The following is my attempt to document Over-the-Rhine in its current state, as of Spring-Summer 2016! For anyone who's not familar with the neighborhood, please be aware that I skipped over the more polished areas of the neighborhood such as the "Gateway Quarter" area on Vine Street. This thread mostly covers the parts of the neighborhood that are currently undergoing development (or will be in the coming years).

 

Sycamore Street

 

1200 block (even side):

 

Main Street

 

1100 block (even side):

 

 

1200 block (odd side):

 

 

 

1300 block (even side):

 

 

 

 

1300 block (odd side):

 

1400 block (even side):

 

 

1400 block (odd side):

 

 

 

During Second Sunday on Main:

 

Clay Street

 

1300 block (odd side):

 

Vine Street

 

1100 block (odd side):

 

1400 block (odd side):

 

15th & Vine development:

 

 

Wielert's:

 

Meiners Flats:

 

1600 block (odd side) between Liberty and Green:

 

1700 block (odd side) between Green and Elder:

 

 

Republic Street

 

1400 block (even side) between 14th and 15th:

 

1500 block (even side) between 15th and Liberty:

 

 

Race Street

 

1100 block (even side) between Central Parkway and 13th Street:

 

 

New Race Street condos in the 1500 block (odd side):

 

Vacant lot at Race and Liberty waiting to be developed:

 

NE corner of Race and Liberty:

 

1600 block (even side) between Liberty and Green:

 

 

1600 block (odd side) between Liberty and Green:

 

1700 block (odd side) between Green and Findlay Market:

 

Model Group is renovating most of the 1800 block (even side) of Race as part of a development called "Market Square":

 

 

1900 block (odd side) between Findlay and Henry:

 

 

Pleasant Street

 

1500 block (odd side) between 15th and Liberty:

 

Elm Street

 

There are several major developments happening along Elm between Central Parkway and 14th Street. The historic YMCA building recently underwent a large renovation, a new Cincinnati Shakespeare Company theater is under construction, The Transept (venue in an old church) opened last year, and both Memorial Hall and Music Hall are currently being renovated. Here's the view from the Carew Tower:

 

And from ground level:

 

 

1400 block (odd side) between Magnolia and 15th:

 

 

 

1500 block (even side) between 15th and Liberty:

 

1500 block (odd side) between 15th and Odeon:

 

a month and a half later...

 

The corner of Liberty and Elm presents many development opportunities. At the SE corner, a KFC-turned-cell phone store is begging to be demolished and replaced by something that fits into the neighborhood:

 

And at the NW corner, a proposed development called LibertyElm is slated to replace this vacant lot:

 

1700 block of (odd side) between Green and Elder:

 

 

1800 block (odd side) between Elder and Findlay:

 

 

Corner of Findlay and Elm (looking NE):

 

Rhinegeist:

 

 

Corner of McMicken and Elm:

 

 

Liberty Street

 

The city is studying several options for narrowing Liberty Street. Hopefully one of them moves forward, because it really serves as a dividing line for the neighborhood at the moment.

 

Corner of Elm and Liberty (looking NE):

 

Between Race and Elm (north side):

 

 

Corner of Race and Liberty (looking NE):

 

Corner of Vine and Liberty (looking NE):

 

Corner of Walnut and Liberty (looking NE):

 

Corner of Walnut and Liberty (looking SE):

 

Between Walnut and Main (north side):

 

Corner of Main and Liberty (looking NE):

 

Between Main and Sycamore (north side):

 

Dunlap Street

 

 

Branch Street

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

13th Street

 

Between Main and Sycamore (north side):

 

14th Street

 

14th and Clay (NW corner):

 

Orchard Street

 

 

15th Street

 

Looking towards Vine:

 

Odeon Street

 

 

Wade Street

 

This should be a pretty dramatic change in the coming years as the vacant lots on Wade start to get developed and the cell phone store in a former KFC hopefully gets replaced by something new:

 

 

 

Findlay Street

 

200 block (north side) between Dunlap and Elm:

 

 

100 block (north side) between Elm and Race:

 

I still struggle to process how quickly OTR is changing. I've been getting down there about once a month and even with that somewhat-high frequency I can't keep up with all of the new development. It's completely unreal. Amazing photos - I've been loving these drone shots and the fish-eye shots are great too.

Phenomenal set! Cannot wait until this is a completely outdated thread.

One of THE best threads ever on this site.

What a gorgeous neighborhood and a great set of photos. Thanks for sharing.

This one ...

 

Thank you for these photos- they are excellent! I think this photo set demonstrates how much work there is still to do in OTR, and how much potential there is for infill. At this point, OTR has lost enough historic stock that I think infill is actually a necessity for making the neighborhood feel whole again. When you get up near Findlay Market, it's almost embarrassing to see how many abandoned and severely run down buildings there are. I just spent the morning at Findlay Market, and I was shocked and appalled to see the condition of Green St., and several other stretches of Elm and Race that look disastrous. For as much progress as we've made, we have so, so much more work to do.

Which is honestly very exciting to me. That to think that EVERYTHING that we've seen up to this point is likely only 1/3 of what will eventually occur. That means so many opportunities for seriously powerful changes to occur within the neighborhood still. We likely have another 15-20 years of continual progress left in OTR which should be very exciting.

wow what an impressive thread - my jaw hit the floor. this is great work. its hard to believe all the redevelopment in otr. if there is a better example of the back to the city movement going on across our american cities i dont know it.

Wow - it's been too long since I've been to Cincinnati and the last time I was in Over-the-Rhine proper, I was cutting a rug with friends at Club DV8. Definitely need to check this out, looks amazing!

I wanted to add a few more aerial photos I took of Liberty Street to this thread. This is going to be a very dramatic change once the road diet is complete.

 

Elm to Race:

 

Vine to Walnut:

 

Walnut to Main:

 

At Main:

 

At Sycamore: