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Still wish we had a Wendy's. I don't like fast food but when I do, Wendy's is where we go. The 4th street place was kinda gross at the end but it could have been invested in.

Since Macy's owns it, build apartment towers, increase the residences downtown and bring more potential shoppers to their downtown store.

it looks decent in this photo although it was new and in black and white. The silver on the outside is ugly and dated. I think the garage is fine but invest into renovating the building and turning it back into what it could be. Add a brick exterior, now that downtown is coming back add first floor retail, and look into if you can build on top of it apartments or something to look into.

Maybe we should outlaw self serve gas, ATM machines, Netflix and Redbox kiosks too while they are at it. Those actually increase convenience, while "self serve" checkouts, at least as done by GE and Wallyworld, do not. That is a matter of opinion, sometimes I prefer self checkout for convenience, other times I do not.[quote author=GCrites80s link=topic=439.msg821447#msg821447 date=1475694069] Henry Ford knew that the more money his workers had, the more cars they'd buy from him and the more money he'd have. That is a pretty little quote and while true, you cannot wrap a pretty bow on it like people argue. Ford was a smart businessman and he recognized the ability to mass produce his vehicles to make them available to the masses. He understood if he could create a certain volume, he can bring the prices down, which was good for everyone (especially him) however, there is a point where you reach your peak efficiency and there is a diminishing marginal benefit. The thing is there are diminishing returns going on here, but the economy is adaptive. Yes, when you put people out of work and business you lose their ability to become customers but there will be other customers, and those people will land in other industries

Blockbuster was killed on the high overhead. You need many more employees to staff all their stores than you would need in a warehouse/distribution/drop ship center. Plus, Class A retail is expensive. Even if they could save on the rent by downsizing, they still are likely going to have the same employee cost which was what was keeping them from being competitive.

I started a conversation on this topic over in the Income Inequality thread. Basically I think we have to face the fact that there are many jobs that machines can do better than humans, and as automation becomes cheaper, we have to face that fact that many people won't be able to find jobs. And in order to deal with that, we have to ultimately replace our current welfare system with something that makes sure everyone can live a good life and all of the world's wealth doesn't flow into the pockets of the factory owners who fire their 1,000 employees and replace them with machines. Which is obviously going to be a tough sell to the people that already view welfare recipients negatively and hate "redistribution of wealth." It is a trade off. As a business owner that contemplates this on a day to day basis, I am torn on the investment. While a self service machine will be much more cost effective, a certain level of service will be sacrificed. However, when people talk about pushing the minimum wage it makes it much easier to make the decision to switch to the machine because the cost of providing quality service has a diminishing marginal return. This is what happened with Blockbuster, while they had a great service and provided that "experience" there was a diminishing marginal return to investing in such activity when Netflix and the Redbox kiosks started showing up. Neither could provide the same satisfaction tot he customer as Blockbuster, but their cost structure allowed them to offer less service and higher profits for that less service because they have less labor costs.

I agree with them 100%. Refuse to use them (but I also don't shop Wal Mart). Maybe we should outlaw self serve gas, ATM machines, Netflix and Redbox kiosks too while they are at it.

^ did you have a plane to get this photo? where did you take it from?

I used to work in the Erieview Tower and used to park where that new development is. It is already a much better view.

Their Fountain Sq location is ideal for downtown. It caters to the office crowd with morning coffee and pastries, it will also do a good ice cream business with the entertainment on the square and gets Reds/bengals traffic too. It is a better location than the Banks for a place like Graeters

I also think it would be cool to turn the large lot on the other side of the street into a movie theatre or entertainment destination for downtown residents. One can dream.

Love the new condo concept in Oakley. Need more of that there

I was thinking the same thing about the existing site. I could see something like the Mercer on a larger scale being developed there.

a Kroger with a new 800ft tower and corporate Kroger offices on top of it is what we need. :)

^ You have to figure that they would not use the full pad for building, Since it is a supermarket, they will need space for truck loading and unloading (likely off Central. They may have a small parking pad up front for loading and unloading, so out of the 50k sq ft, maybe 35k is buildable for the store. So that makes the 2 story concept not as huge.

This is really the perfect location for Kroger downtown. Now what would be neat is if they can use the footprint to develop apartment/condos and/or additional office space for their employees or even county employees. Turn it into a 2 story grocery store, 5 -7 stories of parking, 10 story office and 5-7 stories of apartments.

They will lose 2 more QB's this season along with a couple other injuries. They will finish with the worst record this year, Haslam will fire Hue because Haslam sucks. Hue will then latch on with another team as either a HC or assistant and win a SUper Bowl within 3 years.

Saw the streetcar passed 100k ridership today

Newspaper endorsements do not mean anything anymore.

I will have to slightly disagree with you on the LLC part. I always recommend an LLC if you do it right. While it will not protect you from the bank, because of your personal guaranty, it does protect you from frivolous lawsuits by your tenants or their visitors to the property. Now, if you are going to do an LLC, you must set up another bank account and segregate those funds in that account. If you intermingle funds, it could be pierced by a good attorney. If it is an administrative burden to do this, then I would recommend obtaining an umbrella insurance policy on the rental property or even your personal residence to help mitigate the potential risk (although it is likely pretty small). The most important thing is to have a strong lease document. The LLC can help enhance that. None of this will prevent you from being sued. You can be sued for anything. However, what a strong document and LLC can do is throw up roadblocks to frustrate an attorney or adverse party into pursuing a claim against you. Even if the worst happens and someone tries to file a claim against you, the more layers and hurdles you create for them to jump through will scare off many attorney's who may otherwise take the case because there is no value in it for them.

I don't really think it is that newsworthy. She was pretty much a fill in minor host on WLW on the weekends, and after she was removed from the air in the winter, nobody really remembers her. She is pretty much a "never was" from a radio personality standpoint and was primarily using it to promote her law practice. Lisa Wells was akin to the guy on 550 who shot his wife a few years back. It did not make news because no one cares and no one misses her or even remembers her.

what an ugly building The empty lot looks much more attractive than that building.

^ Just FYI, some of the loudest opposition to MetroMoves came from Pleasant Ridge. For no good reason. John - do you think that would be true today. Pleasant Ridge has changed a ton since 2001. I think the younger population that is there today would embrace it much more than 15 years ago, don't you?

Its so hard to repeat, the team would have been flat most of the year regardless of the injuries last year. If only they could have escaped vs MSU, it would have been the #1 seed in the playoff and match with OU last year. If they were in the playoff, I thought they were better than Bama last year and would have won again.

The stop spacing is good but the speed is low. Unfortunately you can't do dedicated streetcar lanes because of the narrow streets unless you make most of the streetcar's streets transit/pedestrian/bike only. I liked that the streetcar has traffic signal priority but signal preemption would make it even faster. Doesn't a dedicated streetcar lane defeat the purpose of the streetcar and make it more of a light rail type vehicle. I always thought that was what separated the two forms. Streetcar ran on city streets but the light rails had dedicated right of ways