Sydney Franklin

Cincinnati, New York

Real Estate Enterprise Reporter at Cincinnati Enquirer

@enquirer real estate enterprise reporter // Formerly @nytrealestate, @archpaper // @Syr_Arch & @GoldringAJCs Alum ‘15 // send tips to: [email protected]

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Did Hyde Park get enough signatures for November ballot measure?

5 days ago | cincinnati.com | Sydney Franklin |Scott Wartman |Randy Tucker

The fate of the contentious Hyde Park Square development will be on the November ballot. The Hamilton County Board of Elections late Friday certified that petitioners had collected enough valid signatures for the November ballot, according to Raquel Burgos, deputy director of the Hamilton County Board of Elections. The measure will ask Cincinnati voters to overturn a recent City Council vote to approve zoning for a $150 million development in Hyde Park Square.
Over 300 housing units will start going up on Covington's former IRS site this summer

1 week ago | cincinnati.com | Sydney Franklin

Construction will start this summer on multiple buildings at Covington Central Riverfront. The 23-acre site was the home of the Internal Revenue Service building that was demolished in 2022. Over the past year, crews installed underground infrastructure and streets. Right now, it may look like a 23-acre patch of dirt with dusty streets cutting through it, but the former Internal Revenue Service site in Covington will soon sport real buildings.
Hyde Park group gets 18,300 signatures to overturn April zoning vote

2 weeks ago | fox19.com | Sydney Franklin

CINCINNATI (ENQUIRER) - A group of Hyde Park residents says it collected more than 18,300 signatures on a citywide petition to secure a November ballot measure – double the number needed, according to our partners at the Cincinnati Enquirer. The measure would ask Cincinnati voters to overturn a recent City Council vote to approve new zoning for a controversial $150 million development in Hyde Park Square.
Hyde Park group gets 18,300 signatures to overturn April zoning vote

2 weeks ago | cincinnati.com | Sydney Franklin

A group of Hyde Park residents says it collected more than 18,300 signatures on a citywide petition to secure a November ballot measure – double the number needed. The measure would ask Cincinnati voters to overturn a recent City Council vote to approve zoning for a controversial $150 million development in Hyde Park Square. The project would add a hotel and apartment complex to the quaint 133-year-old business district, but many residents think it's too big.
Hyde Park group gets 18,300 signatures to overturn April zoning vote

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Sydney Franklin

A group of Hyde Park residents says it collected more than 18,300 signatures on a citywide petition to secure a November ballot measure – double the number needed. The measure would ask Cincinnati voters to overturn a recent City Council vote to approve new zoning for a controversial $150 million development in Hyde Park Square. The project would add a hotel and apartment complex to the quaint 133-year-old business district, but many residents think it's too big.
Hyde Park 'optimistic' they will get signatures by Friday for fall ballot push

2 weeks ago | cincinnati.com | Sydney Franklin |Scott Wartman

Hyde Park residents are collecting signatures for a referendum to overturn the Cincinnati City Council's approval of a $150 million development. Last week, supporters said they had collected over half the 9,146 signatures to put the issue to a vote. The deadline to submit signatures is Friday. Hyde Park is nearing the May 23 deadline to collect the signatures to secure a November ballot measure.
Hotels, apartments, restaurants: Here are 6 historic Downtown buildings under conversion

2 weeks ago | cincinnati.com | Sydney Franklin

Downtown Cincinnati office-to-condo conversions never seem to cease. Here are six upcoming Downtown developments applying for the latest round of the state's historic preservation tax credits, which will be announced this June. Atlas National Bank BuildingAddress: 530 Walnut St.Over-the-Rhine's Urban Sites will transform the 10-story Atlas National Bank Building, a Renaissance Revival structure from the 1920s, into 66 units of mixed-income housing.
Proposals will be part of new master plan study for The Banks.

3 weeks ago | cincinnati.com | Randy Tucker |Sydney Franklin

A massive entertainment venue, hundreds of new luxury apartments and new street-level retail spaces were among the proposals recently submitted to the City of Cincinnati and Hamilton County for The Banks riverside entertainment district. Earlier this year, city and county officials began soliciting new ideas for a 2.5-acre parcel at The Banks, a city block-sized parcel known as Lot 24, which stretches along Freedom Way just east of Paycor Stadium.
Chick-fil-A headed to Cincinnati's Mount Auburn. Read why City Council questioned it

4 weeks ago | cincinnati.com | Sydney Franklin |Scott Wartman

A new Chick-fil-A planned for Mount Auburn was at the center of a small City Council squabble over development priorities in Cincinnati. The nine-member council voted 7-2 to approve new zoning on a lot owned by one of Cincinnati's largest apartment developers and managers, Uptown Rental Properties. The firm asked the city for a planned development designation on a 5.5-acre site where they manage a 103-unit student housing complex and want to build a 5,020-square-foot Chick-fil-A next door.
Cincinnati's Connected Communities zoning law could see major changes

1 month ago | cincinnati.com | Sydney Franklin

Possible changes are already coming to Cincinnati's controversial Connected Communities zoning policy passed just last year. Members of the Making Connected Communities Better working group presented ideas in a recent council committee meeting to strengthen the new zoning code and make it more palatable for Cincinnati’s 52 neighborhoods. This followed a February town hall where members of the public heard about the proposed amendments. Why a working group to 'strengthen' Connected Communities?