Photos from the opening ceremony for the Findlay Kitchen:

 

The storefront next to Eli's is going to be occupied by Deerhaus Decor, which is planning to open in September: http://www.deerhausdecor.com/

This is an observation totally based on my own perceptions, but I feel like there are more muslims frequenting the market now than in the past. I am there every weekend to buy groceries, and sometimes multiple times a weekend. I now see at least one person or family member wearing a hijab on every visit.

 

Personally, I am thrilled at this development and hope that they are finding the market experience to be a rewarding one. I'm also curious as to what shops they are using, particularly for meat. I would love to see a halal shop open up to hopefully draw more muslim cincinnatians to the market.

Shooting today at Our Daily Bread, the soup kitchen directly across from Findlay Market:

http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/cincinnati/over-the-rhine/pd-two-people-shot-near-our-daily-bread-in-over-the-rhime

 

Luckily the market is closed on Mondays.  This is the sort of crazy gun crime that used to happen all the time in Over-the-Rhine.  It's a bit of a miracle that Findlay Market survived during the 80s and 90s. 

Race Street between Liberty and Findlay Market still feels like the sketchiest part of the neighborhood. Even with all of the development happening right around Findlay Market, I predict Findlay is going to remain a somewhat isolated bubble separated from the southern half of OTR. I guess it will slowly clean up as the Findlay Market developments inch south and the developments along Liberty creep north.

That's a weird one--shooting actually inside the soup kitchen.  Not that that is good, but it's a lot different than what the original tweets made it sound like (e.g., a shooting out on the street). 

Reports in the media say it was DV related...a targeted attack.

Findlay Market will stay open until 8 on Wednesday evenings, May to September:

http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2017/04/12/findlay-market-expands-hours.html

Indian street food concept to pop up at Findlay Market

 

 

A new vendor selling Indian street food is popping up at Findlay Market this summer.

 

More below:

http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2017/04/12/exclusive-indian-street-food-concept-to-pop-up-at.html

Findlay Market unveils new feature for extended summer hours

 

 

Cincinnati's oldest continually operating covered market unveiled a new tasty feature for its extended hours this summer.

 

Findlay Market installed a large outdoor demonstration grill at the Race Street entrance of the market along with several smaller grills nearby.

 

More below:

http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2017/05/12/findlay-market-unveils-new-feature-for-extended.html

Findlay Market's president says, "Something strange is afoot in leader furniture. More action to come...."

That is a prime building at a prominent corner.  Opening up the top two levels of windows will make it look even better.  I would think they'd have a lot of interest if it went on the open market. 

I was under the impression that this building has already sold, and that's why Leader's moved out all of their stuff.

I thought that it was the other way around. Leader's was choosing on their own terms to close and that is what prompted the building's sale. I seem to remember some knee jerk reactions about businesses being forced out and then further clarification that Leader was choosing to leave for their own reasons, none of which were because of rent increases, pressure from a landlord, or anything like what people were assuming or claiming.

 

Is that right? Or am I remembering a different business?

Findlay Market's president says, "Something strange is afoot in leader furniture. More action to come...."

 

 

Also, "Be excellent to each other"

Leader closed because the owners were ready to retire. The building was put on the market while they were still having their clearance sale, I believe. I would not be surprised if it's already been sold and they're just waiting on a developer to make an announcement.

The new HCB Packet has a cool rehab of one of the builders on Elder front the Market which also fronts the walk way into the market from the parking lot to the north.

 

Which actually had me wondering, how many of the buildings lining the actual Market are occupied on the top floors?

I just bought some chicken here last weekend:

 

Feds: Busch's Country Corner owners committed millions in food stamp fraud

 

https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/cincinnati/over-the-rhine/feds-tape-off-area-near-buschs-country-corner-at-findlay-market

 

CINCINNATI -- The owners of a Findlay Market butcher shop committed millions of dollars in food stamp fraud over the course of eight years, according to the federal search warrant that led to a raid on the business Thursday morning.

 

Authorities taped off Busch's Country Corner at about 11 a.m. to take photos and videos of the vendor's food and collect evidence, which the search warrant said included financial records, security camera recordings and electronic communications.

New bakery opening soon in OTR brings European style to those with food allergies

 

A bakery opening this month near Findlay Market wants to bring a European style and Mediterranean flair to diners with food allergies who are often overlooked by traditional bakeries.

 

Cherbourg Cyprus is opening at 1804 Race St. in Over-the-Rhine on May 24 and hosting its grand opening on May 31. The bakery, an extension of one started in Columbus in 2010, specializes in pastries made without gluten and nuts.

 

More below:

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/05/15/new-bakery-opening-soon-in-otr-brings-european.html

Findlay Market opening accelerator restaurants to give culinary entrepreneurs a fast-track to success

 

Findlay Market is opening accelerator storefronts to help food entrepreneurs who aren't quite ready for the big time get the experience they need to open their own restaurant.

 

Findlay Market, in conjunction with Model Group's Phase II of its Market Square development project, is opening four accelerator storefronts on Race Street in four buildings north of the French Crust Cafe. They are slated to open in early 2019.

 

Joe Hansbauer, president and CEO of the Corporation for Findlay Market, told me two of the four storefronts, each about 1,100 square feet, will be used for restaurant accelerators, while the other two, at about 600 square feet apiece, will be retail only.

 

More below:

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/06/07/findlay-market-opening-accelerator-restaurants-to.html

Whatever happened to the plan of rehabbing the units above the findley market shops, and creating new residential above the findley market shops?

I believe there are some rehabs going on above the shops on Findlay but not all of them at once, I think these are more individual developers and possibly Model group is doing one or two of these buildings on Elder.

There is big transformation happening on Race, Elm and Pleasant Street around the market that is really exciting. 

Meanwhile nothing seems to ever happen on Vine Street north of Liberty.

There is big transformation happening on Race, Elm and Pleasant Street around the market that is really exciting. 

Meanwhile nothing seems to ever happen on Vine Street north of Liberty.

 

I feel like that Vine north of liberty will be tough. Most of the blocks north of vine are still very much intact, and seem that there are more historic building stock compared to race/elm/plesant, but many of the buildings are in rough shape. Definitely a bit different compared to south of vine where you had way more empty lots, which allowed 3cdc to kickstart development with various parking garages, and mixed use development.

There is big transformation happening on Race, Elm and Pleasant Street around the market that is really exciting. 

Meanwhile nothing seems to ever happen on Vine Street north of Liberty.

 

Major renovation work is underway on the 1-story building north of Rhinegeist that is being turned into a bar/restaurant.  Also, major work is finally underway on the pair of OTR Adopt buildings near the corner of McMicken and Elm.

 

 

There is big transformation happening on Race, Elm and Pleasant Street around the market that is really exciting. 

Meanwhile nothing seems to ever happen on Vine Street north of Liberty.

 

Makes you wonder if there is something that is "pulling" the development west onto Elm and Race instead of being centered on Vine the way it was south of Liberty.  8)

There is big transformation happening on Race, Elm and Pleasant Street around the market that is really exciting. 

Meanwhile nothing seems to ever happen on Vine Street north of Liberty.

 

I feel like that Vine north of liberty will be tough. Most of the blocks north of vine are still very much intact, and seem that there are more historic building stock compared to race/elm/plesant, but many of the buildings are in rough shape. Definitely a bit different compared to south of vine where you had way more empty lots, which allowed 3cdc to kickstart development with various parking garages, and mixed use development.

 

Word on the street is that the Kaufman Brewery building on the 1700 block will finally be underway in September or so.

There is big transformation happening on Race, Elm and Pleasant Street around the market that is really exciting. 

Meanwhile nothing seems to ever happen on Vine Street north of Liberty.

 

I feel like that Vine north of liberty will be tough. Most of the blocks north of vine are still very much intact, and seem that there are more historic building stock compared to race/elm/plesant, but many of the buildings are in rough shape. Definitely a bit different compared to south of vine where you had way more empty lots, which allowed 3cdc to kickstart development with various parking garages, and mixed use development.

 

Word on the street is that the Kaufman Brewery building on the 1700 block will finally be underway in September or so.

 

Yep, the Kauffman Flats building at 1725 Vine had some holdups with building permits but will be starting shortly.

There is big transformation happening on Race, Elm and Pleasant Street around the market that is really exciting. 

Meanwhile nothing seems to ever happen on Vine Street north of Liberty.

 

Greg Cole/Acanthus is rehabbing a number of buildings at Clifton and Vine, the OTR Adopt buildings at 5 Points have been rehabbed, Model is rehabbing the Thuringia Building at 5 Points, plus the Kauffman Flats building is about to start.  Still a big gap between Liberty and McMicken, but signs of life.

Whatever happened to the plan of rehabbing the units above the findley market shops, and creating new residential above the findley market shops?

It's happening... bit by bit. Latest planning commission packet approves the sale of the building floors above Eli's. Will become 3 residential units (1 per floor). 

https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/planning/about-city-planning/city-planning-commission/jul-20-2018-packet/

Maverick Chocolate Co. is opening a second location...at Rookwood Commons...

Nation, Rhinehaus owners opening Findlay Market food hall

 

 

The group behind Nation Kitchen + Bar, Rhinehaus, Hannaford at Pike + Madison and the upcoming CHX restaurant are opening a first-in-Cincinnati concept at Findlay Market.

 

The Hickory Wald Group is opening a food hall to serve as a testing ground for new concepts by chefs and food entrepreneurs in the former Epicurean Mercantile Co. building at 1818 Race St., adjacent to Findlay Market. They hope to open it by late spring 2019. The Epicurean Mercantile Co. closed in August.

 

"We're sprinting full speed ahead on design and trying to do something that doesn't exist here locally in the market," Hickory Wald partner Andrew Salzbrun told me.

 

More below:

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/11/12/exclusive-nation-rhinehaus-owners-opening-findlay.html

Wasn’t a food hall supposed to move into the Leader Furnitire location? That’s where Seoul Hot Chicken was going to have their permanent location. Either way I hope one of them comes to fruition because it’s something needed in Cincinnati and what many out of towners (people used to Columbus’s North Market for instance) expect when they first visit Findlay. 

Um, what is a "food hall"?   What exactly have I been missing out on this entire time by not knowing what a "food hall" is?

Sounds like a food court with small local food stands?

It's basically a food court, but sampling local eateries. Think North Market in Columbus, Ferry Terminal in San Francisco, Chelsea Market in New York. Chicago has a couple in the loop to cater to business workers including one called Revival Food Hall. 

 

On the more 'mainstream' side, the Kroger at Court and Walnut will have a food hall on the second floor featuring Eli's BBQ and an asian venue, along with their in-house Chicken Co and Pizza.

Edited November 13, 20186 yr by ucgrady

So the did the food hall that was supposed to occur in the leaders furniture building on the elm street side fall apart? 

Food halls are a concept that have been popping up in more and more cities, and I think near Findlay Market is a good location for one in Cincinnati. Like @ucgrady mentioned, one was announced for the Leader Furniture building but I haven't heard anything about that in a few months. I think the former EMC would be a great location for one.

 

Here are a few photos I took at a new food hall in Kansas City called Parlor. It was a cool two-story space with a variety of seating options (booths, tables, lounge area, etc.) and an outdoor patio on the upper floor. There was a full service bar on each floor operated by the food hall itself, and a total of seven different restaurant spaces operated by different chefs. So it's a similar concept as food trucks. Since the restaurants have very small kitchens, they have small menus. This allows up-and-coming chefs to try out new concepts, and over time, some will go on to flesh out the concept into its own standalone restaurant.

 

 

13 hours ago, jmecklenborg said:

Um, what is a "food hall"?   What exactly have I been missing out on this entire time by not knowing what a "food hall" is?

 

Expensive food court

Looks like a food court but with reclaimed wood and exposed ductwork. 

I just realized I went to a food hall when I was in DC a few months ago (Georgetown).  At first I thought I was just at a sandwich place, but when I walked in there were other counters and businesses with coffee and smoothie offerings as well.  It was kind of odd figuring out what was going on at first, I thought it was all one business and I didn't know what line to start in. 

 

It is just a 'hipster' food court, but it lowers the barrier to entry for small businesses, which is usually a good thing. Helps more good ideas with low funding get off the ground.

On 11/13/2018 at 2:11 PM, 10albersa said:

It is just a 'hipster' food court, but it lowers the barrier to entry for small businesses, which is usually a good thing. Helps more good ideas with low funding get off the ground.

This to me is the important part. I don't know if Korean Hot Chicken is enough on its own to start a full restaurant around, but in a Food Hall or Food Truck or even a kiosk in Findlay Market you can do one thing, however obscure, and do it well. We need more of this in Cincy. Even the new Zundo ramen place does tonkotsu ramen, miso ramen, donburi and has curry on the menu. This is too many things to any one of them perfectly, which is not how the japanese would do it, they would pick one and perfect it. Smaller establishments allow for more specialization and therefore more quality. The opposite of this is the former Crave space at the Banks that had a 12 page menu with everything from sushi to bbq to mexican to pizza. It was a cluster****. 

They need to open a food/beer hall in the old Macy's space.  It would make a killing in that location for lunch and dinner.  You can call it hipster all you want but people want to go to these places a lot more these days then a traditional mall style food court.  

Before it was converted into a parking garage, the one part of Tower Place Mall that was still successful was the basement food court. It was packed for lunch almost every day.

2 hours ago, Cincy513 said:

They need to open a food/beer hall in the old Macy's space.  It would make a killing in that location for lunch and dinner.  You can call it hipster all you want but people want to go to these places a lot more these days then a traditional mall style food court.  

 

 

that's a great idea

Couple pieces of news from Findlay Market:

 

They're looking for a new restaurant to fill the space where Pho Lang Tang currently is, since Pho Lang Tang is moving over to Race St soon: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2019/03/08/findlay-market-looking-to-add-restaurant-retailer.html

 

The Market is planning some upgrades to the Elm St entrance, include a big curb bumpout (taking the curb out to streetcar line) and shade structures so that area will be more pleasant in summer afternoons/evenings: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2019/03/12/findlay-market-s-front-entrance-to-get-an-overhaul.html

 

The shade will help a lot, especially since all the furniture is solid metal it gets very hot on sunny days. The beer garden is already very popular and one of the few places to sit and eat the food purchased in the market, so hopefully they add more seating as well.

Findlay Market seeks food entrepreneurs to fill its incubator storefronts

 

 

Findlay Market is looking for the next crop of food entrepreneurs who want to test out their restaurant or retail concepts in its new incubator storefronts.

 

Ohio's oldest continually operating covered market is looking for early-stage food businesses to fill its Findlay Launch storefront accelerator program, which offers mentorships, industry education and – most importantly – a short-term lease in one of four storefronts on the 1800 block of Elm Street or four food hall stalls in the forthcoming Food Hall & Bar at 1818 Race St.

 

The program's aim is to give low-risk, real-time experience to food-related retail and restaurant concepts. It's an extension of the Findlay Kitchen incubator, which gives food entrepreneurs kitchen and prep space to work on food-related businesses.

 

More below:

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2019/03/29/findlay-market-seeksfood-entrepreneurs-to-fill-its.html

A 164-year-old Market Is the Epicenter of Cincinnati’s Culinary Revival

Why it's worth spending your afternoon at this Over-the-Rhine institution. 

By Sara Franklin

Updated: April 16, 2019

 

Findlay Market, in Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, is the longest-operating public market in the state of Ohio, and one of the oldest in the nation. The market has gone through moments of both prominence and near-demise since it began operation in 1855, but today, its main market hall — as well as the storefronts immediately bordering it, which together feature more than 50 full-time businesses — constitute the beating heart of Cincinnati’s culinary revival.

 

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Work has started on the Findlay Market Biergarten expansion & new Elm Street entrance.