Reviving the Urban Brewery Districts

[Story]

Could this become a trend?

CINCINNATI — Kentucky has its bourbon distilleries, California its wineries, St. Louis its Budweiser factory and Philadelphia its local craft brews. Now business owners and history buffs in Cincinnati want Ohio’s third-largest city to carve out its own niche in alcohol tourism and transform a bedraggled, crime-prone neighborhood into a thriving brewery district.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/sto...ati-looks-to-revive-its-brewery-district.html

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Let's hope so!

 

[Two Types]

I love the fact that the brewery is in the fantastically named district of 'Over The Rhine'. I recently saw advertisements for properties for sale in that district for $5000 (one was a 13 apartment block). You needed the cash to restore the properties but it seemed to be a strong initiative to get people moving back into the area and hopefully bringing life back to part of the inner city.

 

[dhermann1]

There's a small brewery in western New York State where I grew up called Sourthern Tier Brewery that makes a terrific IPA that's been getting good reviews. These small labels are popping up all over the country, and making some REALLY nice beers. Yes, I'd say there's definitely a trend.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

The real issue is not with fixing up the properties, but in choosing to move into an area where every property is "occupied" by dealers, makers and big time consumers of methamphetamine and other such stuffs. even if you get them out of your own new property, you'll be surrounded by the other properties still thusly occupied. It's not a good situation in towns live Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Gary Indiana, East Saint Louis, etc etc.

For many, I'm sure regenerating such areas with of all things a booze den (how pejorative am I today?) would be suspect, to say the least.

I love the fact that the brewery is in the fantastically named district of 'Over The Rhine'. I recently saw advertisements for properties for sale in that district for $5000 (one was a 13 apartment block). You needed the cash to restore the properties but it seemed to be a strong initiative to get people moving back into the area and hopefully bringing life back to part of the inner city.

 

[Two Types]

BK: As far as I recall, the city bought up vast numbers of the properties and sold them off at low prices to people who seemed to have a genuine interest in reviving the area. If the dealers and the crack/meth addicts have moved on then the chances of success are raised.
I looked on the website again and it seemed that nearly all the properties had been sold. They had examples of the people who bought them and, if I remember correctly, there was a group of four youngish blokes who each bought an empty store in a row of four.
I've never been to Cleveland, but i really hope the scheme is a success. The regeneration of inner city areas is vital.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Yes I agree.