climberguy714

I know cincinnati ballet is searching for bigger space from where they are now on the west end. Would be nice to see them build on one of these parking lots. Then their old space could be torn down and redeveloped for housing or mixed use if the FC stadium gets built I actually wonder if they've considered the emery. Don't know if the size would be right or not.

But what will people do on date night!? Lol

The article on business courier says specifically all these lots will be single family which will def be a missed oportunity.

I know the one you're talking about!

Yeah I'm very surprised by that. We have a great local culture here in Cincinnati with alot of nationally known events like Oktoberfest etc. I would argue coastal people saying this have not visited nor know anyone from here. At least we are finally getting props from more movies that show off downtown and otr and some even blatently saying they are in Cincinnati.

Well I've been following this for almost 10 years. I knew A LOT of people who were buying and selling drugs with it circa 2012 and knew one guy who mined 6 bitcoins with his personal computer back then and another guy who mined 166 litecoins. I never bought any because I had no use for them because...I don't do drugs. There was no anticipation back then that bitcoin was going to skyrocket in value, especially after the price collapsed following the Mt. Gox incident. The big question is why, suddenly, in 2017 this all took off after Bitcoin having existed since 2009 and various alt coins including the fake Dogecoin. Blockchain hasn't been a new idea since 2010~, so why is it all suddenly a new idea? People were actually using bitcoin as currency back in the drug years. Now it's just a speculative object. By 2020 this is all going to be a comical memory. As I explained already, blockchains will have some useful applications. Unregulated currencies can't do anything of any significance that is legal that traditional currencies can't. Countries with unstable currencies, where a crypto currency might be of use, don't have large economies. Their economies are like a fraction of Wyoming's. So their impact in legitimizing crypto as real worldwide currency will be nill. Doge is the best! It will soon overtake all of the world's currencies! BTW seems that alot of this block chain shit will not even be currency, but rewards points like what Hooters is doing. I can see that taking off, having apps to store your Hooterscoin points and Starbucks latte bits etc.

That is a great list/assessment. I honestly think all of the political bullshit has been/gotten in the way all along. If the city wants it to be a success it could be a glowing success. I will quote again my friends who at the time lived in Chicago who i took on the streetcar when they visited. They literally said "this thing is really nice. If the El in Chicago was this nice we would go back to riding it". We literally have fought tooth and nail to have a great amenity and it is being made a"failure" by those who don't want to accept it as something nice and worthwhile. Meanwhile in other news our taxes are being raised to pay for the western hills viaduct and is anyone questioning that? Fuck our city government and their hypocrisy!

Bet they could spend way less and have a way bigger economic impact if they built light rail connecting through to cincinnati instead of bypassing it with yet another highway.

Lol i saw that too and pointed out the hypocrisy on Facebook.

I'm not saying can't or won't. I'm saying why mls shouldn't be doing this.

Why is the MLS supposed to be immune to moving teams? This article states that declining revenues should not be a cause to leave a city...huh? Columbus Crew Stadium is the ''spiritual home'' of US soccer? Slap in the face to Crew fans. Welcome to professional sports MLS fans. This writer is only using the Columbus situation because Minneapolis just got an expansion team playing. I don't know the cost or if there was local drama in MN getting its franchise. Maybe it's the writer's wishing-and-hoping attempt to avoid the scenarios other established major league sports face: teams lose money=owners move teams. It's the easiest equation of all time. Owners move teams for other reasons as well, for example, higher growth potential. The MLS is old enough now and has to face the fact that some teams may move. MLS is supposed to be Major League. There's gonna be some slaps in some faces. The MLS is old enough now and has to deal with the fact that some teams may move. Columbus is just the first time the MLS has had to deal with this issue. Not sure how it will work out in the end but if the owner/s want out, they get out. Cincinnati is simultaneously competing for an expansion team. That can't help if Cinci gets a team. The issue is soccer the world over is different. As far as I know teams don't move. If a team can be profitable in a small town in Spain or England or Germany why not here in a mid sized city? You can't use the excuse anymore that soccer isn't popular here, because it now is.

This sucks Cranley will certainly cite this as a reason not to expand.

From the interview with Don Garber during halftime today, looks like he is continuing the narrative that the Crew haven't been "profitable". Looks like instead of promotion relegation, we just have termination in MLS. Loved what Alejandro Merano said "You Have to respect your roots." Its insane. What would Spanish soccer be like if Real Madrid moved to Seville because they had a few seasons where fans didn't show up? Or if Man U moved to Yorkshire? It just doesn't make sense. The American sports model of moving teams doesn't work for soccer.

Very good history! Went to saints games the last two years they were here. Hoped maybe this local guy buying them might mean they'd move back to cincinnati.

The MLS is looking really bad with this whole columbus thing and if this rumor of letting them be an expansion team is true it is basically extortion of the city to keep a team.

Does anyone know when the other mid-rise buildings at that site will start being built?

It would be awesome if this whole thing was a charade and they actually built this there and spurred development around that site and the ones close by in bond hill

So much for those sidewalk bump-outs and sharrows that at least attempted to make the area a bit more pedestrian and bike friendly. There is no attempt in this plan to make the development walkable, transit-accessible, or new urbanist in any way. No pedestrian bridge over the railroad tracks, either, as far as I can tell. Yea its pretty much shit. Nice. Even though i want it built in the city I will be protesting this.

So overall city is willing to put in almost as much money as it did for the streetcar. Will there be as much hoopla about this. Doubt it.

Lol good one. If only the city and county wanted to put money into that instead of parking garages this would be a slam dunk for everyone.

If that were to happen it could set the precedent where the city has its own rail while the county pays for bus service like has been talked about elsewhere on here.

You forgot to add that Paul Brown's lower deck design was modified after site prep had begun to accommodate professional soccer. To date, the 17 year-old stadium has never hosted a soccer match. A new soccer-only stadium built in place of the Bengals practice fields would require basically zero new "infrastructure", other than finding a new site for the Bengals to practice. Unfortunately, Mike Brown's insistence that the county pay for new practice fields immediately adjacent the new stadium was a way for land to be preserved for a replacement stadium for Paul Brown. If you measure the space with google maps, you will see that it is just wide enough to accommodate construction of another big-time stadium without repeating the ignominious "wedge" period for Riverfront Cinergy Field. Pretty sure they had a women's national team friendly there at some point.

Has anyone read the courier story today with hints about location?

Cane's and chick filet, be the fried chicken brigade.

Lol