thebillshark

I think the idea of tearing down 100+ year old historic buildings for a temporary parking lot drives me and a lot of other people in this forum insane. The historic buildings should be saved and used as a guide to shape the rest of the infill development.

Please no

Toll the existing Brent Spence and use the funds to build a new, cheaper, bridge by the airport that some of the traffic could divert to.

Well, we’ll see which places can execute the vision into reality. A lot of it depends on being willing and having the courage to change the roads and stroads into real streets as I allude to above. Another model out there that I think misses the mark is to have mixed use all confined to a designated area, hemmed in by high speed arterials or vast parking lots, that is not walkable from or to any other locations outside the development (for example Liberty Center)

If there were a west side bridge to the airport and I-275, it would bring Delhi out of its isolation and provide the demand for mixed use development. (Side Note: that bottom rending looks like having your cake and eating it too, with lots of pedestrians walking down a wide open road with fast moving cars)

The Convention Place building is actually good urbanism. Mixed use, street facing retail with sidewalk awnings. It’s definitely not the worst thing in the western half of downtown (the worst thing would be the old gym structure on the NE corner of Sixth and Elm that has an oversized skywalk across Sixth to the Millenial. And because sixth street doglegs there it feels like a tunnel and a barrier to pedestrians on Sixth.) I think Convention Place could fit well into a revitalized area if they wanted to save some millions reusing it instead of demoing.

Do you follow @movethemill on Twitter? It’s an account that endorses this idea. It would interesting to see if they could re-plat the land in modern times to mimic the historical incremental and granular development of a city without doing some never ending top down master plan with the freed up space.

Let’s take a step back here. Every time FCC has gone before a board or council needing approval, they have received it. This is even after the location of the stadium was completely changed from Oakley to the West End. I don’t know how things could be moving any faster for them without having complete disregard for our city’s processes and people.

I don’t want to single you out because this is such a pervasive opinion around here that I see all over social media but the whole “lost the Hofbrauhaus to Newport” thing really needs to be retired. There’s like, what, 30 craft breweries in the area now? Does Hofbrauhaus even crack the top ten of most impressive breweries in the area these days?

I test rode an e-bike once. I was able to get up Ravine, but it was not easy. But the fact it was possible at all blew my mind.

The only thing fitting the definition of “parking lot” in the area that would possibly be big enough for a garage is the semi truck trailer parking lot on the northwest corner of Findlay Street and Central Parkway. Which I think would be a good location for one

The thing it does well is granularity. Since it only has the frontage footage similar to a traditional historic building it’s quirks are localized and remain quirks instead of defining the whole block. The massing is good from the angle of the photo with the two historic buildings to the right. Yes that layout would seem claustrophobic to me.

Is that a cornice of vinyl siding? It’s a brand new building it’s not like a historic cornice was damaged from years of neglect and then cheaply repaired to keep the building habitable...

Yes it’s an interesting problem. Manufacturing and warehouse facilities are going to be sprawled out by their very nature so serving them with transit in an efficient straight line is difficult (leading to a “last mile” problem.) It’d be an interesting DAAP project to come up with industrial park configurations that would be conducive to transit or even walkability, but realistically no other design factor is going to trump functionality, process efficiency, and the bottom line when designing these facilities.

Probably the majority are split between Browns and Lions so the Steelers minority seems the largest. It can be hard to separate signal from noise on these maps

Yes it is exciting and that’s why we need a bridge from the airport directly to the west side and also better transit options to the airport.

That facility is absolutely enormous. I wonder how much power they could generate if they put solar panels on top.

The trick is to get in the US-50 River Road lane coming north across the current bridge and take that exit. Then immediately exit River Road to the right to Linn Street. You’re right in the heart of the West End & very close to the proposed stadium then.

Was just about to chime in with this. And this general real estate inflation will be mislabeled “gentrification” in a lot of places. It’s the gentrification of everywhere- enough to make the term meaningless. I recall hearing from a bunch of people before 2008 that home prices never come down (obviously that was soon proven incorrect.) I wonder if real estate will come down again in the next recession.

Hmm... maybe WCET will move operations to Dayton and sell the building which is why Cincinnati Public Radio would need a new one. Wikipedia says master control operations are already at WPTD in Dayton.

I would think there is a relationship between the two besides landlord/tenant. Shared equipment, facilities or human resources in order to make their donation money go farther. If not I kind of question if they are operating efficiently. I’m already questioning public radio’s decision to take on the expense of building a new building.

I do not, for the life of me, understand why Cincinnati Public Radio wants to move out and build a separate facility from WCET but WCET wants stay put. There’s gotta be a story behind that. As far as the air rights to the garage go that probably has more to do with their satellite dishes than any thoughts of development.

Yes of course- these smaller municipalities are in better position the more assets and jobs they have within their limits. That’s similar to how Downtown and Uptown support city neighborhoods. But a lot of municipalities surrounding Cincinnati don’t have these assets, instead just have a lot of dated, small square footage working class housing that has fallen out of favor.

The other thing about the city neighborhoods vs. independent enclaves is that city neighborhoods really do have access to more resources. For example if Cheviot ever wanted to update Harrison Avenue with a complete street plan or update Harvest Home Park it would struggle mightily to find the funding. Perhaps if Norwood was part of the city and had access to city resources and personnel there’s a chance Surrey Square would have turned out differently with street facing mixed use development that could have greatly aided Norwood’s revitalization (although it still would have been forward thinking to do that before Plan Cincinnati came out.)

Im sorry, I strongly disagree with this premise. Northside is the perfect counterexample- it was known as a center for Appalachians or the white working class or whatever you wanna call them and it started revitalizing or gentrifying or whatever you wanna call it with actual hipsters or culturally middle class types or whatever you wanna call them. Fairfax is another good example- there’s some very modest homes there but upper middle class people are moving there because it’s attached to Mariemont school district. I think many factors are at play when a neighborhood starts “gentrifying”- quality and condition of housing stock, proximity to jobs, proximity to other wealthy neighborhoods, highway access, school district, municipal government, quality or potential of business district, parks, etc. If “gentrification” by “hipster” seems to happen mostly to minority neighborhoods (and studies actually show this isn’t the case) it could be that these neighborhoods have several inherently desirable characteristics but were artificially brought and kept in poverty by redlining and the bank lending policies it brought.