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I have noticed that the Radio stations in Cincy broadcast traffic reports up to I-70 north of Dayton now. 10 years ago they never went north of 275, if that means anything.

CLE is landlocked and has very little room to expand. Plus from what I remember of the Continental Concource, it is old & a little dated on the inside.

Scripps was started in Cleveland and has been around since the 1800's. In fact they still own a TV station up there. They moved to Cincy in 1978, I am unsure of the reasons. I think certain members of the family who had a controlling stake in the company too k up residence in the Cincy area at that time. It has been based in Cincy for the past 27 years.

Where do more commuters go every day, Do you think that more people travel from homes in Montgomery County to jobs in Hamilton and Southern Butler Counties or more people who live in Cincy commute to Dayton to work? What I am trying to ask is if you guys feel that more and more people who work in Dayton are choosing to live closer to Cincinnati or if many of the people who live in Dayton choose to travel to jobs in Cincinnati. (If this makes any sense)

Scripps has a small presence downtown, besides channel 9 and the post, it does not have anything but the corporate HQ. All of its networks (where the bulk of the jobs are) are based in Tennessee, Shopzilla in Cali, and there is a decent size office in Atlanta. Unfortunately Scripps does not seem to want to expand down here. The only good benefit is that it could lead to an increase in travel between here and England and maybe add more transatlantic flights and therefore more European investment.

apparently there was a bunch of interest for International Paper to move their corp HQ to be based in the new tower but City Council messed the thing up so they went to Memphis instead. Otherwise phase 1would have started by now

what is the story on the st x park tower? I thought that was on the drawing board after the garage was built

You cant include Akron in there because Akron is no more than just a suburb of Cleveland. That is like saying Hamilton is not part of the Cincinnati area

Why does everyone think Columbus would be good for the Olympics. I mean why not Dayton or Toledo. Personally I am a fan of Toledo. It has the lake for sailing, and it has some arenas and a University, Plus it could be a regional games with Detroit Cleveland, columbus, Cinti and Dayton hosting events. I mean think about it. IT is a nice compace city. IT EVEN HAS AN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. What more do we need. YEAH TOLEDO. OLYMPICS 2030. Dont you guys all agree that this is just as plausable as a Columbus games?? If you look at the Olympic Games they go to the largest metro in the area. Columbus is the 3rd largest Metro in Ohio which makes it less likely they will get the games. It will never have the infastructure to hold an event like this either. For those that argue Salt Lake and Turino and Lake Placid as examples, remember that is for the Winter Games which I dont think Columbus has a chance to go for either. Most winter games are held in smaller cities because the prerequisite to host the winter games is Mountains for skiing events. I really think that eliminates Columbus from consideration for the winter games as well. And as far as Salt Lake goes, they had far better infatstructure since they were the western hub for Delta and could handle a ton more flights than Columbus. Plus they are a much bigger tourist destination than COlumbus (which means more rooms)

St. Louis will never hold another Olympics either, I was merely commenting on the fact that they will be the only Midwestern American city to hold that honor. When they held the Olympics in the early 1900s there was no sailing. Venues are the easiest part of the Olympic process. As you can see from many of the past Olympics since ATL and Calgary, most of the venues are designed to be taken down after the games, or at least scaled back. The killer for Columbus is the same thing that killed Cincinnati. TRANSPORTATION - no light rail or any rail for that matter, A lack of an international gateway for travel. (At least Ciinci was able to claim non-stop international flights) LODGING - Not enough hotel space.

Columbus?? Olympics?? You got to be kidding me!! If Cincinnati got shot down on the first step, I would find it hard to believe that C-Bus would not have the same fate. With or without LR, they have fewer venues, stadium & arenas within the same radius as cinci, Fewer hotel rooms, and suffer the same infasrtucture and transportation problems. Besides the Olympics are international, and Columbus is far from being an International City. I think the only Midwestern city in the United States that will be able to claim they hosted a modern Olympic Games will be St. Louis.

I know in the past, the government has stepped in to prevent other airlines like United and American from striking. Any chance they may do the same since it would impose an undue hardship on the travel industry during the holiday season if Delta were allowed to strike.

I think the argument against light rail is that it will allow all the undesireables to infiltrate the pristine suburbs. I mean look at what it did to Shaker Heights after all. A light rail line runs right behind million dollar houses and people still live there and are actually happy about it.

That is quite a dropoff between detroit and dayton. God it would really suck to be in Detroit

It seems like Franklin County has a glut of courthouse space already. With the tower and adjacent buildings it seems like their courthouse is bigger than Cuyahoga and Hamilton combined. I guess there is just a lot of crime in Columbus

I dont think W&S plans to make either phase its corporate HQ. Who knows though. If they do, I dont think it will take up a huge amount of space maybe a couple of floors similar to the way Ashland leases space in Rivercenter. It really would not make too much sense nowadays to consolidate everyone in a brand new class A office building when they can fetch more on the open market in rent

Yea, I guess that is the case, next time I will know, I have just spent a ton of time in Cleveland and Cincys Central business districts and there were cabs driving around all the time there.

I will have to take your word for it. Again I spent most of my time around the statehouse area and I was only there from Monday-Thursday so it was not the prime part of the week. I just found it interesting how hard it was to hail a cab around some of the main downtown hotels. I agree, with you though, that in the arena district is is was not nearly as bad but overall, I did not see too many from my experience. I think the time of week had a lot to do with it.

So I was in downtown Columbus for a few days last week. While I had been to Columbus on many occassions it mainly involved the university area on football Saturdays. Anyway, one thing that I found rather interesting about Columbus during my 3 days there was the lack of taxicabs in the city. Every big city I have been to (except maybe Detroit) the one thing that is great about staying in the city is the wonders of public transportation whether it be bus, subway, train, or in many cases taxi. No matter what city, I have never had trouble downtown hailing a cab, but for some reason during my 3 day visit to Columbus I rarely saw any. It was not like I was out in the suburbs too because I stayed at the Hyatt on the Statehouse square right in the heart of downtown. I know it is not an Ohio thing because of the relative ease I have had hailing cabs in Cincinnati and Cleveland. I dont know, but it seems like to have a truly successful urban core, this is one element that Columbus lacks. Regardless, I just find it puzzling that a city the size of Columbus would have such a dearth of taxis around the city center when it is a signature of every other major city in the US.

When I explain to people why I came to Ohio, I have to tell them that it is because I wanted to escape the stench the eminates from Michigan

I wish they could have put it over on the Ohio side. Oh, well, it will still be good for the city

But without such requirements for long term leases, then there would be no benefit to being open on Sunday and the merchants who remain open would suffer because the others decided not to open up on Sunday. If the market were only 30% open on Sunday because the other vendors did not want to open shop, then the venture would fail and everyone would suffer. If only a few vendors close, we can have success. That is why a mandatory requirement is needed, to ensure the success of all. If a vendor did not want to be part of that arrangement he was free to leave. Other vendors would come take his place. It is a continual natural process and I dont feel sympathy for those vendors who gripe and complain about the new rules. They are always free to go somewhere else

I think they have a decent case. Too bad it had to come to this

I find it amusing how for so long everyone was complaining about how Sunday hours at Findlay will ruin the market and cause it to run out all the long time loyal businesses because there will not be a demand on Sunday to support shopping. Turns out (as a reasonable person would expect) that Sunday hours are probably the best thing that could have happened to the market, and in 5 years we will be hearing about how vibrant that area is becoming all because of the renovated market (at least lets hope we hear that)

sounds a little similar to the banks idea. I wonder which will be done first, if any.