jdm00

Over 18,000 riders on the streetcar this weekend: http://www.go-metro.com/news/744/58/18-000-Rides-on-Cincinnati-Bell-Connector-During-Bengals-Home-Opener-Weekend 5109 on Friday 7933 on Saturday 4964 on Sunday

Used it to commute for the first time today (I had ridden it Sunday to go to dinner, and it was packed). What a pleasant experience, and there were people getting on and off throughout the journey.

He created a nice niche.

Law students typically don't live in those places. There may be a few, but typically, the law students live in the Gaslight area, some live in Clifton Heights and Corryville. There are also a decent amount that live in Hyde Park, Oakley and Mt. Lookout, and a few that commute from parents houses, etc. The places you sight cater to undergrads, grad students tend to be a bit more price conscious in general and do not have the same tie to campus as undergrad does. Many do prefer to live in the area as long as they can find something on their budget and you can still do that in Clifton, especially in the gas light area. I can honestly say that in my 3 years at UC Law, I didn't know a single person who lived in the Gaslight area. Not that people don't, but generally folks lived everywhere--and I do mean everywhere. Northern Kentucky, Colerain, Anderson, Kenwood, Fairfield--it was all over the map. Partially this is because the Law School is essentially completely disconnected from the rest of the University. Someone mentioned "integrating" with the rest of campus earlier, but there's not much integration to happen. Unless you are getting some kind of combined degree (which was also extremely rare, in my experience) you would very rarely go on to the "main" campus, and you certainly never took a class there. I'd guess that in my 3 years there, I went somewhere else on UC's campus approximately 8 times in total. It's a pretty self-contained experience. That said, I don't necessarily have a strong opinion on where a new law school should be located--but I think a new facility is definitely needed. UC Law would like to compete with Top 50 law schools--it was in the Top 50 in the 90s and early 2000s before dropping in the rankings--and an up-to-date, modern facility will help do that. A new building will help some (Dayton has a new building and it has not really helped their rankings). The reason why the rankings have dropped is because they lost a number of well published professors to other schools. When they were in the top 50 in 2001-2003 time frame, they had a top Crim Law prof who left for AZ State. They had a very good Tax Prof who went to Pepperdine in the late 2000's as well as a highly regarded Securities Professor. When you lose them your ranking suffers. If you're talking about Professor Caron, he was there up until 2014-2015. (He had been a visiting professor away from UC before that; pretty sure the invite to his farewell reception was 2014.)

Law students typically don't live in those places. There may be a few, but typically, the law students live in the Gaslight area, some live in Clifton Heights and Corryville. There are also a decent amount that live in Hyde Park, Oakley and Mt. Lookout, and a few that commute from parents houses, etc. The places you sight cater to undergrads, grad students tend to be a bit more price conscious in general and do not have the same tie to campus as undergrad does. Many do prefer to live in the area as long as they can find something on their budget and you can still do that in Clifton, especially in the gas light area. I can honestly say that in my 3 years at UC Law, I didn't know a single person who lived in the Gaslight area. Not that people don't, but generally folks lived everywhere--and I do mean everywhere. Northern Kentucky, Colerain, Anderson, Kenwood, Fairfield--it was all over the map. Partially this is because the Law School is essentially completely disconnected from the rest of the University. Someone mentioned "integrating" with the rest of campus earlier, but there's not much integration to happen. Unless you are getting some kind of combined degree (which was also extremely rare, in my experience) you would very rarely go on to the "main" campus, and you certainly never took a class there. I'd guess that in my 3 years there, I went somewhere else on UC's campus approximately 8 times in total. It's a pretty self-contained experience. That said, I don't necessarily have a strong opinion on where a new law school should be located--but I think a new facility is definitely needed. UC Law would like to compete with Top 50 law schools--it was in the Top 50 in the 90s and early 2000s before dropping in the rankings--and an up-to-date, modern facility will help do that.

The guests were even better than the hosts. It was fantastic to be able to meet so many people we interact with in our little virtual world. Really an awesome time. Looking forward to the next one! P.S. -- Once "Not On UO" gets registered she can post some pictures.

Driving by Radius today, you can really get a sense that it is much better looking than the first Banks apartments. I don't know if it is materials or color scheme or what, but it is much more appealing to me.

It will last a few hours, I'm sure. People are welcome whenever. And of course you can bring your son. Budding urbanophiles welcome!

We will be here with doors open at noon (or before if you are really early!). It's the ---. Just ring the door bell. Looking forward to it!

Nice!

One of the big benefits of the first ring of neighborhoods on the hills outside of OTR is that they have so many detached single family homes and duplexes. Those are things you can obviously find all over Cincinnati, but not really in OTR (at least not for under $500,000 or so), and the ones in Mt. Auburn and CUF are within walking distance of OTR's amenities. So if you want access to Findlay Market, Rhinegeist, the Streetcar, etc. but don't want a condo they are excellent choices. I think they could surge in popularity even before the West End because they can fill a difference demand. I think CUF and Mt. Auburn probably are great opportunities for housing near the basin, but I also think that the argument about walking distance to OTR amenities is belied by the actual experience. I can't see people walking up the hill on Vine to, say, Warner (especially after a night of drinking). Walk down and then Uber home? Sure. But I can say, walking home to Mulberry on many occasions, that (1) I don't see a ton of other people walking to and from OTR, and (2) it's even rarer to see people walking up Sycamore or Vine past Mulberry. Those are some big hills. Of course, if/when the streetcar heads up the hill (and assuming there are stops somewhere along the way), all bets are off. But till then, the hills out of the basin are going to be a significant hurdle to making the hillside neighborhoods immediately north of OTR a walkable alternative, IMO.

I think that buildingcincinnati[/member] is going to be there as well. You can meet the man who is responsible for CDM's sig line!

So, having never been to one of these before, can anyone fill me in on what we do? I assume mostly hanging out and chatting? I expect we will supply some drinks and food (nothing fancy--probably snacks from Costco). ColDayMan[/member] , what have you gotten me into? ;)

Excellent!

bfwissel[/member] ? xumelanie[/member] ? Now I'm just going through people I think of from the board when it comes to Downtown and OTR!

Cool. urbanpioneer[/member] ? John Schneider[/member] ? buildingcincinnati[/member] ? Would love to see you all there.

I'd invite you to bring the cat but one of our two cats is very territorial.

Alright, so I think the following will be there: BigDipper80 ryanlammi GCrites80s ColDayMan jdm00 Also Mrs. jdm00 will be there, and I would think that jjakucyk[/member] would as well. Anyone else? BallHatGuy[/member] , didn't you come to last time we had people there?

Taco Tuesday?

^Pretty sure it's a sarcastic remark referencing an earlier statement.

We bought our new dining room chairs and bar stools at Algin. Love that store.

Yeah, Columbus's CBD is weird. What I really consider "downtown" (e.g., Broad and High) doesn't seem like it has a lot going on in the evenings, but the Arena District is hopping. It seems far away when you think of how compact the CBD is down here.

Also, the jobs number that came out on Friday was a bumper number (287,000).

I was there. Show was great. I would guess attendance was around 25K--maybe a bit more. The 75% of the lower two decks that were open were full, as was the field. Figure that the stadium holds 65K, and you have blocked off the upper decks, but have gotten some back on the field, and I'd guess that was around where it ended up. The Wednesday point is definitely valid--a concert that ended at 12:15 or whatever meant that today at work was rough.

Awesome! Should be a lot of fun.