fortune 500 - The Kenwood Collection

“And this Song of the Vine,
This greeting of mine,
The winds and the birds shall deliver
To the Queen of the West,
In her garlands dressed,
On the banks of the Beautiful River.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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THE ROEBLING SUSPENSION BRIDGE WAS THE PROTOTYPE
FOR DESIGNER JOHN ROEBLING’S BROOKLYN BRIDGE. AT
THE TIME OF ITS COMPLETION IN 1867, IT WAS THE LONGEST
BRIDGE OF ITS KIND IN THE WORLD SPANNING 1,067 FEET.
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She has been heralded by statesmen and poets as
“the most beautiful inland city in America,” “the first
purely American city” and “the Queen of the West.”
She is the southernmost Northern metropolis,
and the northernmost Southern belle. Her
heritage is opportunity for all who have found
freedom on her banks.
Strategically located in the heart of the
Midwest, she is home to millions—and a
frequent destination for many millions more
within just an hour’s drive.
Steeped in culture, she is a lover of beauty
and devoted patron of the arts. Her hallowed
institutions are hailed as among the oldest and
most prestigious in the nation.
She is the world headquarters of titans
of industry, and home to 10 Fortune 500
companies—more per capita than New York
City, Los Angeles or Chicago.
Whether for education, entertainment, starting
a business or raising a family, she is widely
recognized and praised for the superior quality
of life that her citizens enjoy.
Boasting a burgeoning startup scene and also quiet
fortunes centuries in the making, she is home to
some of the wealthiest communities in America.
Rooted deeply in her proud heritage, she is rising.
She is Cincinnati, and she is ready for something new.
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ABOUT THE KENWOOD COLLECTION
The Kenwood Collection will bring luxury
retail, an eclectic array of dining and an elite
office experience to Cincinnati. With iconic
architecture, high visibility and a select tenant
mix, this premier mixed-use center will be
a magnet to those seeking the definitive
luxury experience that—until now—has been
unfulfilled in the Tri-state area.
Located in the center of Greater Cincinnati’s
most powerful retail concentration, The
Kenwood Collection is surrounded by one
of the city’s most successful office hubs and
several of the state’s wealthiest neighborhoods.
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REGIONAL TRADE AREA
5.1 MILLION RESIDENTS • $67.7 BILLION RETAIL SPENDING • TOP 10 RETAIL MARKET
COMPETITIVE SHOPPING CENTERS
1. THE GREEN
2. KENWOOD TOWNE CENTER
3. OXMOOR CENTER
4. FAYETTE MALL
AREA UNIVERSITIES
190,000 TOTAL STUDENTS
1. WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY
2. UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON
3. MIAMI UNIVERSITY
4. XAVIER UNIVERSITY
5. CINCINNATI STATE
6. UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
7. COLLEGE OF MOUNT SAINT JOSEPH
8. NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY
9. MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY
10. UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
11. SPALDING UNIVERSITY
12: BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY
13. UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE
14. TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY
15. CENTRE COLLEGE
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R EGIONA L TR A DE A R EA
Three-state market includes Ohio, Kentucky
and Indiana
Top 10 retail market includes more than 5.1 million
residents within a 90-minute drive
Welcomes more than 1.8 million tourists per year
Ranked 7th in country for department store spending
Ranked 8th in the nation for full-service restaurant
expenditures
Ranked 9th nationally for retail spending at
$67.7 billion
No location within 100 miles offers this combination
of retail density, superior demographics and
convenient access
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Nestled amidst rolling hills, pastoral fields and
parklike woodlands, the affluent Village of
Indian Hill is located less than a mile from The
Kenwood Collection. Established near the turn
of the century by prominent Cincinnatians,
Indian Hill became the city’s premiere eastern
suburb in the 1920s, providing a quintessential
rural residence unlike any other—a retreat for
the area’s elite to live and play outside of the
bustle of downtown.
Today, Indian Hill remains the city’s most
exclusive neighborhood, and offers social and
sporting amenities of yesteryear, including
golf, tennis, fox hunting and equestrian sports.
Many notable residents have called Indian
Hill home, including famed astronaut Neil
Armstrong, music legend Peter Frampton, and
billionaire and former Fortune 500 CEO Carl
Lindner, to name just a few.
TH E V I LL AGE OF I N DIA N H I LL
Average HH income: $336,700
Considered a “super ZIP” ranking higher than 96%
of the country based on income and education
Ranked #12 on list of 100 highest income
places with at least 1,000 HHs in the US
45243 ZIP code is frequently at the top of
political fundraising lists
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PRIMARY TRADE AREA
FORTUNE 500 HEADQUARTERS
1. AK STEEL
2. KROGER
3. PROCTER &
GAMBLE
7. WESTERN &
SOUTHERN
FINANCIAL
GROUP
5. FIFTH THIRD BANK
8. AMERICAN
FINANCIAL
GROUP
6. OMNICARE
9. ASHLAND, INC.
4. MACY’S
10. GENERAL CABLE
CORP.
LUXURY CAR DEALERSHIPS
1. MERCEDESBENZ OF WEST
CHESTER
6. THE AUDI
CONNECTION
2. INFINITI OF
CINCINNATI
7. JAGUAR
LAND ROVER
CINCINNATI
3. PERFORMANCE
LEXUS
8. MERCEDES-BENZ
OF CINCINNATI
4. PORSCHE OF
KINGS AUTO
MALL
9. THE BMW STORE
5. CAMARGO
CADILLAC
10. PORSCHE OF
THE VILLAGE
11. LEXUS
RIVERCENTER
COUNTRY CLUBS & PRIVATE CLUBS
1. KENWOOD
COUNTRY CLUB
6. CINCINNATI
COUNTRY CLUB
2. MAKETEWAH
COUNTRY CLUB
7. QUEEN CITY
CLUB
3. CAMARGO
COUNTRY CLUB
8. UNIVERSITY CLUB
4. HYDE PARK
GOLF &
COUNTRY CLUB
5. CINCINNATI
ATHLETIC CLUB
9. LITERARY CLUB
10. METROPOLITAN
CLUB
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PRI MA RY T R A DE A RE A
A R EA WOR K F ORC E
Home to 1.98 million residents
Daily exposure of 1,200 office workers onsite and
a total of 6,500 employees between The Kenwood
Collection and Kenwood Towne Centre
Average household income of $74,150 per year
(20% higher than Midwest average)
Includes the Village of Indian Hill—Ohio’s
wealthiest community—with an average HH
income of $336,700
Median age of 36.8 with two dominant groups:
25–44 and 45–64
40,000 daytime workers in Blue Ash, the
second largest employment district in the
metro area (2.5 miles north of the site)
130,000 employees within a five-mile radius
More Fortune 500 companies per capita than
New York, Boston, Chicago or Los Angeles
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F ORTUN E 5 0 0
Cincinnati is home to 10 Fortune 500
headquarters—more per capita than New York
City, Los Angeles or Chicago.
1. Kroger ($96.8B)
2. Procter & Gamble ($85.1B)
3. Macy’s ($27.7B)
4. Ashland, Inc. ($8.2B)
5. Fifth Third bank ($7.1B)
6. Omnicare ($6.2B)
7. General Cable Corp. ($6.0B)
8. AK Steel ($5.9B)
9. Western & Southern Financial Group ($5.3B)
10. American Financial Group ($5.1B)
Within just over an hour’s drive, three more
Fortune 500 headquarters are located in
Louisville, Kentucky:
1. Humana ($39.1B)
2. Yum! Brands ($13.6B)
3. Kindred Healthcare ($6.2B)
PROCTER & GAMBLE HEADQUARTERS
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THE SCENT OF LUXURY
Cincinnati is home to multinational consumer
goods giant Procter & Gamble. On any given
day, P&G touches households around the
world with their more than 300 brands—from
baby, feminine and family care to global fabric
and home care. Unbeknownst to many, P&G
has also made waves in the luxury goods
market for years with “prestige fragrance”
development.
P&G has become a world player in high-end
perfumes, mostly through sales of three top-tier
brands not usually associated with P&G: Dolce
& Gabbana, Gucci and Hugo Boss. With $2.5
billion in sales in 2013, it is clear that aspirational
fragrance brands are luxury in a bottle.
A HERITAGE OF FASHION RETAIL
Headquartered in Cincinnati, Macy’s is the
fourth largest non-food retailer in the country.
Seventy-nine years after its founding, Macy’s
remains one of the nation’s most successful and
respected fashion retail institutions. Embracing
the words and philosophy of one of its
founders, Fred Lazarus Jr., Macy’s succeeds by
striving to be “a living mirror of our civilization
in which we see the constant changing needs
and wishes of our people.”
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The accolades keep pouring in, and the verdict
is clear: Cincinnati is one of the nation’s top
hotspots for startups.
Named an “unexpected hub for tech
startups” by Entrepreneur Magazine in 2013,
Cincinnati provides incredibly fertile soil for
new businesses to grow and flourish. With
a low cost of living and support from a wide
range of startup accelerators, venture capital
firms and Fortune 500 and 1000 companies,
entrepreneurs in Cincinnati enjoy unparalleled
support and success.
• Only five years old, startup accelerator The
Brandery is ranked in the top 10 nationally,
and has launched 35 companies and raised
more than $44 million.
• Since its inception in 2007, seed-stage
investor CincyTech has invested $14.3
million in 41 companies that have gone
on to raise an additional $161.9 million in
subsequent rounds of investment.
• Launched just two years ago, Northern
Kentucky-based UpTech has already
launched 15 new companies, providing
guidance, seed funding and office space.
PHOTO CREDIT: ZACKARIAH COLE PHOTOGRAPHY
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THE WORLD FINDS A HOME
IN THE QUEEN CITY
With an influx of company transfers, marriages
and by-chance dwellers, Cincinnati regularly
welcomes fresh waves of global citizens
who thrive in the arms of the Queen City.
Well-educated, well-heeled and employed
in high-profile positions throughout our
10 Fortune 500 headquarters, these careersavvy Europeans are avidly engaged in the
community. And while they’ve been sent by
their companies for contract-specified amounts
of time, they end up choosing to stay in their
newfound home sweet home, Cincinnati.
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SECOND HOMES
FOR THE SNOWBIRDS
While New Yorkers head to the Hamptons
and San Franciscans crave time in Tahoe,
Cincinnatians occupy more than one hotspot.
Long considered “Cincinnati South” by wellheeled Queen City denizens, both Naples
and Palm Beach, Florida enable the so-called
“snowbirds” to bask in the old world glamour
of the Sunshine State—while retaining all of
the community and comforts of their primary
residence.
The Floridian lifestyle is hard to beat for
affluent Cincinnatians, and most of those same
snowbirds also head north during the sweltering
summer months to quiet family compounds
on Lake Michigan. Residing in towns such as
Leland, Northport and Petoskey, Michigan,
Cincinnati residents enjoy the luxuries of small
town charm and old world poise.
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EDUCATION
A common question about schooling elicits a
very unique answer from most Cincinnatians.
When asking about where someone went to
school, inquiring minds are typically seeking
not the university attended, but the pedigree of
one’s high school education.
This sense of educational heritage and
community flourishing from within both the
public and private school systems in Cincinnati
enhances the city’s robust academic offerings
and the overall educational experience its
students receive.
Walnut Hills High School ranked as the best
high school in the region, coming in at #77
nationally—followed by Wyoming High School
(#110) and Indian Hill High School (#113).
Cincinnati-area schools in Ohio’s top 10
include Wyoming High School (#2), Indian
Hill High School (#3) and Madeira High
School (#4).
In Kentucky, Highlands High School was the
highest ranked in the area, coming in at #3 in
the Commonwealth. Beechwood High School
also ranked among Kentucky’s top 10 (#5).
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Miami was a university before Florida
was a state.
Founded in 1809 in Oxford, Ohio, Miami
University is consistently revered as a “public
ivy” and widely considered to be one of the most
prestigious colleges in the country. Its highly
regarded Farmer School of Business and Institute
for Entrepreneurship, in particular, fill Fortune
500 boardrooms with young executives and help
Miami rank #1 in Ohio among public universities
for best salary potential after graduation.
POET ROBERT FROST CALLED MIAMI UNIVERSITY’S OXFORD CAMPUS
“THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CAMPUS THAT EVER WAS.”
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DAAP students design the future of fashion.
The University of Cincinnati boasts one of the
nation’s most prestigious design schools, and
alumni including internationally renowned
designer Michael Graves and former president
of the Council of Fashion Designers of America
Stan Herman. The DAAPworks Annual
Fashion Show, sponsored by Macy’s, features
the work of aspiring designers in the Fashion
Design program at the College of Design,
Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP).
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI DAAP FASHION SHOW SPONSORED BY MACY’S
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ARTS & CULTURE
The greater Cincinnati arts and culture scene
fuels its local economy with more than $279
million in economic activity.
SINCE 1963, THE CINCINNATI BALLET HAS BEEN THE CORNERSTONE
PROFESSIONAL BALLET COMPANY OF THE REGION.
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Cincinnati May Festival
Founded in 1873, the annual Cincinnati May
Festival is the oldest—and one of the most
prestigious—choral festivals in the Western
Hemisphere.
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is a
dynamic ensemble of some of the world’s finest
musicians. The fifth oldest symphony orchestra
in the U.S. and the oldest orchestra in Ohio, the
CSO has played a leading role in the cultural
life of Greater Cincinnati and the Midwest
since its founding in 1895.
Cincinnati Art Museum
JAMES CONLON, MUSIC DIRECTOR OF THE CINCINNATI MAY FESTIVAL
In the late nineteenth century, public
art museums were still very much a new
phenomenon. The Women’s Art Museum
Association was organized in Cincinnati
in 1881 with the intent of bringing such
an institution to the region for the benefit
of all citizens. Just five years later, in May
1886, a permanent art museum building was
completed in Eden Park and was heralded
worldwide as “The Art Palace of the West.”
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Fou­n­ded in 1920 and the second oldest opera
company in the U.S., the Cincinnati Opera
presents a thrilling roster of world-class artists
and conductors. The c­ompany has served as
the “summer home” for New York City’s finest
opera singers for nearly a century, and is hailed
as Cincinnati’s “prime summer arts festival,”
attracting a passionate regional audience as
well as opera tourists from throughout the U.S.
and Canada.­
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ARCHITECTURE
Cincinnati is known for its large collection
of historic architecture. Over-the-Rhine, a
neighborhood just to the north of Downtown
Cincinnati, boasts among the world’s largest
collections of Italianate architecture, rivaling
similar neighborhoods in New York City,
Vienna and Munich in size and scope.
In the late 1800s, Cincinnati was commonly
referred to as the “Paris of America” due to its
significant architectural projects, like Music
Hall, the Cincinnatian Hotel, and the Shillito
Department Store.
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AC C OL A DE S
“Best Cities for Raising A Family”
Forbes magazine, 2012
“Top US Travel Destinations”
Lonely Planet magazine, 2012
“Most Unexpected Cities for
High-Tech Innovation”
Techie.com magazine, 2012
“Top 10 Great Cities for Young People”
AOL magazine, 2012
“Fittest Cities in the US”
American College of Sports
Medicine magazine, 2013
“Smartest Cities in the US”
Movoto Real Estate Blog, 2013
“Top Philanthropic Cities in the US”
Charity Navigator, 2013
“Best Places to Live in the US”
Livability.com, 2014
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PLATED LUXURY
In Cincinnati, food is entertainment, education
and lifestyle—and its history is rich. Once
home to three Mobil five-star restaurants,
including the longest-running Mobil five star,
The Maisonette, Cincinnati’s dining culture has
only progressed as dining culture has changed.
200 new restaurants have opened in downtown
Cincinnati in the past 10 years.
Seven Cincinnati-area chefs have been invited
to cook at the James Beard Foundation.
Three-time James Beard nominee Jean-Robert
de Cavel is a French Master Chef—one of fewer
than 60 in North America.
Chef Dan Wright named “The People’s Best
New Chef ” by Food & Wine Magazine (2013)
Metropole named among “Top 50 New
Restaurants in America” by Bon Appétit
Magazine (2013)
Sotto & Kaze named among “Top 100 Hot Spot
Restaurants in America” by OpenTable (2014)
FRUIT OF THE VINE
Since the days of Nicholas Longworth’s sparkling
Catawba wine, Cincinnati has always been a
wine town. Today, the finest wines from around
the world can be enjoyed at the city’s many
restaurants and wine bars, and procured through
its numerous international wine dealers.
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FINDLAY MARKET
Founded in 1852, Findlay Market is Ohio’s
oldest continuously operating public market
and one of Cincinnati’s most cherished
institutions. A weekly staple for many,
Findlay attracts perhaps the most socially,
economically, racially and ethnically diverse
crowds in the city.
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NUMBER OF FARMERS’
MARKETS IN THE GREATER
CINCINNATI AREA.
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THE RETURN OF THE
BREWERY BOOM
While Napa Valley has its winemaking and
Kentucky its bourbon, Cincinnati—with its
German immigrant heritage—is rooted in
beer brewing. In the late 1800s, beer ran this
town. Tens of thousands of immigrants lived
in Over-the-Rhine and were employed by
either breweries or related companies, such as
barrel and bottle makers. Famous beer barons
Christian Moerlein and Ludwig Hudepohl II
helped to build Cincinnati into one of the top
brewery markets in the country.
And it’s not just the big guys brewing great
beer in this city. Recent years have witnessed
an influx of craft breweries as artisan brands
such as Rhinegeist and MadTree garner national
attention for their palate-pleasing brews.
While Samuel Adams labels itself the “Boston
Lager,” its founder (and Cincinnati native) Jim
Koch continues to brew the majority of their
lagers, ales, and everything in-between in
Over-the-Rhine’s historic Brewery district.
MadTree Brewing Company has grown nearly
400 percent since opening in 2013.
Rhinegeist Brewery was ranked among
the “Top 10 New Brewers in the World” by
RateBeer.com
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FOR THE EPICURIOUS
In 2010 Chef Daniel Wright and his wife Lana
decided to move from Chicago to Cincinnati
to stake their claim in the bourgeoning
revitalization of Over-the-Rhine. Their idea?
Make the hotdog a culinary delicacy. Four years
later, the Wrights are opening their third dining
concept—while cooking up heaps of national
recognition.
What Chef Wright is to gourmet street food,
renowned Chef Jean Robert de Cavel is to
classic French cuisine. Once the head chef at
Cincinnati’s famed Maisonette, Jean Robert has
continued to awe his epicurean audience with
his forward-thinking French cuisine.
CHEF DANIEL WRIGHT
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EQUALITY ISN’T JUST FOR THE
COASTS ANYMORE.
Cincinnati has always been known for its
peaceful kindness. Moderate and genteel by
nature, its residents and guests alike are greeted
with a smile, a handshake or a kiss on the
cheek.
When it comes to diversity, the city is
committed to fairness and equality of all its
citizens. Cincinnati is quietly diverse—a fully
integrated city that doesn’t want “diversity”
separate and isolated in certain neighborhoods.
Since 2005 the LGBT community—alongside
city leaders, heads of business and other
allies—set in motion a strategic plan to
strengthen the Queen City’s commitments
to diversity and inclusivity. It was not only
the right thing to do, but also the smart thing
to do. Our city advocates for diversity and
equality as a moral obligation and a business
responsibility.
Our welcoming business community strives
to provide equal benefits and protections to
its LGBT employees and family, ultimately
resulting in the ability to attract and retain
the best possible talent. This also gives our
trade area long-term sustainability and
competitiveness in a region that depends on a
growing, diverse population and an inclusive
community.
2014 Municipality Equality Index (MEI) score
of 100% with nearby Dayton earning a 90%.
Cincinnati’s Human Rights Campaign
(HRC) chapter was organized with 500 initial
members—now it has 40,000.
According to Witeck Communications,
the total buying power of the LGBT adult
population is $830 billion. Regionally, that
represents $4.9 billion in income.
80% of Fortune 500 companies in Cincinnati
provide workplace protections.
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THE BIRTH OF A FASHION LEGEND
Cincinnati is no stranger to fashion. With
a long history in clothing design and
manufacturing, American garment production
has always flourished in the Queen City.
In 1967, a young Ralph Lifshitz—at the time
working for a tie manufacturer making private
label ties for stores such as Brooks Brothers and
Paul Stuart—wished to create his own label:
In 1920, George Bryan “Beau” Brummell—
the father of “Dandyism” and the fashion
trendsetter widely credited with being a
pioneer of the necktie—founded Beau
Brummell Ties in a beautiful Tudor revival
overlooking the city skyline. By the 1940s, any
stylish man knew and wore Beau Brummell as
a prominent label in menswear.
“I tried to convince them to do their own brand,
but they weren’t interested. So I approached
another tie maker from Cincinnati and they got it.”
That tie maker was Beau Brummel.
The young designer? Industry legend, Ralph
Lauren.
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PERSONAL SHOPPERS
With the present lack of luxury brands in
the Greater Cincinnati area, an industry of
personal stylists has flourished. The client is
prevalent throughout the city—she’s wealthy,
she’s stylish, and she’s left without a place
to shop. These garmentos ensure the city’s
sartorial elite can arrive at the next gala,
fundraiser or jet-set excursion adorned in the
most lavish of looks.
Tony Tiemeyer supplies the looks and fittings
of his private, curated vintage closet nationally
to red carpet premiere-goers, black tie galathrowers and the incomparable heiress
and socialite Gloria Vanderbilt. His private
collection rivals those of the finest couture
houses around the world.
Ivy Costa is a true personal stylist veteran,
whose black book of clientele has her traveling
outside Cincinnati regularly to quench her
clients’ thirst for luxury. In 2013, she accounted
for $100,000 in made-to-measure suit sales at
Nordstrom alone.
IVY COSTA
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BOUTIQUES
ROMUALDO
Originally established in 1968 as a small Italian
tailoring shop, Romualdo remains loyal to its
roots while maintaining the ability to adapt to
the changing tastes in men’s fashions. Firmly
established as a staple of style in Cincinnati, the
shop continues to provide high-end tailoring and
continues to grow as a luxury fashion retailer.
BRANDS:
Peter Millar
Bills Khakis
Ralph Lauren
Lacoste
Crittenden
Southern Tide
Artfully Disheleveled
Holebrook
Agave
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BOUTIQUES
THE WARDROBE
ARTICLE
ALLIGATOR PURSE
From classic LBDs and peacoats to
asymmetrical leather jackets and retroinspired shift dresses, the selection of top
designers at this Mariemont mainstay covers
all style bases. Primarily a contemporary
retailer, The Wardrobe also dabbles in designer
goods. With a background in fashion design
and merchandising, owner Lesley Hern is a
renowned stylist in Cincinnati.
Highly curated and designed solely with men
in mind, Article stocks merchandise that is
made to last—both in style and durability.
Located in historic Over-the-Rhine, Article
plays to the fashion-conscious man—giving
him an alternative to shopping in corporate
retail chains. Personal shopping services are
contracted into the story through local stylist
Ivy Costa.
There comes a time in every woman’s life
when a little black dress is simply a necessity.
Alligator Purse’s selection of LBDs ranges from
leather trimmed sheaths to slinky fit-and-flair.
Located in historic Hyde Park Square, Alligator
Purse has been a staple of Cincinnati boutique
shopping for over a decade.
BRANDS:
BRANDS:
BRANDS:
See by Chloe
DVF
Rebecca Taylor
M Missoni
Antik Batik
Almond
Juniper Ridge
Milly
J Brand
Rebecca Minkoff
10 Crosby Derek Lam
Apolis
Lee 101
Rag and Bone
Kate Spade
Marc by Marc Jacobs
See By Chloé
Article
Noble
Joie
Red Valentino
Ted Baker
Baxter
Portland General
Equipment
MM6
Dolce Vita
Billy Kirk
Private White VC
Malene Birger
Tom Ford sunglasses
Billy Reid
Saturdays NYC
Deus Ex Machina
Shinola
Filson
The Hillside
Gant Rugger
Tanner Goods
Grayers
Wolverine 1000 Mile
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BOUTIQUES
SOHO
SLOANE
For more than 20 years, women in Cincinnati
have made Soho Boutique their destination
boutique for a well-edited selection of
today’s high fashion and contemporary
designers. Echoing its firm belief in promoting
individuality, Soho also offers a personal
shopping service outside of its four walls.
Located in the Gateway Quarter of Over-theRhine, Sloane boutique caters to the edgy and
urban woman who embodies an effortlessly
chic style. Sloane offers a mixture of women’s
clothing and accessories from tried-and-true
labels, as well as local and global up-andcoming designers.
BRANDS:
BRANDS:
Alice & Olivia
Milly
House of Harlow
IRO
Alice by Temperly
Nanette Lepore
Dolce Vita
BB Dakota
Erin Fethererston
Philippe Audibret
LNA
A Fine Line
Duffy
Rachel Roy
Sub Urban Riot
Wolverines
DL1961
Shoshanna
Kai
Susana Monaco
Mason
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Diane Firsten was born in Ohio into a family
of extremely stylish and elegant women. After
spending countless hours dressing up in her
mother’s furs and gowns as a child, Diane was
very naturally recruited for Cincinnati’s first
Saks Fifth Avenue—and almost immediately to
the prestigious Fifth Avenue Club—where she
perfected the art of personal shopping.
Ever ambitious in her fashion outlook, Diane
realized that her clients were craving more
variety and the pomp and circumstance that
could only be satisfied with additional shopping
experiences to complement Saks. So she moved
to NYC and began hosting trunk shows in her
small New York apartment.
Diane Firsten has become a well-known brand
with a deep understanding of the “Town and
Country” look Cincinnatians crave. She takes
her clients from the boardroom to the beach—
and every stop in between—with unfailingly
glamorous, yet elegant style.
In addition to her own label of bespoke Italian
tailoring, cashmere and shirting, Diane Firsten
also carries major designers including Etro,
Pucci, Carolina Herrera, Ralph Lauren, Nancy
Gonzalez, Burnello Cuchinelli, Attonlini,
Giuseppe Zanotti, Ginanni Milanese, DL1961,
Alexandre Birman and Farah Khan, to name
just a few.
Diane was the first wholesale account for the
famed Wathne and Luca Luca brands—business
was booming. With inherited good taste, a
keen business sense and fate on her side, Diane
ventured back to Cincinnati, where a small
studio became available on Madison Road. As
her business continued to grow, she moved
into a 3,500 square foot space—and eventually
followed her clientele with a second location in
Palm Beach and a third in Nantucket.
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I am a chef. I am a restaurateur. It’s what I do
and I love doing it. I believe the same things
that make a great restaurant make a great
city: the connection between a vision and the
people that carry it out, the structures that
seem to rise from the mind to the sky and the
progress of those who create them.
Cincinnati, you are a city of creators.
Restaurants, like cities, would not exist without
the tireless ones, the ones that spend every
ounce of energy toiling to make them great
because they believe in the vision of visionaries.
I left because I was young and bored. Bored
of mediocrity, bored of sugar in tomato sauce,
bored of preppy girls with perfectly-starched
preppy collars. That’s all changed now. You’re no
longer drinking your pains away with Dayton,
making subtle jabs at Akron, when Lebron
James was just a glimmer in Cleveland’s eye.
Cincinnati, you’ve grown into yourself. You eat
vitamins, you’ve visited places, famous places,
places where tourists take photographs. The
braces are gone, you learned about “product,”
people are calling you. They want something
long-term.
Yet, you contradict yourself, and damn, if
that doesn’t make you hot. Your soul contains
multitudes, as Whitman put it. You are Findlay
Market, teeming with suburbanites and urbanites,
bleary-eyed bachelors and bright-faced families.
You are the Roebling Bridge, the singing bridge.
Hit me if this sounds lame, but you are hip. You’re
taking less time to do your nails because you can’t
wait to get back to killing it.
Cincinnati, you and I both grew and changed
while I was away. You are courageous; a
romantic pioneer. I think I realized just how far
you had come one night this summer, our city
park ablaze with lights, lights that took an army
of tech engineers to achieve, lights as a gift to
your many lovers, 35,000 of them squeezed
together in celebration. To steal a phrase from
Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby, in those lights I saw
our “orgiastic future.” While Fitzgerald’s light
recedes farther and farther out of view, your
light, Cincinnati, shines even brighter.
You are no longer that embarrassing girlfriend
I don’t tell my friends about, insecure and selfconscious. You’re alive and breathing in gasps
of energy and I scream my love for you from
the Italianate rooftops.
Excerpts from “Love Letters: Cincinnati”
written by Chef David Falk,
Boca Restaurant Group
The Huffington Post, October 23, 2013
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DEVELOPMENT
RETAIL LEASING
OFFICE LEASING
David Birdsall
Phillips Edison & Company
[email protected]
513.746.2577
Mark Fallon
Jeffrey R. Anderson Real Estate
[email protected]
513.241.5800
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Jones Lang LaSalle
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513.252.2158
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Soozan Baxter Consulting
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646.478.7574
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Phillips Edison & Company
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