Cranley and Price Hill's Incline District

City Councilman John Cranley has a new job on the other side of development - he's a partner in City Lights Development with two guys from Chicago.

He said he'd been looking around for a job since his loss last fall against Steve Chabot. Also a lawyer, he had discussions with law firms and also with other developers, he said. He chose City Lights because it's the perfect combination of work and home - he grew up on the West Side and once lived in the Queen's Tower, the apartment complex-turned-condos that's at the center of his company's new Incline District plan.

He and his partners announced the plan - it calls for a medical office building and restaurant/retail building replacing what is now the parking lot across from Queen's Tower and Primavista restaurant.


Cranley's house is within the boundaries of the district.


"This is where my heart is," he said, "where my passion is."

He doesn't see any potential conflict with his part-time job as a member of Cincinnati City Council. He plans to excuse himself from any votes that relate to the project - "just like Chris Bortz does with anything related to Towne Properties and like Jeff Berding does with the Bengals."