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Festival Update: Help fund and get T-shirt, stickers!

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What is the Cincinnati Street Food Fest? How are we crowd-funding it? Details below!

When: Saturday, October 12th, 11am – 5pm

The Cincinnati Street Food Festival (CSFF) is less than a month away! This yearly community event in Walnut Hills is a family-friendly festival featuring more than a dozen of Cincinnati’s most popular food trucks, local Mt. Carmel beer, and free live music and interactive art for all residents of the neighborhood and the city.

Needless to say, the Cincinnati Street Food Festival (CSFF) costs money, so we are asking for your help to make it happen. BUT this isn’t just any old request for donations; we’re doing this Indiegogo-style. That means you can quickly and easily donate online and then claim some cool Festival-related rewards! Any proceeds beyond the cost of the festival will be used to support future development and neighborhood events through WHRF.
 
One of the coolest things about this crowd-funding is that the Haile Foundation has agreed to match any amount up to $2,500. That means whatever you give is essentially doubled. Click HERE for the Indiegogo crowdfunding page.
 
Finally, if you can’t give money, we’d love your help as a volunteer on festival day (and you’ll get an official CSFF volunteer t-shirt for free)! To sign up visit www.cincystreetfoodfest.com. And THANK YOU!


REWARDS:

$15 = I [HEART] Walnut Hills Sticker
This is the easiest way to contribute, and in return we’ll help you tell the world how much you love this neighborhood! And really, any amount goes a long way towards making this neighborhood event just plain awesome.

 

 

$30 = T-Shirt + Food Truck Sticker
Destined to become one of your most-worn T-shirts, it comes in a cool charcoal color and rocks a striking design. Plus get a nifty, Indiegogo exclusive sticker with the famous food truck logo!

 

 

$50 = T-Shirt + Food Truck Sticker + I [HEART] Walnut Hills Sticker
This is the real deal. Get the official festival T-shirt, exclusive food truck sticker, AND the I Heart Walnut Hills sticker!

Join us for the 2013 Cincinnati Street Food Festival!

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This summer has been packed with fun events, but the fun doesn’t have to end just because the calendar shifted. We’re gearing up for the second annual Cincinnati Street Food Festival – and we want you to be a part of it! And there are a lot of ways to be involved:
 
Check out our Indiegogo Campaign. The Cincinnati Street Food Fest is brought together by people with a ton of heart and not so much money. Giving $5, $10, $50 gets us that much closer to making the Street Food Fest as awesome as it can possibly be. Plus, every dollar donated up to $2500 will be matched by the Haile Foundation. So you double down on your generosity and get some sweet perks like a t-shirt and stickers! Right now we have a goal of $5,000. Help us burst that goal-o-meter! Click here for our Indiegogo page.
 
Volunteer at the fest! There’s a lot to be done the day of the Cincinnati Street Food Festival. From set-up to clean up and every little thing in between. And we need your help! We’ve got jobs suited for all abilities. Volunteers score a fabulous CSFF volunteer shirt – in addition to a sense of good will and bragging rights, of course. Check out our volunteer form here.
 

Tell the world! Tweet about it, invite your friends to the Facebook event, email your coworkers, text your basketball group, shout it from the rooftops! This is our chance to invite our friends from across Cincinnati to our beautiful, diverse, historic neighborhood so we can all celebrate and enjoy the many great things about living in Cincinnati. Don’t let anyone miss out on the fun!

 

For more info, check out the main event page: www.cincystreetfoodfest.com

Talking Form-Based Code with Vice-Mayor Qualls

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Our Executive Director, Kevin Wright, joined Vice-Mayor Roxanne Qualls yesterday on WVXU‘s Cincinnati Edition to discuss the City’s new Form-Based code implementation and how the new code impacts our neighborhoods! Walnut Hills is one of four pilot neighborhoods in Cincinnati that volunteered to adopt this new type of zoning, and we’re very excited about the opportunities it will provide

According to Vice-Mayor Qualls, the Form-Based code “specifies proportion and relationship to the street and to other buildings. People are choosing more and more to live in our neighborhoods because they want an urban experience and we know the value of the architecture and the original urban form of our communities. Form-based codes respect that and it actually allows for new development that is also respectful of that original urban form.”

Qualls adds that the new code “makes things very clear to developers what they can do in a specific neighborhood. You should be able to get all your approvals in a very short amount of time.”

In the case of Walnut Hills, Kevin Wright states that it “allowed the community to create a vision for their business district and how they want it designed. We took that vision and are attaching a zoning code to it.”

According to Wright, the new code system “creates a win-win-win for community, the City and the developer”. “When we visited Nashville”, he continues, “some developers even admitted being skeptical at the beginning, but once they started developing under the code and saw that the form based code was much easier to use than conventional zoning…developers loved it.”

Click below to listen to the full interview:

 

 

 

We’re growing again!

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Meet our newest full-time staff member and summer interns

Thea Munchel starts this month as our Real Estate Development Officer, bringing over five years of experience working on real estate development projects for community development corporations. Most recently, Thea has worked on the development and financing for two historic renovations in Over-the-Rhine, Elm Street Senior Housing and Beasley Place. Elm Street Senior Housing is on track to begin construction in June 2013 and once completed will be the first senior housing opportunity in Over-the-Rhine. Additionally, Thea managed the construction budget and schedule for the City Home development in Over-the-Rhine, working with local real estate agents and buyers to pre-sell and customize several homes during the construction period. The project was highlighted in local and national journals.

 

Kate Esarey started working for WHRF in May. She is currently a Master of Community Planning student at the University of Cincinnati. She graduated from the University of Illinois in 2008 with a BA in International Studies and Human Rights. Her community development experience includes two years in the Peace Corps in Moldova, Eastern Europe directing a nation-wide women’s empowerment initiative and serving as a community development advisor in her host village. For the past year, Kate has been working in the non-profit sector in the Greater Cincinnati area and loving every minute of it.

Jaren Abedania is a second-year graduate student in Community Planning at the University of Cincinnati, with a Bachelors degree in Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology.  Prior to arriving in the Queen City, Jaren has worked in a fine arts studio, an environmental non-profit, and a popular food truck in his hometown, San Francisco. His impending thesis will explore the means by which food is distributed and accessed in urban environments with the intent to propose a new “foodway” for the city.  Walnut Hills will serve as a venue for said project and he appreciates the opportunity to work with the community.