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FC Cincinnati Releases First Design Concept For West End Stadium

By • Oct 9, 2018
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Courtesy FC Cincinnati

FC Cincinnati on Tuesday released images of the first designs for the club's soon-to-be-built Major League Soccer stadium in the West End.

FC Cincinnati Stadium Agreements Coming Together

By • Oct 9, 2018

The Greater Cincinnati Redevelopment Authority (The Port) and Seven Hills Neighborhood Houses are signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) as the paperwork continues falling into place on FC Cincinnati's West End stadium.

Ezz Fest Celebrates Ezzard Charles And West End Community

By • Oct 5, 2018
Courtesy of Ezz Fest

The West End is celebrating its heritage Saturday with a festival named for one of the community's most well known residents, Ezzard Charles.

Finding Kenyon Barr And Cincinnati's Lost Lower West End

By Dan Hurley • Sep 24, 2018
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Courtesy of Cincinnati Museum Center

The City of Cincinnati's Kenyon Barr project called for the creation of a center for light industry in the lower portion of the West End. In the late 1950s, the city purchased and razed more than 2,000 structures and resold the property to private developers to create the neighborhood now known as Queensgate. The project displaced more than 20,000 residents, 97 percent of whom were African-Americans and largely low-income.

Here's Who Will Build FC Cincinnati's West End Stadium

By • Jun 29, 2018
Tana Weingartner / WVXU

FC Cincinnati is choosing an established team to lead construction on its multi-million dollar Major League Soccer stadium.

How FC Cincinnati, Jeff Berding and Carl Lindner III Got Everything They Wanted

By • May 30, 2018
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Tana Weingartner / WVXU

Raise your hand if you ever, for a second, believed that FC Cincinnati really wanted to put a soccer stadium in the cramped quarters of Oakley.

OK, now raise your hand if you believed in the fairytale of sticking a Major League Soccer (MLS) stadium in the middle of Newport. FC Kentucky, anyone?

Council Approves Agreement Between West End And FC Cincinnati

By • May 16, 2018
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Cincinnati City Council has approved a resolution accepting an amendment to the community benefits agreement for the West End if FC Cincinnati is successful in landing an MLS franchise and builds its stadium in the neighborhood.

FC Cincinnati Stadium Financing Plan Gets Preliminary Approval

By • Apr 16, 2018
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The Greater Cincinnati Redevelopment Authority is authorizing preliminary terms for financing FC Cincinnati's proposed stadium in the West End.

Rosenberger Resigns, West End Doesn't Back Down, And More Top Stories This Week

By • Apr 13, 2018
Jim Nolan / WVXU

Ohio House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger resigns amid an FBI investigation. Cincinnati City Council's plan to investigate City Manager Harry Black draws the city into a lawsuit. Over continued objections from many West End residents, it looks as if that neighborhood will be the home of FC Cincinnati's new soccer stadium. And the Rev. Jesse Jackson brings his call to boycott The Kroger Co. to its corporate doorstep, and raises his objections to the West End stadium location.

West End Stadium Opponents Refuse To Surrender As Plan Moves Forward

By • Apr 11, 2018
Bill Rinehart / WVXU

Opponents of a professional soccer stadium in the West End say they're not giving up the fight. Many gathered outside Taft I.T. High School Wednesday night to reiterate their stance, a day after the project took a step closer to reality.

CPS Board Approves Stadium Land Swap With FC Cincinnati

By • Apr 10, 2018
Bill Rinehart / WVXU

Carolyn Jones calls Tuesday night's vote "bittersweet."  The president of the Cincinnati Public School board says they feel like they made the right decision in accepting a deal that will build a soccer-specific stadium in the West End. Jones says board members are also aware of the opposition to the deal.

St. Vincent de Paul To Build A New Outreach Center

By • Feb 28, 2018
This is a rendering of the new outreach center at the northwest corner of Bank Street and Winchell Avenue in the West End.
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The Catholic charity St. Vincent de Paul announced Wednesday it will build a 40,000 square foot outreach center directly across the street from its current West End building on Bank Street near Winchell.

Gentrification Versus Opportunity: CPS Board Hears More Soccer Stadium Arguments

By • Feb 21, 2018
Bill Rinehart / WVXU

Updated at 12:52 p.m., Friday

Cincinnati Public School Board members say they are not close to making a decision after hearing more testimony in favor and against an FC Cincinnati stadium proposal. The club proposed building a new stadium for the district on land it would buy in the West End along Ezzard Charles. In exchange, the team would build its own soccer facility where Stargel Stadium currently stands.

A Film About Growing Up In Cincinnati's West End, "The Trap," Premieres This Sunday

By • Apr 26, 2017
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Eleven years ago, in a class on relationships at the Findlay Street Neighborhood House in the West End, a group of African American teenagers was asked how many of them thought they would live past 30 years old. Very few hands went up.

Council To Vote On Zone Change For New SVDP Facility

By • Feb 6, 2017
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The full Cincinnati Council will vote Wednesday on a zoning change to let St. Vincent de Paul construct a new facility in the West End.  

The neighborhood committee unanimously approved the measure Monday.  

Cincinnati Announces Details Of 2017 Neighborhood Enhancement Program

By • Jan 10, 2017
Jay Hanselman / WVXU

Cincinnati officials announced Tuesday say this year's neighborhood enhancement program will focus on East Westwood, Westwood and the West End.  

The program brings a 90-day blitz of city services to a community.

The West End's Historic Dayton Street

By • Nov 29, 2016
Illustration by Jasu Hu/Cincinnati Magazine

Dayton Street is located in the West End neighborhood of Cincinnati, not far from Findlay Market. 

Council Approves New Messer Building; Budget Release Delayed

By • May 9, 2016

The full Cincinnati Council will likely vote Wednesday on a property sale and development agreement for Messer Construction to move its corporate headquarters to the West End.  

Right now it has an office on Tennessee Ave. in Bond Hill.  The new site is a former bread company building on Cutter Street.  

"A Day In The Life" Exhibit Coming To The Betts House

By Jane Durrell • Jan 8, 2016

Jane Durrell sits down with Rebecca Johnson, curator for the newest exhibit at the historic Betts House in Cincinnati’s west end.

CityLink Center ready to open in West End

By • Nov 13, 2012
Jay Hanselman

After years of planning, legal challenges and construction, the new CityLink Center officially opens Tuesday in the West End.  It will have a different mission than when it was first proposed nearly a decade ago.

The initial plans for CityLink called for a facility to help the homeless with health services, overnight shelter, food, temporary housing and child care.  

CityLink Executive Director Johnmark Oudersluys said that changed in the spring of 2010, when leaders decided instead to focus on the working poor.

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