Posted May 1, 200916 yr Here are some of the more interesting bits I found in this submitted list (.xls): Urban Grocery and Entertainment (Cinema and Cooking Shows/Lessons) Venue Urban Grocery and Entertainment (Cinema and Cooking Shows/Lessons) Venue in the heart of downtown Cincinnati. Reel markets will occupy over 29,000 sq. ft. of space that has been vacant for over a decade. Reel Markets will provide employment for 60 to 80 people with an estimated average hourly rate of over $12.00. This anchor retail establishment will spur the development of the emerging 4th St. residential district, help to revive the sagging urban economy and complement other development projects (e.g., streetcar development). 1a Contact: [email protected], 513-762-5552, Reel Markets, Inc., 312 Walnut St. Suite 1600 1b Request: $3,000,000 out of $6,000,000 The Cincinnati Streetcar Network The Cincinnati Streetcar Network will improve connectivity between neighborhoods and major employment, commercial, and recreational centers, as well as providing a catalyst for economic development within the Central Business District and redevelopment in its adjacent Over-the-Rhine and Uptown neighborhoods. The City of Cincinnati recently completed a Streetcar Feasibility Study. The study identified an initial phase streetcar loop, potential Uptown connectors and follow-up corridors, an estimate of implementation and operation costs, and identified potential funding strategies. The starter phase connects The Banks redevelopment project, Government Square, Fountain Square, Aronoff Center for Performing Arts, Contemporary Arts Center, Findlay Market, and Music Hall. The streetcar network will connect people and places, creating a vibrant cityscape and providing an amenity that is attractive to residents, workers, customers and visitors. In addition, the streetcar will create jobs, private investment, and revenue which will benefit all Cincinnati neighborhoods. Fixed rail infrastructure, which implies permanence, creates a significant catalyst for redevelopment. The Cincinnati Streetcar Feasibility Study indicated that construction of the initial starter streetcar line would generate an estimated $1.4 billion in redevelopment of vacant and underutilized properties in the corridor based on a $102 million investment (a 14:1 ratio of economic impact to investment in the 2a Contact: [email protected], 513-352-2366, Director, Dept. of Transportation & Engineering, City of Cincinnati 2b Request: $12,600,000 out of $185,000,000 The Cincinnati Streetcar Network – Phase 1 Same as above. 3a Contact: Same as above. 3b Request: $57,000,000 out of $185,000,000 Cincinnati Streetcar Project, and Light Rail Cincinnati is in the midst of an inner-city revitalization. The construction of a streetcar, and supporting light rail system that connect the city's expansive suburbs will create hundreds, if not thousands of jobs while improving southwest Ohio's infrastructure. Unfortunately, gas prices, while currently at the prices of 2000-2004 will spike as soon as this country pulls out of our recession. I assure you that residents, especially in such a suburbanized area as Cincinnati will most certainly feel the pinch of gas prices. Building a light rail system that serves the majority of the city's neighborhoods, not only helps to cut fuel costs for consumers, and eventually adapt to a society that is not as 'car-driven,' but the project is 'green' as well. A citywide rail system (streetcar and light rail) could cut down on commuter traffic on all three highways, which in turn could save money on highway repairs and train fare could actually become profitable over the long run. 4a Contact: [email protected], 513-349-9077, Tufts University (I'm a student), 9201 Terwilligers Wood Court, Cincinnati 4b Request: $60,000,000 out of $100,000,000
May 1, 200916 yr Whose list is this? And why have we not heard about this Urban Grocery before? I'm just a little confused about this entire post.
May 1, 200916 yr Whoops. The .xls is here: http://recovery.ohio.gov/docs/04_20_09_Submitted_Requests.xls
May 2, 200916 yr Council plan would divert stimulus money to sheriff Two members of city council will propose using a recent federal stimulus grant to alleviate blight and ease jail overcrowding. Republican Leslie Ghiz and Democrat Greg Harris will hold a news conference Monday to announce their plan for more than $1.3 million received by the city from the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program. Cincinnati was among more than 30 local governments that received a combined $4.1 million in Byrne grants last month. Read full article here: http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2009/04/27/daily72.html
May 11, 200916 yr Flood control nets Cincinnati $9.4M Stimulus funds to move along Duck Creek project dating to ‘80s Business Courier of Cincinnati - by Dan Monk A recent federal stimulus grant should be enough to nearly finish the Duck Creek Flood Control Project. That’s a decades-old attempt by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to create a new creek channel for the Little Miami River tributary and keep flood waters from rising in the communities of Fairfax, Madisonville and Oakley. The project received a $9.4 million grant April 28. It was one of 178 construction projects that received stimulus funding through the Corps, including nine managed by its Louisville District office. Read full article here: http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2009/05/11/story4.html
May 20, 200916 yr ***cross-post*** Cool map showing how stimulus funds are being dispersed by county throughout the country. Cuyahoga County is getting more money the LA and Cook Counties. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/specials/interactives/wdc/stimulus_counties/index.html?SITE=JRC
May 21, 200916 yr ***cross-post*** Cool map showing how stimulus funds are being dispersed by county throughout the country. Cuyahoga County is getting more money the LA and Cook Counties. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/specials/interactives/wdc/stimulus_counties/index.html?SITE=JRC Why is Athens getting the most $$$ per capita?
May 22, 200916 yr Stimulus funds slow to trickle into Cincinnati area Are you feeling stimulated yet? The companies that build Cincinnati’s roads, sewers, buildings and bridges definitely are not, said Joe Hummel, executive director of Allied Construction Industries. The nonprofit trade group, whose 700 member companies employ 30,000 people, recently sponsored a seminar titled, “Stimulus – Reality or Smoke and Mirrors?” Hummel said members are eager to bid for construction projects described in government press releases, but ACI’s plan room – which keeps bid documents from all projects within a 100-mile radius of Cincinnati – doesn’t have any stimulus-funded bid requests. Read full article here: http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2009/05/25/story4.html
May 22, 200916 yr first quarter of 2010? I thought these projects had to happen now not in the future.
June 7, 200916 yr Stimulus benefits big - and small President Obama may have been thinking big with his $787 billion stimulus package, but his counterparts in local government are thinking decidedly small. As local cities and counties put together their applications for some of their first tastes of stimulus money, they've come up with block grant applications where the typical project costs less than $250,000. The city of Covington, for example, has broken down its line items as small as $1,650 each - to replace 117 curb ramps in the neighborhood around Decoursey and Winston avenues, to make them handicapped-accessible. Cincinnati is giving out grants as small as $8,556 for a program to prevent teen pregnancy and violence. Read full article here: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090606/NEWS01/906070344/1055/NEWS/Stimulus+benefits+big+-+and+small
August 4, 200915 yr Dohoney memo addresses resident ideas for stimulus spending http://www.building-cincinnati.com/2009/08/dohoney-memo-addresses-resident-ideas.html Last April, several people submitted ideas to Cincinnati city council on how the City's piece of $787 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding should be spent. In a recent memo to council, city manager Milton Dohoney Jr. addressed each of those ideas. Preservation Cincinnati Preservation Association preservation director Margo Warminski suggested using the funding for rehabilitation and weatherization of the City's historic building stock. Dohoney says that the ARRA-funded Community Development Block Grant program (CDBG-R), from which the City expects to receive approximately $3.5 million, could be applied to this type of work. Dohoney cautions that the City's CDBG-R plan, approved by council and submitted to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in June, does not budget any money for demolition, but does include $1.6 million in funding for the renovation of the American Can Building in Northside and $218,000 for a homeowner repair program in the City's Neighborhood Enhancement Program target areas. "This program will provide forgivable loans to low income homeowners to correct code violations and thereby preserves the current housing stock of the City," he says. However, the City has submitted a joint application with Hamilton County for the ARRA-funded Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP-2). Approximately 90 percent of that funding will be applied to rehabilitative projects, with the remainder dedicated to blight remediation. "The joint NSP-2 application does include funding for demolition of foreclosed nuisance properties," Dohoney says. Public safety in East Price Hill Dan Boller of East Price Hill suggested that some of the money be used to build a new state-of-the-art public safety facility for Cincinnati Police Department District 3 and Cincinnati Fire Department Engine 17. Over the past few years, other East Price Hill residents have suggested sites for a replacement of the cramped, outdated Warsaw Avenue complex. Dohoney says that the ARRA provided approximately $210 million in funding for the Assistance to Firefighters Fire Station Construction (FSC) grant program through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, but that the competitive grant program can only be used to fund construction of new or renovated fire stations. The City already has submitted an application for FSC funding, hoping to apply that money to the construction of new fire stations 8 and 35; the renovation of fire stations 5, 14, 24 and 29; and the installation of permanent generators at all remaining fire stations. "Due to the fact that Police-related costs associated with a joint Police/Fire facility would not be eligible under the FSC guidelines, and the need for additional planning, site identification, and land acquisition associated with such a facility, this project was not included in the City's FSC application," Dohoney says. Walnut Hills improvements, and sidewalks Jewel Rice of Walnut Hills hoped that the City would pour some ARRA dollars into the "seedy" Peebles Corner business district, adding satellite City offices, apartments, a grocery store, and community gardens; City resident Bonnie Parsons wanted cracked and broken sidewalks repaired. But neither of these are candidates for ARRA funds, Dohoney says. He says that the meager amount of CDBG-R money that could be available for such projects would require significant revisions to the application, further approvals, and re-submission. "Any change to this plan would require the submission of a new Substantial Amendment to the City’s 2008 Consolidated Plan/Action Plan," Dohoney says. "Furthermore, due to the program restrictions on the use of CDBG-R funding, any sidewalk repair program funded through CDBG-R would only permit the use of such dollars in low and moderate income neighborhoods." He adds that, in the City of Cincinnati, abutting property owners are responsible for maintaining the sidewalks in front of their property.
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