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About Soapbox. Founded in 2008, Soapbox Cincinnati is a digital news magazine focused on dynamic communities, businesses, and people of the Cincinnati region. We cover what's next in entrepreneurship and creative culture in and around Southwestern Ohio and Northern Kentucky. Soapbox provides high-quality, long-form journalism fostering civic ...
A 'sleepy little town' awakens with new housing and community …
May 7, 2024 — The Lawn features public greenspace and a stage. “This is essentially new park land for us,” says Township Administrator Skylor Miller. Of the $70 million total investment in the community, about $46 million will be borne by the township, and financed in a variety of ways: municipal debt, a tax increment financing reserve fund, general fund reserves, and county, state, and federal grants ...
YouTube star Feli from Germany delivers take on Germans and
Sep 12, 2023 — Feli, 29, first arrived in Cincinnati seven years ago for a deeper dive into American culture. She graduated from the University of Munich in 2016, with a degree in communications and a political science minor, and was ready for a new adventure. Feli had traveled to the U.S. on a family vacation as a teenager, but wanted more than a tourist’s ...
The Norwood Plan: Strengthening the city's connections - Soapbox
Apr 9, 2024 — The Harris Avenue tunnel could be a neighborhood connector in the plan. Cities like Norwood, many of them first-ring suburbs that came of age in the 19 th and early 20 th centuries, were built on a neighborhood scale, with sidewalks, walkable business districts, and dense residential streets. But the primacy of the car in the mid-20 th century meant roadways expanded, and strip centers with ...
Soapbox: Cincinnati News & Information Homepage
Oct 22, 2024 — Students share information and create connections as a way to form lasting bonds among peers. View All Stories. A digital news publication about talented people moving Cincinnati forward with initiatives for community and economic development, entrepreneurship, arts and culture, innovation, environment, equity and diversity.
Lincoln Heights: Moving beyond the past to a hopeful future
Jun 6, 2023 — The Lincoln Heights Health Center The Cincinnati Reds Community Fund funded and organized a “community makeover” that included improvements to Memorial Field, the community football field and the grounds around it; renovations to Lincoln Heights Elementary School; renovations and additions to Serenity Park; and a makeover of the teen room and outdoor space at St. Monica’s Center, a ...
Fort Thomas Coffee energizes its community - Soapbox
May 23, 2023 — Fort Thomas Coffee energizes its community. Fort Thomas is a close-knit community that is proud of its schools and its neighborhoods and provides a comfortable backdrop where newcomers mesh comfortably with families who have called the town of just over 17,000 their home for generations. However, aside from Highlands High School football games ...
How a small bookstore found a neighborhood home - Soapbox
Aug 23, 2022 — One of the newest places for that is a small store on a side street in the eclectic neighborhood of Northside. Downbound Books opened in October 2019 on Apple Street, a block off of the neighborhood’s main drag, Hamilton Avenue. It’s the project of Greg Kornbluh, book lover and native Cincinnatian, who realized his dream of opening his own ...
IKRON goes beyond mental health treatment, offering community …
Aug 31, 2021 — IKRON, a community mental health organization founded in 1969, was able to partner with local health centers and state pharmacies that serve the indigent to offset the medication’s exorbitant price tag. Each year approximately 1,400 individuals use IKRON’s services. Like David, many of them come to the organization for one reason but ...
City of Immigrants: The growth of Cincinnati and other cities
Jan 24, 2023 — Over a four-year period, metro Cincinnati experienced the largest percentage of growth due to new immigrant residents [98%] than any other metro region in the country. In other words, Cincinnati’s recent growth has come almost entirely from immigration, and more so than any other city in the country, including Miami, Seattle, and San Francisco.