Cincinnati, Ohio

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2024/06/02/chef-jose-salazar-goose-elder-closing-findlay-otr.html

Chef Salazar owns both spots but is focusing on the new wine bar and the reopening of Salazar. As a result, he is closing up shop at Goose and Elder.

Maybe a new thing to do- just recap some other less well known news and post some events around town. Feel free to contribute.

Recap

• Delta is now doing daily flights to Paris, upped from 3 a week, at least through August
• A new bar "Ziggy's" is opening next to Ziegler Park in OTR
• Red Sesame is now backing out of the proposed fixed location restaurant and instead continuing on with their food truck due to staffing issues and issues with the building they were going to use in Madisonville
• Red Bike is back! Buy an annual pass or check out a bike for a day
• XU is closed for a gas leak as of Friday
• CPS hired an interim superintendant while searching for a new permanent one

Events

• Taste of Cincinnati all week on fifth street downtown
• F1 Races at Madtree
• Parades galore for memorial day

Elementz is planning a move early this summer into a space at 3344 Central Parkway, situated between the neighborhoods of Clifton, CUF and Camp Washington.

Mayor Aftab Pureval and City Manager Sheryl Long’s budget plan will spend down the rest of the city’s share of pandemic-era rescue funds on one-time expenses after revenue projections came in much better than expected, eliminating a projected $26.4 million budget deficit.

it has just unveiled the second in line: Hawaiian Wedding Cake. Graeter's describes the flavor as a decadent mix of coconut and pineapple flavors.

Long time coming. Glad to see it's being done. Will be quite a good link between Fountain Square and whatever new development will be on Race, etc.

Over the past few years, the organization has slowly been working to stabilize the building. It got quite the facelift with a new paint job, a security gate, new windows and a new roof. “The next step is getting that first floor renovated and leased,” Prigge said.

Built in 1903, the 13-story Beaux Arts Classic-designed building, located at the corner of Ninth and Main Streets downtown, was converted from a 61,000-square-foot Class B office space.

Flechet said it has been an ongoing struggle since the pandemic.

"We opened so many new locations in the middle of Covid, which was arguably the worst possible time in terms of employment," he said. "Unfortunately, we disappointed a lot of people. We've been working on rebuilding the trust ever since."

Frontier’s peak summer departures are increasing by 57% under its expansion plans, which also will add flights to Boston; New York-LaGuardia; Pensacola, Fla.; and Portland, Maine, in the coming weeks. Frontier will fly nonstop to 20 U.S. cities from CVG.

Another article on it- https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2024/05/15/cps-superintendent-iranetta-wright-resigns.html

TLDR- Peanut Brittle

The team is now using the singular iteration of the word “decade,” while the county consistently talks in terms of “decades” — a period, by definition, of 20 years or more. The current lease runs for a quarter century.

Good article. Full text available with your library card by going to chpl.org and navigating to "Books and Media->Magazines/Newspaper."