2352 Ravine St. Clifton Heights, Ohio 45219 - The site is located about 5 blocks from campus in a residential area referred to as Clifton Heights. Clifton Heights is largely rental property that functions as off-campus student housing, with many restaurants and convenience stores. The Clifton Heights Business District of the fifties is completely gone and developed into businesses that cater to university students as there are few families remaining. Currently, the area has been redeveloped into a contemporary mixed-use district featuring restaurants, bars, boutiques and an urban-style Target. It is located in the area of McMillan Street and Calhoun Street between Vine/Jefferson and Clifton Avenue, immediately south of the University of Cincinnati campus. The architecturally significant St. George School and church has been remodeled and is home to the Crossroads Church.
Clifton Heights is home to the Hughes Center, a vocational and special-purpose high school. Its current Clifton Heights location was built in 1906. Currently there are five college prep schools housed at Hughes. The Paideia High School, the High School for Communications Professions and Health Professions, High School for Teaching and Technology and the Cincinnati Academy of Mathematics and Science (CAMAS).[3] Clifton Heights is also home to the Kreuck recreation complex, a large indoor recreation center which is located on the campus of the Hughes Center. The Kreuck complex is a public facility operated by the Cincinnati Recreation Commission. Bellevue Hill, a 15-acre city park located at Ohio Avenue, is well known for its overlook of downtown Cincinnati.
The Clifton Heights Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation (CHCURC) is committed to the revitalization of the Clifton Heights neighborhood. It was established as a partnership between the Clifton Heights Business Association, the Clifton Heights, University Heights, and Fairview Neighborhood Association, and the University of Cincinnati. CHCURC was responsible for the University Park Apartments development.
Clifton Heights, Fairview Heights and University Heights more commonly referred to as Clifton is known as a great place to work, live and go to school!
ALL 3 neighborhoods are diverse with many owner occupied single family homes. It is home to thousands of employees from all over the Greater Cincinnati area / tri-state area, it also has a large number of rental properties housing residents that live, work and go to school in the area.
