1400 Sycamore

Developer French's infil houses will have incredible walkability. All shopping, walk into Ault Park, the Wasson Bike Trail. On the bus line. Medical 500 feet away. Is it all about location, location, location? I count 62 restaurants one could easily walk to. Plus three grocery stores. Plus a post office and hardware store. Plus, plus, plus.

I-75 destroyed the West End at a time when "social services" meant sending a funeria around to pick up the indigent's body, or placing the orphaned children in a orphanage. We should be more enlightened today. But, instead, many of you championed the intrusion into what was left of the West End by the ugliest, most pointless structure ever to be built in a residential area and soon to be run by a crowd of the most careless aristocracy one could conjure up. The FCC atrocity belonged at I-74 and I-275 or further out.

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Chris' most recent project is the Williams YMCA 1228 McMillan. A fantastic renovation. But, he did maybe 20 in OTR and Clifton in various levels of renovation. Here is the web page: https://www.citycenterproperties.com/apartments/Ohio/Cincinnati/the-williams

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Hyde Park is very diverse. It has everything from 900 square foot bungalows that came from Sears Roebuck next to the tracks to multi million dollar 19th Century castles. Norwood has some very nice homes. Here is a security camera image of my back yard, right in the middle of HP.

The real reason not to argue is that it is a done deal. Nothing is going to change that. I spent my first 20 years about 500 feet from the old building so I was sorry to see it go.

Out of scale for the block. Industrial design in a pool of traditional. Looks more like a giant version of an electrical component than a building fitting into a little village square.

Hideous addition^^^ Even in disrepair, Dr. Pfeiffer's old HP red brick was far more appropriate.

Five blocks of Sycamore already has Ziegle PArk, Ziegler Pool, Alumni Lofts 142 Units, a 500 car underground garage, Nicola's, The Peaslee Center, my new building and the proposed 1113 project. I'm not sure where there is more going on anywhere. As for nighttime hours at the Diner, it will never happen.

Actually 12 parcels I believe.

Our client, Sheal Becker sold it and supposedly obtained the agreement that it would always be called the Becker Building. He handled that on his own. There was a plaque down on 4th St. for a while. We were on a run. There was the Cincinnati Terminal Warehouse, the SOmethingorother Shoe Bldg on Pike St. and the Becker Building all in one year. We made a fortune in fees. The only business in the Becker Building was Scarborough Fashions (little girls smocked dresses) and there were at least 6 vacant floors.

Project coming along well.

Nice thinly veiled racist comment. I think you had better be careful who you call a racist.

I would like to think that the access to public or quasi public incentives is not dependent upon the color of one's skin. I do not support minority set asides in any form, but at least all of the minority definitions in public and private set aside programs (Cincinnati, ODOT, HUD, SBA, P%G, GE, etc - I have seen them all up close) are not race based to the exclusion of other minorities. And, to predict success (which should be a goal of tenant selection) choosing based on race is more than just stupid.

^^ Probably illegal. Certainly stupid. What about Asian owned businesses? Appalachian?

^^ I assisted in the sale of 23 properties north of Liberty in the past year, mostly north and west of Findlay Market. I am sure you are right about Pleasant Street, but, again, 3CDC has their hand in that too. What I think will interest people the most is when the area along McMicken is developed. The Apex Building may be a predicate depending on what they do with the upper floors after Northern Row is opened. And, as I have said before, someday, not today, The Jackson Brewery will be the Crown Jewel. Finally, for "get in on the ground floor action" E. Clifton, Peete, Hust, etc. is the place. I'm too old to care, but theat area will be really cool in a few years if something triggers development.

^^The Connector takes the role of 3CDC in adding an economically unreasonable expenditure into a potential development area and stimulating investment. Add the draw of a refreshed Findlay Market to the mix. Go a block and a half off of the Connector track and basically nada. I could also cite the effect of the Ziegler Park and Garage and Jack for the same principal as to the barrage of development east of Sycamore. These areas do not ignite spontaneously. It took 20 years after City Center Properties pioneering development on Main St. for that area to take off. Compare that to 1000-1600 Vine.

3CDC is funding infill south of Liberty. Most of it is economically unsound without their contribution. When they move north development will ensue.

Every city has its disaffected persons. They visited once and had a bad time, they lived there and didn't make friends, they couldn't find a good job, etc. But, Cincinnati, like most every other city has lots of folks (like me) that could not be happier or more satisfied with living here. It has more to do with the whiner or complainer, than it does the city in question. And, that is true whether it is Cincinnati being disparaged or any other city. I could expound the virtues of Cincinnati in general or OTR in particular, but persons who are disaffected, chronic malcontents will not be swayed.

^^Its just another version of NIMBY. If you don't build something we elites like then someone else needs to take over your site.

I find it hilarious that so many here talk about these projects as though they are some type of super race whose opinions are more important than those of the persons who actually own the land and pay for the development and live with the results. Kind of a nerd elitism.

I suppose that there isn't really much chance of obstruction.

AirBNB is kicking butt in OTR from what I see. Mike Uhlenhake's Orchard Street Unit (2) is one of the best and booked most days year round.