Demolition kicks off $300M redevelopment project in Cincinnati

FC Cincinnati, a soccer club based in Cincinnati, Ohio, has kicked off a major re-development project in the city’s West End.

The club’s co-CEO Jeff Berding commemorated the project by getting behind the wheel of an excavator to start the demolition of a building, reports WCPO.

The new $300 million, 8.5-acre mixed-use district will include a hotel, apartments, office space, stores, restaurants and a privately-owned green space.

Phase one of the demolition will include three buildings located south of Libery Street between Central Parkway, Central Avenue and Wade Street.

"I’m excited that we have worked very closely with a lot of the property owners here along Central Parkway,” Berding tells WCPO. “We have an exciting vision of what a new Central Parkway should look like, getting back to the beautiful boulevard that Central Parkway used to be."

Berding says he is working to secure a master developer, an architect and a construction manager for the project.