model. This model is used to inform future demand forecasts, traffic flow and engineering analyses, and corridor studies.

When temporary lanes on Duck Creek Road open to traffic next Tuesday, work on extending Kennedy Avenue one-half of a mile southward can begin in earnest.

The temporary eastbound and westbound lanes of Duck Creek Road have been built slightly north of and will remain in place throughout most of the Kennedy Connector project, scheduled to be completed in fall 2013. Between Ridge Road and Kennedy Avenue, Duck Creek Road will be limited to one lane, eastbound only.

NEIGHBORHOOD: Central Business District
YEAR BUILT: 1914
USE: Commercial/warehouse
OWNER: 305-309 W Fifth Street LLC
ASSESSED VALUE: $14,800
HAZARD: March 2010, for possibility of collapse. The current owners, who has planned to redevelop the building and the adjacent building at 305 W Fifth St, claim that they were unaware of the orders at the time of purchase. Claiming that they would not be able to make money from a property that the City said it was going to tear down, the owners applied for a demolition permit to take down the building and construct a secured parking lot for Lifetime Financial Growth. The Historic Conservation Board denied a variance that would have allowed for the demolition, but the Zoning Board of Appeals reversed that decision in April 2012.
CONDEMNED: January 2010, for water damage to structural framing, unsupported masonry, and lack of utilities.
ORDERS: July 2006, for exterior paint.
REASON RAZED: Razed to close out orders and to construct a new secured parking lot for Lifetime Financial Growth.

NEIGHBORHOOD: Riverside
YEAR BUILT: 1904
USE: Single-family dwelling
OWNER: Benjamin N. Sea
ASSESSED VALUE: $25,490
HAZARD: July 2009, building shifting.
CONDEMNED: February 2009.
ORDERS: November 2006, for a defective roof and litter. Re-issued in May 2008, adding walkways, retaining wall, a dilapidated shed, gutters and downspouts, soffit, siding, extrior paint, broken and missing windows, an unsound front porch, and cracked front steps. Owner found to be deceased in November 2008.
REASON RAZED: Delcared a public nuisance and entered into the City's hazard abatement program.

Those interested in doing business with Cincinnati Metro and its prime contractors are encouraged to attend a free vendor fair this evening from 5 P.M. to 8 P.M. at the --> --> -->Duke Energy Convention Center --> --> -->.

"Metro is more than buses," said Darryl Haley, Metro executive director of development, in a prepared release. "We purchase a wide variety of goods and services, from advertising agency services to zippered coveralls. This event will connect us to potential suppliers and provide information about how they can work with us."

NEIGHBORHOOD: Evanston
YEAR BUILT: 1900
USE: Two-family dwelling
OWNER: Iona M. Jones
ASSESSED VALUE: $35,760
HAZARD: September 2010, adding gutters and downspouts, broken and missing windows, and weeds and litter.
CONDEMNED: March 2009, for rotted and missing siding, deteriorated structural members, and dilapidated porch. Auditor lists Jones as owner of record, City records indicate she was deceased as of 2005.
ORDERS: --
REASON RAZED: Declared a public nuisance and entered into the City's hazard abatement program.

will produce ten more murals this summer, bringing the total to 56 produced by the youth summer employment program.

Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory and ArtWorks Director Tamara Harkavy announced yesterday that 115 youth, ages 14 to 21, have been hired as apprentices to create new pieces of public art. Thirty-two professional artists have been enlisted to serve as leaders and mentors.

Construction of a key section of the Ohio River Trail between Cincinnati and its eastern suburbs is now underway.

The link between , known as "Lunken to Salem" and estimated to cost just more than $1 million, will allow cyclists and pedestrians to cross the Little Miami River – and eventually connect to the Little Miami Scenic Trail.

Mill Creek Restoration Project (MCRP) has a new name and a $100,000 grant to expand its environmental and education programs.

The new name, Groundwork Cincinnati/Mill Creek, was announced this morning during a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Mill Creek Greenway Trail, a three-mile bike-hike trail extending along the urban stream from in Spring Grove Village to .

Camp Washington community organizer Joe Gorman is again pleading for the City to pressure Todd Hosea, vice president of Crosley Building owner Hosea Project Movers, to clean up his property.

In a letter to Mayor Mark Mallory and members of Cincinnati City Council, Gorman said that the 300,000-square-foot condemned industrial building, , is "laden with graffiti, overgrown weeds and trees growing out of the roof, tagged billboards on top of the structure, rusted machinery, broken windows, and trash all around the building."

NEIGHBORHOOD: Avondale
YEAR BUILT: 1910
USE: Two-family dwelling
OWNER: Erkenbrecher Properties LLC (Ronald McDonald House)
ASSESSED VALUE: $60,000
HAZARD: --
CONDEMNED: --
ORDERS: None since 2005.
REASON RAZED: Razed by adjacent property owner Ronald McDonald House, with no plans for the property announced.

A report on the potential traffic impacts of new developments in the City's Uptown neighborhoods is due before Cincinnati City Council by July 5.

The report will focus on and the projects announced for The Christ Hospital and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

NEIGHBORHOOD: Evanston
YEAR BUILT: 1895
USE: Single-family dwelling
OWNER: Jean Daniels
ASSESSED VALUE: $30,180
HAZARD: November 2010, after having been set on fire.
CONDEMNED: July 2010, for being abandoned and subject to vagrancy and vandalism. The owner was diagnosed with dementia, and the owner's daughter had been unable to sell the building.
ORDERS: April 2003, for roof, flashing, chimney, lack of smoke detectors, plaster, water leaks and damage, defective plumbing lines, excessive hoarding and blocked exits, and hazardous wiring. Orders re-issued in June 2005. In July 2005, the owner's daughter contacted the City and said they were considering taking down the building and rebuilding. Two years later, the orders were issued again. Financial hardship cited. Ordered barricaded in January 2009. Daughter tried to sell the property.
REASON RAZED: Declared a public nuisance and entered into the City's hazard abatement program.

The Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) has contracted with Portland-based Western Economic Services to conduct an assessment of affordable housing in Hamilton County.

As part of the assessment, a 2012 Hamilton County Housing Needs Survey has been posted to gauge the views and opinions of residents and other interested parties on the county's emerging housing needs.

The Housing Authority of Covington (HAC) has issued a request for qualifications (RFQ) for a market and economic consultant to assist in planning for a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Choice Neighborhoods Initiative Grant, which will be submitted next year.

The consultant will work alongside Gilmore Kean, LLC to develop the market study and economic development elements of a Neighborhood Transformation Plan for HAC's family developments, most notably City Heights.

The City of Cincinnati's Urban Conservator, Larry Harris, will hold a public hearing today at 2 P.M., Centennial Two, , Suite 720, to determine the historic significance of 16 buildings that were declared a public nuisance last month and entered into the City's hazard abatement program.

All of the following buildings are more than 50 years old and subject to review under Section 1101-57.1(1) of the Cincinnati Municipal Code:

• , West Price Hill (two-family, 1929)
• , South Fairmount (single-family, 1888)
• , Clifton Heights (mixed-use, 1880)
• , Northside (single-family, 1904)
• , Avondale (multi-family, 1895)
• , South Fairmount (single-family, 1929)
• , Westwood (single-family, 1909)
• , West Price Hill (two-family, 1918)
• , Walnut Hills (multi-family, 1900)
• , Oakley (two-family, 1910)
• , East End (single-family, 1888)
• , Millvale (three-family, 1915)
• , Westwood (two-family, 1916)
• , Hartwell (industrial warehouse, 1892)
• , Northside (three-family, 1884)
• , East Price Hill (single-family, 1897)

Anyone with pertinent information or evidence of any of these buildings' historic significance is encouraged to testify. A finding of historic significance can prevent a building from being demolished.

Previous reading on BC:
Urban Conservator meets today to review historic status of 16 buildings (5/14/12)
Urban Conservator meets today to review historic status of 14 buildings (4/16/12)
Public hearing today: Historic or not? (3/19/12)

NEIGHBORHOOD: Evanston
YEAR BUILT: 1914
USE: Single-family dwelling
OWNER: Stacey D. Thompson
ASSESSED VALUE: $59,880
HAZARD: --
CONDEMNED: --
ORDERS: March 2006, for fire damage. Orders re-issed in April 2006 for roof, gutters and downspouts, broken windows, trash, and tuck pointing. In August, the owner claimed that her insurance company took over the property as part of an insurance settlement. In January 2007, the orders were again issued to Thompson. Cited for exterior paint in December 2009.
REASON RAZED: Apparently, razed privately by the owner?!?

Development of the new Downtown headquarters of dunnhumbyUSA could reach 30 stories in height, contain up to 200 apartments, and include 40,000 square feet of retail and commercial space.

Cincinnati's City Planning Commission today recommended approval of a development agreement with Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation (3CDC) for the $100 million project, proposed for the long-underutilized two-acre site.

Excellence in community development was rewarded at the Community Development Corporations Association of Greater Cincinnati 2012 Annual Awards Celebration, held yesterday afternoon at the Cincinnati-Hamilton County Community Action Agency in Bond Hill.

Keynote speaker Paul Kaboth, vice president and community affairs officer in the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland's Community Development Department, shared the best practices he's observed in his ten months on the job.

A groundbreaking ceremony was held Thursday morning for the Kennedy Heights Cultural Center, a project that could serve as a model for the redevelopment of other urban neighborhoods.

The $3.1 million project will turn the vacant, 32,676-square-foot Kroger and Furniture Fair building into the Cincinnati Art Museum's first off-campus site, with a gallery, educational space, and storage; event, studio, and gallery space for the Kennedy Heights Arts Center; and a relocated Kennedy Heights Montessori Center, currently in Pleasant Ridge.

NEIGHBORHOOD: East Walnut Hills
YEAR BUILT: 1900
USE: Mixed-use
OWNER: Firehouse Associates LLC
ASSESSED VALUE: $147,130
HAZARD: --
CONDEMNED: --
ORDERS: --
REASON RAZED: Demolished to provide parking for the offices in the adjacent historic firehouse.

Redevelopment of the Myron G. Johnson & Son Lumber Co. site must involve community input, City Council says.

A June 6 motion, adopted unanimously, directs the City to present the contents of any request for proposals (RFP) process with the Northside Community Council, Cincinnati Northside Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation, and the Northside Business Association before putting the project out for bid.

Following public hearings held on May 25 by the Department of Community Development, Property Maintenance Code Enforcement, the following 13 buildings have been declared a public nuisance:

• , Hartwell (industrial warehouse, 1892)
• , East Price Hill (single-family, 1880)
• , College Hill (multi-family, 1900)
• , College Hill (single-family, 1865)
• , West Price Hill (single-family, 1940)
• , Mount Auburn (single-family, 1924)
• , Sedamsville (single-family, 1873)
• , West Price Hill (single-family, 1925)
• , Lower Price Hill (mixed-use, 1895)
• , Northside (single-family, 1891)
• , West Price Hill (single-family, 1961)
• , Sedamsville (single-family, 1904)
• , West Price Hill (single-family, 1948)

A public nuisance declaration subjects these buildings to demolition by governmental action, pending historic review, the awarding of bids, and the issuance of permits.

Previous reading on BC:
Fifteen more buildings declared a public nuisance (5/29/12)
Fourteen buildings, two garages declared a public nuisance (4/19/12)
Public nuisances declared (3/19/12)

A deal between the City of Cincinnati and the owners of Downtown's Hyatt Regency Hotel could lead to a $17 million renovation.

Under terms of the deal, the City would invest $1.55 million in return for a purchase of the City's ground lease rights for $2.1 million by New York-based Lamco, LLC, a subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

NEIGHBORHOOD: Avondale
YEAR BUILT: 1905
USE: Three-family dwelling
OWNER: Erkenbrecher Properties LLC (Ronald McDonald House)
ASSESSED VALUE: $150,000
HAZARD: --
CONDEMNED: --
ORDERS: --
REASON RAZED: Razed by adjacent property owner Ronald McDonald House, with no plans for the property announced.

The $14 million first phase of the Model Group's North Rhine Heights affordable apartment rehabilitation project opened Tuesday morning in Over-the-Rhine.

The 65 one-, two-, and three-bedroom units are located among 14 buildings, largely clustered . Other properties are located on Findlay, Main, Peete, and Vine streets.

At last week's meeting, Cincinnati City Council approved a pilot program that may lessen the negative impacts of foreclosed properties in five of the City's hardest-hit neighborhoods.

The Vacant Foreclosed Property Registration program, which will be enforced in College Hill, East Price Hill, Madisonville, West Price Hill and Westwood, requires banks that foreclose on properties to file within ten days –from the time that the property becomes vacant – with the City's Property Maintenance Code Enforcement Division.

The second phase of public input into Kenton County's Direction 2030 comprehensive plan begins this evening at 6 P.M. at Mary A. Goetz Elementary School in Ludlow.

Tonight's presentation centers around building healthy communities, and will feature as speakers Brian Miller, executive vice president of the Home Builders Association of Northern Kentucky; Dr. Lynne Saddler, district director of health for the Northern Kentucky Health Department; and Kathy Schwab, executive director of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation of Greater Cincinnati and Hamilton County.

NEIGHBORHOOD: Northside
YEAR BUILT: 1946
USE: Single-family dwelling
OWNER: Hamilton County Board of County Commissioners
ASSESSED VALUE: $84,350
HAZARD: --
CONDEMNED: --
ORDERS: --
REASON RAZED: Razed as part of the Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati's .

NEIGHBORHOOD: Mount Auburn
YEAR BUILT: 1915
USE: Multi-family dwelling (4 units)
OWNER: Pauline Van der Haer
ASSESSED VALUE: $28,340
HAZARD: September 2009, adding litter and weeds.
CONDEMNED: April 2009, for a collapsing rear of building, weather exposure, lack of exterior paint, and repairs needed to siding, gutters, and windows.
ORDERS: June 2007, ordered vacated and barricaded by the City. Criminal status.
REASON RAZED: Declared a public nuisance and entered into the City's hazard abatement program.

NEIGHBORHOOD: Mount Auburn
YEAR BUILT: 1881
USE: Single-family dwelling
OWNER: The Christ Hospital
ASSESSED VALUE: $56,980
HAZARD: --
CONDEMNED: --
ORDERS: --
REASON RAZED: Razed to make way for a $265M hospital expansion, including a 332,000-square-foot orthopaedic and spine center, a new materials management building, and a 900-space visitor parking garage.

NEIGHBORHOOD: Mount Auburn
YEAR BUILT: 1890
USE: Two-family dwelling
OWNER: Theresa Debnam
ASSESSED VALUE: $42,010
HAZARD: November 2009, adding broken windows, a partially collapsed chimney, and overgrown vegetation. Debnam was granted entry into a diversion program in January 2010, but, with no work performed and no Vacant Building Maintenance License, in August 2011 she was removed from the diversion program and a capious warrant issued for $1,000. A temporary restraining order that would have held off the demolition was denied on April 30, 2012.
CONDEMNED: September 2004, for rotted wood and exposed structural members and lack of exterior paint. In 2006, the City recommended demolition. New orders issued in March 2007, adding holes in the roof and damaged porch, cornice, siding, gutters and downspouts. In 2008, the City sold the property to Debnam for $1 to rehabiliate the structure as her personal residence and a daycare business. Debnam received condemnation orders in June 2008. A criminal case was filed in September 2009.
ORDERS: --
REASON RAZED: Declared a public nuisance and entered into the City's hazard abatement program.

At its meeting June 6, Cincinnati City Council unanimously approved a rezoning that will allow for the expansion of Corryville's University Edge student apartment development.

The rezoning of the property from OL Office Limited to CN-M Commercial Neighborhood-Mixed allows developers Hallmark Student Housing Cincinnati II, LLC to demolish a medical office building on the site and to construct two 14-unit buildings and 110 parking spaces.

Imagine that your friend was recently appointed to City Council. If she were to ask, what advice would you give her on making decisions related to neighborhood vitality and economic development?

That's the idea behind the What Would You Tell Her survey, now live on the Plan Build Live Cincinnati website.

NEIGHBORHOOD: Mount Auburn
YEAR BUILT: 1880
USE: Two-family dwelling
OWNER: The Christ Hospital
ASSESSED VALUE: $114,900
HAZARD: --
CONDEMNED: --
ORDERS: --
REASON RAZED: Razed to make way for a $265M hospital expansion, including a 332,000-square-foot orthopaedic and spine center, a new materials management building, and a 900-space visitor parking garage.

Construction should begin soon on Delta Flats, a 76-unit market-rate apartment development .

Towne Properties and Al. Neyer, Inc. are seeking a City grant and loan package of $1.3 million for the $8 million project, which they hope will attract young professionals and raise the viability of the nearby Columbia Square development.

The City of Cincinnati Historic Conservation Board (HCB) has voted unanimously to support its staff recommendation to deny a certificate of appropriateness that would allow for the demolition of , the building once occupied by the Bay Horse Café.

Ed Gabriel, a partner in the 625 Main Street LLC ownership group, told the board that his building has been subjected to damage caused by trucks entering and exiting Gano Street to make deliveries to the Aronoff Center for the Arts and various Sixth Street businesses.