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Stay out of the politics section. Most of what you're talking about is there. Though maybe the Cleveland sections are getting bad; I don't read them much.

Short Vine could seriously use rail transit.

Is the height represented in these renderings official?

Having Deatrick there to talk to journalists seems like a good deal.

Good ol' John Cleves Symmes.

Looks fine to me. Not exciting, not offensive. Like ucgrady said, my expectations were pretty low so I'm happy with it.

Cummintacos doesn't sound very appealing.

Pretty soon the residents will have to decide on a new name: Tacoside or Northtaco?

The Enquirer framed it as an alternative to the streetcar, which evoked a visceral reaction, which surely was their intent. Y'all got played.

When I read "new Mexican street food restaurant," I started praying to Zeus you weren't going to say Northside.

I don't know. I wasn't there enough to really case the joint. Plus my internal navigation system is not very good, which probably helped amplify my sense of disorientation when I was there. They were using lagering tunnels with one narrow stairway to enter/exit as stage spaces. Basically funneling hundreds of people into dead-ends of the maze that is the Mockbee. There are several such spaces, so it was ideal for something like a rave, or any multi-stage event. Plus the zigzagging, random floor-shifting hallways would host paintings and such. The obviously present danger only added to the underground, avant-garde aesthetic. It's at once expansive and borderline claustrophobia-inducing. thx thats exactly what i was thinking and i was wondering how northside was doing. higher prices there would help this area for sure. It's still got a ways to go, but demand for renovated units is outstripping supply, and units (like those in the recently renovated American Can Factory) are commanding much higher rents than were in the neighborhood a few years ago. The Enquirer is finally acknowledging the neighborhood as up-and-coming, even though I'd argue the trajectory started in the '80s, and momentum was clear by the early '00s. Still, there are many lower-income residents who are able to find housing. (Which IMO is good for the neighborhood, but not so good for neighborhoods awaiting spillover.) Developers in Cincy seem to be so damn conservative and risk-averse. They could be flipping places left and right in Northside and OTR/CBD, but Northside's revitalization is still almost 100% fueled by individual owners, and OTR's is still largely fueled by public-private partnership (3CDC). The CBD, meanwhile, is being developed in large part by out-of-town developers, notably more than a couple from Indy. Cincy developers seem largely focused on tearing down historic buildings in the university area and putting up cheap and ugly mixed-use buildings.

I don't see the transit center on the route map. Just 3rd & Main (outbound) / 3rd & Walnut (inbound). I hope they change that soon, and make Riverfront Transit Center an official end-of-the-line stop.

I am hoping the roundabout gets a makeover soon. Wouldn't really be expensive. The light isn't necessarily a bad placeholder, as it means there is an electric line to use for a better lighting feature(s) in the future. The roundabout is there, and it seems functionally well built. With improving functionality out of the way, aesthetics will hopefully come in the near future. Seems like something the Downtown community could get done with a little bit of lobbying. If I were a resident, I'd be squeaking about this and the generic concrete paths (especially the riverwalk) in the park, hoping to get some of that proverbial oil.

I meant more that the Mockbee would be somewhere that, should a fire occur during an event, people would be trapped in there. Due to the design/layout of the place, it can't be very safe as a venue. IANAArchitect, but it seems like the means of egress are obviously substandard. It's a goddamn maze in there. I suspect its history with fires which you mention is due to squatters setting fires for heat, unrelated to its functionality as an arts venue.

How do you abuse a dorm kitchen? Make pot brownies?

Northside is apparently getting pricier. If the artists and hipsters start getting pushed out of there, I could imagine Brighton and Camp Washington becoming destinations. Brighton (for you non-Cincinnatians, this is a part of the West End) is already a micro-artist/hipster-mecca. So it would be a natural place, as the seed is already planted. Semi-related...I'm still bitter the Mockbee got shut down as a venue. I'm sure it was a major fire hazard, though. I went to several cool events there in the early aughties. Really a special space.

IMO Camp Washington has a very bright future. West End is iffy, in that something needs to get started before all those historic buildings come tumbling down. I believe part of the urgency of the streetcar is to get OTR done so development starts spilling across the Parkway (whether 3CDC or private). This photo set is excellent, BTW, ink. Edit: I do worry about the Crosley building in CW, which really needs the American Can treatment, and soon.

Welcome to UO, Derek! And thanks for your work with CFP.

'90s nostalgia is huge right now. I'd ask what rock you were living under, but I know -- it's the E Rocc. ;)

What about a pocket veto for funding some critical unforeseen something or other?

The fashion show could have used an IRL Bockfest goatboy.

I thought it was pretty obvious without an emoticon.

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^ Gah, you beat me. I guess we know who to vote for now if we want already-legal vegetables legalized.

Laid off 11 people. I didn't realize they still had 11 people working for the paper.