thebillshark

Agree, it’s impressive especially with how much this project is flying under the radar (compared to development the Banks for example.) They’re quietly (so far) adding a ton of units and accomplishing a lot. Almost setting an example for the Banks in some respects

I think light rail for Columbus is just light rail for Columbus, though. Underutilized existing rail corridors don’t go near the most bustling pedestrian areas and crossroads, and street running rail gets delayed in traffic. A subway (perhaps automated for super low headways) avoids those problems and sets a gold standard. The resulting big city growth that would ensue would change the Ohio brand (remember Columbus, Ohio is one of the largest cities to be usually be referred to by both city and state) could help other cities like Dayton, Toledo, and even Cincinnati and Cleveland shed their Rust Belt image. I think Columbus should do it first because they are already winning the growth game and have the flat land grid structure and attitude to support more.

Could a 10 mile subway underneath High Street in Columbus (say, from Frank Rd. to Morse Rd.) change the reputation and trajectory of the entire state of Ohio? It could start a positive feedback loop that might

argghhh! So we lose six buildings well over hundred years old and make permanent negative changes to the street grid over one season (20 events) of parking?!? edit: and if the Findlay Market location is truck lot north of San Adams (which is unconfirmed but really could be the only place to fit a garage) couldn’t they get started on that one soon?

It’s a question of scale. A large garage could fit in just fine on the corner of Liberty and Central Parkway but instead they are ripping up small human scaled streets and buildings to put in the garage and possible/future/tentative/hey-it-could-happen-maybe generic large scale development and creating an even bigger barrier between OTR and the rest of the West End

Why aren’t they using the Tristate building/ballet site, that they paid so much for, for a garage instead? Would cause much less damage to the street grid & save 6 nice historic buildings

whoa! That’s almost like a bajillion! The only real math in these reports, is taking the miles between cities, dividing by an arbitrary guesstimated “speed” of the hypothetical hyperloop and coming up with the number of minutes it would take for something (anything) traveling at that speed to travel that distance. Like everyone does on a road trip in a car. Throw in computer renderings and collect the check

Sounds interesting but I think Columbus should just go for broke with a ten mile or more subway tunnel underneath High Street.

this is false. Wade and Bauer are equivalent of any OTR streets you wax ecstatic about. Plenty of them had huge gaping holes before redevelopment started. 1500 block of Race street comes to mind

Zero consideration shown for the urban context of their stadium. Even though a supporters group named “the Innenstadt” helped the fledgling fan base get off the ground

Hey our fans think the urban core is really cool and hip so we’re going to come in and raze a huge chunk of it, k?

no

Yeah city should hold onto that and consider it part of Wasson Way ROW. Once right of way is broken up it’s darn near impossible to reassemble. Light rail aside it looks like if they sell that parcel then the trail ROW will have a really thin width in that area limiting design options

Or just post a draft of the meeting minutes on the same web page they post the agendas. Very simple the lack of meeting minutes makes it especially hard to follow along on items that come back before the board two or three times with modifications.

that’s the way it is for every meeting. this is a huge flaw in the way HCB publishes information

All gondola proposals will now be fought by the all powerful Big Ferris Wheel lobby

Lot 28 could be the perfect spot for a gondola to Covington: https://cincinnatiideas.com/gondola-at-the-banks/ perhaps the Covington terminal could be further west as part of the IRS infill project

Let’s try this out... FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY at the HERITAGE BANK CENTER

The county should have to explain why they think the city’s interpretation is incorrect. It’s really a math problem about surface parking that should have a yes or no answer. the legal right to develop residential should have nothing to do with vacancy rates in the rest of the neighborhood

Looks good! Article doesn’t mention FC Cincinnati stadium...

Like, what’s the logic behind eliminating residential uses for Lot 24? Surely the city had to provide some reasoning for this change, however flimsy?

There’s a couple of prominent vacant retail spaces in the old Enquirer building (Homewood Suites) just north of the square as well. i do think there’s a risk in spreading 3cdc kind of restaurant/retail stuff too thin, especially with this talk of a convention center expansion and needing to actively “activate” that area. its tough when a whole class of retail (suburban chains like the stuff that would be in Newport Pavilion and similar shopping centers) only looks at vehicle traffic counts which almost automatically disqualifies an urban environment. (I’m not rooting for chains over independent small businesses with this comment, just saying it makes it difficult to fill the all the spaces)

So far the Macy’s closure has taken out three other businesses (Tiffany’s, Palomino, Booksellers.) It’s too bad- I wonder what the restaurants/retail replacing them will be. Seems like 3cdc has luck with restaurants and indie small boutiques. Wonder how much of that same style is supportable

Look up the New Urbanism movement, Andres Duany, Seaside FL and Norton Commons near Louisville KY. Of course a lot of these same strategies/principles can be put to work on our existing cities which is where you get into Jeff Speck and “Walkable City”

i think that was part of the original concept of this project (which began through a People’s Liberty grant) though- the houses were supposed to be a lot less expensive and they were going to be something that could fit into all the vacant parcels on the hillside streets- increasing population and affordability