Stakeholders and community partners—including the Short Vine Business Association, Corryville Community Council, the City of Cincinnati, the University of Cincinnati, and Uptown Consortium, Inc.—have worked for years to redevelop the Short Vine Entertainment District. Now, the area is home to restaurants, bars, entertainment venues and other businesses and apartments.
2630 Short Vine Street
Uptown Rentals has been the largest investor in this renaissance with more than $150 million in project investment including Views on Vine, Vine Street Flats, Euclid Square, VP3, 101 Corry and the Clarington. Most recently, Uptown Rental Properties purchased a vacant lot at 2630 Short Vine Street and 2600 Short Vine Street, formerly Sudsy Malone’s. The plan is to develop them into primarily multi-family residential properties, with 2630 Short Vine Street also including an entertainment-focused commercial space on the first floor. The apartments are designed to serve UC students with 19 units in one building and eight in the other.
“The Short Vine projects started with the Urban Renewal Plan put together 15 years ago, which created a roadmap of what the community and stakeholders wanted for the street,” said Dan Schimberg, President of Uptown Rental Properties. “Fast forward to now, the stuff we're working on is the last chapter of the renewal plan. This part of Short Vine received the least amount of development up until now.”
2600 Short Vine Street
Uptown Rental Properties works closely with community organizations around all development in the neighborhood. According to Patrice Eby Burke, Development Director at Uptown Rental Properties, they presented the new development projects to the Corryville Community Council and the Short Vine Association multiple times as they finalized plans.
To-date, Uptown Rental Properties has renovated and developed more than 1,200 new beds near Short Vine in Corryville to help realize the Urban Renewal Plan’s vision to increase retail and commercial space in the neighborhood. It also helped attract more students to the district.
“The plan was to enhance connectivity—the university traffic calming on Jefferson Avenue, many more crosswalks and stoplights—and that called for 1,500 new apartments to help support a retail area,” said Schimberg. “We created an excess of that and now we’re filling the retail.”
Uptown Rental Properties purchased two properties at the corner of Short Vine and Corry from Uptown Consortium through an RFP process as well as the former Sudsy Malone’s property from a private owner. The redevelopment investment is expected to cost roughly $8 million. Schimberg anticipates breaking ground towards the end of the summer and opening the new buildings in August 2021.
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