The five-story, 180,000-square-foot American Can Building is one of the largest buildings in Cincinnati’s Northside neighborhood and was used as a manufacturing facility for tin-can-making machinery from 1921 to 1961 and, subsequently, as a machine shop until recently. The Port Authority secured a $750,000 Clean Ohio Assistance Fund grant in August 2006 to remediate environmental contamination in the building.

This historic building is planned for conversion into 93 market-rate apartments and 30,000 square feet of commercial space by Bloomfield/Schon + Partners.  Cleanup work began in December 2006. This project will remediate and enable the renovation of an underutilized building that has a blighting influence on the surrounding neighborhood. The apartments will result in additional residents in the neighborhood of Northside that will support local businesses and add to the tax base of the City of Cincinnati, while the commercial space will bring jobs to the neighborhood.