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New ‘upscale’ condos proposed near downtown Dayton, UD The developers of the Flats at South Park project want to build about 30 new condos just down the road from the Brown Street business district .[...] The hope is to start construction on the building in the next six months, Hibner said, adding that the units likely would appeal to employees who work at the University of Dayton, Miami Valley Hospital, GE Aviation, Emerson Climate Technologies and others who want to live near but just outside of downtown. “It kind of tests the waters of being near downtown but not in downtown,” he said. More at the two links below: http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/new-housing-beyond-downtown-condo-building-proposed-near/N7Y8SaS1KcpJp0JldO9bSL/ http://www.mydaytondailynews.com/news/map-this-growing-area-could-become-the-new-hot-housing-spot-dayton/lZ8pxoYUhacZ2Hx9nY53gK/

I figure this CityLab article about "underdogs" trying to win the Amazon HQ belonged here, because it included a nice section about Dayton (and Nan Whaley by extension, who is clearly pushing hard to get her name out there for the governor's race): The rest of the article is below: https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/10/the-underdogs-bidding-on-amazon-hq2/541446/

Interesting location choice. I've seen that truck at the Yellow Cab on a regular basis.

Ohhhh it's down that way... I rarely venture that far south on Brown haha.

This was supposed to open on Brown Street back in March wasn't it? I don't think I've even noticed any signs over there, unless I'm blind.

Fairgrounds redevelopment: Columbus firm picked by UD/Premier Premier Health and University of Dayton have picked a Columbus firm to plan the redevelopment of the former home of the Montgomery County fairgrounds. The university and Dayton-based health system have been planning to jointly redevelop the 38-acre site on South Main Street and have named Columbus-based Planning NEXT as the master planner for the site. More below: http://www.mydaytondailynews.com/business/fairgrounds-redevelopment-columbus-firm-picked-premier/llMH4YxAXiOHT9zKOMvkXJ/

^WRT NCAA games, is US Bank Arena really that much worse than UD Arena, which is five years older but hosts the First Four every year? And wouldn't an NCAA game probably end up at the Shoemaker Center anyway since that's in the process of getting renovated?

^ This should help - thanks!

Forgive me if this isn't the best place to ask this, but I was wondering if anyone knew of an easy way to access some specific data for a project in one of my engineering masters' classes. I'm trying to track down a rough estimate of the total number of buildings in OTR (broken down by vacant/rehabbed if possible), demographic/population trends over at least the last decade, and some basic crime statistics for the neighborhood. Exact numbers aren't important, since it's a very rudimentary model that I'm trying to construct, but having somewhat realistic numbers would help out the credibility of the model greatly!

I have never understood how it became popular. I got sick of hearing it about the 4th time I did, which considering the album rock playlists of the era was probably the same day. . My "favorite" Hotel California story is how Don Henley once went off on a Plain Dealer reporter after said reporter pointed out that wine is not a spirit. Don went on claiming that the "we haven't had that spirit here since 1969" was some grand sociopolitical metaphor that the poor reporter was just too stupid to pick up on.

^Lucky for you, Jeffrey still has most of his UO posts preserved on his Daytonology blog... you can't get rid of the Dayton Banana that easily! http://daytonology.blogspot.com/2007/10/dayton-banana.html Crazy these posts are over a decade old now.

Semi-related, but I just learned that P&G has an in-house big band made up of mostly older employees who just meet up and do it for fun. If Ohio, and Cincinnati in particular, has one strength, it's that its schools often do a pretty decent job of getting kids involved with jazz bands and orchestras at an early age, and I think that sticks with a lot of people into adulthood. Also, Hawaiian War Chant is a great song. I'm a sucker for kitschy exotica, and this is a great spin on it.

^^ I don't even consider WGRR to be a real "oldies" station any more, since its rotation is way too heavy on 70s classic rock. If 50's rock and roll and doo-wop and early 60s rock and pop aren't making up most of your setlist, you're just a more boring version of a "purely classic rock" format station, which aren't that exciting to begin with anyway. If I hear the Eagles or Chicago I have to change the station, I'm so sick of them at this point.

Well, WNKU officially gone. Kinda sucked flipping through my presets this evening and just having a wall of static come out of my car's radio when I got to 105.9

I had always heard of it as the Shillito's garage, was Shillito's a part of Federated?

I'm sure many UO'rs would be inclined to support that! :wink2: It can play the most famous song written about inclined railways on the way down! Seems fitting, no?

120 jobs could be headed to West Dayton A West Carrollton company is planning to move about 120 jobs to West Dayton when it renovates a large manufacturing facility, according to city of Dayton documents. Read more: http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/breaking-news/120-jobs-could-headed-west-dayton/0DhzoWJfu1OFhuCDT1Vu7N/

Looks like it'll be a nice sunny (albeit super hot) day for photography, so bring your cameras!

^The utter destruction of Bunker Hill is truly one of the most heartbreaking stories of the urban renewal area. I can't even imagine how expensive homes in Bunker Hill would be today if it had survived the leveling for all the skyscrapers. It looked like it was the LA equivalent of Mt Adams. As much of an engineering feat it was to level down the various hills in the downtown area, a lot of texture got lost in the process.

^What I like about Dayton is that in the few places where there actually are hills (like going from UD to Oakwood), there's always a rails-to-trail that is basically flat to get you to where you're going. So it's easy to get up the hill at a shallow grade and then you can just fly down a different steep hill on the way back.

While I doubt it will add anything to the walkability of that corner, I'm glad to see that something is getting built on that vacant lot.

I've heard that area referred to as the Historic Core, and there's a lot of cool stuff happening there. I'd check out Bringing Back Broadway, which is kinda-sorta like 3CDC but I think they're more of an advocacy group than a real estate developer. Broadway is an insanely impressive street and it's great to see all the old movie palaces getting new life breathed into them.

I don't even know if you could call Cincy and Cleveland "gains" when they're essentially at 0%. Dayton and Columbus only shrunk by maybe 0.2% at most, which also doesn't seem very statistically significant. That's only one less job per 500 employees, if not less.

Everyone on the West Side is buzzing about this project. I've heard from multiple people how hard they and their neighborhood associations had tried to work with Kroger in the past to bring a store into the neighborhoods (we'll just ignore the one on Wayne) and couldn't get them to come to the table, so they sound excited to have some level of "local" control over this co-op.

I really hate the name "hyperloop" for this thing. It just sounds like two unrelated words Musk stuck together in the middle of the night after being jolted awake by a fever dream.