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PHOTOS: Take a look at the latest construction progress on the Dayton Arcade https://www.dayton.com/places/photos-take-look-the-latest-construction-progress-the-dayton-arcade/VT8B9HfwVG5yCHqq2gJPAK/

Garden Station Project among downtown building boom The developer behind the Wheelhouse Lofts plans to build 153 new apartments next door, joining many other high profile projects underway in downtown Dayton. Here are three projects you need to know about. 1. The 503 apartments Weyland Ventures is lining up financing to build a four-story, 153-unit apartment community on the former site of Garden Station. The developer also built Wheelhouse Lofts next door near the corner of Wayne Avenue and East Fourth Street, on the edge of the Oregon District. More below: https://www.daytondailynews.com/business/projects-transforming-downtown-dayton/7R2CQ8UiXGPMMV2z3EindK/

Don't forget his "biggest" hit from when he was in Wild Cherry, "Play That Funky Music"!

I can't see it going past 450 feet. Kroger, which is a way bigger company than SW, only has a 320-foot tall HQ in Cincinnati. I think we're more likely to see a mid-sized tower for the suits and a squatter building with large floor plates for the R&D labs. Engineers hate having to squeeze things into small spaces over multiple floors when you can much more easily lay it out on one large floor. It's just not practical to run equipment and test samples up and down between multiple floors.

What day are you going to CP? If it’s a Saturday, absolutely get the Fast Lane wristbands, as Halloweekends Saturday’s are the busiest days of the year outside of July. Friday nights or Sundays are manageable crowd-wise without them. Note that only the Fast Lane Plus, the more expensive option, includes the “big rides” like Steel Vengeance and Dragster.

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Yeah, Columbus has excellent, varied, fine-grained urbanism in its core neighborhoods, which is something both Austin and Nashville lack. Neither of them have anything that remotely resembles the Short North.

I haven't seen an "official" date yet, but Century Bar is having a "goodbye party" for their old space on September 28, so I bet they'll move into their new space next door sometime in early October.

87 buildings, 220 acres of Dayton now part of historic district More below: https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/local/buildings-220-acres-dayton-now-part-historic-district/5sntMNwJ71Uz6OZOYj1csM/?fbclid=IwAR0zjZHf3X0U5i6QDkt6VI2kE132woVx4U2YtOIcdZocjW4F1KcvfzJeUNQ

There is no city in Ohio with a bigger small town culture than Cincinnati.

Yeah, but does anyone really consider it "downtown"? It's not really part of the CBD and might as well be on the other side of a freeway in terms of connectivity.

If you include OTR, downtown Columbus is still probably about twice as large. I didn't include West End because it's more freeway than neighborhood tbh.

"Downtown" Columbus, roughly defined as the area between 315, 70, 71, and 670, is almost 4 times the size of downtown Cincinnati (as defined by the area between the river, 71, 75, and Central Parkway). There's stuff going up, but it's a vastly larger area, so it's not as noticeable and harder to create a "critical mass" of people in one given district of downtown.

... Have you never been to the Short North? There are tons of new infill projects popping up all along High Street and throughout Italian Village.

Most bars in Cleveland are pretty gay-friendly at this point. Twist is too vapid for my taste - if you want a true "gay bar" (not just a gay-friendly space) and your fellow travelers are comfortable with more of an old-school dive bar atmospehere, I find Cocktails to be the better choice. Jukebox is still gay-ish, although all of Hingetown has gotten bro-ier recently.

"Newsome said he was not certain, but he believes the new building may be the tallest in Portsmouth." Well, that's something!

Urban and rustic? Charlie really is breaking new ground with his townhomes.

I was shocked to learn that there's a Hard Rock Cafe a block away from the Duomo in Florence. I guess those Medicis really knew how to go crazy on the lute and mandolin.

I'd still take Jackson over John Cranley any day of the week. He's too busy sleeping at work to constantly meddle in projects and get them killed for personal vendettas.

I was somewhat indifferent when this initiative was passed by the legislature (more because of the nuclear part, not the coal part), but there's no way I'll vote in the affirmative if/when this referendum ends up on the ballot. This is just scummy.

Cities, as a corporate entity, should have priority over unincorporated areas and should be allowed to make a relatively easy annexation attempt. If a township doesn't want to get annexed, they can incorporate (as Trotwood, Kettering and Riverside all did), but being a "de facto city" but still being a township wasn't the purpose of townships to begin with.

This brings back another question I've posed before - why can't Deer Park or Madeira just annex Sycamore Township? Or alternatively, why ever even bother to incorporate at all? Make Cincinnati into a township and force the county to pay for everything.

That's my point. It's a CDP within Sycamore Township, but it doesn't advertise itself as such. Finneytown and Delhi are the same way.

I don't understand the love for La Collina. It's a nice facade slapped onto a really cheap-looking box, and the two-story vinyl tumor is terrible. Although I guess it blends in with all of the other ugly vinyl houses north of Mayfield.