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October brought the much-awaited grand opening of the AC Hotel!

Representatives of Winegardner & Hammons, Western Southern Financial Group, Eagle Realty Corp. and Marriott AC Hotels cut the ribbon with officials from City of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.

2THE BANKS PROJECT MONTHLY REPORT: September/October 2017

PUBLIC PARTIES CONSTRUCTION

CB Connector turns the corner onto Second Street, approaching the Cincinnati Cyclones Station at The Banks.

Cars approach the traffic circle at Theodore M. Berry Way and the Roebling Bridge terminus on a foggy October morning.

Legislation and agreements for both phase I and phase II of the Variable Message Signage project for the interstate will be processed through the City of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.

Lighted teeter-totters entertained young and old alike during BLINK.

Freedom Way came alive with BLINK, a four-day weekend of artistic light displays from The Banks to Over the Rhine and back again.

3THE BANKS PROJECT MONTHLY REPORT: September/October 2017

ECONOMIC INCLUSION: PHASE IIIA

Economic Inclusion information is available here: http://thebankspublicpartnership.com/wp-content/uploads/economic-inclusion-sepoct2017.pdf

Goal

Actual

30.4%

10.8%

30%

10%

85.6%

paid to SBE contractors

5,631,447

Minority workforce participation is 14.44% including minority female hours

Total female participation is

0.60%

SBE Participation

SBE Professional Services

Participation

26-county Consolidated Metropolitan

Statistical Area employee

residency

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DEVELOPER

AC Hotel entrance on Joe Nuxhall Way hours before the official ribbon-cutting on October 27.

AC Hotel patio offers guests more ways to relax.

Workers clean AC Hotel signage in preparation for the first guests.

5THE BANKS PROJECT MONTHLY REPORT: September/October 2017

SAFETY

SCHEDULE

BUDGET

All Public Parties work remained on schedule.

The Public Parties project work remained within budget.

Phase IIIA budget expended totaled 84.54% of the $29.3 million total through October 31, 2017.

Since the Project’s inception in 2008 through December 31, 2016, The Banks Public Parties construction crews recorded 489,163 work-hours without a lost-time incident.

Developer’s Phase IIA and Phase IIB construction crews worked a total of 682,241 hours without a lost-time incident from April 28, 2015 through December 31, 2016.

AC Hotel construction logged a total of 74,358 hours without a lost-time incident through October 31, 2017.

Public Parties’ Phase IIIA construction crews recorded a total of 104,288 work-hours without a lost-time incident July 1, 2015–June 30, 2017.

Budget information is available here: http://thebankspublicpartnership.com/ wp-content/uploads/budget-sepoct2017.pdf

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PARKSA bright autumn day at The Banks—made better by a walk along The Ohio River Trail. Cincinnati Parks has hired Universal as Construction Manager at Risk for the marina planned for the foot of Main Street. Construction is likely to begin late spring/early summer 2018.

Children enjoy the hydraulics feature in Smale Park.

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PARKS (cont’d)

Smale Park played host to Cheesefest in September.

Oktoberfest drew brats-and-brews fans to sidewalks near Radius Apartments at The Banks in September.

8THE BANKS PROJECT MONTHLY REPORT: September/October 2017

COMMUNICATIONS

@IBackTheBanks

Followers

1,361

44

Tweets

63

Media Mentions

10,064

Impressions*

• A delegation from the Waco, TX Chamber of Commerce toured The Banks in September.

• Project Executive Phil Beck led two meetings of The Banks key stakeholders to begin planning for the Tenth Anniversary of the April 2008 groundbreaking for The Banks Project.

Additional Media information is available here: http://thebankspublicpartnership.com/wp-content/uploads/media-summary-sepoct2017.pdf

* Impressions equals the number of times users saw the tweet on Twitter.

‡ Engagements is the total number of times users have interacted with a tweet, including retweets, replies, follows, and likes.

Engagements‡

166

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COMMUNICATIONS (cont’d)

Bengals fans enjoy outdoor dining at The Banks.

Patriot Day commemoration of 9/11/2001 took place in Smale Park near the labyrinth.

Even the lawn gets a workout in the Park!

Young drummer in the park in September.

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Foggy October morning at The Banks.

For more information: Phil Beck The Banks Project Executive (513) 946-4434 www.thebankspublicpartnership.com Published 11/20/17