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I asked this a number of months ago, but now that the project has started, has anyone found out what is happening to the Albee marquee?

Has there been any update on Vintage on Race? It was supposed to open earlier this year, but still no news on it.

Any word on what will happen to the Albee marquee?

There was an interview on WLWT last week where the rep said they intend to have music festivals there.

It will be interesting to see what they do with this, if anything, that they couldn't have done with a remade Riverbend. I wonder if it will eventually just be phased out. Seems like the area is really going to be oversaturated with music venues.

They replaced the Frisch's that was there for a year or two. Honestly, it is a pretty prime location. They also mentioned in another post that 3CDC takes 7% of profits (I assume) on top of rent. It seemed like their main gripe was the city giving supposed preferential treatment to 3CDC over them. I would tend to agree with you that it seems like it was mostly them not running the business as well as they could have. The abrupt closure would indicate they just ran out of money.

Hathaway's is closing and they are blaming 3CDC/the city as well as people not working downtown. A shame as their new space was really nice and it's a historic restaurant.

I would have voted no because of the numerous unknowns, but I trust that it won't be depleted. It seems like there's some pretty strict rules around that. How it is spent will be more ambiguous, here's to hoping it's truly spent on needed projects.

Frisch's has introduced some new at or below $9.99 options this year. The salad bar was dropped to $9.99 and was lowered as an add on as well. Those $8.99 baskets are also a pretty good deal. I've seen some billboards recently advertising two chicken tenders with fries and a drink for $4.99. Doesn't get much cheaper than that these days.

There probably is some bias going on as the westside has generally been neglected for a long time. Some of that bias lies in truth though as those area fell so far that they're going to be the last to turnaround. Same reason why Camp Washington is just barely getting off of the ground with new development. It's why I said earlier Price Hill is probably another 10 years away from seeing a real renaissance that isn't just a couple blocks in East Price Hill. There's still plenty of easy money to be made on the east side.

I was just referring to his comments that no new developments are happening on the westside. Like Jake said, home values are rising fast in Westwood and a big part of that is there's not a lot of empty land to develop. I was outbid on a number of homes in 2021-2022 and ended up having to buy about 10 minutes away in Green Township. I'm talking houses that were going $25-40k over a list price of under $200k. Now those same homes are selling for a solid $25k plus over that. One example is a duplex I really wanted that was $150k in 2021. I offered $175k and it sold for $185k. Now it's worth about $225k. I'm still a little peeved I couldn't find something because its business district is really coming alive with two more restaurants opening next year. There's really no room for a big apartment complex unless you start looking at the bad parts of Westwood. The shopping center where Kroger was on Harrison Ave would be perfect for a large mixed use development, but I imagine developers are leery of that with the surrounding area. Any undeveloped land in Price Hill is mostly small time investors sitting on their lots waiting for who knows what at this point to sell. It's going to take a concentrated effort to develop the empty land from groups like Price Hill Will. Even then, like Westwood, a lot of the empty land is in areas developers (and likely buyers) still want no part of.

There's really a lot of new home construction going on right now on the west side within 275. There's the one you mentioned, Trailside Village on Harrison Ave in Green Twp just started and will be a large development on 350 units. Deer Run was another large development that still has lots left. There are a couple smaller developments on going off Rybolt and South of about 12 homes each. I just read recently that Ruwe's Oak off Rybolt is going to have a small extension as well with what looks to be 15-20 homes. Skyridge apartments off Harrison Ave in Green Twp is going to be building out the rest of its property as well. Delhi actually has an apartment complex of about 150 units currently under construction. It's supposed to be some kind of upscale mixed use development, but I think it's been watered down over time. A couple of small sub-divisions are currently under construction or have been recently completed. There's very little developable land left in Delhi, and Covedale for that matter. I think Price Hill will really start to come around in the next 10 years as just about every other inner ring suburb has a lot going on already.

Cincinnati Zoo levy will go on the ballot as a renewal, not increase. https://www.wvxu.org/politics/2023-08-07/hamilton-county-commissioners-cincinnati-zoo-levy-tax-increase

Agreed. I expect Nippert Stadium will be expanded at some point and the Bengals would just play there a season or two if a rebuild happens at the Banks in 15-20 years.

I assume this is still the plan, all garage and office: Shillito's West Redevelopment : KZF Design ▪ Designing Better Futures