Blue Goes Green:Net Zero Police Station

April 23, 2019

As the City of Cincinnati figures out how to proceed on a proposed new Police Department District 5 headquarters, can it learn from its previous work in building a new District 3? Former City Councilwoman and filmmaker Laure Quinlivan believes so.

April 19, 2019

Filmmaker Laure Quinlivan writes that real community engagement looks like what the city did with District 3 and it's a model to engage neighbors that all developers should follow.

April 11, 2019

Laure Quinlivan's film on the innovative design of Cincinnati Police District 3 headquarters in Western Hills is getting national play on public TV stations in celebration of Earth Day.

April 09, 2019

In celebration of Earth Day, PBS will air “Blue Goes Green, a short documentary by Laure Quinlivan, local filmmaker, broadcast journalist, and former City Council Member.

Blue Goes Green, a 2017 documentary film about Cincinnati Police District 3, the nation’s first net-zero energy police station, is rolling out to PBS stations nationwide.

January 07, 2019

The hardest part of producing and directing a documentary is raising funds to do it, and Women in Film wants to help

April 10, 2018

Councilmembers who haven't made it to a screening yet will see the PBS documentary at City Hall, thanks to PG Sittenfeld.

February 19, 2018

Citizens managed to put the brakes on the city's rush to choose a site for the new D-5 police station.

December 27, 2017

What good are best practices if you don't follow them? The important question neighborhood leaders ask in their opinion piece in Cincnnati Enquirer, as they demand council members include citizens in site selection for the new District 5 police station, as the city did for its new District 3, subject of a PBS film.

December 07, 2017

Westwood resident and music instructor Michelle Conda feels a sense of pride when she looks at the new Westwood police station.

November 08, 2017

"Cincinnati LEEDs The Nation," a documentary about the innovative design of Cincinnati Police District 3 headquarters in Western Hills, premieres 9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9 on WCET-TV (Channel 48).....

August 15, 2017

The new, 39,600-square-foot, District 3 police headquarters that serves about 95,000 people form Price Hill to Riverside to Westwood was completed in 2015.....

July 31, 2017

On July 1, Cincinnati Police District 3 celebrated the opening of a new net-zero energy facility that now serves as its headquarters, replacing a facility at a different site that was in use since 1907......

Built as a sustainable, energy-efficient, and environment-friendly facility meeting LEED Platinum requirements, the new Cincinnati District 3 Police Station (CD3PS) is designed to generate as much energy as it consumes......

July 15, 2017

Recently, the city of Cincinnati announced the opening of a new green police station......

May 30, 2017

The City of Cincinnati has recently put the final touches on perhaps the country’s most sustainable police stations......

May 05, 2017

Serving the community goes hand in hand with serving the environment at this police station in Cincinnati......

May 02, 2017

Cincinnati has opened a new police station that is believed to be the world’s first LEED platinum and Net Zero Energy facility of its kind, according to the designer......

March 28, 2017

Last July the City of Cincinnati opened its first new police station in more than 20 years.....

March 23, 2017

After opening in July 2015 to replace the old Warsaw Avenue building constructed in 1907, the new $15 million headquarters are showing positive results across multiple fronts......

When the city's newest police station opens next summer it will not only serve as CPD 3 Headquarters, it will also stand as a representative of 14 west side neighborhoods.