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WLW's fake PSAs are probably the best works they put on the air. They used to have a bunch of old ones on their website, but I can't seem to find them now. People need to lighten up if they take huge personal offense to a joke - they should be subject to a mandatory 8 hours listening to various versions of "The Aristocrats."

Property values are only assessed every 3 years, and won't be reassessed again until 2017 (for the 2018 tax year). Even if people's property increased in value, they aren't paying taxes on that increased value until the county auditor updates their assessments.

According to CAGIS the city doesn't appear to own any of the land the incline used to occupy.

I've never been to the Cleveland style Melt, but it sounds like the type of place Guy Fieri would like - is that a proper assumption?

^ That's a very good point about tap rooms being high margin. I'd be very curious to see how much of Rhinegeist's overall profit comes from their tap room versus their retail/bar sales. I'd be surprised if it wasn't a significant percentage. The profit margin on a pint sold in their own brewery has to be very high compared to retail sales of cans. I wouldn't be shocked if they netted $4 - $5 of profit on every $6 pint they sold.

There's also a large hotel going up on the opposite side of the street a block east of this area. That will add 100+ people or so most days, most of whom will make use of dining and retail in the immediate vicinity.

It seems to me nearly all NFL teams have fans like this. Even Bengals games have a few of these folks. It's especially bad when Pittsburgh is in town - there must be a lot of empty mountains in Appalachia when the Steelers play, because I don't have any idea where these people come from. I can't imagine what the crowd in Pittsburgh must be like if the sampling that makes the trip to Cincinnati is any indication of the average fan.

The only parts of CUF that have seen demolitions are properties on the south side of McMillan Street. The building on the corner of Ohio and McMillan and the building currently under constriction at the corner of Clifton and McMillan are the only large, recent demolitions I'm aware of. However, immediately across McMillan and on Calhoun you see the same thing, not to mention throughout Corryville as described in the above posts. One thing to note around UC's campus is that while demolitions still occur, it often involves removing 4 or 5 houses that may have housed 20 people and/or a couple offices, and replacing them with 100+ apartments. In the very least, the demolitions result in more density. The EPA site doesn't fit this pattern, but much of what's going up today does.

The Kroger on Kenard near Clifton has been extremely crowded ever since the Corryville store closed for reconstruction. UC has been offering a shuttle from campus to that Kroger for students. Even when the Corryville store reopens I don't think the demand will be completely filled for groceries in uptown. The IGA didn't close because there wasn't demand for it, it closed because the owners had some tax trouble which may or may not have been related to the viability of the store itself.

^ I think that a single U-shaped line would be a good idea here. It could run on 2nd and 3rd in Cincinnati between the two bridges, and then up and down Monmouth/York in Newport and Madison/Scott in Covington via 4th and 5th. I agree there'd be no significant reason to connect those two lines on the KY side. This could also be operated as two shorter lines depending upon how the junctions with the existing steetcar lines on 2nd and Main and Walnut would be built.

What are you guys doing trying to get milkshakes at White Castle when so many UDFs are open 24 hours?

jjakucyk posted this earlier in the thread and it is what I have been referencing: http://traffic.oki.org

^ Which means the numbers the city is stating (18,000 per day in each direction) are about 2.5 times the latest OKI numbers of 14-16,000 per day combined (both directions). I agree with peak hourly demand being more important in this context but I still question the city's numbers. I don't remember seeing any traffic counters on Liberty in recent years and I drive it almost daily.

After playing around with the traffic counts map linked earlier, I see that most of Liberty carries about the same amount of traffic as Ludlow Avenue in Clifton, particularly the business district, where the traffic measurements were taken. Liberty east of Sycamore carries about 2000 more vehicles per day, but I agree with Jake's earlier post that that number may very well drop when the MLK interchange at I-71 is finished, and I'm not too concerned with that portion as the land on the north side isn't really developable anyway. Aside from the theoretical max capacity, a comparison to the reality of Ludlow could help. Parking restrictions at rush hour and a few restrictions on left turns during certain days/hours works well there.

^^ I'm surprised they are asking $60,000 for a small two bedroom home that needs a full renovation on that portion of Vine (1921). You could walk 5 minutes up Clifton and find larger, move-in ready homes on the always desirable Klotter Avenue for far cheaper than it would cost to buy and renovate that house.

^ The biggest thing holding MLB.TV back are the now dated blackout restrictions you mention. In my opinion MLB needs to either cease relationships with local cable channels and get every game on broadcast like the NFL, and/or allow in-market viewers to purchase MLB.TV and watch on their own devices wherever they want. Both would be preferable. I consider myself a big Reds fan, and played baseball for 15 years of my life, but I haven't seen a baseball game on a screen in years now. It is almost always on the radio in the background of whatever else I'm doing, though. A lot of younger people don't own radios, though, and if you try to listen online, in market games are blacked out. I think the causes are numerous, the most obvious being the inability to readily adapt to technology that many media producers are facing. There's also some marketing problems, but to me the biggest problem that baseball faces is that some of the most exciting players and events of the past decade plus are completely tarnished by the PED scandal, something they have yet to address seriously. I remember going to two Reds games (they were either sellouts or close to it) as a kid in 1998 to see Mark McGuire, right after he broke Maris's HR record. I didn't like the team he played for, but it was still exciting to see the guy play because it was a part of history. When I found out years later that he was all juiced up at the time, it really put a damper on that memory, and the fact that MLB doesn't seem to care at all speaks volumes to me, especially as a Reds fan who has to deal with their treatment of Pete.

^ Viewership within regional markets as a whole is trending downward - they have been around for some time now and peaked years ago, though there are huge variations from year to year for some teams (like Pittsburgh) based on performance/fair weather fans. The relationship of MLB viewership to other summer prime time shows (discussed in your article) is likely more indicative of the general trend of cord cutting, and that sports viewers in general are among the last holdouts to abandoning cable. So while all TV viewership is decreasing, MLB viewership isn't decreasing as much as other shows, because it's a live event and most TV viewership is no longer done live.

^^^ It seems to be working well for the NFL. Ratings are the highest they've ever been, more people watch the average NFL game than the World Series. ^^ By all measures, MLB viewership is falling significantly. The big events like playoffs and the World Series have never been less popular than they are now. ^ I wish misfortune upon an organization that thinks someone who struggles with a clear and obvious gambling addiction (a DSM-5 classified disorder) is a bigger problem for them than people who risk their lives abusing steroids, drugs, alcohol, etc. Steroids did more damage to the integrity of the game, but MLB will never admit it because it also led to some of their most exciting players and events.

^^^ On more than one weekend morning I've come across a single shoe (usually a heel) on the sidewalk on/around Main. A lot of those girls don't make it home with both when they make the decision to go bare foot. Luckily it's been a long time now since I've seen a needle anywhere down there, so at least they have that going for them.

Meanwhile professional sports, including MLB, continue to bank off the popularity of fantasy sports betting, including gambling sites like Fan Duel, Draft Kings, etc. while slapping the wrists of players taking steroids. MLB is a joke and hopefully their viewership continues to fall as it has been doing for years now.

I just thought about the Bengals situation for a few minutes after my last post, and I’m far less concerned about Dalton being out for the rest of the regular season than I was. The Bengals are still second overall in the AFC, in position for a first round playoff bye (which could be huge depending on Dalton’s recovery time). Next week the Bengals play the 49ers, who just got beat by the Browns, meaning it should still be an easy win for the Bengals, even without Dalton, especially after McCarron gets a full week’s worth of practice (I think the Browns would love to have a guy like McCarron starting for them, as would several NFL teams). The weekend after, at Denver, could be a matchup between two backup quarterbacks to determine who gets the bye, in which case the advantage likely goes to Cincinnati, as Osweiler isn’t very good. The Ravens shouldn’t be a difficult game at home in the final week, either.

^ Sticking with them wouldn't be too bad. In order to stay competitive with fiber, they are rolling out higher speeds (upgrading existing plans substantially without raising the cost). I got a mailer about it this summer but have yet to see the increase at my house. Supposedly, it is coming some time soon: http://www.timewarnercable.com/en/enjoy/better-twc/internet.html

McCarron looked pretty decent for coming off the bench in a huge rivalry game against the dirtiest team in football. So long as the rest of the offense stays healthy I'm not ruling the Bengals out just yet. They are absolutely going to make the playoffs, and I'm not afraid of too many other teams once they're there. The real issue right now is the secondary - they need to get healthy because the defense that played yesterday got lit up - the Steelers completed 30 out of 39 passes.

I thought this was satire until I saw the author name, I had almost forgotten about the Dean of Cincinnati entirely! Opinion: Who Dey has a troubling history

I am fond of the facade of this building, but I do think it bears a slight resemblance to the original Kroger tower, where a similar random/staggered glazing effect was achieved by the use of blinds (and the color though the photo below is B&W and doesn't quite show this): http://www.kentonlibrary.org/genphotos/viewimage.php?i=di29389 I also think that building, in original 60s form, looked far, far better than it does today. I feel the same way about 5/3 HQ.