We propose a Time Warner partnership
Time Warner Chairman & CEO Richard D. Parsons
Cincinnati Change is proposing to set up a company using Time Warner as our backbone and content supplier. We look to use this network to make a change in Cincinnati through jobs and in the Gulf as we rebuild 60,000 homes. This network will be built into homes and businesses passed by high speed cable, fiber to the home and a unique wireless network. It is to be a global network that will connect 4 million users by 2009 using technology and content from Time Warner. These systems will be located in the Americas, Africa and Asia. We will start with Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio.
As a special focus of our relationship we will bring a million black voices together through the creation of a coalition of 100 complexes like what we propose in Cincinnati. This facility would feature:
- A Global Digital Learning Museum on History with a focus on African Americans
- A broadcast performing arts center that seats at least 2,000 with 40 resident performing arts companies and feature at least 10 entertainment venues such as Diva's, Upscale Dinner Club, Blues Club, Soul Music Center, Motown Lounge, Hip/Hop, R&B, and others.
- A School of Pan African Studies with a focus on creating regional and African Peace through economic development that brings about regional change.
- A regional Cultural Center that would partner with other centers around the world through a digital connection with a special focus on our first alliance - the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
- A African American Fine Arts Museum and Library created with libraries as it's partner that would create a online public access system for African Americans.
- A Food Court featuring food from the America's, Africa and Asia with a focus on the differing styles of popular African American foods along with a multipurpose banquet center.
- A multi-media products and a large tourist shop with African American themed items along with the regions largest African American bookstore, new media sales center, and meeting spaces for African Americans in the third frontier and creative class.
- Global Headquarters of a Alliance of 1,000 African American Businesses with Clubhouse and Suite Hotel that targets it's services to the world traveler with a upscale new brand that features a world class beauty, body and health center.
- Class A Office Space with regional headquarters of many African American Non Governmental Organizations
- Market rate housing for executives and staff who will have access to a global
