| The neighborhood is located on the west side of the Great Miami River across from downtown. The neighborhood takes its name from the old town of Rossville used prior to its merger with the City of Hamilton in 1854. There are still some gorgeous mid to late 19th century structures remaining today, which helps Rossville retain a solid urban fabric. Some points of interest include a resurging main street with new businesses filling historic buildings and the large mansions lining South ‘D’ Street. Many pleasant streets throughout Rossville spanning many decades before WWII. Also very convenient walkable access to Downtown. The biggest areas I’d like to see Rossville improve include building new mixed-use buildings to fill in the missing teeth along Main Street along with revitalizing the blighted portion of the district along the Miami River. |
URBAN STRENGTHS:
| * Very diverse for-sale housing stock ranging in price from 50K-300K for large historic mansions. * Great generational and economic diversity. * Decent amount of parks including a riverfront park, a nice plaza along Main Street, and several larger parks that are mostly fields. * Nice urban commercial street along Main with a nice mix of urban retail including a cafe, several bars & restaurants, several boutiques, banks, a drug store, and lots of other neighborhood serving retail. * Limited cultural amenities within Rossville but one simply needs to walk 5-10 minutes to Dwtn to find this. * Quality historic architecture from many different eras. |
URBAN WEAKNESSES:
| * Rentals are very affordable here but not a lot of product. * Limited amount of racial diversity. * Generally a stable neighborhood but some blight along the River. * Not great walkable access to schools here. * Limited modern in-fill and what does exist is very auto centric. |
Evaluating our Urban Communities [with a focus on America] 