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This actually isn't true. I spoke with a close personal friend who owns, in aggregate, over 400 units in Ohio City, Tremont, and some Downtown... He told me he loses more prospective tenants who are millenials because they are unwilling to budge on their budget. He said it's Gen-Xers and even some older crowd who say "we'll make it work." This trend, however, varies when it comes to PURCHASING.

I'm just saying, I don't think he would have moved the Timbers to Austin. But I do agree, he wanted to change the Crew immediately when he bought them, and the resistance to changes sealed the deal to him.

The attendance woes and emergence of FC Cincy probably didn't help.

^My apologies on the quality of my screenshot

I really wish the Beacon would offer some units for purchase. I am currently on the house/apartment hunt and these are my options downtown if I want to buy.... This is more than likely going to force me to Ohio City or Tremont, which is fine. But Downtown was certainly my first choice.

^^To be fair, Cuyahoga County Prosecutors are MUCHHHH better than those in the South of the state. And no, an online docket isn't really relevant to this issue. Most of the discovery you give to an adverse party is "counsel only" so only the lawyers can view it, so it isn't available on the docket. This will be overturned.

Lol. I didn't want to lob a pre-election allegation like that when I wasn't sure it was true. Also, I just heard the story yesterday. The story allegedly involved Cleveland's "tech czar" Michael DeAloia, so if anyone knows him he might be able to confirm or deny.

I would doubt it, since there are no punitive provisions for failing to notify victims. This is just Tammany Hall-style politicking out of Hamilton County.

I heard a story the other day... that several tech leaders in Cleveland had Pixar executives and other digital-tech companies in Cleveland in 2014, looking to open facilities in MidTown. When our tech leaders brought the executives to City Hall to meet Mayor Jackson, he said he was busy.. the execs then swiftly went to Burke Lakefront never to return again. Can anyone substantiate this????

I think when it is challenged, it will be done so on the grounds that it contradicts the Supreme Court's holding in Brady v. Maryland. Unfortunately, this will not be ripe until it is implemented, and no plaintiff will have standing until they are already adversely affected by it.

No, that provision was codified in 2011(?) in the Ohio Revised Code. If your incident happened since then, it was the fault of the Prosecutor, not the law, that you were not notified. The only thing not already codified in Marsy's Law is the end to Open Discovery.

As a trial attorney, this law was nothing but political showmanship. All provisions (save one) had already been adopted and wrote into law by the Ohio Revised Code. The portion that wasn't however, completely eliminates "Open Discovery." Open discovery, codified as Crim. Rule 16 and also adopted in civil litigation, forces both parties to share all available evidence with one another as "Counsel Only" privileged communications. This allows there to be no surprises at trial; no surprise witnesses, no surprise exculpatory evidence. Open discovery made trials more transparent and fair while protecting sensitive information about the alleged victims by allowing that information to only be shared with counsel. Joe Deters ® out of Cincinnati said he would never practice open discovery in Hamilton County and that he would work to kill Open Discovery. He has succeeded. He used nuanced politics to end open discovery in the name of "victim's rights", because who the hell would vote against something saying "victims rights." This is a bad day for due process in Ohio, a very bad day.

Zach Reed uses a different form of populism - but it's equally turd-filled as the brand used by Trump and Sanders. It is such a shame that he's the only option to replace Jackson.

I used to love Scene, but their inability to roast someone on an objective basis has faded. They used to be the John Oliver of publications in the city, now they're the Keith Olbermann. They had a Zach Reed endorsement *paid ad* wrapped around the paper this week, even though they deny endorsing him. This epitomized Scene to me: 1) they gave a de facto endorsement to anyone who was willing to run against "the establishment" Dem, 2) They never would have allowed a *paid ad* wrap for John Kasich or Rob Portman.

It is. Isn't The Mather part of The GLSC?

We need more equity downtown before we can see tenants like hardware stores and even a "mini-Target" making investments downtown. Apartments are great, but retail needs to be anchored by equity, in my humble opinion,

It appears that the MetroHome store on the first floor of 1717 has closed its doors. Wild, considering I walked by on Friday and everything was up and running. The entire space is now empty.

I like the guy. He's a Facebook friend because I was arguing with one of our mutual friends (another Dem) over some issue or another. The point being is he's not a purist that won't work with the other side. Perfectly sane policies like marijuana legalization and high speed rail, and then this: "Take a fast food worker who is making $9.00 an hour today, raise their wages to $15.00 and I guarantee you next Saturday they will go out and buy a new Jeep Wrangler made in Toledo, Ohio." I thought the dumbest thing I've heard is the idea of a $15.00 minimum wage in Ohio. Until I read the idea that someone making that $15/hr minimum would immediately purchase a $27,000 car, and that this would be a good idea. If raising wages were the solution we could just print more money...

^You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

I know a tenant who was offered free parking (at 1717) to sweeten the deal for that very reason.

Wonder what that will do to Phoenix Coffee... Granted those are two entirely different types of "coffee-drinking" clients

I love Cleveland Scene running a front page "ad" this week saying "We Back Zach", and then refusing to acknowledge that this would be taken as Scene endorsing the candidate.

I am all for moving workers downtown. But other than "attracting talent", I honestly don't know what concrete motivation Progressive would have for doing so

They announced it would be added to Highland Heights, no?

Not a bad idea. However, I think running rail in the winter months would see some great value as well. One thing Ohioans do not enjoy is driving longer than they have to with snow on the ground. I would assume 9/10 Ohioans would prefer to take a train from Cincinnati to Cleveland during a snowstorm than I-71.