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This Cincinnati woman wants to be the fi rst black transgender president Scott Wartman Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
A rendering of Price's Landing, a park planned in Lower Price Hill. Land adjacent to the park at the confluence of the Ohio River and Mill Creek could be key to the music venue deal at The Banks. Residents are concerned it would harm the plans for Price's Landing PROVIDED/THE ENQUIRER
Concerts at The Banks? Depends on what happens two miles away Scott Wartman Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
It doesn’t look like much. Just some gravel and trees wedged between train tracks and the Ohio River in Lower Price Hill. Somehow this stretch of riverfront may hold the fate of a music venue at The Banks, two miles away. Yes, the music venue slated to be built next to Paul Brown Stadium, one that would accommodate 4,000 indoors and 8,000 outdoors for concerts -- and generate long-awaited foot traffi c to the city’s riverfront restaurants and businesses. But as part of a deal between Hamilton County and the Bengals, a concrete manufacturer next to Paul Brown Stadium has to move to make way for parking expansion and a possible indoor practice facility for the football team. And fi nding a new home for a concrete company isn’t easy. The concrete company, Hilltop Basic Resources, wants to have a river barge loading dock in Lower Price Hill. The land is currently used to load and unload barges, so it seemed perfect. But next door to that land, residents want a park – one that already has a name, Price Landing. And they see a bike path going right by what would be the barge depot. They had hoped that their new park would have a more bucolic neighbor. They’re not quite sure how they got mixed up in the middle of the quest for a new music venue. “I don’t know I understand it all myself,” said Greg Lang, a resident along the Ohio River in Riverside near Lower Price Hill and part of the group leading Price Landing. “It is complicated...I
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Pamela Rocker draws attention. As she sat in a window seat at a Dunkin Donuts in Cincinnati, the cashier came over and asked if he could take her picture. It’s not every day a presidential candidate comes into the store in Cincinnati’s Westwood neighborhood. The clerk, noting an Enquirer reporter there to interview her, passed along his top issue for her to address in the White House: taking care of the 100 spam calls he gets every day. Rocker, 35, hopes to be the fi rst transgender black female president in history. And she thinks the nation is ready to elect a transgender black woman from Cheviot. She’s running for the Democratic nomination. “I just didn’t want to sit on the sidelines,” Rocker said. “I was unhappy with the outcome of the 2016 election. Hillary, she inspired me. She lit something inside me. She opened the door for women and trans women of color to run.” But it’s not just Rocker. It seems more and more people want to be president. Most you’ll never hear of and won’t raise a dime in money. President Trump won’t tweet about them.
Filing ‘statement of candidacy’ for president As of April 9, Rocker and 670 other presidential candidates have fi led an offi cial “statement of candidacy” with the Federal Elections Commission for the 2020 election. In 2016, 1,775 people fi led for president, more than the previSee ROCKER, Page 4A
Jack Degano, left, and Gregory Lang want this stretch of riverfront in Lower Price Hill for a park. ALBERT CESARE/THE ENQUIRER
think there’s a solution here, but I’m not sure what it is at this point.”
How we got here For the music venue to open, the city, county, concrete company and residents will have to come to an agreement in Lower Price Hill. The Bengals last year allowed the music venue next to Paul Brown Stadium if the county would buy the site of Hilltop Basic Resources and relocate the company. The team wants that land under Hilltop’s current home for extra parking and a possible indoor practice facility. Hilltop, along with the county, identifi ed several parcels of land in Queens-
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gate and Lower Price Hill currently being used by a company to store metal coils. If the deal is fi nalized, the bulk of Hilltop’s operation would be on nine acres of land in the Queensgate neighborhood on the north side of Sixth Street - not on the riverfront site.
Price Landing key to deal Hilltop, however, needs access to the Ohio River to load and unload barges. Key to the deal is a 4.5-acre parcel on the western side of Mill Creek. “The river is key to our operations as well as being located near the central core of the city,” Kevin Sheehan, See VENUE, Page 2A
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