Uptown Consortium, Inc. Beth Robinson, President & CEO

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1 Uptown Consortium, Inc. Beth Robinson, President & CEO

2 Home to 45,000 residents in 5 urban neighborhoods Home to 4 of the region s top 6 employers Employing over 50,000 people Annual economic impact of $11.6 billion

3 Uptown Cincinnati in 2004

4 Uptown Cincinnati Today

5 Uptown Consortium, Inc. revitalizing, re-energizing and reinvesting We're doing it by: Developing urban living, office, and commercial spaces in our historic neighborhoods Keeping Uptown clean, safe, and attractive for more than 2 million people who visit, learn, work, and live here each year Connecting our local residents with jobs in the community UCI HAS INVESTED OVER $400 MILLION IN PROJECTS, INDUCING OVER $1 BILLION IN INVESTMENTS

6 USQUARE at the LOOP $82 million mixed use project by Towne Properties/Al Neyer, Inc. 80,000 sq. ft. of retail & 160 apartments 2 public parking garages with 700 spaces Consortium participation: $24.4 million in NMTC s

7 Kroger at University Plaza Challenge: 1970 Era Suburban Design in Urban District Police runs & perception of safety

8 University Kroger Uptown Consortium - $12.5 million NMTC investment Local employment: more than 60% of the employees are within 5 miles of the store CORRYVILLE

9 Hickory Place Townhomes 16 Single Family Townhomes: 12 two bedroom units & 4 three bedroom units Sales Price: $185,000 to $225,000 and up Development Team: John Hueber Homes/NorthPointe Group/Wichman Gunther Architects Project Partners: Uptown Consortium, Inc. Cincinnati Children s Hospital

10 Small Business & Entrepreneurship MORTAR: Entrepreneurship program connecting people with a business idea or passion to the bricks and MORTAR of creating, running, managing, legal, etc., of a small business. Uptown Business Retention & Coaching

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12 I-71/MLK Interchange

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15 MLK/Reading Road - TODAY

16 FUTURE UPTOWN INNOVATION CORRIDOR

17 Uptown is where risk meets reward : where creative masters and scientific geniuses produce global solutions.uptownis amidwesthubfor world-class academic medicine, future-facing research and is where high-growth sectors take root. Uptown Innovation Corridor is Greater Cincinnati s newest, best development opportunity.

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21 SE QUADRANT: TERREX/MESSER 21

22 NW QUADRANT: NIOSH 22

23 1819 Innovation HUB home to P&G Simulation Center

24 UC Health Neuroscience Building Under Construction Located at MLK & Eden Avenue

25 Our Goal is to Integrate Our Community into the Uptown Innovation Corridor

26 WHOSE CREATIVE CITY? STAKEHOLDERS & CULTURAL ANCHORS IN CULTURAL DESTINATION PLANNING SHOSHANAH B. D. GOLDBERG-MILLER, PH.D. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY 2017 Ohio Housing Conference Coming Together in Ohio

27 Planning for a City of Culture Creative Urbanism in Toronto and New York Shoshanah B. D. Goldberg-Miller goldberg-miller.com Routledge, Taylor and Francis Research in Planning and Urban Design Series Spring 2017

28 Key Areas of Interest Creative placemaking Cultural cities movement Including local communities Social and cultural equity w w w.goldberg-miller.com

29 Understanding the Context of the Creative Cities Movement

30 The Context of the Creative Cities Movement Policy entrepreneurs tout their ideas of creative revitalization Anchor institutions and powerful actors often are among the architects of these plans Increasing value of land is of interest to developers Community-based entities may not be part of the power elite w w w.goldberg-miller.com

31 Winners and Losers: The Role of Race, Class, and Poverty Creative city interventions often take place where the poorest live Municipalities want to revive their urban cores Issues about economic disparity and racial inequality often are not part of this conversation Housing affordability, livability and service provision are key factors w w w.goldberg-miller.com

32 STAKEHOLDERS Federal and state governments Mayor City Council Partnerships Corporate sponsorship Stakeholder Involvement & Leadership Private sector Cultural community Nonprofit organizations Arts intermediaries

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34 Towards a Future Focus for Cities The need for accurate and broad-based data Cultural and social equity: Fostering a more inclusive creative city Policy recommendations for integrative creative city strategies Towards sustainability in creative cities w w w.goldberg-miller.com

35 Ensuring sustainability and resilience in the Creative Cities Movement Sustaining necessitates social and cultural inclusion Open discussion of economic disparity, racial inequality, gender roles and sexual orientation Community, advocates, policymakers and scholars Three sectors in conversation Develop the next phase of creative cities agenda w w w.goldberg-miller.com

36 The need for accurate and broad-based data Data play a key role in the advancement of the field Smaller community organizations and individuals may not be captured in the data sets Qualitative analysis can enrich the analysis Value-based indicators such as pride of place can give a fuller view These mixed methods build the creative economy case

37 Policy recommendations for integrative creative city strategies Have multiple stakeholders at the policy table Understand the impact of creative city interventions on vernacular communities Integrate economic and social goals Long-term strategies can focus on underrepresented groups as well as current locus of power Sensitivity to all voices can create sustainable outcomes w w w.goldberg-miller.com

38 The Creative City Ecosystem w w w.goldberg-miller.com

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40 Contact Dr. Shoshanah B.D. Goldberg-Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Arts Administration, Education & Policy College of Arts and Sciences City & Regional Planning Section Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture The Ohio State University 245C Sullivant Hall, 1813 North High Street Columbus, Ohio Tel:

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42 Starting at Home: Anchoring Innovation Ohio Housing Conference November 7, 2017

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48 Community Development for All People Video y-neighborhoods-community- Outreach-FINAL

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51 58 units of affordable housing combined with on-site workforce development training

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53 More than 600 HNHF residents are employed by Nationwide Children s

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56 Healthy Homes Video: Healthy-Homes-FINAL

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59 4 COMMUNITY CRIME PATROL OFFICERS in the HNHF area

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61 Mentoring More than 150 employees are trained to mentor youth

62 School Health Clinic Video: Connection-School- Clinic?download=true

63 Angela Mingo Community Relations Director 255 E. Main Street, Columbus, Ohio