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King Studios:
Reviving the Living Legacy of Music
in Evanston and Greater Cincinnati


What is King Studios?

King Studios is a proposed new development that will revive the legacy of King Records, the eclectic recording studio that operated from 1956 to 1968 out of a warehouse in Cincinnati’s Evanston neighborhood. It will house three core components – a memorial space dedicated to King Records, a recording studio and a visual art studio– into a newly constructed, three-story facility.

Whose idea is this?
For decades, neighborhood residents, local musicians and civic leaders have dreamed of somehow creating a permanent memorial to King Records. In recent months, the success of the Evanston Community Council in creating the Flavor of Art Studio has inspired a group of partners to consider this dream. These partners include the Evanston Community Council, the Evanston Business Association, Xavier University, the Community Building Institute, Ultrasuede Studio, Hammond Paul (SHP Design) architectural firm, former King Records musicians, and others who value the King legacy.

Why build King Studios in Evanston?
The new facility will be built just three blocks from the original King Records facility on Brewster Avenue. It will have a visible place on Evanston’s Montgomery Road business corridor. It will complement an array of new development taking place nearby, including Xavier University’s Hoff Academic Quad and Xavier Square, the Keystone Parke office development at Dana and I-71, and the Surrey Square commercial renovation in Norwood.

What will happen to the old King Records site?
Efforts are being made to both incorporate remnants of the old site architecturally into the new facility, and to mark the original site as historically significant.

What will take place in the new King Studios?
King Studios will be made up of three distinctive, yet complementary programs. They are the King Records Memorial Hall, the New King Recording Studio, and the Flavor of Art Studio. The Memorial Hall will provide visitors with an interactive experience to understand the history of King Records and Cincinnati’s musical roots. The recording studio will promote collaboration within Cincinnati’s diverse music community and host programs for community youth. The Flavor of Art Studio will continue its work helping residents of Evanston and surrounding communities discover and experience the life-changing power of making visual art.

How can I get involved in making King Studios a success?
Anyone interested in getting involved on any Action Team can contact Chris Schadler of the Community Building Institute at schadlerc@xavier.edu or (513)745-1016.

RELATED LINKS
http://www.history-of-rock.com/king_records.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Records_(USA)


CURRENT GRANT PROJECTS

place matters go to website
The United Way of Greater Cincinnati recently launched the Place Matters Initiative, a place-based investment strategy to achieve breakthrough change in the Greater Cincinnati neighborhoods of Avondale, Covington and Price Hill. The United Way turned to the Community Building Institute to help facilitate the development and management of community investment plans in the three neighborhoods. Each investment plan requires the input and broad participation of neighborhood residents, associations and institutions.

EVANSTON NOW!
The community of Evanston wanted to figure out a way to get more residents active and engaged in the revitalization of the neighborhood. The Community Building Institute worked with residents to create EvanstoNow!, a neighborhood-led movement dedicated to connecting the gifts, skills and talents of Evanston residents to exciting volunteer opportunities in the neighborhood. In three months, residents recruited more that 100 volunteers.

DO RIGHT CAMPAIGN
The Center for Closing the Health Gap and the community of Walnut Hills wanted to launch a new health initiative in the neighborhood. They partnered with the Community Building Institute to create the Do Right Campaign, a neighborhood effort to reduce obesity. The campaign involved the creation of small working groups that would conduct research on obesity issues in the neighborhood and use these findings to create responsive programming. The campaign was such a success in Walnut Hills that the model was adopted by a neighboring community.

COMMUNITY CLUSTERS PROJECT view map
The Community Building Institute's Community Cluster analysis is intended to provide a framework for collaboration for the many and varied communities in Hamilton County, including Cincinnati and its neighborhoods. This work is a response to the many studies and debates that have taken place in the region in the past decade about regionalism. Business leaders, planners, and public policy analysts seem to agree that creating an environment of more collaborative decision making and shared government action make sense in this region. There has yet to be a framework that seems to resonate with the communities that make up the region. We hope that this cluster analysis will provide such a framework.

Rather than think of Hamilton County as one metropolitan area that needs to act in unison we asked how do people and businesses use this region? Which parts of the region share markets and resources and problems? What are the parts of the region that have shared histories and culture? How do real people view and use this place? As we thought about those questions and attempted to answer them a framework began to emerge. If you combined a traditional planning approach with a more non-traditional evaluation of how people conduct their personal lives and use a place you can create some very meaningful groupings or clusters of communities. These clusters of communities share housing markets, people go to the same shopping centers and grocery stores, and they send their children to the same schools. People tend to know people who live in the neighborhoods and communities that surround them. These groups of communities also share transportation and development patterns. When communities understand the relationship between them and see the stake they have in common issues it is much more likely that they will find ways to collaborate.

This is the general thinking behind the analysis of Hamilton County we used to create this framework of 11 clusters of communities that share common assets, issues, and development history. Each of these clusters has interrelated housing markets, school districts, and shopping trade areas. They are served by common hospitals and health care providers. They also have land use and transportation patterns that create relationships and shared interests.

We have also used existing research created by several respected academic, planning and public policy organizations to discuss these clusters. The Myron Orfield study commissioned by Citizens for Civic Renewal, the Hamilton County Compass Plan, and the Social Areas of Cincinnati work by Maloney and Affery all provide great insight into this region and how these clusters contribute to the overall health and development of Hamilton County.

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  Ethan Kent
Vice president of Project for Public
Spaces of New York City

Green Space and Community
Revitalization

Friday, Oct. 23
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Schiff Family Conference Center
Xavier University
$45 for one luncheon
$70 for both luncheons

 

John Glascock
West Shell Professor of Real Estate Finance and Director of the University Of Cincinnati Real Estate Center

Housing Strategies for 2010

Friday, Nov. 13
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Schiff Family Conference Center
Xavier University
$45 for one luncheon
$70 for both luncheons

R.S.V.P.
For more information or to R.S.V.P. contact Nancy Hackett at 513-745-3264 or hackettn@xavier.edu.

 

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