Chas Wiederhold

At the community council meeting they said a few things of note: They want to keep the flatiron shaped building. It will be difficult for them to fit a grocery store on a triangular lot. Their words, not mine.

I'd love to see a taller residential tower go up west of Riverhaus on the parking lot that remains between it and the recruitment center. Covington is hopping. We went down this weekend to check out Covington Yard... the city needs wider sidewalks!

bye bye skywalk.

What a dramatic change replacing two parking spaces on the street side with some trees plus landscaping would do.

Considering we are living in Cranley's Cincinnati, I see it more likely that it is Gold Star Stadium than Skyline Stadium. Gotta say it though, both are good names.

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"Two years after Off the Avenue was listed for sale, an energetic young couple came forward, promising to maintain its art studios and event space. Wood perked up. She moved to an apartment in Mt. Lookout, where the change of scenery re-energized her. “Just don’t buy anything new,” friends joked. Six months of solitude was about all Wood could endure. Suddenly, this past January, she was back in Northside, taking over St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, a neo-Norman brick beauty on Kirby Avenue. Common Ground, she renamed it, “a gathering place for all belief traditions.” Wood explained to her latest crop of volunteers that a haven was needed for disparate members of the community to come together, a place to share ideas and feel safe. Old friends rolled their eyes at what they viewed as Off the Avenue Part Deux. Others figured that Wood could never be content in a normal-sized apartment, and argued that the church was petite compared to past behemoths. Wood brainstormed on a culinary exchange between Muslims and Latin Americans. The church could be a film location. Upstairs rooms could serve as a youth hostel. "

Certainly a titan of the community. Never knew her but was quickly told about her by a coworker who is a Northside advocate when I was planning my move. I would love to see her vision for St. Philips on Kirby follow through. Also... I just went ahead and given @JYP what he wants: Giant ATM's Forever.

Word on the street is a developer may be making moves... PLK owns the entire triangle between Apple, Vandalia, and Blue Rock

We mow so rarely! It's all violet in the back and its all garden and hill in the front. Saving to do a terraced pollinator garden on the hillside. We only judge our neighbors based on the quality of their scarecorona or brand of solidarity yard sign. ?

Lets get a transit loop from Hughes High School to St. Francis DeSales. McMillan >> Woodburn >> Madison >> Taft/Calhoun >> Clifton

I think this is great and could be the start to even more road diets in the city. The city botched the community engagement for the Liberty Street Road Diet by listening to what the community wanted, designing options, the community picked the most radical transformation, and then the city back pedaled until we got the beautification project we see under construction today with barely a diet. I don't know how to demand a better outcome, tbh. The community was vocal and the city ignored their requests. For Linn, I would like to see a robust community engagement session filled to the brim with West Enders. Selfishly, I would LOVE to see a two-way buffered cycle track on one side of the street from Central Parkway to Court Street. Then take a buffered cycle track from Linn to Elm where it would hit a new two-way buffered cycle track on one side of Elm Street bringing it full circle with the Central Parkway bike lanes. A boy can dream. After sketching it out... it would not be very hard at all to have this map of downtown protected bike/scooter infrastructure with just a little political will, a bucket of paint, and some parking stops.

Depending on how binding Form Based Code is for a neighborhood that has adopted it, I doubt it. Others who are more scripted with the details of FBC might be able to provide nuance to that.

I'd say the Northside state of mind is one of communalism. When I was first looking for a house, I was in contact with an elderly woman through word of mouth who was trying to sell her beautiful home on Pullan at a reasonable price so that the neighborhood remained affordable for young people- her words. Now that there are multiple homes for sale in the $400Ks (one $5,000 short of half a million to join the other that was already for sale for half a million) I should have more closely considered her offer of $265K. I was commenting about the half million dollar homes for sale in the neighborhood and Northside Twitter seemed amenable to the idea of forming a inclusive, accessible group and creating a welcome pamphlet for folks who move into the neighborhood that shares Northside values, the current projects that are going on (skatepark, urban fruit orchard, etc. etc.), and the work different organizations are up to (Happen Inc., CAIN, Mobo, etc.) in an effort to promote the soul of the neighborhood. If someone moves to the neighborhood because they can afford a half million dollar home, then they might be able to help the skatepark folks with some fundraising connections, etc.

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The entry on the East side will be a great change and the interior does look happening. I wonder if tearing down Brio is still part of the plan. [Faded] Purple People Bridge pedestrian and bike traffic can get pretty clogged and I wonder if it might be better to paint some suggested lanes on the bridge and continue those out to 3rd Street. Seems like the big missing ingredient for all of this is the Newport Festival Park: https://placeworkshop.com/portfolio-items/newport-festival-park/

A bit underwhelming based off of what I was imagining from the earlier renderings, but unoffensive and I'm not here to get nitpicky on a project that serves an altruistic need in the community. I would love to see this be the shortest multi-family development gets as denser infill marches south to Cooper Street. Hoffner and Cherry and Vandalia could support some 5-6 story mixed use projects. Hell, build something beautiful and tall (9+ stories) and make it a landmark. Northside has an appetite for affordable housing development and as homes begin selling for half a million (two in the last month or so) I think it is important for the neighborhood to be committed to economic diversity through the construction of dignifying, affordable multi-family projects.

It's pretty imposing on the West End side.

Has anyone seen plans or renderings of what Sam Adams is planning at the corner of Central Parkway and Liberty? It sounds like they are adding more building north and south of their existing in addition to the nearly completed parking lot further north on Central Parkway. A 3-level elevator shaft looks to be nearly completed on the south side of the existing building, but it is hard to tell what the new building footprint is going to be. https://www.wcpo.com/rebound/samuel-adams-plans-significant-cincinnati-plant-enhancement-project

Perseverance has some HEFTY columns.

HCB approved the guidelines but it is still ambiguous if these are law or guidelines. Next up is the Planning Commission on September 4th, I think. Following that it would go to City Council. Again, the ambiguity of how these guidelines will be enforced have not been clarified.

Between the neighborhoods in question, Lincoln Heights, Woodlawn, Evendale, and Lockland, only Lincoln Heights and Lockland have connected street grids. Lockland's is a bit wiley, tbh and Lincoln Height's is rigidly gridded except for the Medosh Ave development (which looks soooo good, IMO and would benefit from a bit more density, commercial mixed use development, and TREES!). It is ridiculous to look at how Lockland avoids EVERY opportunity to connect to Shepherd Lane preventing any type of connection between the two villages/cities. Woodlawn and Lincoln Heights have some connectivity and would perhaps benefit from merging municipally. None of these areas worked together and Hamilton County, Lockland, Evendale, and Woodlawn historically fought Lincoln Heights for everything they had.

I just wanted to make sure we were on the same page about what I see being the foundational element of Lincoln Height's current state, that the county government blocked Lincoln Heights from incorporating until communities you have listed incorporated with borders that captured the industrial and commercial base that has secured a middle-class lifestyle for surrounding communities. As I re-read what you wrote, I can see that we're together on the history. The only place I want to interrogate more is: The justice issue which I am focused on here is that Hamilton County owes Lincoln Heights. GE Aviation (Wright Aeronautical), Woodlawn, Lockland, and Evendale have benefited while Lincoln Heights has suffered and the county is ultimately complicit because of what they did and what they failed to do in the 1940s.

Did you read this: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/lincoln-heights-black-suburb/398303/

While I don't disagree that a main street in Lincoln Heights is missing, not all cities are developed on a main street form. Successful cities develop in many ways and scholars like Kotkin or Kostoff would back that up. Some cities are developed around "empty land in the heart of downtown". These, typologically, are sacred spaces... parks, churches, schools, etc. Don't read too much in my examples, but Central Park to New York City, Centro Historico in Mexico City. Nearby, Northside's "Cultural Campus" with McKie Community Center, Community Garden, Chase Elementary, and future civic uses create a non-commercial center for the neighborhood. Now, if you don't attend community council meetings, go to the pool, walk your dog, have kids in school/summer camp, have a plot in the community garden, take a shortcut to Urban Artifact, then maybe you wouldn't consider this part of Northside just as important to its functionality as a neighborhood as nearby Hamilton Ave and I feel bad for you (not you personally, jj). Communities need non-commercial public spaces to self-determine their futures. All this to say, sure, Lincoln Heights would benefit from a main street... but that's not the only pathway forward. Their pathway forward will not be found here, a bunch of avatars behind screens, but through intentional community-led efforts to right past wrongs.