Brutus_buckeye

^ Everything they say is that the Millinieum is a detriment to business and not a help

^ it is a nice building, however, the next hotel project I hope to hear about downtown is the tear down and rebuilding of the Millenium Hotel

From my understanding since they don't own the real estate there's no incentive for a deal like this. I admit I don't know what a "ground-lease" is or if that applies to downtown Cincinnati though. A ground lease allows a developer to develop the land without owning the land. They own the building and air rights, but not the land below it. The former Chiquita Center was built with a ground lease where the Joseph family gets rent on the land every year but they have no control over the building. The building may be sold to a new owner who controls it for the term of the lease. Often Ground Leases run for long periods even up to 100 years. It is common in urban cores to spur development and with public private partnerships. The URS building is another example of this. With a gound lease, a property such as the Chiquita Center and be razed and rebuilt as something else as long as the ground lease is in effect since the land owner has no control over the building.

^ While a discount airline, Southwest does have a decent amount of business travelers (more than you would expect). This may not be the case for Allegiant or Frontier but given Southwest's history and reliability, they can compete for some business travel.

All of the current gates in A concourse are spoken for. However, CVG is buying two additional jet bridges for either A1/A2 or A3/A5. These jet bridges are supposed to be operational by early June, or just in time for SouthWest. Also, CVG has been in talks with Delta to sublease gates out of B concourse if necessary. Did they ever have jetways for those gates? I thought back when it was a major hub there were jetways there, correct?

Sure you aren't talking about Cranley? Somehow nobody seems to care that Cranley is from a rich family that paid for him to go look at poor people in the Dominican Republic on his high school summer break so he had a resume line for his college applications. Richardson's father is a big wig with the local NAACP, and urban league. He is also a union leader and has his hand all over democratic politics in the city. You don't get to be chair of the UC Board of Trustees without those connections. All I am saying.

Did SW pull its Dayton to BWI flight? I flew that a few times but not since 2015.

I'd rather see Yvette win in this case, as she'd probably be stronger against Cranley and seems to have a better grasp of urbanist issues from what I see (though I could be proven wrong). Well, Richardson is holding his campaign announcement at the Niehoff Urban Studio. And he was one of the chairs of Cincinnatians for Progress who defeated the anti-streetcar ballot initiative. So I think he has a pretty good grasp of urban issues. But everything he has done in his career is the result of his father in my opinion

He always had a chip on his shoulder whenever I saw him both inside and outside of class. My friends and I would always attempt to be friendly and he just came across very much as just an angry man who did not care to be friendly with others unless you had something to offer him (this was my take). Yvette was always nice and very friendly. She also had to work for everything she has received instead of having things handed to her. Now, as mentioned, I am not voting for her either, but she is someone whom I highly respect.

Now while I may be more of a cranley supporter based on politics, I have known the other two contenders over the years. Now, I typically disagree on almost all political things with Yvette, I have always found her to be very nice and had lunch with her on numerous occasions while we were in school together. She is a good person and beyond disagreeing with her on almost all aspects of politics, I cannot say a bad thing about her. As for Richardson, I always found him to be a jerk and very unfriendly. He has no business running for mayor

Apparently, the not so subtle hint was not heeded. (I normally would not join in posting this but it puts me over 900 posts so who hoo, I consider it a milestone)

The colors are a bit hard on the eyes, but overall I like the Red. Good choice for Hockeytown USA

Just a point of reference here - I don't think the food stamp discussion really belongs on this page. While important to politics and society, does not really have anything to do with the Kroger Company.

The corryville store is better positioned to serve the WH community plus with a new DT store that could be on the way, it would be more than enough to serve the community.

They pulled out of Cleveland in the late 80s I believe. The industry was completely different then. Kroger was a different company too at that time. Plus, they were fending off corporate takeover attempts at that time and saddled themselves in a ton of debt. They became a lot more innovative after the Fred Meyer purchase.

^ It depends where those pharmacies are located. Kroger does have stand alone stores and it could compliment that footprint

Findlay and Wash Park are the 2 key Cogs IMO, because it gives people a daytime activity and purpose to ride the streetcar. During the week, you can commute to your office, but outside of the hours of 8-10AM and 4-6PM it would have little use. With the market and the park, people have a reason to go there during the day, it provides purpose. There are plenty of nightly, weekend reasons to use it, but the market makes it during the day.

^ That will always be the case now. Remember when Brian Kelly left, they were not playing in the National Championship but rather the Sugar Bowl. The Sugar Bowl was a glorified exhibition game. When Kelly left the season was over and therefore, it was a natural time to switch teams. When you are in the playoff, your season is not over. You are still playing for something. That is why he is sticking around. You don't leave your position until the loose ends are tied up.

The Downtown Cincinnati Automall's path has been cleared

I think the takeaway from the recent ridership numbers should be this: The projections said the streetcar would average about 3000 riders per day. -Back in the Fall when it opened it well exceeded expectations and proponents celebrated it -Now ridership has fallen off as weather has gotten colder and less going on downtown, along with Thanksgiving and other low ridership holidays, and the opponents are calling it a boondoggle. Point is, the average ridership numbers are over a year and things tend to even out. Taking a one or 2 month snapshot is not the same picture as a year snapshot. At the end of the year, I am sure the numbers will be in line with projections. I think the big mistake the people may have made when they came up with the numbers may have been overestimating the amount of people who would use it as a commuting tool to go to and from work and underestimating the people who will use it to go between the banks and Rhinegeist and Washington Park, and Findlay market on the weekends. I do not think the new apartments will effect ridership too heavily during the week but will be seen mostly on weekends. If you live at the Banks and work downtown, or at AT580, you are probably working in the central business district. It is still much easier for you to walk to work 3-4 blocks than take the streetcar, so you will not get a bump in ridership then. However, on weekends, those people will go to Findlay, go to Rhinegiest or even Smale and be more inclined to take the Streetcar

For those who cannot be lucky enough to live in Cincy

In Kansas City the rides are free. That also helps to inflate ridership. 2000 people per day paying $1 per ride is better than 4000 people per day riding free Kansas City has a special taxing district that pays for streetcar operations. Here the casino revenues were going to pay for the streetcar until Cranley was elected and intentionally screwed up everything. Truthfully the city could easily pay for free streetcar rides out of the general fund but COAST, etc., would go absolutely nuts. Don't you think it is reasonable that the users should at least have to pay something. For such a limited service area, it would be unfair to tax the entire city for what only a small portion of the city can truly benefit from. A $1 fare is not expensive but it adds friction to the process of riding. It makes people spend 45 extra seconds at the fare box or using Metro's app. Anybody who works with analytics knows that adding a single extra step to a checkout process will result in more people abandoning the transaction. Every second that you add to a website's loading time results in some percentage of people saying "screw it" and leaving. So if we want people to actually ride the streetcar, spend more money at businesses along the route, we should make riding as easy as possible. Kansas City didn't even buy fare boxes so they saved a couple of million dollars in capital costs up front. We want people to ride the streetcar but it also has to be economically feasible. Budweiser wants people to drink their beer too, but it is not giving that away for free.

In Kansas City the rides are free. That also helps to inflate ridership. 2000 people per day paying $1 per ride is better than 4000 people per day riding free Kansas City has a special taxing district that pays for streetcar operations. Here the casino revenues were going to pay for the streetcar until Cranley was elected and intentionally screwed up everything. Truthfully the city could easily pay for free streetcar rides out of the general fund but COAST, etc., would go absolutely nuts. Don't you think it is reasonable that the users should at least have to pay something. For such a limited service area, it would be unfair to tax the entire city for what only a small portion of the city can truly benefit from.

Better is that there needs to be some sort of user fee to use it. It needs to be cheap (and there is nothing wrong with the city subsidizing it) but the users need to carry some of the burden.

In Kansas City the rides are free. That also helps to inflate ridership. 2000 people per day paying $1 per ride is better than 4000 people per day riding free