Urban Condos Bloom In 'Troubled' Neighborhood

31 May 2003 - 7:00am

Moderately priced condominiums easily draw buyers to Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine district.

"...success has touched off a wave of new activity, with builders now hammering away or planning a half-dozen other condo projects totaling 91 units from Main Street to nearby Reading Road. The condo projects are unprecedented in Over-the-Rhine, a neighborhood that's long been a reservoir of poverty with three decades of federal and local housing policies directing the city's low-income, subsidized housing there."

Source: The Cincinnati Enquirer, May 30, 2003
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