Queensgate, Cincinnati

It sits in the valley of Downtown Cincinnati and is dominated by industrial and commercial warehouses.

Cincinnati's nickname of "Porkopolis" started here with hog slaughtering in the early 19th century.

[3] In the late 1950s and early 1960s, pursuant to the Metropolitan Master Plan of 1948, a City Plan for Cincinnati, and under the guise of slum clearance and urban renewal, the predominantly African-American neighborhood was razed to make way for the new Interstate 75 and a new industrial district known as Queensgate.

[9][8][10] In early 2024, community leaders proposed reconnecting Queensgate to downtown Cincinnati through a reconstructed street grid, made possible by the larger project of constructing a new companion bridge for the Brent Spence Bridge.

[1] From 1884 to 1970, the Cincinnati Reds played at three separate parks at the intersection of Findlay Street and Western Avenue in Queensgate—the last 57½ of those years at Crosley Field.