With Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and a who’s who lineup of Cincinnati business and political leaders looking on, ground was broken this week for the new, $80 million Cincinnati Riverfront Park that will be located on a sweeping, 45-acre expanse along the Ohio River just in front of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
The park, as currently envisioned, will feature fountains, walkways, gardens, event lawns, playgrounds and restaurants, and will extend from Great American Ballpark on the east to Paul Brown Stadium on the west, with the iconic Roebling Suspension Bridge serving as a symbol of geographic unity. It will be built in phases and eventually, it will link to the Cincinnati Banks project, a multi-million dollar riverfront real estate development project that is now underway after more than a decade of delays.
Cincinnati Parks will oversee the planning, development and building of the park as well as ongoing maintenance.
The park will be funded by up to $80 million from local, state and federal governments. Another $30-$40 million needs to be raised privately to complete the full park plan and endow future operations.
Tags: Cincinnati Riverfront Park, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Posted on Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 at 11:15 am in Member News & Events, News.
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I personally had a great with my last and previous experiences at the freedom center. Sometimes in all the facets of today’s society and living from day to day one allows a painful reality that once not recently was and is the every day reality life of a people and peoples all over the world to become too distant. It reminds that it is something that can never be forgotten. It must be kept fresh, vivid, and lurid in all’s minds, so that the ones that cleared the way for so many, and so much opportunity and their pain wil never be forgoten.