FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016
MEDIA CONTACT: Ursula Thomas Miller, ursula.miller@cincinnati-oh.gov, or 513.352.3417
  
CINCINNATI – Race Street will be closed between Fifth and Fourth streets for two weeks beginning at 6:00 a.m. Monday, Oct. 24, until 9:00 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, to allow for the continued demolition of a 10-story garage. Crews will be removing the southernmost pedestrian skywalk that spans Race Street and connects to Mabley Place garage.

Motorists heading south on Race Street will be detoured east on Fifth, south on Walnut, west on Fourth and south again on Race.
Local access will be allowed, and accommodations for deliveries to nearby businesses have been arranged.

Valet service for Saks Fifth Avenue and the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland hotel will remain open via Fifth Street. Access to Mabley Place will remain via the garage’s Fourth Street entrance.

The sidewalk on the west side of Race Street will be closed between Fourth and Fifth streets. The sidewalk on the east side of Race will be closed south of the Carew Tower Arcade entrance.

Detour signage will be posted to help direct motorists and pedestrians.

The western two lanes of Race Street will remain closed between Nov. 7 and Nov. 23, so crews may continue demolition.

The rectangular-shaped garage extends a full city block on the north side of Fourth Street between Race and Elm streets.

Demolition will continue through fall and winter. The site is being cleared to make room for construction of a mixed-use residential and commercial tower.

The curb lane and sidewalks around the site on Elm, Fourth and Race streets will remain closed until demolition is complete in February 2017.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, Oct. 17, 2016
MEDIA CONTACT: Ursula Thomas Miller, ursula.miller@cincinnati-oh.gov, or 513.352.3417

CINCINNATI – Sentinel, Butler and a portion of Culvert streets will be closed overnight tonight and tomorrow night, Monday, Oct. 17, and Tuesday, Oct. 18, between 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. while contractor crews for the Ohio Department of Transportation work overhead on Interstate 71.

The contractor has been cutting out the existing concrete deck and performing other demolition since late September as preparation for reconstruction of the interstate’s southbound bridge deck between the entrance to Lytle Tunnel and the pedestrian bridge to Mount Adams.

The closures are needed so crews may safely remove the concrete and related debris from the site overhead. 

​Motorists will be detoured via Eggleston Avenue. Detour signs will be posted on site.
 
Please see the map below for detour information.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Oct. 10, 2016
MEDIA CONTACT: Ursula Miller, ursula.miller@cincinnati-oh.gov, or 513.352.3417
 
CINCINNATI – A portion of Eggleston Avenue will be closed from 9:00 p.m. until 5:00 a.m. nightly through Wednesday, starting this evening, Monday, Oct. 10, while contractor crews for the Ohio Department of Transportation work overhead on Interstate 71.

The contractor has been cutting out the existing concrete deck and performing other demolition since late September as preparation for the reconstruction of the interstate’s southbound bridge deck between the entrance to Lytle Tunnel and the pedestrian bridge to Mount Adams.

The closure of Eggleston is needed so crews may safely remove the concrete and related debris from the site overhead. 

Motorists heading east on Eggleston will be detoured right onto Reedy, left onto Culvert and back to Eggleston. Those heading west on Eggleston will be detoured at Sentinel to Culvert to Reedy and back to Eggleston.
 
Detour signs will be posted on site. Please see the map below for detour information.



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The contractor also plans to close Culvert and Sentinel streets once finished with its work that runs over Eggleston. That closure is expected to take place later this week. An update will be sent when details are available.

UPDATE: OCT. 10, 2016

​Fourth and Race streets will not fully reopen today, as planned. 

Fourth Street will remain closed between Race and Elm until 3:00 p.m. tomorrow, Tuesday, Oct. 11.

Race Street also will remain closed between Fourth and Fifth until 9:00 p.m. Wednesday.
 
The ongoing closures are needed to accommodate equipment and contain falling debris while the contractor finishes demolition of the garage’s glass-paneled elevator shaft along Race Street.

The contractor removed the southeast corner of the garage this weekend.
 
Fourth Street east to Vine and the intersection of Fourth and Race reopened last night. Motorists
 now able to turn left onto Race from Fourth
 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, Oct. 7, 2016
MEDIA CONTACT: Ursula Thomas Miller, ursula.miller@cincinnati-oh.gov, or 513.352.3417

CINCINNATI – Beginning at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow, Saturday, Oct. 8, crews will close Race Street between Third and Fifth and extend the current closure of Fourth Street east to Vine to allow for the continued demolition of a 10-story garage.

Fourth and Race streets are expected to reopen by 3:00 p.m. Monday afternoon, Oct. 10. The contractor will remove the southeast corner of the garage as part of this closure.

A new detour will be set up at Walnut and Fourth, and at Race and Fifth, which will include temporary two-way access to the Mablely Place Garage and the Hilton Netherland Hotel.

Please see the attached map for details.

The contractor, which is progressing faster than scheduled on the current phase, had planned to keep Fourth Street closed until Oct. 16, to remove the south side of the garage along its east-west length.

The rectangular-shaped garage extends a full city block on the north side of Fourth Street between Race and Elm streets.

“Although the additional closures are inconvenient in the short term, the result is positive,” said Michael Moore, director, Department of Transportation and Engineering. “The contractor is finishing the south side of the demolition quicker than expected and is ready to take down the southeast corner at Fourth and Race.”

Crews have been using a wrecking ball and high-reach excavator, and working two shifts daily since Oct. 3, to expedite this phase of the demolition.

As part of the new detour, local access will be allowed from Walnut west on Fourth to the entrance of the Mabley Place Garage just before Race Street. The short stretch between the Mabley entrance and Vine will be temporarily converted to allow two-way access. Motorists traveling on Fourth will have the option to detour south at Walnut to Third, or north on Vine to Fifth.

Race Street will be closed to through traffic at Fifth Street but local access will be allowed for the Hilton Netherland Hotel. Race will be temporarily converted to two-way on the northern end of the work site from the Hilton valet entrance to Fifth and on the southern end of the site between Third and Fourth.

Detour signs are posted to help direct motorists and pedestrians.

Police will be on site at key locations to facilitate local access for businesses with vehicles loading and unloading. In addition, Benham Alley and West Ogden Place remain open for access and deliveries to businesses on the south side of Fourth Street.
 
Pedestrian access to all businesses, apartments and office buildings remains open at all times via a protected sidewalk on the south side of Fourth Street. Large tarps also have been hung on Fourth Street to contain excess debris.
 
Area businesses are open throughout the demolition. Visit the Cincinnati Center City Development Corp. website for a list of retail shops, service businesses and restaurants in the area. Follow this link: http://www.3cdc.org/2016/10/07/fourth-street-open-for-business-as-pogues-garage-comes-down/.

Demolition will continue for several months. The site, which is connected by skywalks to Mabley Place and Saks Department Store, is being cleared to make room for construction of a mixed-use residential and commercial tower.

​The curb lane and sidewalks around the site on Elm, Fourth and Race streets will remain closed until demolition is complete in February 2017.