Media Bridges is moving to the Digital Rhine.

        A vacant building at the corner of Race Street and Central Parkway will become the new home for the organization originally known as Cincinnati Community Video.

        “This one has been in the works for a few months,” said Media Bridges director Belinda Rawlins. “Our lease is up on June 1, so I've got to say I hope we're in there by July 1 at the latest.”

        Media Bridges will occupy about 8,000 square feet on the first and third floors of the new building, she said, about double the room it now occupies in its quarters on Reading Road in Mount Auburn.

        A $1.5 million capital campaign is under way to pay for the project. The first $500,000 “will just get us in the door, with renovations,” Ms. Rawlins said.

        The next half-million, much of it in the form of material donations, will cover expanding production and training facilities, with the final $500,000 opening a new endowment fund.

        “By Cincinnati standards, it's really a very small capital campaign,” said Ms. Rawlins.

        The organization provides free and low-cost education and work space for people who want to create video and multimedia programs. It also trains candidates for media production jobs, works with schools and co-sponsors quarterly Media Salons where film and video artists meet to critique their works in progress.

        “We've already received a grant from the Ohio Community Computing Center Network to add public-access terminals,” Ms. Rawlins said.

        Other features planned for the new building include studio space for Internet radio broadcasting, more digital editing suites and a more accessible self-service studio, “where you can do your own talk show without a crew,” she said.

        The site at 1100 Race St. was previously used for map storage by AAA and once housed “the world's largest used car dealership,” Ms. Rawlins said.

        Architect Terry Boling, who designed the dramatic renovation of the building that houses Lightborne production services in Over-the—Rhine, will provide the same service for the Media Bridges site, she said.

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