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Loser has to move to Plano, TX

Foosball table. Jeff Berding has made an ultimatum that the Kenton County Library System must agree to build the infrastructure for it by 4pm today.

Hey guys I got a great idea for this site. How about a music venue?

There’s a chance both of these could coexist. What I liked about the MEMI choice was it gave them a chance to do more creative, artistic, or local things that Promowest would not be interested in. So maybe having both would create a good variety. Theres also a (large) chance that the entertainment dollar of the market size only goes so far, and “concert fatigue” will set in leading to one outcompeting the other or having two underutilized venues limping along. There is also a chance the culture changes abruptly and the current concert business model disappears completely in 10 years.

Right when the Bengals are renegotiating their lease on PBS, great.

So if MEMI music venue doesn’t happen, the county will have to pay to move Hilltop Concrete and build a parking garage base at the Banks lot before they can start on a low rise residential or office building where the venue would have gone. That project is never going to pencil out.

If they start routinely running more streetcars than they are now their numbers are really going to put ours to shame even more so than they are now.

Since the texts were released, there’s been a handful of accounts on Twitter that respond to every “gang of five” council member tweet, telling them to resign. It’s a lot like how the Harambe trolls harass the Cincinnati Zoo account. This can’t possibly be worth the time/effort whoever it is is putting into it.

I wonder if they feel like they need to get something going before the Covington IRS land becomes available.

Headline is funny. This project was in the works before the FCC stadium was a twinkle in Lindner’s eye. I wonder if we’ll see a shift in narrative from “streetcar is causing development” to “FCC stadium is causing development” and if that narrative will be encouraged and pushed hard by certain politicians who want to further abuse and scapegoat the streetcar.

Yes- we could have tried a temporary 3 lane trial at some point during the last seven years, or taken traffic data when the number of lanes is restricted for other reasons (happens every holiday season in front of the free store food bank,) but we didn’t.

I think the general thinking when they moved the fountain, that people should experience the fountain up close by being on foot instead of just driving down Fifth Street, is correct. I don’t think it should be moved back closer to the street unless the streets are radically road dieted or pedestrianized. (About to commit Cincinnati blasphemy) maybe the reason the fountain doesn’t seem as prominent is that Fifth and Vine isn’t the greatest hub of activity downtown anymore. (bear in mind I don’t get to experience the square on weekdays during lunch.) Sixth and Walnut seems much more active nights and weekends without even considering OTR

“Indianapolis has had to pass on more than 200 events in the past decade, Gahl said, and the added space would allow the city to bid on some of those events and conventions it previously missed out on.” So even in Indianapolis which is supposedly winning the game there’s a distinct arms-race tone surrounding the convention business and this type of development. This hotel may end up being a good project but I would caution Cincinnati not to give away the farm and to look for ways to compete asymmetrically in this expensive business.

Yup. Residents wanted a slow, narrow street, a handful of institutions wanted the parking, but the constant all along was that DOTE would not accept any tradeoff that required reduction of capacity, even when the NACTO numbers suggest a reduced capacity street may work. So, we'll end up with a Frankenstein of a street.

I've publicly spoken in meetings in favor of many developments Josh Spring has been opposed to. I've even got up and asked angry neighbors to keep an open mind about this stadium. My (naive) hope was this FCC would have a delicate hand with this stadium and try to integrate itself into the existing urban fabric (after all, they were attracted to the "urban core" in the first place), but it appears that is not turning out to be the case. Although FCC refuses to lay the cards on table regarding their plans, it's becoming apparent the idea is to bulldoze the surroundings for parking lots. That's bad. Like I've said before, those blocks of Wade and Bauer streets and that little stretch of Central Ave. could be equal to any street in Over the Rhine if they infilled around the historic buildings. As far as helping the existing tenants goes, while there may be no legal requirement to do so, it's the right thing to do. Assuming a tenant has $1,000 to their name, individuals in the ownership group have a net worth that is literally a million times more. This money bestows them god-like power to make anything happen, conversely a lack of resources leads to a lack of options for the tenants who must find a new home (and moving is an expensive and stressful process under the best of circumstances.) Meanwhile Berding is out there bullying a city council that already gave him tens of millions out of the rainy day fund for infrastructure improvements. FCC is a sports team whose business model relies on people having positive feelings about them (literally cheer for them.) If I'm going to spend discretionary dollars on tickets and beer at this stadium, I need to feel good about how the stadium came to be in the first place.

I am appalled at the number of FCC fans and others online who are eager, even gleeful, for the teams’ billionaire ownership group to evict this 99 year old woman and her neighbors (whose lack or resources gives them very few options) from their homes because “property rights” or “renters” or somesuch nonsense. The team made a promise that they wouldn’t displace anyone and they are breaking it. They need to at the very least provide generous assistance to atone for it. (Berding made the comment yesterday his promise was in response to activists who had spread flyers in CityWest to the west of the stadium, falsely claiming they would be evicted. But I guess if they had spread flyers to the north, the activists would have been correct?) Berding’s angry entitlement is palpable in every press conference. He absolutely shouldn’t be the face of this going forward. They should let Mallory handle everything.

I suspect the same. NACTO guide says streets up to 25,000 daily volume can be candidates for 4-to-3 lane road diet conversions. Source: https://nacto.org/publication/urban-street-design-guide/streets/neighborhood-main-street/

Under the 5 lane option, it looks like the water main would be under the sidewalk. I don’t see why that’s so bad, or so much worse than it being under the street, especially since DOTE can control the width of the sidewalk and make it extra wide so no new buildings are built right up next to the water main. But I’m not a civil engineer. It’s too bad. If the city admin was pro pedestrian and pro bike, I’d question them a lot less when they say they can’t do something or something is too expensive.

Single day data points are a poor way to judge this policy.

Yes, should have clarified, the 10’ was from the community approved five lane proposal. Can’t find current width but they may vary. half measures and half a**ing don’t get you half way there. It gets you nowhere or worse. This city loves doing things that way though

The travel lanes have been increased to 11’ from 10’. At Republic the northmost lanes are 20’ (travel+parking) (parking can be accomplished with an 8’ lane so this could be 10’+8’=18’ instead.) This is a recipe for continued race car behavior

The view from those will be amazing

I’m sure they’ll be OK

I think Hen of the Wood chips are really good. Kudos to them for starting something new. Uhh... that’s kind of the main goal of a successful business

If no one sees this area in between the ceiling and the roof anyway, I don’t see the point in using wood instead of steel to rebuild.