Plans call for the three buildings to include a fine restaurant, a dance club and nightclub, private office space and specialty retail shops. Most people want to use the name to make some hay in this town. It's just a matter of finding the proper developer. But lawyer Harry Wilks, who sold the buildings to the city, isn't hopeful. Ohio Casualty is moving people out.
Buildings are up for sale.
A lot of businesses are leaving. When Mr. Powell suggested the name, he used it whimsically, referring to Hamilton's past as a refuge for Prohibition gangsters, prostitutes and boot leggers. But to people who remember those days, the name is anything but whimsical. Today, only a dark High Street alley and crusty brick buildings suggest the time 70 years ago when sinister characters walked in the county seat. Development now covers their domain.