Clifton Cultural Arts Center opens in new $10.5M building

CINCINNATI (Cincinnati Business Courier) - The spotlight was on Leslie Mooney, the executive director of the Clifton Cultural Arts Center, when the organization held the grand opening of its new home earlier this month.

The striking, three-story – plus an accessible rooftop – building near the corner of Clifton Avenue and Ludlow Street in the heart of the neighborhood business district was the $10.5 million product of more than six years of planning, fundraising and construction. The CCAC was forced from its location in the old Clifton School in 2017 when the Cincinnati Board of Education reclaimed the building to reopen a neighborhood school. But Mooney and her staff of five kept the operation alive, providing classes, exhibits and events for people of all ages in a rented location on Short Vine as well as donated space from nearby churches.

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