Piehole

Cincinnati can boast a substantial amount of urban public park space, totaling over 5,000 acres and accounting for 10% of our city’s total land space. Long understood as a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining both people and businesses, the urban public park movement in Cincinnati didn’t actually begin until after the Civil War. In fact, Cincinnati went borderline “park crazy” for a number of years, jumping from 470 acres in 1907 to nearly 2,000 acres less than five years later.

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