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It has nothing to do with preservation or the theater. The building pays virtually 0 property taxes. It's allowed to pay virtually 0 taxes because it is supposed to have a public use (revenues pay for something at UC, theater has a public benefit etc.). But since the theater is closed, CPS can argue that there is no public benefit. The private apartments are simply paying the mortgage is off and the theater is closed. This argument may actually help people trying to bring the theater back into use. The article quotes Mark Painter, the Requiem project's lawyer, as stating that there is no public use of the facility especially now that the theater is closed permanently. CPS Has had tens of millions of dollars cut by the state. Any time they see someone who should be paying more in property taxes they always go after it. It's the only way they can survive without more levies.

Well said. I think a 50% VBML reduction once you're in compliance makes sense.

I would rather have 12 $500k homes than 6 $1 million homes, but it's still always good to add more product and more people in the city. Also, unless they build LEED Platinum they will still be paying tens of thousands in property taxes.

There are some random pairings every once awhile. I've discovered they are most often when someone's political leanings take them to one candidate, but a personal relationship with a politically opposite candidate also garners their support.

I think this is correct. They are often going after him on twitter. Finney is notoriously anti-gay.

St Bernard Public Safety station. A combined police & fire station. State of Ohio had to buy their current fire station as part of 75 widening.

Was told today by someone in the know they are no longer planning to restore the old warehouse building. It will be coming down. Apparently even after demo it was $400k more to reuse building that to build new. Hoping the quality is similar to Boulevard. I've been impressed with the buildings over there. Remember, the apartment developer of The Boulevard at Owklry station is who is also doing the 4th & Race tower.

I'm under the impression the Kroger garage no longer accepts monthly parking from non Kroger employees. Kroger bought the garage from the city two summers ago and I believe they've phased out residential monthly parking.

I've heard it's going to be a higher end carry out. Like market wines without the bar.

WABE NEWS After months of delay, the Atlanta streetcar project is poised to lay down its first section of tracks. "We expect to begin laying them down early next month," said Tom Weyandt, Atlanta's senior policy adviser for transportation. Unexpected issues related to moving utility lines set the project back about six months. “We’re building this in two of the oldest parts of the city - the Martin Luther King district and the Auburn Avenue district,” said Weyandt. “You have to deal with the spaghetti of utilities down underneath the street and sidewalks.” http://m.wabe.org/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F#mobile/34659 Are these very possible delays going to kill the project? No. Can they add 6 months to the timeline? It's possible. Why did Atlanta have delays if we can build F-22's? Get out of fantasy land please. That reminds me of all of the old people saying why can we get to the moon but My toaster won't work. This is a major infrastructure project and while it will get done, laughing at someone for pointing out real utility issues is ridiculous.

Some of you are incredibly ignorant in your bliss. 8th & state should not be criticized for appropriately pointing out the complicated nature of utility relocation. Don't act like there is no possibility for delays. We have a great crew working on it, but in many if not most of the cities building streetcar systems there were delays due to utilities. ARIZONA DAILY STAR Broadway to open temporarily; info on buried utilities was bad After nearly three weeks of a disruptive shutdown of Broadway through downtown for streetcar construction, the boulevard is reopening today. But drivers shouldn't interpret that to mean the inconvenience is over. This is just a reprieve. In a few weeks - city officials aren't sure how many - the barricades will be back up. It turns out the city's schematics for where underground utilities were located were wrong, which means none of what was designed for the new sewer and water lines fits. So now the city is filling the hole back in, repaving and heading back to the drawing board to re-design the whole thing. http://azstarnet.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/broadway-to-open-temporarily-info-on-buried-utilities-was-bad/article_94d08b69-e93e-57ba-bde2-076360270881.html

Has everyone on here already voted? If Qualls wins the primary by 5-8 points Cranley loses a ton of support.

10 years ago Lunken had 150,000 take offs a year. It has steadily decreased to 70,000 last year. Adding 6, 20, or 50 commercial takeoffs a week isn't going to kill anyone. Waiting for Columbus, Indy and Dayton to get better IS what has currently been happening. How's it working?

This is the closest comparison so far. Murray Hill is like a flatter, denser CUF (primarily students, dense housing, etc). It's also surrounded by institutions whose faculty and staff (hospital and University of Wisconsin) have disposable income and even though they don't live there could swing by on their way home. It's also pretty close to downtown. If CUF was even denser/larger I would have loved to see a grocery store in USquare.

Forest Park in Queens has 83,000 people living in 2.4 square miles. Not really an equal comparison.

Alright. Looked into those cities. Only Pittsburgh comes close, but it's still a hard comparison to the Ludlow business district... The remainder are all in subruban style strip shopping centers.

I would never for a moment compare Clifton and Cincinnati to Brooklyn, Manhattan, Hollywood or silverlake. Silverlake, the least wealthy on that list, is made up of 4-6 census tracts that range from 10-20k people per square mile, let alone the fact that it is 1 mile from several census tracts tha are between 30-40k people per square mile. Clifton is 4k people per square mile, northside is 5-6k, Avondale is 5-6k but it doesn't have the purchasing power or Clifton, and then there's CUF, which has two that are above 10k. If there is an urban feelin Trader Joes in St Louis, Columbus, Indy, Pittsburgh or Cleveland I could see us getting one.

Would be amazing but very unlikely. Trader joes love suburban style shopping malls. Only a very few aren't in large parking lots, etc. if they are semi urban, they are in very wealthy areas. Clifton is wealthy, but not very large. Trader Joes keeps its costs low by having a massive volume of sales. They would need to be packed all the time. I'll cross my fingers, but I won't hold my breath.

He pretty clearly says Ft Walton Eglin.

Amberley & Wyoming are the two best suburbs that border the city. The fact that they aren't on there makes little sense. Most of those municipalities would add a drain of resources to the city of Cincinnati. No Norwood is sort of a wash, it has lots of potential and has had some recent growth but they are consistently completely broke. I'm not sure what their debts are but the city should not assume their debts as well. The rest of those tiny municipalities Should look at merging with each other, but I would never support a proposal that brings many of those smaller poor anti-urban Communities into Cincinnati at this time.

Agreed.

Actually, I'd bet that Seelbach's poll is very close to how Ward's 6, 17, 11, 12. Still, that's not enough wards to win an election...

Don't get your cart before the horse. Get the downtown section actually built and operating before you get excited about the uptown link. In case you haven't noticed there is still a contingent who would like to kill it in its tracks (or lack of) right where it is. I believe the uptown link is going to be a bigger fight. I actually believe the opposite. Once the downtown section is open, the uptown section will get more support. UC, Uptown Consortium and UC Health are likely to publicly announce support for an uptown connection soon. I'd bet you could see Uptown Consortium become a funding partner in the next phase. Yes, Cranley still wants to kill it, and it's technically possible (yet now incredibly unlikely that it will be stopped). But waiting until 2016 to start the planning for the next phase is a waste of time. Ideally, you would start construction at the same time, but more likely it would be a couple years later.

1909 is staying

This post is full of so many wrong things its insane. "Cincinnati should stay out"? Foolish. The other constant complaint is tha CVG SUCKS and cincinnati doesn't do anything about it. If Allegiant air and the city can find a way to add 3-6 flights a week the rest will be figured out. You think Allegiant would say yes if they didn't figure out the luggage, etc? Seriously? There are huge advantages. Cheeper parking, way smaller airport, Etc. have you ever flown out of Long Beach airport in LA? It's amazing. It's maybe 3 times the size of Lunken and its Jet Blue's LA hub. The city can't MAKE CVG better. They can offer another option to people. That's wha they're doing.