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Above the Fold

Cincinnati Business Courier

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Frequency: 1 episode/22d. Total Eps: 67

Business news shouldn't be boring. Above the Fold is a weekly podcast by the Cincinnati Business Courier, bringing you the week's top news and interviews with the biggest names in Cincinnati.

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The Largest Private Equity Fund Raised in Cincinnati and Merus CEO Talks HQ Move

Episode 66

Monday, August 31, 2026 • Duration 50:36

Hosts Tom and Steve discuss a Lexington-based company deciding to move its headquarters to Cincinnati, as well as the largest private equity fund raised in Cincinnati, a new office building coming to Montgomery Quarter that is already roughly 70% leased, a $25 million fundraising campaign launches for an Over-the-Rhine theater and the Cincinnati Open had a record-breaking performance in 2026.

Merus is one of the largest, and most active, commercial real estate developers in Greater Cincinnati. Beyond its work locally, the design-build developer has projects in Nashville, Raleigh and elsewhere. Molly North, CEO of Merus, has led the company through its expansion. Now, the company is getting ready to take on its largest development project yet, as well as a headquarters move.

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Cincinnati Soccer Club Plans $10M Complex and the Importance of Design for the Redevelopment of Hyde Park Square

Episode 65

Monday, August 24, 2026 • Duration 44:25

Hosts Tom and Liz discuss a youth soccer club’s plans for a $10 million athletic facility and headquarters, as well as a local firm that takes basketball courts and turns them into memorabilia, one of the region’s largest commercial real estate firms moves its offices into space at the Banks, which public high schools are ranked highest in Greater Cincinnati and the region’s largest brewery will be serving up new dining options, with a side of nostalgia, soon.

Interview starts at (19:04). Cincinnati has no shortage of big development projects in the works. And there is demand for more. For Bill Baker, managing partner at downtown-based MSA Design, the way the buildings look and how people interact with them is a critical part of the design process. Baker discusses how the design of the Hyde Park Square redevelopment has evolved, the benefits of bringing more people into the city and the need for humans in the design process.

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Amazon Plans $5B Data Center and How Cincinnati Became a Hot Bed for Hollywood

Episode 64

Monday, August 17, 2026 • Duration 43:29

Hosts Tom and Nikki discuss plans for a $5 billion data center north of Cincinnati, as well as the massive increase in home sales priced at $1 million or more, a former golf course that will become a mix of homes, apartments and retail space, a $100 million hotel, office and restaurant project planned near Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport and a new restaurant coming soon to Over-the-Rhine that will serve steak frites exclusively.

Interview starts at (17:50). Cincinnati is pretty far away from Hollywood, California. But for years, the Queen City has served as a location for dozens of films and shows. Film Cincinnati President and CEO Kristen Schlotman has been leading the effort to bring Hollywood productions to the region since 2002. With the competition for movies remaining intense, Schlotman discusses the benefits Cincinnati offers, and what those productions bring to the region.

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A Rare Unicorn Startup Implodes, and Dave Jenike Talks What's New at the Zoo

Episode 63

Monday, August 10, 2026 • Duration 49:31

Hosts Andy and Tom talk about a rare Cincinnati unicorn – a startup company worth at least $1B – that abruptly ceased operations. In other news, one of Cincinnati's largest private companies is expanding its downtown headquarters, and bringing back the skywalk; Amazon touts its local impact; P&G is making a $3.8B acquisition; and a James Beard-nominated chef is opening a new restaurant.

Interview starts at (23:43) Dave Jenike started at the Cincinnati Zoo as an intern. Now, he's its CEO. He was also part of the duo responsible for its transformation over the last two decades. He views his job as the zoo's chief storyteller, and getting people inspired by nature. He talks about what's new and coming at the Cincinnati Zoo.

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Hyde Park Developer Talks Need for Alignment, why is Cincinnati Nightlife Dead?

Episode 62

Monday, August 3, 2026 • Duration 49:39

Nick Lingenfelter is chief development officer of PLK Communities, the developer behind Factory 52 and the upcoming Hyde Park Square redevelopment. He sees the need for more alignment from the region's institutions to promote growth, lest Cincinnati fall behind. He also talks the origins of Factory 52, and the challenges and opportunities of development in Hyde Park.

Elsewhere on the podcast, hosts Andy and Tom talk about the death of Cincinnati's nightlife boom, the opening of a new independent hotel downtown, the push from one county commissioner to use stadium funds for other needs and one of the urban core's largest restaurant spaces finding new life.

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Port reveals new plan for Crosley Building and Kona Ice CEO chats complexity of shaved ice business

Episode 61

Monday, July 27, 2026 • Duration 46:25

Hosts Andy and Tom talk about why Cincinnati’s new $540 million convention center headquarters hotel will not be a JW Marriott, as well as the Port’s plans for Camp Washington, a robotic welding company that was launched by Space X alumni, the most significant moment in a local unicorn’s history and how cool it would be to have a car condo.

Plus, we sit down with Kona Ice CEO Tony Lamb who shares how he turned a simple shaved ice concept into the largest mobile food vendor in the world, with thousands of Kona Ice and Traveling Tom’s trucks on the road, by leaning into mobile operations, a patented “flavor wave” system that lets customers create their own combinations and proprietary routing and staffing software born during Covid-19.

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Historic OTR Church Acquired and how New Riff Navigates the Bourbon Bubble

Episode 60

Monday, July 20, 2026 • Duration 47:08

Hosts Andy and Tom talk about plans for 3CDC to buy the historic St. Francis Seraph church in Over-the-Rhine, as well as the closure of legendary chef Jean-Robert de Cavel's last restaurant, Kroger axing plans to open more Harris Teeter stores and a Krazy new retailer.

Interview starts at (18:42). Bourbon is a tricky business. It has to age for several years – New Riff's minimum is four – before it can be bottled and sold, so distilleries have to be very good at forecasting demand well in advance. With so many producers investing billions in ramping up production in recent years, that's led to a glut of product. New Riff CEO Hannah Lowen talks about how her distillery has navigated that, and what's new at the region's largest bourbon producer.

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Decks Coming to Fort Washington Way, and 50 West's CEO Talks the Fight for THC

Episode 59

Monday, July 13, 2026 • Duration 46:50

Hosts Andy and Tom talk about the latest on plans to cap Fort Washington Way, including which funds cannot be used to complete the $50 million first phase, as well as a pair of big projects that got state funding, one of the region's largest construction firms going employee-owned and a former P&Ger who bought a gun range.

Interview starts at (21:55). Fifty West Brewing CEO Bobby Slattery says people’s views on who drinks THC seltzer is wrong. It's not hippies or stoners drinking his Sunflower brand, but soccer moms. And Ohio's ban on their production is costing his brewery millions, and the state tons of jobs. Bobby is one of the leading voices pushing to overturn Ohio’s ban.

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Kroger making $1.7B acquisition, and a chat with 3CDC CEO Steve Leeper

Episode 58

Monday, July 6, 2026 • Duration 43:13

Above the Fold is back! Hosts Andy and Tom talk about Kroger's plan to make a $1.7 billion acquisition of Giant Eagle, losing the main sponsors of Cincinnati's LPGA tournament, and just what is a kolache?

Interview starts at (19:28). Steve Leeper has shepherded 3CDC, which is responsible for more than $2 billion in investment into Cincinnati's urban core since, 2006. Fresh off of the $264 million renovation of the First Financial Center, we talk with Steve about connecting the various parts of the urban core, and whether his work will ever truly be done.

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2026/07/01/kroger-acquiring-supermarket-chain-for-1-7-billion.html

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2026/06/30/lpga-kroger-queen-city-championship-sponsors-drop.html

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Business Courier's year in review: The biggest stories of 2023

Monday, December 25, 2023 • Duration 43:06

Hosts Andy and Tom are joined by Business Courier reporters Brian Planalp, Abby Miller and Steve Watkins to dissect some of the biggest local news stories of 2023. Those include a record number of restaurants closing in Cincinnati – more than when Covid-19 broke out in 2020 – as well as an unassuming local millionaire leaving $270 million to local organizations; Cincinnati gaining a new Fortune 500 company; what's going on with downtown real estate as companies figure out what to do about remote and hybrid work and their physical office space; and the Western & Southern Open selecting Cincinnati as its permanent home following a $400 million bid by Charlotte, N.C., to lure the tournament there.

Above the Fold will go on hiatus after Dec. 25, 2023.

Above the Fold is a podcast by the Cincinnati Business Courier.

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