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Downtown Cincinnati parking garages sold for $24 million Tom Demeropolis - Reporter - Cincinnati Business Courier Three downtown Cincinnati parking garages will soon be under new management. LAZ Parking Realty Investors purchased two garages, 36 E. Seventh St. and 609 Elm St., for $24 million, according to property records. In addition, LAZ Parking Realty acquired the long-term ground lease of a city-owned parking garage at 605 Plum St. Larry Stubbs, managing partner with LAZ Parking Realty Investors, said this is LAZ Parking Realty Investors’ first purchase in the Cincinnati market. In six months, LAZ Parking, the third largest national operator of parking garages, will take over management and operation of all three garages. Cont

Hydrodemolition now occurring on 2nd at Main St.

^Agree about Rivertown this year. It is excellent. On the other hand, I feel Madtree's Pumpcan is not as good as last years; rather bland. Another interesting one is Jack-O-Traveler Shandy by Traveler Beer Co.

The Henry to Race curve should see rail installation soon:

Marion's "old oven" is a Hobart stone oven set to 550 °F. Each store used to have 5 with one reserved for sandwiches and pasta. In 1991, 2 were removed for double deck conveyor ovens which cook the pizza in about 6 minutes. The main problem with this is you lose a lot of the flour/salt/corn meal mixture on the bottom of their homemade dough when moving the pizza from the wooden board the pizza is prepped on to the metal rack used for the conveyor. The result is the crust crispyness suffers. With that said, it hasn't hurt their business at all.

Original article headline... "Coming soon: App to pay for parking here" :-o Coming soon: Feed the meter with the tap of an app Cincinnati is close to a new parking deal with international data giant Xerox, but this time the city would be in full control of the system. The controversial old plan called for leasing the parking system to the region's port authority and its private partners – including Xerox – for decades in exchange for an $85 million upfront payment to use for several economic development projects. But Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley followed through on a campaign promise, killing the deal the same week he was elected in November. The worry under the previous deal was that Xerox would aggressively write parking tickets and increase meter rates to hit revenue incentives, and the city wouldn't be able to do anything about it under the terms of a 30-year lease. Cont

Pro tip: Always request your pie be baked in the "old oven"

From today:

The Bengals waived height restrictions at The Banks in April. In exchange, the county and the Bengals negotiated six Paul Brown Stadium upgrades, some of which the Bengals themselves will pay for despite their lease requiring taxpayers to foot the bill. The agreement includes: A new scoreboard: It's expected to cost $10 million, of which the Bengals will pay $2.5 million. If the price jumps to $12 million, the team will pay 25 percent of the additional $2 million. But the deal caps any spending at $12 million. If it's any more than that, the deal is nixed. A new locker room: The county is allowing the team to expand its locker room into a space that had been set aside in case a professional soccer team came to Cincinnati. If soccer should come, the team will give up space elsewhere comparable to the expansion. The Bengals will pay for the expansion. Wi-Fi: The stadium will be outfitted with Wi-Fi, as required by the NFL. Taxpayers will pay $3 million of the $3.5 million project, although the Bengals are paying the entire cost up front and then will be reimbursed by the county over five years. Permission to play international games: The county is allowing the team to play two international games as the "home" team. The lease calls for the county to profit from tickets and parking during all home games, which won't be possible if the Bengals play outside the county. The team can play those games during any five consecutive one-year periods. Parking: The Bengals will get back more than 100 spots the team lost when Cincinnati Parks began using the area as they built the new riverfront park. The land will eventually be a park, but for the 2014 season some of it will revert back to high-priced spots for tailgating. A Club Lounge refurbish: The club lounges, which can be rented for events and have riverfront views, are getting $1 million in new furniture, which the Bengals will buy. The current furniture is original to the stadium, which opened in 2000.

The downtown location does great lunch business. Snappy is also in Fairfax delivering to most of the East Side and I believe they are in Dent and Liberty Township as well.

Just in time for winter, The Locker Room is adding an outdoor patio...

I helped opened their 7th, and smallest, store in 1991 on the site of an old Casano's. Eventually managed several of their stores in the 90's and back then all 7 had sales over 1 million with the 3 largest locations over 2 million. They did run commercials in the 80s... in it they made fun of pizza joints that delivered. I believe two nuns ordered a pizza and the driver crashed into their house. Wish someone would upload this to YouTube! A good story on their success: A Conversation with Roger Glass, Marion’s Piazza - September 25, 2013

with over $19 million in sales for 2013, Marion's in Dayton quashes the idea that you need delivery to be successful.

Trench work moves onto 2nd St.

This local company has won a major Cincinnati streetcar contract Chris Wetterich - Staff reporter - Cincinnati Business Courier Highland Heights-based General Cable will provide the internal wiring that will help power Cincinnati’s streetcars, which are set to begin running in two years. The company will provide wiring within the five streetcars purchased by the city. The streetcars are being built by CAF USA. General Cable’s wiring, known as Polyrad XT, is used across the transit industry. Cont

From today's Enquirer article City vs. County: Here's why their fight matters "The city's attitude is, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is ours,'" said Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters, who's spent more than 30 years in local politics. "They're building bike racks everywhere in the city, and we're under snow five months of the year. That kind of silly stuff drives people crazy." :roll:

I've noticed two other parking enforcement employees downtown in addition to the guy on the bike and the woman in the car. Other than that, there are still a lot of broken meters, little turn-over at lunch as you see restaurant employees running out to feed their 1 Hour Limit meters, and after 4:00 no policing of cars parked in rush hour no parking zones (see 3rd, Walnut, etc. before a Reds game). So zero modernization...

It appears a vehicle hit the railing at the Music Hall stop and glass was installed at the Elm & Liberty stop:

Vice Mayor Mann was on Cunningham's show at 12:35 today and did a good job of quashing Cranley & Flynn's recent comments.

Nope. All nine were elected to a 4 year term in November 2013.

Not really a result of today's news, but I was able to book a round trip non-stop flight to LAX for $404.20 via Delta. I personally find that to be a great deal....

Elm at Liberty:

There was some talk on it here: Jeff Ruby's Waterfront

State closes Mahogany’s at the Banks Erin Caproni - Digital Producer - Cincinnati Business Courier Mahogany’s at the Banks is closed after the restaurant violated the state of Ohio’s sales tax law. Ohio Department of Taxation spokesman Gary Gudmundson confirmed on Tuesday afternoon that Mahogany’s had been closed and would be allowed to reopen if it repaid the amount it owed to the state. The exact amount of the taxes owed by Mahogany’s can’t be disclosed, he said. “We often have businesses that are posted and pay off the same day it’s posted and are back in business,” Gudmundson told me. Cont

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