For years, Cincinnati attorney Tom Gabelman has kept the Banks marching forward - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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Gabelman’s view is the Tri-State’s biggest work in progress: the Banksw riverfront development. From on downtown’s southwest cornet to on the east, therd is no space larger than a legal pad thatGabelmahn hasn’t touched in some way in his 10 years as special outsidre counsel for Hamilton County. The 51-year-old partne r at Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease has either litigated, negotiated or contemplated every deal point in the 100 or so contracta now in place amongriverfront stakeholders.
Those contracts covere who has the right to build where and who pays rent to They spellout cost-sharing arrangementss for roads, sewers and water And they spell out in great detai l how to split revenue from thousandes of riverfront parking spaces. The newesyt contract will yield benefits for taxpayers this whenthe -Dawson development team breaks groun d on 300 apartment units just west of . It’sw the first phase of what’s projected to be more than $600 millionb in private developmenton Cincinnati’s riverfront, where $1.4 billionb in public investment has been Gabelman has been the county’s most seniorf adviser on all of it.