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I actually like the mid rise L-shaped design better.

As an aside, just this weekend my girlfriend & I rode our bikes from central OTR to the Newport AMC for a movie (first time riding there). It's an amazingly easy bike ride. Vine/race/walnut to Central parkway to Eggleston to purple people bridge. Lock up right at the entrance. I'm convinced, based on parking shenanigans, convoluted freeway exits and entrances, etc we were less than 5 minutes slower than if we'd driven.

Ya. Definitely disagree with UC on this.

I'm gonna put my money on 10% chance.

Here is the answer.

That sounds horrible. I'm putting money on 'never happens'.

PG has no interest in Mayor. He is positioning for statewide office. I wish he was interested in mayor, but he's not.

Most HOA's in OTR don't have $20K-$25k reserves. Especially that you could refill in just a few years. I know 4 hoas in OTR that have wanted to repainting but can't afford it.

From photos I could find, looks like no facade. Hideous.

Assessments are done directly by the City. Everyone with a street tree or a decorative light has an assessment. It's added to your property tax bill. It is not the same as a Special improvement district (SID).

Red River Gorge. Stay at Koomer Ridge Campground. Great hikes.

13th street streetscape was done with Casino TIF dollars. There are a couple million left there, could go to some OTR or Pendleton streets capes. Interestingly, the assessment only pays for the cost of electricity and maintenance going forward, not the actual construction. Also, Streetscapes are A LOT cheaper if utilities aren't buried. A proposal for burying the utilities between Vine & Race on 13th was $700K for utility work, and $300K for building the entire streetscape (lights, sidewalks, tree wells, etc. The City would pay the $700K and the homeowners along the stretch would each have to pay between $3K and 10K (depending on property) for underground utility connections.

I agree with Jim. MANY OTR buildings have never been painted and many of the ones that are painted were regular brick until redevelopment. Having an HOA of 7-10 condos try to do a $12,000 paint job every 5-8 years because some developer wanted to cover the building in a pretty color is foolish. Paint jobs look amazing at first, but it will hurt the long term value. Like I said, Good Fellows is 4 years old & the paint is horrendous. They don't know what to do because a full paint job is nearly $10K.

A lot of people need to know, very little streetscaping is going to occur in OTR in the near future. The OTR West TIF district is essentially maxed out. That's how almost all projects have been funded. 3CDC isn't even going after TIF funding right now.

It would absolutely work with no parking as nice apartments. I agree re: condos. In cincinnati for the near future condos will need parking. Apartments you may now be able to get away with not having it.

I actually hope they don't paint them. I hope more developers stop painting rehabs in OTR. As a homeowner in OTR I've realized that while everyone loves painted buildings at first, they are INCREDIBLY horrible and hard to deal with about 5-7 years in. The paint fades, peels, chips, and the buildings start to look crappy. Peeling paint is a code violation in Cincinnati and you can be fined and repainting your standard 4 story building in OTR can easily cost over $10K. The Good Fellows building on Main is 4 years old and the paint is already peeling and looking horrible. Many of these buildings were never painted historically, and if you're going to paint the very front facade, for the sake of the gods please don't paint all four sides. Thankfully my building is only painted on the front facade but the ones next to me are from only 2007 and are peeling like crazy on all sides.

Only about 5 OCS poles will have streetlights on them. I agree, it seems idiotic that there are certain locations where there are street light poles, OCS poles and utility poles all within a few feet of each other. That's what happens when you are building a system with as little money as possible.

This NIOSH thing is a big deal. They want to leave the City (simply because that's easier to find a bunch of land and build a new building. The government isn't interested in subsidies obviously and the two spots they've previously considered are suburban. Getting them up in Uptown would be huge.

These purported Indianapolis numbers are completely false. Indianapolis's own major downtown website cites population as "now over 20,000". Using the New York Times 2010 Census map I was able to get to a 12724 (downtown being everything within the highway loop and the river). In fact, using the NYT census map and your 1 mile radius from the center of downtown (adds a little more population to the east the number is no more than 15,000. That number may be 4 years old, so maybe today it's 22,000, but it's no where near 45,000.

Should be noted. New construction town homes to be built on Pendleton at the end of the street, and also several on Spring. Access will be through Ray Alley. Project will include two rehabs. Very exciting.

Sherman, do you have any credible source for this? I have a feeling that this rumor may be true, since it fits Kroger's preferred business model (closing the smaller neighborhood stores and building a large megastore to serve an multiple neighborhood area). However I have also heard from other sources that this rumor is totally false. I agree, please share more details on the supposed MLK Kroger. I've called every source I can think of and everyone has told me that putting a big box grocery near MLK is not part of the plan and they've never heard it before. The plan there is for medical office users. Tech, etc. The leases that are holding up the development at the Corryville location end next year. The construction on the new store could be underway before MLK exit is even finished. That being said, I do believe they will close the WH store when the new Corryville location is finished. They are 1.1 miles apart. Kroger is a for-profit business, and unfortunately, that means removing duplicative services. They also don't own the land where their current store is so they have no interest in renovating it when they don't own the land and the land owner's are apparently huge a**holes who won't spend a penny improving the land.

^ often, private cars are owned by the individual using them. I know a guy in Mt Lookout who, with a number of friends owns 3 private cars, very historic and in mint condition. They often attach to the California Zephyr and do a trip for 15 or so people once a year. $3600 a person, but it's 2 weeks of luxury, complete with your own butler, etc.

You will be able to see the streetcars coming at least a minute ahead of time at both of those stops. By that logic why have real time arrival anywhere? You can see every bus or streetcar 1 minute ahead of all stops. I don't think that's the point. John, do you know if there will at least be decent looking benches at the stops that have no shelters?

I have no insider information, but from the media's description it sounds very clearly as though this was well planned. They knew what door to enter to get to the manager's office without going through the restaurant. Someone from the inside of the building propped open (or coincidentally left open) the back door at exactly the correct time. I worked in fast food in my college and our sister store was robbed in a manner similar to this. It became clear that it was an inside job and they arrested a former employee a few weeks later.

^ I go to Gibbs in the market as my deli since OTR Kroger doesn't really do deli well. I do the market for spices, some unique veggies that OTR Kroger doesn't carry as much of/well, things like pine nuts or roasted red peppers, sun dried tomatoes, etc are from the market. But bread, milk, juice, basic supplies, frozen pizzas, snacks, everything else is at OTR Kroger. They even carry organic cereals now, etc. The Parking lot is a mess sometimes but the store is very clean.