A coalition of Queensgate business owners has filed a lawsuit against the city of Cincinnati to prevent a homeless shelter and two other social service agencies from moving from Over-the-Rhine to Queensgate, the mostly industrial neighborhood west of downtown Cincinnati.
Phillips Supply Co.
and Roy Tailors Uniform Co. filed the suit Friday against the city, the property owners, and the organizations looking to relocate to the site.
and Roy Tailors Uniform Co. filed the suit Friday against the city, the property owners, and the organizations looking to relocate to the site.City Gospel Mission, a faith-based homeless shelter that’s been trying to move from its current Elm Street location since 2003, plans to break ground this fall on its new facilities at 1805 Dalton Ave. and 1211 York St. The Lord’s Gym, Lord’s Pantry and Jobs Plus would relocate to one facility on the site. Both facilities, which will be a combined 50,000 square feet, are located on the same 1.7 acre site.
The project is expected to cost between $7 million and $8 million and could be completed as early as fall 2012.
“The council’s actions were short-sighted and ignored the long-term development plan for Queensgate that was created decades ago,” said Peter Koenig, a partner with Buechner Haffer Meyers & Koenig Co. representing the business owners. “There’s an incredible conflict between the proposed use and the use that has thrived there in the past decades.”
On June 21, Koenig wrote a letter to the city solicitor asking him to file a taxpayer lawsuit to stop the project. On June 22, John Crup, city solicitor, rejected the plaintiff’s demand.
Source: http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2011/06/27/queensgate-businesses-sue-over-shelter.html
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