{"id":154,"date":"2011-06-27T01:22:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T01:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissakramerscincinnati.com\/?page_id=154"},"modified":"2011-06-27T01:22:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T01:22:32","slug":"the-american-can-factory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/melissakramerscincinnati.com\/?page_id=154","title":{"rendered":"The American Can Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Editor’s note: Lissa posted this article on her website on March 4, 2010. She greatly admired historic industrial buildings such as the American Can Factory and the Crosley Building.)<\/em><\/p>\n

By Lissa Kramer<\/p>\n

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The former American Can Factory in Northside.<\/p><\/div>\n

The American Can Co. building at 4101 Spring Grove Ave. in Northside has been empty ever since I can remember. Unlike the Crosley Building, its rough exterior looks like it is due more to weather and age than vandalism, although taggers have been inside.<\/p>\n

Weeds grow along cracks in the blacktop of the empty parking lot. \u00a0The sound of water dripping from a thousand places is audible from a hundred feet away.\u00a0 It sounds like the building itself is speaking, proclaiming its neglect and calling out for someone to restore it to its former glory.<\/p>\n

That may happen.\u00a0 Developers Bloomfield\/Schon+Partners have received $1.6 million in stimulus money to turn the relic into a residential\/commercial complex with 96 loft apartments and 27,000 square feet of retail space.\u00a0 The building has been designated an historic site, and in a nod to its past, the developers plan to incorporate the old machine tools into the furniture and art.<\/p>\n

In 2006, work began on the cleanup of environmental hazards that needs to be completed before the American Can Factory Square project can begin.<\/p>\n

Developers are hoping that the apartments will attract new residents, and the new businesses will create jobs.\u00a0 This will increase the tax base and at the same time rid the neighborhood of the blighted building.\u00a0 It is only a block away from the proposed Mill Creek Restoration Project, a 13.5-mile public green space for recreation along the Mill Creek that would create approximately 445 jobs and connect to public transportation, bike trails and pedestrian walkways.<\/p>\n

From 1921 to 1961, the red and white, five-story building manufactured tin can-making machinery.\u00a0 Thereafter it housed the Cincinnati franchise of the Cleveland Automatic Machine Co.\u00a0 It has been empty for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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