If you’re seriously in the market for a downtown performing space, you might want to give Urban Sites Properties a call.

 

At 6 p.m. Monday, Bill Baum’s property company will be showing off a 19,000 sq. ft. building at 125 East 9^th St. that includes a 4,000+ sq. ft. grand ballroom with 19-ft. ceilings. One hundred-plus artist folk have been invited to Monday’s “Urban Exploration.”

 

“We’re looking for the best fit, not necessarily the one with the deepest pockets,” says Urban Sites’ Kris Sommer.

 

There’s been lots of chat lately, Sommer muses, about moves, expansions and maybe even an arts council. Why not a theater and/or live music venue? Why not administrative offices? “And the basement is as big as the ballroom,” says Sommer. “It would make a great costume shop.” He also suggests apartments for visiting artists on the top floor.

 

P.S., Sommer brags on the “literal seas of parking” surrounding the former Hamilton County Republican headquarters (circa 1928.)

 

Flashlights (hey, it’s early days in a rehab) and refreshments will be provided. Small group tours will be led throughout the building.

 

Attention Cincinnati World Cinema, another of Sommer’s ideas is “the building could host a movie house, with enough space for one large screen and other rooms for smaller screens.”

 

Urban Sites has won seven historic preservation awards in Over the Rhine, including The Lofts on Broadway and The Duveneck Flats.

 

For further information, contact Sommer at 513-621-6246 or Kris@urbansites.net.