Queensgate, Cincinnati

Queensgate is one of the 52

In 2010, the population of Queensgate was only 142.[2] But as recently as 1958, the neighborhood, formerly part of West End and known as the "Lower West End" or the Kenyon-Barr neighborhood, had a population of 25,737, estimated at 5% of the city's total population.^[3]

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, pursuant to the Metropolitan Master Plan of 1948, a City Plan for Cincinnati, and under the guise of slum clearance and urban renewal, the predominantly African-American neighborhood was razed to make way for the new Interstate 75 and a new industrial district known as Queensgate.^[3][4][5][6] In 2023, the Cincinnati city council issued an apology for the decision to tear down Kenyon-Barr, describing the decision as "rooted in institutional racism."^[7][8]

Prior to this demolition, the neighborhood was the subject of significant photographic documentation, and in 2017, many of these photographs were placed on public exhibition for the first time at the Cincinnati Museum Center.^[9][8][10]

In early 2024, community leaders proposed reconnecting Queensgate to downtown Cincinnati through a reconstructed street grid, made possible by the larger project of constructing a new companion bridge for the Brent Spence Bridge. As of February 2024, discussions about this possibility were ongoing.^[11] In late May 2024, the proposal was approved.^[12]

Main sights

Queensgate is home to

39°6′N 84°32′W / 39.100°N 84.533°W / 39.100; -84.533

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