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Revised Hyde Park plan has fewer homes and a hotel Jeanne Houck Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
Rukiye Abdul-Mutakallim, left, shares a healing moment with Stefanie Tengler, of Clifton, during a healing vigil at St. Paul Village in Madisonville April 13. Tengler said she was standing for Thomas, Luther and Josh, whose lives were ruined because of child sexual abuse. Abdul-Mutakllim, who lost her son, Suliman Abdul-Mutakillim to gun violence in 2015, is one of the leaders of the Cincinnati chapter. PHOTOS BY LIZ DUFOUR/THE ENQUIRER
Survivors speak of pain to promote healing Liz Dufour Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
“Who speaks?” “Survivors speak.” “What do we want?” “Healing.” “When do we want it?” “Now!” The chant was said after each speaker during the healing vigil at St. Paul Village in Madisonville, Saturday, April 13. The event was hosted by the Cincinnati chapter of Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice, a national organization that hopes to improve healing, trauma recovery and impact policy making for crime survivors. They talked about sexual abuse, gun violence and the struggle they face daily to overcome all they’ve endured. Mary Langford, of Maineville, suffered sexual abuse from an uncle from the age of fi ve until she became pregnant by him at 14, said, “Talk about it, talk about it, talk about it. And when you don”t want to talk about it anymore, keep taking about it because that shame only goes away if we get it out.” She added, “I’m a survivor and I’m standing here for the soul of the unborn child I never had. The only pregnancy I ever had.” For more information on the movement, go to www.cssj.org.
Mary Langford, of Maineville, speaks during the event held by Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice.
Megan Stewart, of Springfi eld, holds her friend Haleigh Young’s child, Marleigh, 1, during a healing vigil.
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Colleen Mallari, of Delhi, speaks from her heart about the years of physical abuse she endured from a boyfriend.
Preston Charles, III, of Silverton, performs his own music on the violin Village in Madisonville.
A developer with new plans for the former site of the Pig & Whistle and surrounding property in Hyde Park is not saying why it is for sale or lease.
Erica Huddleston, right, a trauma nurse with 20-20, listens to speakers during the healing vigil.
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A developer that has repeatedly revised plans for a Hyde Park project in the face of neighborhood complaints has a new proposal that includes a hotel and jettisons use of a residential street. Capital Investment Group’s scaleddown proposal calls for a mixed-use development mostly seven stories tall with fewer apartments — 104 – than previously envisioned for a site on Madison Road near Zumstein Avenue. “Capital Investment Group created a plan that conforms with the existing zoning,” President David Bastos said. “We also eliminated the development on Besuden Court due to the feedback from the neighborhood." Besuden Court, a street of houses and apartment buildings that runs off Madison Road, formerly marked the west side of the proposed development, which is just south of the Rookwood Commons & Pavilion in neighboring Norwood. Capital Investment declined to say more about the project - including why a centerpiece property, the former Pig & Whistle sports pub site at 2680 Madison Road, has a "for sale/lease" sign in its front yard. The downtown Cincinnati developer bought it for more than $1 million in 2015 and it remains in the new plan, but whether Capital Investment wants to build it or fi nd another developer to do it is unknown. Some details of the revised proposal are revealed in an application Capital Investment fi led April 1 with Cincinnati’s Department of Buildings and Inspections, asking for confi rmation that the development complies with zoning laws. The new plan is seven stories at and behind the former Pig & Whistle. It stretches around a restaurant and ad-
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