May 5, 200718 yr From the 5/4/07 Eastern Hills Journal: Clark students to relocate BY FORREST SELLERS | [email protected] HYDE PARK - Students at Clark Montessori High School will have a new home next year. They will take classes at the former Jacobs Center on Winton Road, while the current building on Erie Avenue is renovated. "It's exciting in a way because it's a bit of a homecoming for the secondary Montessori program," said Janet Walsh, chief officer of public affairs for Cincinnati Public Schools. "That is where it began in the early 1990s." http://news.communitypress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/C2/20070504/NEWS01/705040332/
May 7, 200718 yr From the 5/7/07 Enquirer: Blackwell evaluation divides board BY BEN FISCHER | [email protected] The Cincinnati School Board spent 75 minutes bickering last Wednesday over whether to give Superintendent Rosa Blackwell her next performance review - which could lead to another salary increase - this summer or next winter. Ultimately, they left without deciding anything. They'll try again at a meeting tonight. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070507/NEWS0102/705070379/1077/COL02
May 9, 200718 yr From the 5/8/07 Enquirer: CPS to evaluate Blackwell early Review set for August; criteria not finalized BY BEN FISCHER | [email protected] A divided Cincinnati Board of Education voted Monday to conduct Superintendent Rosa Blackwell's next performance review in August, just seven months after her last "annual" evaluation concluded. However, the criteria used in the review, which will cover her performance during the entire 2006-07 school year, won't be finalized by the board until later this month. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070508/NEWS0102/705080383/
May 15, 200718 yr From the 5/15/07 Enquirer: Teacher contract details emerge BY BEN FISCHER | [email protected] Cincinnati Public Schools teachers will get a 1 percent salary increase this year and a 2 percent raise in 2008, under a tentative agreement between Cincinnati Public Schools and its teachers union. Teachers and the district agreed to hold off any decision on raises for 2009, the third year of the contract, according to documents released by the union this morning. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070515/NEWS01/305150031/
May 18, 200718 yr From the 5/16/07 Enquirer: CPS board will look into new levy Members believe careful analysis, frank appeal to public will be key BY BEN FISCHER | [email protected] The clamor for new tax revenue is growing in Cincinnati Public Schools, but even the most ardent proponents of a levy say it could be a tough case to make with voters. Standing between the district and a successful campaign are local money issues looming for the November ballot, including a possible half-cent sales tax increase for a new Hamilton County jail. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070516/NEWS0102/705160376/
May 22, 200718 yr Closing down effective schools, mass layoffs...yeah, this is good. Cincy schools lay off 100 Instructors' assistants take brunt of releases BY BEN FISCHER | [email protected] The most recent victims of layoffs in Cincinnati Public Schools are the school workers who sometimes make the difference between an orderly classroom and a disruptive learning environment, parents and teachers say. Monday, the Board of Education approved an additional 100 job cuts as the district continues to shed expenses amid financial troubles. Seventy-nine instructors' assistants were let go, along with 13 clerical support specialists and eight school-community liaisons. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070522/NEWS0102/705220384/
May 26, 200718 yr From the 5/25/07 Enquirer: CPS teachers approve new contract Class sizes, insurance rates rise BY BEN FISCHER | [email protected] Cincinnati Public Schools teachers approved a new employment contract Thursday evening, voting 1,140-471 in favor of a deal the union president called a "sacrifice." Under the terms of the contract, the maximum class size in kindergarten through third grade would increase by three, from 22 to 25 students. In some cases, it could spike to 28 with additional pay for the teachers who are affected. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070525/NEWS0102/705250362/ From the 5/25/07 Eastern Hills Journal: Residents support local school BY FORREST SELLERS | [email protected] HYDE PARK - A former public school teacher, Tiffiny Grale may not be totally unbiased. However, she was not alone. Grale was among those attending the spring meeting of the Hyde Park Neighborhood Council May 24. The main discussion topic was what to do with the Hyde Park School once Kilgour returns to its Herschel Avenue location. http://news.communitypress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/C2/20070525/NEWS01/705250320/ From the 5/25/07 Enquirer: Harmony files CPS countersuit BY DENISE SMITH AMOS | [email protected] Harmony Community School in Roselawn filed a countersuit against Cincinnati Public Schools alleging the district has improperly "flagged" some Harmony students, causing the charter school to lose state funding for those students. The countersuit is the latest salvo in a legal battle between Cincinnati Public and Harmony, which has 630 students. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070525/NEWS0102/705250363/
June 3, 200718 yr Link contains photos. From the 6/1/07 Enquirer: CPS students appeal directly to the people BY BEN FISCHER | [email protected] Amid a deepening financial crisis in Cincinnati Public Schools, parents at Fairview German Language School moved past bake sales on Thursday to fundraising strategies somewhat more sophisticated. Their goal: to raise $112,000, enough to make part-time teachers in art, music and the gifted program full-time again, and to pay for their benefits. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070601/NEWS0102/706010430/
June 4, 200718 yr From the 6/4/07 Enquirer: Budget cloud looms over CPS $10 million in cuts yet to come BY BEN FISCHER | [email protected] After five months of deep cuts and tough decisions, Cincinnati Public Schools officials are closing in on their goal of slashing $39 million - or nearly a tenth of all spending - for the next academic year. Since administrators discovered the projected shortfall in February, the cash-strapped district has laid off nearly 300 employees, ordered each school to spend $500 less per student and hired a consulting firm to weed out administrative excess. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070604/NEWS0102/706040368/
June 7, 200718 yr Link contains a photo. From the 6/6/07 Enquirer: Board proceeds with Blackwell evaluation BY BEN FISCHER | [email protected] The Cincinnati Board of Education is moving ahead with plans to evaluate Superintendent Rosa Blackwell for the recently completed school year despite her objections that such a move could violate her contract. After months of semantic wrangling, the board now hopes to schedule the review for late July, board President Eileen Cooper Reed said. The step could lead to another raise of her annual salary, which is currently $203,820. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070606/NEWS0102/706060341/
June 8, 200718 yr From the 6/7/07 Enquirer: Blackwell: Overstaffing over Cincinnati Public Schools must get lean, she stresses BY BEN FISCHER | [email protected] Five days before releasing her $400 million-plus spending proposal for next school year, Cincinnati Public Schools Superintendent Rosa Blackwell said Wednesday that students and teachers should be prepared to live with less. "You can't have all that you want," Blackwell said. "But you certainly will have all that you need." http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070607/NEWS0102/706070341/
June 9, 200718 yr ^I've met too many highly paid staff, who never set foot in a classroom, to believe that cutting teachers is the right answer. I say cut the administration, especially the sleep walking district psychologists.
June 13, 200718 yr From the 6/12/07 Enquirer: Multimedia Examine the Superintendent's budget (PDF) Budget keeps CPS spending flat 'We can't go any further' in cutting, Blackwell insists BY BEN FISCHER | [email protected] Six months ago, leaders of Cincinnati Public Schools realized that radical changes were necessary to avoid slipping into a deep budget deficit next year. Monday, Superintendent Rosa Blackwell unveiled the end result of those radical changes: a balanced, $428.3 million budget that keeps spending essentially flat for the third straight year. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070612/NEWS0102/706120376/
June 16, 200717 yr Photos updated June 16, 2007. Most of these shots were taken in late May and early June 2007. Cost figures are building construction costs. These have been updated for September 2006. Completed projects' costs, however, have not been updated. A full update with photos and renderings is available here. The text portion of the facilities "update" hasn't been updated since February, but the photos are current: http://www.cps-k12.org/general/facilities/Schools/FMPSchools.htm Schools Opened Rockdale K-8 (Avondale) (new construction, $16.8M) STATUS: Opened January 2005 Rockdale photo archive Midway K-8 (Westwood) (new construction, $18.4M) STATUS: Opened August 2005 Midway photo archive Roll Hill K-8 (North Fairmount) (new construction, $12.9M) STATUS: Opened August 2005 Roll Hill photo archive Winton Hills K-8 (Winton Hills) (new construction, $11.7M) STATUS: Opened August 2005 Winton Hills photo archive Pleasant Hill K-8 (College Hill) (new construction, $13.2M) STATUS: Opened November 2005 Pleasant Hill photo archive Riverview East Academy K-12 (East End) (new construction, $22.7M) STATUS: Opened January 2006 Riverview East Academy photo archive See RiverViewer's open house photo thread Woodward HS (Bond Hill) (new construction, $47.8M) STATUS: Opened August 2006 Woodward photo archive Cheviot K-8 (Cheviot) (renovation, $16.4M) STATUS: Opened August 2006 Cheviot photo archive Rees E. Price Academy K-8 (Price Hill) (new construction, $13.2M) STATUS: Opened August 2006. Temporary home of Whittier School. Rees E. Price photo archive Ethel M. Taylor Academy (Millvale/South Cumminsville) (new construction, $10.5M) STATUS: Opened January 2007. Millvale photo archive Shroder 7-12 (Madisonville) (new construction, $15.1M) STATUS: Opened January 2007 Shroder photo archive Schools Opening Soon Roberts K-8 (Price Hill) (new construction, $15.8M) OPENS: Opens August 2007 Roberts photo archive Withrow HS (Hyde Park) (renovation, $38.1M) STATUS: opens summer 2007 Withrow photo archive Douglass K-8 (Walnut Hills) (new construction, $12.7M) STATUS: Opens fall 2007 Douglass photo archive Hays K-8 (West End) (new construction, $12.7M) STATUS: Opens fall 2007 Hays photo archive Schools Under Construction Fairview K-8 (Fairview/Clifton Hts.) (new construction, $13.4M) STATUS: Completed spring 2008 South Avondale K-8 (Avondale) (new construction, $13.7M) STATUS: Completed spring 2008 Mt. Airy K-8 (Mt. Airy) (new construction, $13.8M) STATUS: Completed spring 2008 Mt. Airy photo archive Bond Hill K-8 (Bond Hill) (new construction, $11.9M) STATUS: Completed spring 2008 Bond Hill photo archive Academy of World Languages (Walnut Hills/Evanston) (new construction, $14.3M) STATUS: Completed January 2008 Kilgour K-8 (Hyde Park) (renovation, $11.2M) STATUS: Completed spring 2008 Pleasant Ridge K-8 (Pleasant Ridge) (new construction, $13.4M) STATUS: Completed summer 2008 Carson K-8 (Price Hill) (new construction, $11.4M) STATUS: Completed December 2008 Schools Up Next Covedale K-8 (Price Hill) (new construction, $11.7M) STATUS: Construction begins summer 2007, completed fall 2008. Parker K-8 (Madisonville) (new construction, $12.2M) STATUS: Project bid in summer 2007, completed summer 2009. Hughes Center HS (University Hts.) (renovation, $44.9M) STATUS: Construction begins summer 2008 (done in phases), completed summer 2009. Roselawn Condon (Roselawn) K-8 (renovation, $7.1M) STATUS: Construction begins fall 2007, completed summer 2009. SCPA/Schiel K-12 (Over-the-Rhine) (new construction, $70.4M) STATUS: Construction begins spring 2007, completed fall 2009. Sands Montessori K-8 (new construction, $12.6M) STATUS: Construction begins late 2007, completed fall 2009. Future Projects Academy of Multilingual Immersion Studies (AMIS) K-8 Aiken HS (College Hill)* Chase K-8 (Northside) Clark Montessori K-8 College Hill K-8 (College Hill)* Dater High 7-12 (Westwood) Dater Montessori K-6 (Westwood) Hartwell K-8 (Hartwell) Mt. Washington K-8 (Mt. Washington)* North Avondale K-8 (North Avondale) Oyler K-8 (Lower Price Hill)* Parham K-8 (Evanston)* Rothenberg K-8 (Mt. Auburn) Sayler Park K-8 (Sayler Park)* Schwab K-8 (Northside)* Silverton K-8 (Silverton)* Taft High (West End) Taft K-8 (Mt. Auburn) Walnut Hills HS (Walnut Hills)* Western Hills HS (Price Hill) Westwood K-8 (Westwood) Woodford K-8 (Kennedy Hts.)* * Projects may be delayed per CPS action. Removed from plan Bloom K-8 (West End) Bramble K-8 (Madisonville) Burton K-8 (Avondale) Central Fairmount K-8 (South Fairmount) Gamble K-8 (Westwood) Heberle K-8 (West End) Hoffman School (Evanston) - possible removal Hyde Park K-8 (Hyde Park) Jacobs Center K-8 (Winton Hills) Losantiville K-8 (Roselawn/Golf Manor) Military Academy New Montessori High School Porter K-8 (West End) Quebec Heights K-8 (East Price Hill) Washington Park K-8 (Over-the-Rhine) Whittier K-8 (Price Hill)
June 20, 200717 yr From the 6/19/07 Enquirer: Pleas fail to derail budget cuts City school board hears from budget backers, critics BY BEN FISCHER | [email protected] Seven people appeared at a special public hearing of the Cincinnati school board on Monday to discuss the district's pending budget plan, and just three testified. After hearing from those three people, board members asked a few questions of Superintendent Rosa Blackwell's administration and adjourned the meeting after less than an hour. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070619/NEWS01/706190386/
June 27, 200717 yr From the 6/26/07 Enquirer: CPS board adds spending checks BY BEN FISCHER | [email protected] The Cincinnati Board of Education unanimously approved a $428.3 million budget proposal without a single alteration on Monday but also took steps to put new controls on future spending. In the two weeks since Superintendent Rosa Blackwell presented the spending plan, just a handful of public speakers have appeared at board meetings. Meanwhile, the board itself has grilled Blackwell and her top lieutenants on the details, but ultimately did not order any changes. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070626/NEWS0102/706260351/
June 29, 200717 yr From the Eastern Hills Journal, 6/22/07: LOCATION UNDER DISCUSSION HYDE PARK - Mt. Washington School may potentially relocate to Hyde Park during its upcoming construction. "We are far from making a final decision on swing space for Mt. Washington," said Janet Walsh, chief officer of public affairs for Cincinnati Public Schools. http://news.communitypress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070622/NEWS01/706220375/1090/Local
July 10, 200717 yr From the 7/9/07 Enquirer: PHOTO: The Cincinnati School District will decide the fate of the Hyde Park Elementary School building at Edwards Road and Observatory Avenue. Kilgour students have been attending Hyde Park while their building is being renovated. The Enquirer/Cara Owsley What now for Hyde Park landmark? BY STEVE KEMME | [email protected] HYDE PARK - For more than a century, the massive red-brick school has been a stately and lively presence at the northwest corner of Edwards Road and Observatory Avenue. But the former Hyde Park Elementary School, an architectural landmark one block from Hyde Park Square, faces an uncertain future. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070709/NEWS0102/707090352/
July 12, 200717 yr Link contains a photo. From the 7/11/07 Western Hills Press: Sayler Park school planning for change BY HEIDI FALLON | [email protected] SAYLER PARK - Gary Vale may be enjoying retirement by the time renovations to Sayler Park Elementary School are complete. Vale, who has been the principal at the school for the last 15 years, said the building is on the Cincinnati Public School facility plan renovation list targeted for work in the next two years. http://news.communitypress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/C2/20070711/NEWS01/707110307/ From the 7/11/07 Enquirer: Grant expands to more sites THE ENQUIRER Eight more schools within Cincinnati Public Schools will share $3.4 million in federal grant money over the next five years to create after-school and summertime programs, the district announced. The eight will join seven other schools already in the Community Learning Center program. The YMCA of Greater Cincinnati helps administer the programs. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070711/NEWS0102/707110344/
July 15, 200717 yr Jul 13, 2007 10:39 PM CPS Puts SCPA Building On The Market Posted By: Neil Relyea It's more than 185,000 square-feet and four acres – and it could be yours! Cincinnati Public Schools is putting the School for Creative & Performing Arts (SCPA) building on the market. To read more: http://www.wcpo.com/content/news/fresh/story.aspx?content_id=937B1ACD-1D80-4C58-8CE3-DA0126811E63&gsa=true
July 17, 200717 yr From the 7/16/07 Enquirer: CPS budget: Little margin for error BY BEN FISCHER | [email protected] Cincinnati Public Schools starts its third straight academic year in August with less money to spend than the year before. Holding the line has been no small feat for the district. The steady, painful drumbeat of teacher layoffs, school closings and spending cuts has lasted for Rosa Blackwell’s entire 27-month reign as superintendent. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070716/NEWS01/307160023/
July 28, 200717 yr A few updates on the new SCPA to be built south of Washington Park: - They have removed light poles and fencing from the site, although no buildings have been demolished yet. - A contractor has been hired by CPS to start demolition of Washington Park School, The leveled site will aparently be used as a staging ground for the new SCPA construction (although I'm not sure why they need a staging site a block away). - Progress is being made on the replacement housing for the Drop Inn Center's buildings on the corner of the site. The replacement units are to be on McMicken by the community garden.
July 28, 200717 yr - Progress is being made on the replacement housing for the Drop Inn Center's buildings on the corner of the site. The replacement units are to be on McMicken by the community garden. Hopefully not if the neighborhood has it's say. Also, it sounds like the renovation of Rothenberg is finally getting going. The local planning committee/group is being put together now.
July 29, 200717 yr ^How many units are they proposing? Eight or ten? Doesn't seem like much to get fired up about to me. Is this any worse than dozens of subsidized units that Model is building all along Hamer etc? I don't remember people objecting to those. Hard to believe that Rothenberg will ever move, but sounds like it might be.
July 29, 200717 yr ^How many units are they proposing? Eight or ten? Doesn't seem like much to get fired up about to me. Is this any worse than dozens of subsidized units that Model is building all along Hamer etc? I don't remember people objecting to those. We're drawing a line in the sand. It's not the actual use that is the issue, in fact they are reducing the number of units from 18 to 12. It's the whole problem where OTR has been the dumping ground for any and all social service agency, and now even more on the northern part of OTR. 3CDC specifically put the kibosh on relocating these units south of Liberty, this is the third or fourth proposed location for them. We have to say enough is enough, and make sure these type of facilities are distributed equitably throughout the city, county, and region. Moving them around the neighborhood is not a gain for the neighborhood, and in fact only discourages redevelopment. We're in the process of getting together information to fight EVERY project like the ones on Hamer. There is an ad hoc committee of different organizations putting together a count of subsidized/affordable housing as the city was supposed to have done as part of the OTR Comprehensive plan implementation. Another few of us are putting together a count of the social service agencies and the numbers involved with those groups. It's staggering how much of this neighborhood serves the region, not residents. Hard to believe that Rothenberg will ever move, but sounds like it might be. This came from multiple people, including Liz Blume, so I'll keep my fingers crossed. I'm going to try to get involved since I live next door.
July 31, 200717 yr Hopefully not if the neighborhood has it's say. http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=cff72b50-f92f-481d-985a-18afebc0f103 Jul 31, 2007 1:00 AM Community Questions Spending Tax Money to Move Social Service Agency Posted By: Lynn Giroud Photographed by: Jon Atkinson Cincinnati city council is set to approve nearly a million dollars toward the relocation of a transitional housing program. The program, located in the 1100 block of Elm Street in Over-the-Rhine, is run by the Drop Inn Center.
August 2, 200717 yr ^ I didn't see it published anywhere, but Council voted yesterday to fund the moving of the Drop-Inn-Center's Transitional Housing Program to McMicken.
August 3, 200717 yr ^ I didn't see it published anywhere, but Council voted yesterday to fund the moving of the Drop-Inn-Center's Transitional Housing Program to McMicken. Sorry I didn't post a followup, I was a little peeved. The $550,000 CPS paid to the Drop Inn Center to tear down some historic buildings for more dreck for is going to have to come from selling off the green space next to the existing SCPA. That is really working with the community. Thanks CPS and Council.
August 3, 200717 yr ^ I did not hear that part. Just a little peeved? What is the talk, that it will be parking for condos or some such thing? It does not make sense that we are expanding the largest park in OTR on the west side while destroying what acts as the largest park on the east side.
August 3, 200717 yr Cincinnati schools need big levy BY BEN FISCHER | [email protected] Predicting a “devastating” financial crisis within a year without new tax dollars, Cincinnati Public Schools Treasurer Jonathan Boyd on Thursday recommended a 10-mill emergency levy for the November ballot. If the district cannot pass a levy by the end of the upcoming school year, Boyd said, it will be faced with a $79 million budget gap in 2008-09 – and the gap would grow from there. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070802/NEWS01/308020057/-1/back01
August 3, 200717 yr Prediction: Levy fails. They should start implementing Plan B now, if they have one.
August 5, 200717 yr ^Plan B: "If voters defeat the levy, Boyd said another attempt in March would then have to grow to 14 mills...."
August 5, 200717 yr ...err...Plan C or D...something that doesn't involve levies. (Our last levy didn't pass, so let's try a higher one in a few months?)
August 6, 200717 yr ^ I did not hear that part. Just a little peeved? What is the talk, that it will be parking for condos or some such thing? It does not make sense that we are expanding the largest park in OTR on the west side while destroying what acts as the largest park on the east side. All I know is that they're selling it. I don't know if it will be sold separately or with the SCPA building.
August 6, 200717 yr ...err...Plan C or D...something that doesn't involve levies. (Our last levy didn't pass, so let's try a higher one in a few months?) Isn't that the general stance of nearly ALL public school districts around?
August 6, 200717 yr ^yes, and it will be up against a few other levies for the Jail and Mental Health. Prospects looking slim, but may pass in spring with a low voter turnout. I just can't believe that more can't be cut at central office. They fill a lot of space downtown with non-teachers.
August 6, 200717 yr ...err...Plan C or D...something that doesn't involve levies. (Our last levy didn't pass, so let's try a higher one in a few months?) Isn't that the general stance of nearly ALL public school districts around? Lakota, Talawanda, Fairfield, Monroe, Franklin, etc. all passed their levies after reducing the amount. Middletown is trying it tomorrow. I wouldn't say that it is the case with "nearly All,' although it is common.
August 6, 200717 yr Lakota, Talawanda, Fairfield, Monroe, Franklin..... When I quickly glanced at this before completely reading it, I thought those names were of people, not places. I was thinking, whoa..thats a list with some ugly names - those kids will be scared for life.
August 21, 200717 yr New Roberts Paideia awe-inspiring BY BEN FISCHER | CINCINNATI ENQUIRER August 21, 2007 EAST PRICE HILL – It was a familiar first day of school at an entirely new place. A brand-new, $16.1 million Roberts Paideia Academy hosted its first classes Tuesday, marking another completed step in Cincinnati Public Schools’ 10-year, $1 billion rebuilding plan.
August 23, 200717 yr SCPA to break ground with music August 23, 2007 | CINCINNATI BUSINESS COURIER OVER-THE-RHINE - A decade of fund raising will come to fruition Sept. 6, when Cincinnati Public Schools breaks ground for its new School for Creative and Performing Arts in Over-the-Rhine. The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, conducted by Erich Kunzel, will present a concert as part of the event, which will take place at 5 p.m., at the site of the new school, between Central Parkway and Washington Park. The concert also will feature Ron Bohmer, an SCPA alumnus and star of the Broadway performance of "Phantom of the Opera," as well as students from the SCPA and Schiel Primary School for Arts Enrichment.
August 23, 200717 yr Prediction: Levy fails. They should start implementing Plan B now, if they have one. Agreed, and plan B, will include the dropping of Rothenberg from the rehab list which will be a good thing if we have someone waiting in the wings to purchase. I say someone should put a call out to American Red Cross, but I have said it all before.
August 23, 200717 yr 1 billion dollars spent and kids get school off because it's too hot... :roll: Hey Michael, whats going on with 14 Mercer? CPS owns it but there is a coldwell banker sign on the west side of the building. Was someone too lazy or scared to take it off years ago or is it for sale?
August 23, 200717 yr Is it a Christine Schoonover sign from her Coldwell days? There are a few of those floating around (and a few of mine as well)
August 24, 200717 yr awsome, one of the biggest surface lots in otr is now going to be a nice school.
August 24, 200717 yr ^One of the biggest eye sores too. That whole NW portion of downtown is in terrible shape, and has a plethora of parking lots. It will be GREAT to see it go!
September 3, 200717 yr New SCPA to break ground $72 million arrts school carries high hopes for kids, community BY BEN FISCHER | [email protected] PHOTOS: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=AB&Dato=20070903&Kategori=NEWS01&Lopenr=709030809&Ref=PH INTERACTIVE MAP: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?Dato=20070903&Kategori=NEWS01&Lopenr=70903010&Ref=AR With the Cincinnati Pops playing, officials will finally break ground on the new School for Creative and Performing Arts on Thursday, the largest investment in at least 70 years in Over-the-Rhine. The project - a $72 million, kindergarten through 12th grade public arts school - marks the culmination of a dream held by Pops conductor Erich Kunzel since the 1970s, along with the ambitions of many of Cincinnati's most powerful civic leaders. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070903/NEWS01/709030326
September 4, 200717 yr I love the interactive map, by the Enquirer, but it seems as though they sold the Gateway Quarter a little short. I thought the district was a little larger than that.
September 7, 200717 yr Damn channel 9 website is calling OTR downtown again! Big changes are on the way for one local neighborhood. Ground will be broken tonight for the new School for the Creative and Performing Arts. The new school is going up at 12th and Elm Streets , right across from Music Hall in Downtown Cincinnati. And the $72 million project promises to transform the area.
September 7, 200717 yr Dignitaries hail new SCPA at ceremony BY MARY ELLYN HUTTON | CINCINNATI POST September 7, 2007 PHOTO: Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, center, passed out shovels to participants in Thursday's groundbreaking for a new School for Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine. Also in attendance were Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory, Cincinnati Pops music director Erich Kunzel and Cincinnati Public Schools Superintendent Rosa Blackwell. JIM OSBORN/The Post PHOTO: Violin students from Schiel Elementary played "Twinkle, Twinkle" accompanied by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra as part of the groundbreaking ceremony Thursday for a new SCPA. The new facility will house Schiel, an arts-focused primary school, as well as the current secondary school. JIM OSBORN/The Post OVER-THE-RHINE - A new Cincinnati School for Creative and Performing Arts is no longer just a dream. With the turn of a shovel and an open-air concert Thursday evening by Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, the school became "a physical presence," said Thomas J. Klinedinst, chairman of the Greater Cincinnati Arts and Education Center, the not-for-profit group organized to bring the project to fruition nearly a decade ago.
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