jjakucyk

Glendale and Wyoming are the closest to Chicago-type railroad suburbs, but their little business districts can't compare to those of Winnetka, Glencoe, Highland Park, or Lake Forest. They all had a burst of development in the 1920s at the height of Tudor revival and city beautiful design, so there's some very picturesque and also relatively dense 2-3 story mixed use development. They're very much like Mariemont in that respect, but Mariemont came much later and was obviously planned in a much different way. https://goo.gl/maps/g8mjnzwN5t2BkrAM9 https://goo.gl/maps/G4zkjy6g2NZokAKC6 https://goo.gl/maps/tfCPRaVnUqoyfNad6 https://goo.gl/maps/adp6EFCKJsWXuCYr9 https://goo.gl/maps/zdDKYojeizpWkHkP8 https://goo.gl/maps/79npiVHemS6FdGV78

I've biked every single one of those except Glendale (only made it as far up that way as Woodlawn 'cause the roads get pretty ugly, but it is doable). Latonia has a nice NBD too.

Vine Street Elmwood, Vine Street St. Bernard, Benson Street Reading, Downtown Lockland, Wyomong Avenue Lockland, Wyoming Avenue Wyoming, Monmouth Street Newport, Elm Street Ludlow, Fairfield Avenue Bellevue, even Ft. Thomas Avenue or Glendale's Village Green are all east coast (or Chicagoland) level NBD's or suburban town centers, but they're completely overshadowed by Hyde Park, Oakley, Mt. Lookout, and Clifton/Ludlow. It's another of those embarrassments of riches.

If a tenant has a fixed-term lease (6-month, 1-year, 2-year, etc, as opposed to month-to-month), then any new owner has to honor it until its term is up, unless there's an early termination clause that specifically mentions sale of the building, which I don't think is all that common for residential leases. Otherwise tenants can only be evicted prior to the end of their lease terms due to things like non-payment, drugs, or specific lease term violations. A change of ownership of the building is not sufficient cause to evict a tenant on good standing. A new owner can of course offer incentives for a tenant to move out, such as paying moving expenses, paying back the amount of rent that would be owed on the rest of the lease, or finding them new housing, but the tenant isn't obligated to take any of those options.

Their success is more about their community ownership, but they're a crazy small market with a TV-shed less than the population of Hamilton County.

Green Bay seems to have gotten around that problem.

What the actual hell?

Now you need to caption all the photos ? We've been to many of the same places.

I honestly think it's deliberate. The city requires utility companies that tear up a street that's less than (I think) five years old to undertake a much more significant repair job than they normally would on a street with older pavement. If they tear it up enough, the city can require them to do a complete resurfacing on their own dime. Of course by the time the utility work is finished it will three, four, five years after the first repaving. So it effectively resets the clock in case yet another utility comes along, or if one doesn't, the city gets 20 years out of a paving job instead of 15. I saw this happen to Morten Street in Hyde Park a number of years ago, which was resurfaced by the city in 2007 and then again in 2008 due to gas line replacement. Riverside Drive is currently being repaved from Adam's Crossing all the way to Stanley Avenue, but the section from Adam's Crossing to Bains was 100% rebuilt in 2009, and it would still be in fine shape except for gas line work that cut a trench down its entire length round about 2013 or 2014. That's lingered because of the sewer problems near Friendship Park, but now that it's done I'm betting the city has some Duke monies earmarked for this.

If you have a choke point, removing that choke point is absolutely an increase in capacity since the choke point itself determines the capacity. It may not matter at off-peak times, but it certainly matters when volumes are heavy.

So now they'll just do that at Red Bank instead.

Point is, if traffic is free-flowing for Hamilton County residents, that means it's free-flowing for Warren County residents too, and it encourages more exurban development since "commutes are short." So no, this "fix" isn't needed. It's not a safety issue like blind turns or narrow shoulders, it's entirely a capacity increase, which we've known for more than 50 years are self-defeating and yet we keep trying make them work.

cincydave8 beat me to it. One correction though, the Kennedy onramp isn't a continuous auxiliary lane to Red Bank, it merges into the actual auxiliary lane that they're adding from Ridge to Red Bank. So the project doesn't affect the Lateral at all. The extent of the project goes back almost to Smith-Edwards but only because of modified signage. Also because of the way the Lateral's ramp comes in on the left, there's still a lane drop, it just happens at Red Bank instead of Ridge North. So for example these signs will technically only need slight modifications: "I-71 North Columbus" two left lanes doesn't change "Exit 8C Ridge Ave North 1 Mile" becomes "Exit 8C Kennedy Ave" and "Exit 9 Red Bank Rd 2 Miles Exit Only" "Exits 8A-B OH-562 Norwood Ridge Ave South Exits Only" becomes "Exits 8A-B OH-562 Norwood Ridge Ave Exits Only" As to edale's comment, it absolutely affects the Warren County contingent since they have to drive through here. Do you think traffic jams only affect people who live near them? It's like saying the Brent Spence Bridge only affects Covington and not Florence.

Elaborate please.

Then Cintas can come and replace it every three months for a fresh look.

Huh, I never even realized Richmond Street was a thing. Down by the fire museum one older sign (on a beautiful old light pole) says Richmond Avenue. It must've been something interesting back in the day, since the building in the real estate ad had a storefront. There's not much left for the two blocks that are actually a street instead of an alley, but there's hints that other buildings put a good face towards it.

Maryland Avenue looks just like Pullan Avenue. I didn't mean to imply anything regarding the demographics, mainly the built environment. The Walnut Street retail strip feels a lot like Hamilton Avenue in Northside to me, excepting the different street widths which actually makes it look more like St. Gregory in Mt. Adams. From the air, the density of Shadyside feels more Corryville and Northside-ish, certainly compared to Hyde Park.

At a cursory glance Shadyside looks like Corryville or Northside, but with more contiguous surrounding fabric. Newport and Covington seem not too far off either.

The French Quarter gets a pretty bad rap, as does most of New Orleans, for its drinking above all else mentality and the associated crime, debauchery, and mess that it causes. It's mostly been able to succeed despite its reputation, but there's definitely people who avoid it because of that. Compare Charleston or Savannah to New Orleans in that respect.

Apple stores have gotten so big and they have such a regional draw and high turnover of customers that I have trouble seeing one work in an OTR-like neighborhood that's not at a major subway station or other significant transit node. I could see one at The Banks or maybe a downtown/OTR transition area like Court & Walnut or as a main tenant in a redeveloped Alms & Doepke, but probably not a central OTR address.

That's a good point. I would also add that having council involved in all of these projects is not a good thing. That's what planning commissions and zoning offices are for (and there's no reason some of the same people can't serve on both), but when council or the mayor get involved directly it's usually because of some quid pro quo situation or other parochial concerns that simply don't scale.

It's a big empty space that already has some bathrooms and back-of-house stuff in place, there's probably not much construction left to do besides moving in the equipment.

A Canadian city with abandoned streetcar tracks. Classic.

So still costly to implement but useless for achieving the goals, good job Cincinnati.

The city gave up on Lockport after rebuilding Reading, so now it's just an extra short block of Eggleston. https://goo.gl/maps/rXYbfBTV4WCWXbko8