Cincinnati Area Job Growth Strong
The Cincinnati region is the only Ohio metro area among the nation’s fastest-growing job markets, according to new data compiled by researchers using figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data put the local metro area, which includes Butler and Warren counties, at 2.8 percent job growth in July compared to a year ago, ranking the Queen City No. 5 of all U.S. metros.Read More →
Immigrants fuel innovative plans for revival on Short Vine
What’s the magic that makes redevelopment transform one neighborhood and not another? Terry Chan has mulled over this question for a good many years. In his international high school in Hong Kong, he thought about it as friends from China recounted tales of fleeing Indonesia amid economic unrest. At Carnegie Mellon, he studied finance, IT [...]Read More →
UC, partner to create tech accelerator
The Enquirer The University of Cincinnati is partnering with the Midwest EB5 Regional Center to establish a technology accelerator with the goal of commercializing UC research and creating startup companies. The partnership, announced on Friday, creates the UC Technology Commercialization Accelerator. “Our primary goal is to get technologies out of the university that have been [...]Read More →
Quesadilla trailer opening in building
The Cincinnati Enquirer Turophilia Qusadillas, a mobile trailer business, will soon have a brick-and-morter restaurant on Corryville’s Short Vine. Owner Fallon Horstmeyer will open her 25-30-seat restaurant in the former Subway at 2624 Vine, adding salds, chips and salsa, and coffee to her menu of at least 15 quesadillas. She expects to open mid-April. She’ll [...]Read More →
Short Vine on rebound thanks to immigrant investors
Business Courier by James Ritchie, Staff Reporter Monday, February 27, 2012 Investor interest in a revitalization of Cincinnati’s Short Vine Street is high, according to one of the leaders of a project to boost the languishing part of Corryville. The Cincinnati-based Midwest EB5 Regional Center is seeking to raise $20 million from would-be immigrant investors [...]Read More →
WCPO Feature: Chinese investments driving Short Vine renovations
Marty Angiulli has successfully owned and operated Martino’s On Vine restaurant in Corryville for the past 18 years.In fact, he owns many of the buildings in the two-block Short Vine business district and knows many need an extreme makeover.“The perception is Short Vine is an unsafe, unsavory area,” he said Friday. “Well, that perception is [...]Read More →
UC to open tech accelerator
Short Vine center hopes to spur innovation By James Ritchie Business Courier February 24, 2012 The University of Cincinnati will start a technology accelerator, fueled by investment from China and other countries, to spin innovations developed on campus into commercially viable products. The project, to be housed on Short Vine in Corryville, will start [...]Read More →
Short Vine looks to undergo renaissance
By Lauren Bishop Cincinnati Enquirer, February 19, 2012 The Bogart’s renovations aren’t the only ones taking place on Short Vine. The area is on the cusp of a renaissance thanks to its prime location between the University of Cincinnati’s east and west campuses. Multimillion-dolar projects are either completed or planned at both ends of the [...]Read More →
Bogart’s Reboots
Bogart’s Reboots Cincinnati Enquirer, February 19, 2012 By Lauren Bishop Something hits you when you walk into Bogart’s, the 36-year-old music club on Short Vine in Corryville. It’s a smell, but not a smell people long have associated with Bogart’s: Stale beer, swear or, in the days before Ohio’s smoking ban, thick clouds of cigarette [...]Read More →
Accelerator’s goal: Help restaurateurs take concept from a simmer to a boil
By Polly Campbell Cincinnati Enquirer, February 18, 2012 A little more than a year ago, Gary Bassett was managing the day kitchen at John-Robert’s Table. When one of his co-workers, a talented cook, tried and failed to open his own restaurant because he couldn’t get a commercial loan, Bassett, 47, stated thinking about how to [...]Read More →