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e something where he’d have some
semblance of control.
He met Julia Petiprin, who was doing
interior designing for bars and
restaurants and told her about this cool
neighborhood in Cincinnati. He says
he spun a long and impassioned story.
Her excitement prompted him to put in
a call to 3CDC, which works with people
looking to establish great spaces in the
city, including OTR. Julie would design
and become the general manager of
Sundry and Vice.
Stuart King, Owner of Sundry & Vice
“I wrote a business plan in eight hours,
dangling out this idea for an apothecaryslash-old-time-pharmacy-inspired
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The idea for the tasty, high-end watering hole known
as Sundry and Vice on West 13th Street occurred
to Stuart King in the fall of 2010. He’d come home
to Cincinnati from his gig with the Dodgers to have
Thanksgiving dinner with his mother.
“We happened to be having dinner in Over-the-Rhine,” he says.
“I fell in love with the neighborhood. I could see the path of progress unfolding.
I could see what was about to happen. Couldn’t sleep that night. All I was
thinking about was this neighborhood. The next morning, I had a rough outline
for this place.”
Some ideas jump off the napkin. Others need time to percolate. Stuart’s idea
sat in his pocket for three years. At the end of 2013, he left his front-office
job with the Dodgers not knowing what he’d do next, just knowing it would