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New Census finding: Ohio posts biggest migration gain in seven years Ohio appears to have stemmed the tide of people leaving for opportunities elsewhere, as the state had the largest net migration and smallest domestic migration loss in more than seven years, according to newly released U.S. Census population estimates. The data shows Ohio gained a net of 36,055 people from July 1, 2016, to July 1, 2017, the period for which the census conducts its annual estimates. In past years, gains in local population have been mostly attributable to more people being born than dying, and to immigrants movingto the state. Domestic migration — people moving within the U.S. — has mostly flowed out of the state. The nine-county region around Dayton lost nearly 5,000 people through out-migration from 2011 to 2012, for example. Warren County, meanwhile, was the only local county to gain population through domestic migration during those years. But this past year was a different story. The region gained more than 1,700 people from other states or other parts of Ohio, and Butler, Clark, Champaign, Greene, Miami, Preble and Warren counties all saw domestic gains — some for the first time in a decade. More below: https://www.mydaytondailynews.com/news/new-census-finding-ohio-posts-biggest-migration-gain-seven-years/in6rzkg6UnvG8PhhavK4lK/

Dayton’s Fire Blocks faces deadline, could lose $4.5M in funds The state of Ohio has told the group that wants to redevelop the Fire Blocks District that it has until June 30 to prove it has financing for the project or its tax credits may be rescinded. The Ellway Group won nearly $4.5 million in state historic preservation tax credits in June 2016 to help fund the restoration of the Elks Building and the Huffman Block building on the 100 block of East Third Street. More below: https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/local/dayton-fire-blocks-faces-deadline-could-lose-funds/JM2JWSzTlwZEMgxEj45QpM/

I guess all those ugly Charlie Simms condos downtown are starting to pay dividends!

Good pick on her part ;) Not to simply volunteer ColDayMan[/member] but I'm sure that he (along with myself) would be happy to give a tour if she's ever checking out the area!

This conversation probably belongs in the streetcar thread, but the city should really post giant signs at each stop that say something to the effect of “Why Uber when you can get to X, Y, and Z bar for $1?”

I got in an argument with someone else on a different website about this. He was saying that the type of people who frequent Rhinegeist have "no problem walking 1.75 miles from Rhinegeist to GABP" and couldn't accept the fact that if this was true, most everyone in the CBD would just park at the Banks and we wouldn't be building all these additional garages all over OTR and elsewhere. Never mind the fact that "the type of people who frequent Rhinegeist" probably would Uber to Vine Street rather than walk, even in broad daylight.

^Just curious here, would people be opposed to the Davis Furniture building coming down if someone managed to assemble that entire parcel and had an actual plan other than Joseph-ing it for more parking spaces?

While we're redesigning the 5/3 tower, can we also rally to bring back the original skin on the Kroger building?

HUGE news if true: Sources: Ford pursues deal to buy, redevelop Michigan Central Station Ford Motor Co. is in discussions to purchase the dilapidated Michigan Central Station in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood just outside of downtown, Crain's has learned from multiple sources familiar with the negotiations. The exact status of negotiations is unknown. But two sources familiar with the matter said a deal for the Dearborn-based automaker to redevelop the 500,000-square-foot former train station off of Michigan Avenue owned for decades by the Moroun family could come as soon as next month. More below: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20180319/news/655651/sources-ford-pursues-deal-to-buy-redevelop-michigan-central-station#utm_medium=email&utm_source=cdb-breakingnews&utm_campaign=cdb-breakingnews-20180319

I think this article does a pretty good job of summing up how we get Solid Rocks nowadays: The rest of this blog post gets into a bit more detail. http://www.sacredarchitecture.org/articles/erasing_distinctions/

It's in Cleveland.

^People can argue the merits of poor immigrants giving tithe to build such big churches, but I think it really speaks to the pride in their parish and community these people had in their new homelands. There is almost no way you’d be able to build such an expensive building today through donations from the poorest among us.

It has to do with a difference in religious beliefs. Catholics use(d) their churches as a glorification of God, so complex buildings and artistry was seen as a good thing. See: the Renaissance (and pretty much any other significant Western architectural work between the fall of Rome and ~1300). Protestants, with representing a clean break with the church, promoted austerity and simplicity as the way to being in touch with God, as opposed to ostentation and elaborate pageantry. The Anglicans are the big exception with respect to being Protestants that build fancy churches, since they’re still very similar to Catholicism and mostly only exist so Henry VIII could get a divorce.

The Sunset and neighborhoods south of Twin Peaks are some of the blandest areas on that whole peninsula. It's a shame that the NIMBYs aren't allowing for any additional denisifcation even in the most characterless areas. Even replacing some of the two story single family homes with 5-7 story walkups like upper Manhattan would really help, but it's probably not going to happen any time soon.

I don't think they talked about CLE or Cbus because the tour didn't go to either of those cities.

The thing I can't wrap my head around is you always hear people vocalizing about how they could "never live in a 'red state'" and love to sneer at O-K-I (et al), but then they just eat the hell up out of Nashville. It's just weird to me that cities like Nashville and Austin have so successfully managed to sell themselves as progressive champions in two of the reddest states. Maybe it's because of that contrast, and not in spite of it, that's made them stand out so much. Do non-Nashville Tennesseans (both in the cities and elsewhere) view this boom as an overall good thing for their state, or are they threatened/scared of it?

^The ridiculous thing is that it's so easy to sell Midwestern cities as more than "oh it's cheap", which as a marketing campaign really hasn't been all that successful. I honestly think some people don't realize we have any sort of art or music scene here, much less any good bars or restaurants or outdoor activities (since the entire midwest is obviously flat cornfields).

Dear lord do most of those look boring... It's crazy there's now a market there for 30-40 story condos while we're lucky to get half that height for residential buildings in any of the 3C's.

^^^ "Potato bar"?! I think Cleveland may have jumped the shark...

I genuinely love Wheeling and all of the towns surrounding it. Here's hoping it manages to pick up more steam in the near future. I'd love for it to transform itself into an Asheville 2.0 or something, only with even more impressive architecture and a prettier location.

The difference is that one of these actually exists in various forms in the real world and is currently in the process of being built. Who's to say that the first Hyperloop won't have the same issues, if not more?

The Hyperloop Pipe Dream "[Andrea] La Mendola isn’t an engineer either. Before joining [Hyperloop Transportation Technologies] as its chief global operating officer and a member of its chief engineering council, La Mendola was working as a filmmaker. He has a master’s degree in engineering—media and cinema engineering. It’s a well-deployed skill set: What Hyperloop Transportation Technologies lacks in nuts and bolts, it more than makes up for in Hollywood flair. The pods will be coated in “Vibranium,” a rebranded carbon fiber whose name you may recognize from Black Panther." This alone should be giving people pause about anything hyperloop related. More Below: https://slate.com/business/2018/03/ohio-is-investing-in-hyperloop-studies-why.html

It's funny, I was just talking with people about Ohio Valley style pizza today! I wasn't sure if it was some mythical pizza form that one pizzeria made once and it got attributed to all of the Ohio Valley, but sure enough it's real!

That's so insane. I don't think I ever paid more than $375 a month in rent when I was at UC. There's no world where I would have paid $900 for some college apartment. Hell, my mortgage is less than that! Co-op helped out a lot too. I would be able to work for a semester, pay off my highest-interest loans, and save a little bit for living expenses. I think my biggest purchases in five years was a $250 IKEA mattress and my Kings Island season passes. And now I'm planning to be student loan debt-free by the end of this year.

This. If you look at Victorian England, the people who had the stuffy "formal" British accent was actually the middle class and upper-middle class, while the working class had their regional accents (Cockney, etc) and the aristocracy didn't really give a crap about how they sounded. The middle class would essentially put on airs to seem more important than they really were. Since rich people were already rich, they didn't need to bother with it, and working class folk weren't really educated enough or exposed enough to that lifestyle to feel a need to modify their speech patterns.