Cincinnati Parks will soon begin the largest reforestation effort in a city park in nearly 100 years following a $1.8 million dollar donation by an anonymous Amberley Village resident. What’s involved is the removal of invasive honeysuckle and the planting of trees in the 281-acre French Park, owned by the city, but located in Amberley Village. The Cincinnati Parks Foundation hopes this model can work in other city parks where the tree […]
Look around and you’ll see plenty of vacant buildings. Can they be turned into housing? Adaptive reuse, as it’s known, is on the rebound and estimates say ninety-percent of real estate development in the next decade will involve adaptive reuse, or repurposing buildings for something other than their intended use. Most cases involve offices or hotels but factories, warehouses, malls, and schools are also undergoing […]
Cincinnati neighborhoods are looking to South Cumminsville as an example of how they can become more sustainable, benefit from energy savings, and grow their communities. Eventually the neighborhood will have 25 new or rehabbed homes in its Near Net Zero Urban Village and 25 retrofits of homes owned by seniors. One new home is almost finished, and fifteen retrofits are complete. The non-profit organization behind […]
