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Six years late, I know, but you can also access 471 via 5th street. (I don't know if that is technically considered part of FWW, but I think of FWW as the buried highway between 2nd and 3rd streets.)

With Grammer's, the Moerlein tap room, and the various bars on Main Street (and some on Vine), I feel like this would be a good event to have on Liberty. Close down that street along with main (to say 12th) and go with it. (Probably a bit much to close down Vine.)

Where was the "panic"? I work downtown in an office building with a dead-on view of this stunt. I certainly didn't see any "panic" in the building here or in the streets downtown.

Last night was an absolute mad house in OTR. I would expect more of the same tonight. It was a good time, though.

sounds like it's good to have that all figured out up front... ;)

I had about 80% of my classes in Alter. This is long overdue, though at the same time I am insanely jealous of the current students and how nice campus is. ;) (Also, I think I noticed for the first time the thread title. I think XU is technically in Evanston, not North Avondale (and some newer parts of campus near Cintas are probably Norwood). I don't know exactly what the cut-off is between Evanston and North Avondale, though. Victory Parkway? Reading?)

The OTR store is steadily improving in terms of quality and selection, too.

I hesitate to do this, but this website seems to consist of nothing but lists like this: http://www.escapehere.com/ It even does things like a top ten most dangerous US cities list that is copied from Forbes, I think. (CLE fans will draw their own conclusions.)

Great article in this week's Business Courier about the burgeoning Cincinnati foodie scene. (I assume it's online somewhere, too.)

To oppose every project that improves downtown so that in 2017, he can say, "I fought for the neighborhoods instead of wasting money downtown." True. Also, somehow I feel it has to do with his boosters and or future plans. He doesn't want the core to thrive, he wants to keep pleasing the outer ring. Which is kind of more in line with what you said. But what do you think of him being anti-urban and pushing a more suburban agenda to please voters on a possible future run for congress or senate? Cranley is not anti Downtown he is negotiating a new deal. Look at the great deal he got for his Price Hill Development. He has a new Client now. The one he still owes $70,000 on? I thought only Liz Rodgers doesn't pay her loans. I seriously doubt that Cranley owes $70,00 on a loan to the city. The LLC might owe that, but it just proves my point in the banks thread. Clowncil makes awful deals. Ah, "clowncil." There it is--I was wondering when it would all come out.

If I had the money to do that kind of thing, I definitely would.

Saw there was a man shot 14 times in OTR (1600 block of Hamer) last night. (Must have been overnight.) He will survive. I found out about this because my mom texted me about it from suburban Columbus. She asked if it was near me (she had recently been to visit).

I'm telling you, the West End is in a prime spot if redevelopment ever gets going there. Amazing housing stock. It's a shame that it's probably being lost as we speak.

Since WCPO is owned by Scripps, I am sure they can weather the storm.

I have no comment on the number of college students argument (talk about hair splitting for no reason), but I find it entertaining that Cambridge is included in the Columbus CSA. It's like 80 or 85 miles away! I didn't realize they included that until you used the link.

Eh, I've been to a lot of ballparks. Wrigley is way overrated. The view from the seats is good (unless you get an obstruction), but just about everything else about it is not. There's a reason they're about to do a massive (and massively expensive) renovation. It depends on what you're looking for in a park or arena, I guess, but the trend is certainly to focus on improving the "fan experience" elements of a trip to the park or arena, like concourses, bathrooms, etc. Nippert is a great example of this. Cool atmosphere, nice sight lines, but needs tons of work on the other aspects.

^ Ah, probably a xavier fan. :roll: UD Arena is the best college basketball facility in Ohio, and it's not even close. Apparently, the NCAA, ESPN and CBS agree. I would hate to see it go but there have been rumblings that a new facility closer to campus is an eventuality. As it is, it's a star in the college basketball world and the only place that I've ever heard get louder is Rupp Arena. And Dayton continues to get the First Four because the city embraces it and puts on a great show; it's more than just the arena. The games are sold out, despite most of the teams being from far-flung locations. Cincinnati can't sell out NFL playoff games, Reds games without thousands of visiting fans, UC football/basketball games, etc. The thought of Cincinnati selling out games featuring Boise State, Cal, Iona and Western Kentucky is laughable. Fifth Third Arena is a poorly designed shoebox ill-equipped for basketball and is incredibly annoying for casual fans to access. The Cintas Center is nothing more than the Nutter Center with blue seats - ugly as sin, dull and with a hideous cinderblock wall behind one of the baskets. Do they want to host basketball games or banquets? The Schott at OSU is a multipurpose monstrocity with no personality designed to accommodate hockey, which renders it as sterile and lifeless as most NBA arenas. Miami's Millett Hall is a cruel joke. BG, Cleveland State and Ohio have nice facilities. Ah, clearly a UD fan. ;) UD Arena is nice, but it is not the be-all end-all that some UD fans seems to think it is. Because of the construction you can't have certain must-haves in this day and age (like the video screen in the middle) and are stuck with the crappy video boards at the end. And there are some very nice seats, but the seats at the 400 level are WAAAAAY up there. And just based on the age, it's not going to have the modern stuff that you see elsewhere (practice courts, training facilities, etc.). I know from some recent discussions on UD message boards that the idea of a new arena is at least being bandied about for UD. Will be interesting to see if they do.

Didn't Delta lease a lot of unused gates at CVG, presumably to keep a competitor out? Yeah, I think they maintained their lease on gates that they were not actually using. CVG has done a nice job in terms of infrastructure and it seems to be paying off. They consolidated all non-Delta carriers into Concourse A and re-did that one. Since then Frontier and Allegiant have arrived, and I am sure they are hoping for SW or JetBlue.

^Honestly, IMO the best shot at an NBA/NHL team would be to put it in Butler County and market it to both Cincinnati and Dayton. (Or Warren County, wherever.) The Reds (and to a lesser extent the Bengals) get a great deal of support from metro Dayton historically, but if you were to bring an NBA/NHL team and call it the "Cincinnati whatever" it would be very tough for a metro of 2.2 million to support it and an NFL and NBA team. Put it in the metroplex and it might have a shot. Not that this would ever happen, but that's about the only way I could see it. (You could also see how it would be popular for concerts too.) That doesn't deal with UC's issues, though.

^Whoops. Never mind then. ;)

As to the first, you already have that with Cintas Center. :) (Xavier fan having to speak up.) Honestly, as a city resident, there are things I'd rather see limited resources spent on. If UC wants to build a new arena and do it downtown, go for it. But I don't think they will.

The Orlando flight will be year round, 4x per week. The Seattle flight is seasonal, 3x per week. They also announced that they are increasing service to Denver from 5x per week to 12x. I expect we'll be hearing a similar announcement from Southwest before too long. And it's a pretty safe bet the legacy carriers will be bulking up their schedules as well, with bigger planes, greater frequencies, and hopefully a new destination or two (AA/US to Phoenix?). I wouldn't be so sure on Southwest swooping in off the bat. CVG lost tons of Delta flights long ago, and we still don't have Southwest service yet. Good news that Frontier is there.

The targeted tenants will definitely place this development above Bridgewater, Union Centre, etc. If an Apple store locates there, it could capture some of the Dayton market I guess? At the very least it would make a Dayton apple store less likely (though I don't know if there is a likelihood of a Dayton store anyway).

Nothing written in stone yet, I guess. Most of those stores listed are not necessarily groundbreaking but are solid. Getting a second Apple store would be a coup.

Totally accurate. It's not just for tourists, it's really for people who live here, too. I happened to be at the Art Museum yesterday. There was a fairly large group of LaSalle high school students there with parents, clearly all working on some school assignment. I overheard one of the mothers talking to another about it, and she said, "I've never been to the Art Museum before today." Now whether or not she is a life long resident I have no idea, but it's clear that she has enough roots in the city to be sending a kid to high school here, and has never set foot in the museum. Sometimes on here I think we forget that this place can be an echo chamber of people interested in cities in Ohio/the rest of the country/rest of the world, who know what's happening in terms of development/preservation/building, who care about public transit, who love places like Over-the-Rhine, etc. There's a good chance that many people in Greater Cincinnati don't know much about the city outside of (1) where they live and surrounding areas, and (2) Downtown, and that view of Downtown is built by places like the Banks, Fountain Square, the Stadiums, the Aronoff, etc.