Campbell Recorder 05/20/21

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More new retail, restaurants coming to Newport on the Levee Randy Tucker Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

The indoor seating at the new PromoWest Pavilion at Ovation music venue in Newport on May 13,. PHOTOS B Y SAM GREENE/THE ENQUIRER

Look inside PromoWest’s Pavilion at Ovation Scott Wartman Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

NEWPORT – The music venue on Newport’s riverfont is completed. Now the only thing left to add for PromoWest Pavilion at Ovation is a band and an audience. The fi rst shows will be in September, said Scott Stienecker, CEO of Columbus-based PromoWest, which developed and will manage the music venue. “It’s a wide variety, country rock, rap, and urban, and jam band, a little bit of everything and really strong names,” Stienecker told The Enquirer. The indoor/outdoor venue seats 2,800 indoors and 7,000 outdoors. The owners opened their doors to the media on May 13 to show off the new concert hall. The massive stage doubles as both the indoor and outdoor venue with a retractable wall in the middle. In front of both the indoor and outdoor stages, concertgoers will stand on an open fl oor. Inside, there’s seating on the second-fl oor balcony. Outside, there’s seating toward the back. The Campbell County courthouse looms over the outdoor stage. Backstage, PromoWest paid tribute to Cincinnati’s own King Records, the record label where James Brown and other artists recorded in the 1950s and 60s. Artists and their entourages can relax in the Ovation King Records green room by the dressing rooms. A mural of King Records stars Otis Williams, Philip

The fi rst floor bar at the new PromoWest Pavilion at Ovation music venue. For more photos, see page 10A

Paul and Bootsy Collins adorns one wall. On May 13, Williams and Paul, dressed in suits, sat on the plush couches in the King Records room greeting visitors. Williams, a singer with the 1950s doo-wop group Otis Williams and the Charms, and Paul, a session drummer for King Records, expressed admiration for the venue. “We’re sitting up here with our

mouths opening in wonderment,” Williams said. “This is great. It’s really going to help our town.” It is one of two new music venues on the riverfront in the Cincinnati region. The other across the river is the Andrew J. Brady Icon Music Center right by Paul Brown Stadium. The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra owns and operates that venue, which will also start hosting shows in September. The CSO has already announced shows for the fall and into 2022.

Nine new retailers and restaurants have been added to the growing list of of new tenants set to open Memorial Day Weekend in the renovated Gallery Building at Newport on the Levee, North American Properties, the mall's owner, announced May 13. North American is transforming the 113,000-square-foot Gallery Building, which houses AMC Theaters, into a large mixed-use space with a revolving, pop-up retail market and several new storefronts. The nine newly announced local businesses opening in retail market include: Leaf & Limb; J Saladino; Celestial Scents Candles; Lucky Kat; Ten Thousand Villages; Anew Clothing; JWK Juicery; Artifact; Wild Ivy Apothecary. NATIVE, an interactive, handmade clothing store; Wooden Cask, a bikeup tap room; and Pizzazz Interiors, a high-end antique, decor and artwork store, also plan to open new storefronts inside or adjacent to the remodeled Gallery Building. They will join previously announced tenants, including Little Spoon Bakery; Bon Mi Street; Bluegrass and Sass; and Colonel De Spices, all of which will open storefronts at the Gallery Building and previously occupied space at Bridgeview Box Park or The Exchange Market - the mall's new open-air dining and shopping areas. North American bought the mall in 2018 and said it would invest $100 million, including the purchase price, to redevelop the 360,000-square-foot, town-center-style shopping center on the banks of the Ohio River. Construction began in 2019, and the Levee’s grand re-opening celebration is set to begin May 27. In addition to the restaurant and retail openings, The Levee's Memorial Day weekend celebration will include live music, family activities and mural painting.

An artist's rendering of the inside of the renovated Gallery Building at Newport on the Levee PROVIDED

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