Price Hill Press 06/12/19

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PRICE HILL PRESS Your Community Press newspaper Price Hill and other West Cincinnati neighborhoods

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2019 ❚ BECAUSE COMMUNITY MATTERS ❚ PART OF THE USA TODAY NETWORK

A pedestrian walks down South Terry Avenue on the east side of Orlando City Stadium in Orlando, Fla., on May 18. PHOTOS BY ALBERT CESARE / THE ENQUIRER

What did Orlando soccer stadium do to neighborhood? Sharon Coolidge Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

ORLANDO – Game day for FC Cincinnati versus Orlando City dawned warm and sunny outside the city’s Major League Soccer stadium in Parramore, a small, predominantly black neighborhood within walking distance of downtown Orlando. By 9 a.m. on May 19 a vacant fi eld two blocks away from the soccer stadium is fi lling with fans from other parts of Orlando, including its wellto-do suburbs. Kids kick soccer balls and tailgate parties spring up. A neighborhood man waves in fans, collecting $20 a car to park there. Fans put up tents, draping them in Orlando City’s signature purple fl ags, and begin emptying coolers full of food and beer. Just outside the stadium, streets close and food trucks begin selling empanadas and submarine sandwiches. Music wafts through the neighborhood from a DJ booth. Sunday church

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services at Faith Deliverance Temple, which sits in the shadow of the 25,500-seat stadium, are underway despite the noisy celebration going on outside. Major League Soccer’s vision for the future of its clubs’ stadiums was made clear during FC Cincinnati’s expansion process: Inner-city neighborhoods transformed by the sport, its stadiums and the development that follows. Whether Major League Soccer’s gamble pays off for the league or for communities with MLS teams remains to be seen. But in less than two years, Cincinnati will go all-in on the initial bet when it opens a soccer stadium in the West End. The parallels between Orlando and Cincinnati are striking. Just like Orlando’s MLS team, FC Cincinnati is building its stadium close to downtown in a poor, historically black neighborhood that’s suff ered decades of neglect and is now undergoing gentrifi cation. See ORLANDO, Page 2A

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Mattie Thornton rides in front of her apartment building in the Parramore neighborhood of Orlando, Fla. Thornton said her rent had been raised twice since she oved in three years ago. Vol. 92 No. 25 © 2019 The Community Recorder ALL RIGHTS RESERVED $1.00

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