Research Toward Urban Solutions for the 21st Century

UC’s Institute for Community Partnerships and the Economics Center for Education and Research are two of the participants unveiling a plan for rejuvenating one of Cincinnati’s most historic neighborhoods.

Date: 10/19/2009 12:00:00 AM
By: Wendy Beckman
Phone: (513) 556-1826

The University of Cincinnati Institute for Community Partnerships, the Economics Center for Education & Research, the Mt. Auburn Community Council and Mt. Auburn Chamber of Commerce will unveil a retail market study focused on attracting retail and housing development to the historic Mt. Auburn neighborhood.

Findings of the “Mt. Auburn Retail Market Study” will be presented to the public from 6 – 8 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 20, at The Christ Hospital Auditorium, 2139 Auburn Ave. This study will provide the Mt. Auburn community with the data needed to make informed decisions to drive economic growth in the neighborhood.

In conducting the Mt. Auburn Retail Market Study, the Economics Center compared Mt. Auburn to similar neighborhoods that have major medical centers within their boundaries. The comparison cities were Atlanta; Chicago; New Haven, Conn.; St. Paul, Minn.; and Washington, DC.

This approach accounts for both the lifestyle-based consumer preferences of area residents and the presence of the hospital as a major employer, traffic generator and source of retail demand.

The business types with the greatest potential for success are eating places and food services; gift, book, and music stores; as well as clothing and related merchandise stores.

“Working collaboratively with community leaders and having active involvement and support from The Christ Hospital made this a great experience for all participants, and the result is a very solid analysis that can be used to guide business development efforts,” said Jeff Rexhausen, associate director of research at the Economics Center for Education & Research at the University of Cincinnati. “We have developed a state-of-the-art approach, grounded in industry best practices, in order to identify realistic opportunities for neighborhood retail expansion.”

The market data from the Mt. Auburn analysis have identified substantial potential for new retail businesses in the Mt. Auburn neighborhood, the hilltop gateway between downtown and uptown Cincinnati.

“The study was based on practical, well-grounded methodology,” said Rexhausen. “It should serve their business district well.”

In addition to the study rollout, a panel will be available Tuesday night to address issues about the market potential, financing and other considerations for creating and sustaining a viable business district within Mt. Auburn. Scheduled panelists include

• Roxanne Qualls, Cincinnati City Council member
• Jeannie Golliher, president and CEO, Cincinnati Development Fund
• Michael Cervay, director, City of Cincinnati Community Development Dept.
• John Rickert, Ricor Development and local business recruitment strategist
• Holly Dorna, president of the Mt. Auburn Chamber of Commerce
• Freeman McNeal, president of the Mt. Auburn Community Council

What: Mt. Auburn Retail Market Study
Where: The Christ Hospital Auditorium, 2139 Auburn Ave.
When: Tuesday, Oct. 20, 5:30 – 8 p.m.

About the UC Institute for Community Partnerships
The University of Cincinnati established the Institute for Community Partnerships in 1990 in the College of Education with funding from the Ohio Urban University Program to support faculty applied research in solving urban problems ranging from physical to social issues.

About the Economics Center for Education and Research
The Economics Center for Education & Research is a not-for-profit organization affiliated with the University of Cincinnati. Its vision is to build a vibrant community by inspiring students to appreciate and use their economic freedom and opportunities. Its work in the community is carried out through educational outreach in local schools that enhances financial literacy and builds an entrepreneurial spirit in students.

The Mt. Auburn Retail Market Study was conducted by the University of Cincinnati Economics Center for Education and Research in collaboration with, and funded by, the UC Institute for Community Partnerships, with additional support from The Christ Hospital and the Economics Center for Education and Research at the University of Cincinnati.

A Black Man Buying 500 billion dollars worth of goods and services!!! In one year.

Barack Obama's first fiscal year has started. The US Gov will purchase over 500 billion dollars worth of goods and services in Fiscal year 2010.

FACTS

• GDP $14.441 trillion ie The US Economy
• 40.7 million[African American Citizens of the United States [^[1]13.5% of the total U.S. population]
• African American Business Receipts with a combined buying power of over $892 billion currently and likely over $1.1 trillion by 2012.[
• In 2002 African-American owned businesses accounted for 1.2 million of the US's 23 million businesses.
• The 1.2 million black-owned businesses in the United States employe more than 756,000 people and generate nearly $89 billion in business revenues.
  
• Almost 4 in 10 black-owned businesses (38 percent) were owned by women.
• New York had the most black owned firms, followed by California, Florida, Georgia, and Texas

To: The Citizens of the United States

From: Dr. Robert Day, Convener, National Fairness and Growth Symposiums and Joseph Debro, General Chairman, National Fairness and Growth Campaign Committee

50 years or is it 400 Years = less than 1% (ie .99%) nationally according to the US Census Bureau or less than a half of one percent (ie .4955%) in Ohio of all business revenue earned by African Americans. What has been the ramifications and implications of these shameful, tragic figures on the economic health of black communities and the country as a whole?

Now is the time for a change.

The ramifications and the implications of these shameful, tragic figures on the economic health of Black communities are staggering. This lack of economic parity has led to higher crime rates, higher rates of imprisonment, higher rates of unemployment and lower educational achievement. This downward spiral in the Black community effects the whole country.

This letter is written to inform the country of the steps that our virtual organization has taken and our plans for the future. We think that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and its counterpart, other recovery initiatives, the general budget provides an opportunity to redress some of the systemic and personal economic equalities.

The National Fairness and Growth Campaign has created a grassroots campaign of practitioners who have a long term operational knowledge of past practices . These business people are very familiar with the philosophies, strategies, approaches, programs and projects ostensibly designed to address the history and practices of discrimination towards African Americans that levels the playing field. By extension we also address discriminatory practices towards other groups

The National Fairness and Growth Campaign will be a significant advocate for the "greening" of America especially in its vulnerable communities. The Campaign does not have negative presumptions regarding current planning or execution of the Congress or President Obama’s administration budget or initiatives. We seek to provide solutions gained from the hard earned insight into potential enforcement of existing public laws, regulations, new initiatives and programs through the use of “Best Practices” that level the playing field(s).

The National Fairness and Growth Campaign seeks not to have negative presumptions regarding the current planning or execution of the ARRA and TARP or the FY 2010 general budget. We seek to provide solutions gained from the hard earned insight into potential enforcement of existing public laws, regulations and new initiatives and programsthrough the use of “Best Practices” to Erase the Digital Divide.

In erasing the Digital divide we reject the notion that there is not available a shovel ready American next generation workforce ready to be trained. We are calling on creating a public private partnership that would oversee a possible investment of over $260,000,000,000 in a million American youth over a ten year period starting no later than December 31, 2010 is made to create a next generation workforce in 25 Urban Areas, 25 Statewide Rural Regions and 10 Native American Tribal lands.

This is a follow up to our previous symposium regarding our concerns and hopes relative to the very fast moving American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan (ARRP), now public law as of February 17th, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and its counterpart the TARP initiatives and implementation of the FY2010 Budget.

It is our plan to develop aoer the next two weeks a development strategy that will support over a million students on connected campus around the nation. It would also connect a total of 500 million people via our global public private sector distance learning infrastructure that will Erase the Digital Divide. This includes 200 million people living in the United States and 300 million people in other countries. It is to be built a multinational shovel ready patent protected next generation third frontier digital infrastructure that supports a logistics infrastructure built around the United States Postal Service.

It will be financed in it's prototype state by a 200 million dollar underwriting according to the Principles and Findings of the National Fairness and Growth Campaign and all current federal state and local laws, including Presidential order in force as approved by the US Attorney General.

All this will be financed as a private public partnership under current federal law, agency and department funding and Presidential Orders. It will employ over 60,000 people by September 2010. It is our goal starting with Cincinnati to enroll a million people in schools and colleges by December 2010 to become part of the Change in Americas workforce.

What We did on 9/11's day of Service

President Obama has called upon all Americans to participate in our nation's recovery and renewal by serving in our communities on September 11, 2009, National Service Day, as part of the United We Serve initiative and this is what we did with Green for All through Green The Block and was proud to stand in solidarity with the President and United We Serve.

Continuing on the Road to Economic Recovery with Action on Media

Cincinnati, OH

September 11, 2009 12:00PM to 03:00PM

Hosted by Hershel Daniels

To: The Citizens of the United States

From: Fred Hargrove, Sr PE MBA of the National Fairness and Growth Symposiums and a Co-Chairman of the National Fairness and Growth Campaign Committee

50 years or is it 400 Years = less than 1% (ie .99%) nationally according to the US Census Bureau or less than a half of one percent (ie .4955%) in Ohio of all business revenue earned by African Americans. What has been the ramifications and implications of these shameful, tragic figures on the economic health of black communities and the country as a whole?

Now is the time for a change.

Development in Cincinnati should be for the people in the city who are in the place they are in the city. This is not to say that we should not have new people come into the city, but...what about those in place. In these times lets make the change for those who live here NOW!!!

Cincinnati Change is committed to development in line with The United Nations Global Compact and a superset of green regulations put forth by a committee enpanneled to the Congressional Black Caucus 25 September in Washington DC.

The United Nations Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption

In this program we shall address the ramifications and the implications of the aforementioned shameful, tragic figures on the economic health of our black community.

We believe that this lack of economic parity has led to higher crime rates, higher rates of imprisonment, higher rates of unemployment and lower educational achievement. This downward spiral in the Black community effects the whole country.

This meeting was to inform regional and teleconference particpants leaders of the steps that our virtual organization has taken and our plans for the future. We think that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and its counterpart, other recovery initiatives, the general budget provides an opportunity to redress some of the systemic and personal economic equalities.

The National Fairness and Growth Campaign has created a grassroots campaign of practitioners who have a long term operational knowledge of past practices . These business people are very familiar with the philosophies, strategies, approaches, programs and projects ostensibly designed to address the history and practices of discrimination towards African Americans that levels the playing field. By extension we also address discriminatory practices towards other groups

The National Fairness and Growth Campaign will be a significant advocate for the "greening" of America especially in its vulnerable communities. The Campaign does not have negative presumptions regarding current planning or execution of the Congress or President Obama’s administration budget or initiatives.

We seek to provide solutions gained from the hard earned insight into potential enforcement of existing public laws, regulations, new initiatives and programs through the use of “Best Practices” that level the playing field(s).

Labor Day founder John Patternson Green

Cincinnati Change joins for the 4th year the Cleveland Chapter of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists in Commemoration of the Father of Labor Day, the Honorable John Patterson Green (1845-1940)

The Cleveland Chapter of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists which consists of members from seventy-seven international and national unions recognizes John Patterson Green’s legislative sponsorship of Labor Day in Ohio. House Bill 500 was passed on April 28, 1890 and consisted of one sentence:

“Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, that the first Monday in September of each and every year shall be known as Labor Day . . .”

In 1894, the U.S. Congress passed a bill making Labor Day a national holiday.

Patterson Green’s efforts preceded the accomplishments of organized labor leaders such as A. Philip Randolph, Sleeping Car Porters; John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers; Philip Murray, United Steel Workers; Jimmy Hoffa,Teamsters; Walter Reuther, United Auto Workers; and Cesar Chavez, United Farm Workers.

Born in New Bern, North Carolina, John Patterson Green became Cleveland’s first black lawyer and first black elected official (Justice of the Peace) and was also the second African-American elected to serve in the Ohio House of Representatives in 1882.

John P. Green's parents were African-Americans, but free. Too poor to attend school, he worked as a harness maker, a tailor, and a waiter before writing and self-publishing Miscellaneous Subjects by a Self-Educated Colored Youth when he was 21. After the book's success, he attended high school and law school, and became one of the first black elected officials north of the Mason-Dixon line when he was elected Justice of the Peace in Cleveland, in 1873. In 1881 he was elected to the Ohio House, and in 1891 he was elected to the Ohio Senate.

In addition to Miscellaneous Subjects by a Self-Educated Colored Youth (1866) he wrote Recollections of the Inhabitants, Localities, Superstitions and KuKlux Outrages of the Carolinas (1880) and Fact Stranger than Fiction (1920, autobiography)

As a legislator, he sponsored 21 bills favorable to labor issues, including House Bill 500 in 1890, which established a state holiday honoring working men and women. Labor unions had staged annual parades and picnics since 1882, but Green's bill made Labor Day an official holiday in Ohio, to be celebrated on the first Monday of September, effective in 1891. Three years later the US Congress followed suit, making Labor Day a national holiday. After leaving the State Assembly, Green worked for many years as a lawyer and postal official, and at the time of his death -- struck by a streetcar at the age of 95 -- he was the oldest attorney practicing in Ohio.

During his second elected term in 1890, the state of Ohio enacted Labor Day legislation that earned him the title “Father of Labor Day in Ohio.” The former common laborer and lawyer wanted to honor all working men and women in Ohio with the idea of establishing a holiday to celebrate the contributions of workers (not politicians).

The Honorable John Patterson Green served three successive terms in the Ohio General Assembly, including two terms in the House of Representatives (1882-1883 and 1890-1891). In 1892, he was elected to the Ohio Senate, making him the first African-American elected to a state senate north of the Mason-Dixon Line in the United States. While serving as an Ohio state legislator, John Patterson Green sponsored and supported 21 major bills on behalf of labor.

During his professional and legislative career, he counted among his closest friends Mr. & Mrs. John D. (Ms. Lara C. Spellman) Rockefeller, Marcus A. Hanna and George A. Myers—all captains of industry. He also was a friend of and assisted Civil Rights leaders, such as Harry Smith, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglas, Charles Chestnut, and other black leaders of his day.

Mr. Green was also befriended by and received appointments to federal positions by Presidents James A. Garfield and William McKinley. Of all his associations and accomplishments, however, the Honorable John Patterson Green was most proud of his work to honor all working men and women of this nation by initiating Labor Day.

Robert E. Saffold is a former member of Laborers Local 935 in Warren and was elected union department chairman of Local 1375 United Steelworkers of America (Republic Steel) in Warren. He is a registered lobbyist for the Ohio Minority Contractors Association and current chairman and CEO of the African-American Business and Contractors Association Inc. This material on John Patterson Green was researched at the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio by Minister Robert E. Saffold. He was project coordinator for the research and publication of this piece for the Cleveland chapter of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists.

Since its founding conference in 1972, The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) stature among African American workers has grown. Currently, more than 77 different international and national unions are represented in CBTU. With 50 chapters nationwide and one in Ontario, Canada, CBTU is maximizing the strength and influence of black workers in unions and empowering their communities.

Katrina Revisited

We had 4 years ago on this date Hurricane Katrina which made its second landfall as a Category 3 storm on the morning of Monday, August 29 in southeast Louisiana. It caused severe destruction along the Gulf coast from central Florida to Texas, much of it due to the storm surge. The most severe loss of life and property damage occurred in New Orleans, Louisiana - Don't forget it, I haven't !!

The Campaign for Change continues

The National Fairness and Growth Campaign will on 28 August 2009 conduct a Conference Call from Detroit MI with Dial-in Number: (605) 475-4850 and Participant Access Code: 570587# that is overseen by the National Fairness Campaign Steering Committee to empower a million African American households in 25 cities, 20 states and 5 Native American lands through collective action.

If you are in Detroit and reading this email me for more details at hershel@nationalfairnessandgrowthcampsign.org.

IT IS TIME FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION!!!

For more info goto the website in development at http://nationalfairnessandgrowthcampaign.org/SYM_8.html

Conference Call Today on Comprehensive Plan for Cincinnati

For those who are believers in the Book As-Salāmu `Alaykum Brothers and Sisters,

National Fairness and Growth Campaign

National Fairness and Growth Campaign Steering Committee

• General Chairman Joesph Debro Co-Founder, National Association of Minority Contractors (NAMC) and Board Member of Housing Assistance Council
• Co-Chairwoman Pandora Ramsay, Founding President , Ohio Fairness Campaign
• Co-Chairman Fredrick Hargrove, Sr. PE, MBA. former Chairman of Cincinnati Change
• Co-Chairman Irvin Henderson, former Chairman, National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) and on the board of the CRA Fund and the National Trust for Historic Preservation
  
• Convener Dr. Robert Day PhD, President, Center for Urban & Rural Redevelopment

Steering Committee Advisor and Panel Moderator
Lawrence Auls, Chairman of MDi, Executive Director LISW, LTD

Symposium VII

July 31, 2009

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST

Dial-in Number: (605) 475-4850
Participant Access Code: 570587#

Opening by General Chairman

Introductions

Recap of Symposia to date.

New Statistics

Status of Initiatives, Health, Broadband, and Energy

Half Hour Break

Status of the Campaign Fundraising mechanism

General topics from teleconference participants

Announcement of Launch of Fundraising Effort on 7 August 2009

Announcement of Next Meeting in August in Detroit

Next Steps including a presentation at 1PM by Organizing for America on the Presidents Health Care Plans

Close of the National Fairness and Growth Campaign at 2 P.M.
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Open The Cincinnati Change Community Briefing 2 - 5 PM

Presentation at 2 P.M. by the city of Cincinnati on the first time in 60 years a new Cincinnati Comprehensive Plan that includes:

Health Care

Erasing the Digital Divide

Next Generation Workforce Employment

Urban Transportation Solutions

Green Energy Implementation

Comprehensive Housing Program for the City

Economic Development

based on the

Cincinnati Change Development Statement

Development in Cincinnati should be for the people in the city who are in the place they are in the city. This is not to say that we should not have new people come into the city, but...what about those in place. In these times lets make the change for those who live here NOW!!!

Cincinnati Change is committed to development in line with The United Nations Global Compact.

The United Nations Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption

submitted by
Hershel Daniels, Junior
Chief of Staff to Fred Hargrove, Sr. and Cincinnati Change, Director

Murder 2009

In

The Black Man on the rise

For years people have wondered about where the black man is headed, and why has it taken so long for him to get there. Today you will find out how we got there and what we need to do to get out. A call has been made all over the city for all men to stand, stand for what you may wonder STAND FOR FREEDOM. Child support, prisons, DMV and other institutions have kept the black family in slavery and the black man the 20 centry will bring us out of bondage

Cincinnati Empowerment Corporation Annual Report

NEWS YOU CAN USE THE CINCINNATI EMPOWERMENT ZONE ANNUAL EVENT

ENERGY & ZEAL - 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Join the partners, businesses, residents and friends of the City of Cincinnati Empowerment Zone [EZ] to recognize its 10-year milestone, honor its partners, and award new grants totaling $2 million. Special Guest Speaker: Bootsy Collins along with Lincoln Ware, Courtis Fuller, and this year's Program Grantees celebrate the Cincinnati Empowerment Corporation's [CEC] decade of support for the nine EZ neighborhoods and the CEC staff i.e. they've spent over 25 million dollars.

RSVP to: event730@aol.com OR 513-588-0889 by July 24th for free tickets.

AT THE KINGSGATE MARRIOTT CONFERENCE CENTER [owned by the University of Cincinnati, which was owned by the city till 1967 before we had the first black Mayor in 1968] at 151 Goodman Ave. Free Parking in Kingsgate Garage for first 300 cars

Register Here Now

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National Fairness and Growth Campaign

Symposium VI

June 26, 2009

10:30 PM - 1:00 PM EST

Dial-in Number: (605) 475-4850
Participant Access Code: 570587#

Opening by General Chairman
Introductions
New Statistics

Announcement of Launch of Fundraising Effort on 29 June 2009
Past Recommendations Revisited
Proposed Initiatives to be launched during this symposium -

• Faith Based
  
• Workforce
  
• Health

Focus on Energy Initiative

Featuring:
Curtis Maples volunteer Adviser and Student in Electrical Engineering
Danny Owen, Veteran and Pioneer in the fossil Fuel and Alternative Fuels industry

Announcement of Next Meeting last Friday of July [31] Philadelphia

Close

African American Fathers Day 2009

Obama's first 100 days

Congressman Steve Driehaus (OH 1)

This is our congressman and we support him.

Representative Steve Driehaus was sworn in on January 6, 2009 as the Member of Congress for Ohio’s First District. Representative Driehaus sits on the House Financial Services and Oversight and Government Reform Committees, and he has begun work to improve the First District’s aging infrastructure, to bring sensible ideas to the country’s mortgage crisis, and to reverse the nation’s economic decline.

Prior to his service in Congress, Steve served eight years in the Ohio House of Representatives. He was chosen by his peers to serve as House Minority Whip in 2003 and took a leadership role on issues such as election law and redistricting reform.

A fiscal conservative, Representative Driehaus was the sponsor of legislation that would force a review of the billions of dollars that Ohio foregoes in "tax expenditures." He served on the Finance and Appropriations, Insurance, Public Utilities and State Government and Elections committees in the State House. In addition, Steve served on the Governor’s Foreclosure Prevention Task Force and the Clean Ohio Council. Representative Driehaus was named legislative “Rookie of the Year” by the

Cincinnati Enquirer during his first term, and was named “Legislator of the Year” by both the Ohio Association of Elections Officials and the ARC of Ohio in 2007. Representative Driehaus is a 1984 graduate of Elder High School in Cincinnati, and earned a degree in political science from Miami University. He holds a masters degree in public affairs from Indiana University and later served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal, where he worked with village groups and local schools to promote sustainable environmental practices.

Steve directed the Community Building Institute, a collaborative effort of Xavier University and the United Way and Community Chest that promotes citizen-led, asset-based community development. Steve, his wife, Lucienne, their two daughters Alex and Clare, and son Jack, live in Cincinnati.

Broadband NOW!!!

Telecos own their lines and can block whoever they want. But, if the Wireless Telecos use public airwaves what is the right of the public through their FCC - what say you?

Since 1996 promises have been made, have they been keep?

We propose national communications change, NOW.

A national secure next generation broadband fiber and wireless system that meets eGov, eCommerce, eLearning, E-Rate, eSchool, eHealth, eSafe, LEED and a superset of ISO 26000 standards through a means tested national infrastructure that passes by 200M people living in the United States of America including all state capitals, the 50 largest us cities, 40 rural regions and 10 Native American lands.

We stand ready in the Nati to be the Network Operations Center and will proceed on Monday to propose the plan.

National Fairness Campaign Session III Washington DC March 9 2009

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The Two Trillion Dollar Man