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Developments at Newport on the Levee and PromoWest Pavilion at Ovation, the new riverfront music venue, were discussed Wednesday morning in a virtual meeting of the Newport Business Association.
The meeting preceded the official announcement of multiple new tenants arriving at the Levee.
Levee General Manager Justin Otto joined Eric Buck, senior development associate at Corporex, which is developing Ovation, as guests.
Otto said that he expects many of the new developments at the Levee to open Memorial Day weekend. The Levee is still undergoing a $100 million redevelopment following its $100 million purchase by Cincinnati-based North American Properties Group.
Cincinnati Magazine
March 12, 2021
Bob Castellini called it a “mud pit” and “dust bin.” Mark Mallory called it a “bunch of nothingness” and “pile of dirt.” The Cincinnati Reds owner and the former mayor were describing what downtown Cincinnati’s riverfront was like about 15 years ago. Two expensive new stadiums had been erected, with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center situated between, but surrounding them was a lot of dirt and acres of parking lots.
In the 1990s, what we know as The Banks was mostly home to parking lots and warehouses.
Photograph courtesy of Kenton County Public Library
Today, of course, nothing less than an utter transformation of the riverfront has taken place, as the mud pit became The Banks a $2 billion-plus 200-acre playground of pro sports, restaurants, bars, green space, walking paths, a carousel, and (sometimes) a giant Ferris wheel. It’s the most ambitious civic project ever undertaken here, requiring unprecedented tea
Bunbury Music Festival postponed another year due to coronavirus pandemic
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CINCINNATI â The organizers of Bunbury Music Festival announced on Monday that the event would be postponed for a second year due to the coronavirus pandemic. It was our hope that the big picture would look very differently by this stage, but unfortunately it is with the safety and wellbeing of our fans, artists and staff in mind that we have chosen to postpone our plans for the next installment of Bunbury Music Festival, organizers PromoWest wrote in a news release shared on Bunbury s website and social media accounts.
Bunbury postponed due to coronavirus By FOX19 Digital Staff | January 11, 2021 at 10:38 AM EST - Updated January 11 at 5:17 PM
CINCINNATI (FOX19) - The Bunbury Music Festival is postponed for 2021 due to coronavirus, organizers announced Monday.
The three-day event at Cincinnati’s Saywer Point and Yeatman’s Cove was cancelled last year “due to the circumstances surrounding COVID-19.”
This year, organizers hope to hold it at a later date.
“Bunbarians, It was our hope that the big picture would look very differently by this stage, but unfortunately it is with the safety and wellbeing of our fans, artists and staff in mind that we have chosen to postpone our plans for the next installment of Bunbury Music Festival,” they said in a tweet.