Comments on: SCPA’s new building becoming more of a reality http://joewessels.net/2007/06/16/scpas-new-building-becoming-more-of-a-reality/ Random thoughts and observations from a freelance reporter and photographer living and working Cincinnati, Ohio. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:38:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Joe Gormaniac http://joewessels.net/2007/06/16/scpas-new-building-becoming-more-of-a-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-17058 Joe Gormaniac Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:23:59 +0000 http://joewessels.net/2007/06/16/scpas-new-building-becoming-more-of-a-reality/#comment-17058 The moving of the Drop Inn's transitional housing unit to the former NuBlend building on McMicken sacrificing one part of OTR for another. I have long been a supporter of the new SCPA and hoped that the powers that be could move the Drop Inn and its affiliates out of OTR into a pastoral field somewhere, away from all the enticements like drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, property crimes, etc. I think 3CDC, Fifth Third Bank (who controls the former NuBlend property), Model management and the mutated OTR council have consired to destroy the basin streets (E. Clifton, McMicken)and thus, further create obstacles to dvelopment of market-rate housing onthe Mulberry Hillside. Why sacrifice the development of the hillside with this move, especially to an area that is disturbingly violent? Why put clients at risk into an at-risk area? 127-29 E. Clifton is adjacent to NuBlend and is a public nuisance. The loiterers and litters hanging at Lang and E. Clifton will not be a welcoming coomittee to the clients in the transitional housing program. The breviated manner in which City Council proposed (Monday) and then voted (Wednesday) reveals that these folks do not do deliberate thinking for the long term. The moving of the Drop Inn’s transitional housing unit to the former NuBlend building on McMicken sacrificing one part of OTR for another. I have long been a supporter of the new SCPA and hoped that the powers that be could move the Drop Inn and its affiliates out of OTR into a pastoral field somewhere, away from all the enticements like drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, property crimes, etc.
I think 3CDC, Fifth Third Bank (who controls the former NuBlend property), Model management and the mutated OTR council have consired to destroy the basin streets (E. Clifton, McMicken)and thus, further create obstacles to dvelopment of market-rate housing onthe Mulberry Hillside. Why sacrifice the development of the hillside with this move, especially to an area that is disturbingly violent? Why put clients at risk into an at-risk area? 127-29 E. Clifton is adjacent to NuBlend and is a public nuisance. The loiterers and litters hanging at Lang and E. Clifton will not be a welcoming coomittee to the clients in the transitional housing program.

The breviated manner in which City Council proposed (Monday) and then voted (Wednesday) reveals that these folks do not do deliberate thinking for the long term.

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