During his career has been involved in dozens of major Cincinnati design, construction and renovation projects, from downtown skywalks and city parking garages to Findlay Market and Lunken Airport. But he is best known as project executive for and the , which have both dramatically changed, and now help define, Cincinnati.
Now John Deatrick is leaving town, he takes over next week as the Public Works and Transportation Director for . He talked with us about his career and what it was like to work on such large-scale, and often criticized, projects.