1400 Sycamore

Do you actually own anything here in OTR? Past or present?

If there was personal bias in my observation, it may have come from the years I lived in Mt. Adams. After the 10th or so vomit cleanup on my front walk and the 100th or so urination over my iron fence, I yearned for an art gallery or coffee shop. But, my comment was simply an observation that sensible private developers hope for a bar or restaurant when they need an anchor tenant. Because they depress rents in the rest of the building. They are not a draw for residents in the same building. Nearby, maybe. Down the block, sure. Downstairs, not so much. I was speaking from the developer's perspective.

The comment was I said that not everyone wants to live next door to a bar. Anyone who disagrees with this observation is a passenger or a spectator.

You missed the point . . as usual. I wouldn't live there, bar or no bar. My point was that a sensible developer is not always going to invest $150,000 per door in apartments that are above or next to a bar. If you are putting up the money, good for you. Put a bar on the first floor of your multi-million dollar development.

Not everyone wants to live next door to a bar.

Oh, its just a calculation. Like Uber says, you need the data, you need to be able to respond to the data and you need compliance. That's all. If the parking in HP Square was 30 minutes free and $5 per hour after that, the businesses would flourish even more because all of the shop gals and food and drink service people would either bus in or find an appropriate parking spot. One only has to spend a few minutes in the park to see the employees re-metering. I am sure the same thing is going on on Main and Vine. If the spots turned over through technology every 30 minutes of so a lot of problems would be solved.

A lack of convenient parking is a sign that the neighborhood is a place people want to go to. I'll be worried if it becomes easy to find a parking space on Main. No, a lack of convenient parking shows a mistake in the balance of parking regulations, cost and availability. When I moved to OTR I found out that the SCPA teachers took 100% of the spaces witihin three blocks and left their cars there all day feeding meters or not even paying because they arrived at 7am or earlier. It took a while to get them into compliance and then, fortunately, they moved. So it is a little more complex than ^^^.

Its ironic. 20 years ago I moved my office to OTR because of the bad parking situation in the CBD. I was at Chiquita and because of the construction at the Riverfront, there was never a space. People would come to see me, drive around in the garage for 10 minutes and not find a space because there was never a space, then go a couple blocks pay $10, walk two blocks a couple sets of elevators and promise never to meet in my office again. So, I renovated a couple of row houses I owned for my office and people loved it. Come off 471, turn left, pull up in front and park. Any time of day. Now, here we are again facing parking crises. If I didn't have control of several parking spaces I'd be back where I was 20 years ago. And, the businesses on Main St., consultants and whatnot have that problem today. Someone coming to your atelier? Where to park?

Not to belbor the point, but there are Jesuit schools and there are "Jesuit" schools. Georgetown does everything they can not to look, act, or teach like a Jesuit school. They are a good school for sure, but barely Jesuit. Xavier is at the heart of the Jesuit education philosophy. I don't know about Boston College, but I'd suspect the same.

I have confirmed that 55% number. Sorry, my mistake. Wife recalls the statistic differently.

UD is an OK school. Not well rated and the campus is a mess. A complete dog's breakfast. But, it is uniquely a Marianist University and there aren't many of them anywhere. Xavier is one of the top Jesuit Universities and has a very small local student population. I recall Fr. Graham tossing out a statistic of 91% out of state students. And, the campus is now quite lovely. They compete against classic Ivy style campuses and the notion of doing anything to integrate the ghetto is a non starter. Xavier did its civic duty in turning a brownfield abandoned industrial site into campus amenities. I don't think they deserve to have to do any more.

I hope you're right, but I was wondering if the pavers cost more or less than typical asphalt. Based on just my own assumptions, I though the pavers would be *more* expensive, due to extra labor involved. The grading and placement of pavers without materials is more than the demo and installation of asphalt including materials. Asphalt is the temporary surface. They are not allowed to use aggregate. Asphalt is the next step up from that.

Thanks for the questions. I have a family member who is friends with Nick Hagglund and so I have been to several Toronto FC matches. In fact several are in Canada today for the match with NY I think. That will make me the person posting here who has likely been to the most MLS events. But, I never said that soccer fans were the equivalent of the NFL and baseball slobs. They aren't. But, they are not neighborhood resources either. They are one day visitors, like I said. And, they aren't walking dogs and buying groceries and getting their latte and scone. And, if the improvements were under the control of the Lindner org I would not be skeptical. But putting big $$ in front of the Mallory clan and their cronies will be a really ugly mess. Net result, not great. What I would always rather see is private, deliberate development. It was coming to the West End, albeit slowly, but consistently BEFORE FCC jumped in. I was privy to several transaction in the West End that were just like the stuff we did in the decade before Main St. popped. Admittedly, McMicken has the lead, but then West End was on deck. It will still happen, but everything is now boogered up with politicians and activists.

A stadium is a bad neighbor. Not as bad a sewage plant or a junk yard, more along the lines of a large electrical substation or a municipal parking garage. It will be closed almost all the time, guarded by active and passive security . Every now and then 20000 visitors who don't give a fig about where it is located will come down for a few hours and leave without the trash they brought. Some of them will melt into neighborhood bars. The blackmail money FCC will spend down there is the only upside and I have my doubts about anything Berding on the one hand, and the West End politicos on the other would approve. But, we will see.

The Diner could survive solely on a luch menu. But, they have never had a decent lunch for the thousands of potential customers they have. Who thought the fat ladies from HCJFS or the Courthouse would be eating a little "Kobe" Burger for $16? That was brilliant. All they need is a burger, decent fries, a bowl of chili that is not some goofball vegan recipe and a big salad that the fat ladies can dump 2000 calories of dressing on. Maybe 20 years ago you could get those things at the Diner. Not not since I've been here.

^^^ Is exactly why we fought so hard against the plan for SCPA to be transitioned to a hotel. Its just a big bar with a couple hundred strangers coming in for an event, and about half of that number showing up for shift work, and gone until the next one. Instead, 142 tenants with dogs and kids and the need for everything a family needs are located at 1310 Sycamore building the Pendleton Community. Now, the new bars and restaurants will cater to residents and not so much to visitors.

Mt Adams has never been a place for 19 year olds. At least not since the 70's. The Pavilion is a millennial bar. VIP tables, fancy drinks. But, Mt. Adams is down for the count compared to 20 years ago.

Yes, I see it now. 200mph up W. 8th St.

Its just not time yet. Be patient. There is a cycle to these things. The Apex and the Jackson will be developed responsibly.

It will be a long time for the Jackson Brewery to come on line, but there are steps in the Elm St. right of way that go up the hill. An incline up to Clifton might eventually access the Jackson and link Clifton and OTR. And, as I am sure most of you know, there are endless lagering tunnels starting at Liberty and drilling deep into the hillside, and under and contained within the Jackson.

The distillery and tap room will occupy the first floor. The rest of the building will eventually be one of the real jewels of OTR. I would also comment that the Blast Building aka Jackson Brewery, is the best view in all of OTR.

Anyone who has not seen the inside of the Apex Building (Northern Row Distillery) is in for a real treat. When they open it up you will see beams cast with "Carnegie Steel 1888" right on them and hard Oak factory floors that had 120 years of workers boots polishing them, side by side with gleaming stainless, glass and PVC still plumbing.

Yea? So do you think some guys from NYC will be stopping by OTR as the hundreds you claim will be doing so? Because I have been in most every public and private business of significance here in Cincinnati and I don't think you will find that inventory on many office workers here.

I take it you have not been in the workplace recently.

Curious, why do you think they located poorly? The demographic is apparent from their online store. Its about $100 button down cotton shirts, $70 polos, $1000 suits. Sort of a hip alternative to Brooks Bros. I see that as urban junior executive types. Not at all what lives or visits upper vine in OTR.