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From the article: ”The Imagination District is described as a destination. Much like Manhattan's TriBeca or SoHo neighborhoods. The projected investment in the Imagination District will be in the hundreds-of-millions of dollars.” lmao

This new building will be good for Columbia Tusculum. I wish some infill would also come to the surface lot immediately to the south of this building. It would help to solidify the business district along Columbia Parkway. Also would love to see more investment around Eastern Avenue in the southern portion of CT. There are some beautiful buildings around there, and with some renovations and infill, it could be a really cool little sub-neighborhood of CT, with its own business district and everything.

Yeah I assumed that might be part of the reasoning, too. But would GE have even opened the operations center in the city if it was a bad business climate? They already have the massive operation in Evendale, and could have easily built out space there for the new operations center.

Yeah, Council is just soo anti-business that GE is moving hundreds of jobs from the suburbs to downtown. WTF does anti-business even mean? In a city that is largely dependent on its earning tax, I don't think any city official is "anti-business."

Newport Aquarium is really committed to the 5th grade art class look for their exhibit renderings.

Wasn't trying to argue. The story seems over the top, that's all. Kid from Connecticut goes to the most expensive high school in the country, somehow ends up at Hiram College in Ohio. Dad decamps to London to start a new family leaving the kids and mom penniless. Mom gets cancer and dies. Other siblings are totally disconnected with him and his mom to the point that they don't even show up at the funeral. No mention of aunts/uncles/relatives who could offer a place to stay or help him out. You must understand how the situation looks slightly odd to the outsider. Sounds like he should qualify for government assistance. I know there's a stigma around accepting those types of benefits, but the safety net exists for a reason. As I said before, I hope he lands on his feat and finds stability. You seem like a very good friend, and he should count himself luck to have you in his life. No more from me on this. Best of luck.

Hm, you sure you have all the details of this kid's story correct, or believe the version of events he's told you? I'm not suggesting he's lying or whatever, but what rationale would the two sister's have for skipping the funeral of their tragic mother? The story almost reminds me of something a homeless person tells you to try to get money "for the bus". Just an unbelievable collection of events. I hope your friend can land on his feat and find some stability in his life.

Book him a flight to London so he can go kick his bum of a dad's ass.

Louisville surprised me, too. I've heard nothing but good things about that city recently.

I'd imagine Christ hospital is lobbying to have the road widened, and is disguising it as a safety concern related to ambulance access or something. Agreed that the intersection with Dorchester is a mess and should be reconfigured and improved. With new development happening up in Mt. Auburn, I imagine issues at this intersection will only get worse. Unrelated, is that little corner store called "The Body Snatcher" still at that intersection? If that place isn't going to be torn down and redeveloped, can it at least be renamed?!

Nah, the dudes over on SSP will assure you the Chicago is losing population overall, but it's just poor black people, so no cause for alarm. They're seriously messed up over there. Without seeing year over year data, it's hard for me to accept that Cleveland is starting to turn things around in regard to millennial retention when they lost over 1,000 in a year. Based on these numbers, one could make the case that Louisville and St. Louis are starting to turn things around, but a loss of 1,000 young people is still pretty bad.

With how decrepit the old garage was, I could see spending a million dollars on the place. I actually went to that salon a few times, and as others noted, it was very large. Maybe they also factored in the cost of moving to that $1million total.

Lol, exactly what I was thinking. I've never been, but Mississippi must be a real sh*thole, to use the President's terminology.

@ColDayMan should run for mayor of Columbus!

Unopposed!? Damn, Columbus politics is boring*! Especially compared to the shit show in Cincinnati, and the 'dynasty' of Mayor Jackson in Cleveland. *probably a good thing

Oh, they're going to move out of their beautiful, expensively renovated church because their servers have to pay to park now? Ok, let's see it. People go to Tafts for the building and the location, certainly not for their mediocre food. Sounds like a hollow threat.

Exactly. What a farce. How dumb do they think people are? I wish this mess would have gone to Newport.

This whole stadium debacle has been a joke from the beginning. Had the team followed any sort of normal development process, these issues related to sound, light, and traffic would have been studied and their mitigation would have been planned for. Whenever any organization tried to pump the breaks, the team and their soccer bro fanboys pitched huge fits and acted like any setback whatsoever would be catastrophic. First it was the school board, then the West End neighborhood council, now it's council and the arts organizations that call Music Hall home. This isn't a giant conspiracy against the soccer bros. You can't just plop down a professional stadium in the middle of an urban neighborhood and expect everyone to just roll over and be appreciative that the FCC overlords are bringing Cincy some 'major league clout', or whatever BS Berding the conman is spouting. The thing that really pisses me off about this Music Hall situation, though, is that no one seems concerned over the noise, parking, light effects on the neighboring residents, despite the fact they will be RIGHT across the street from this thing. No one cares about noise until Otto Budig raises a fuss about the impact it will have on Music Hall. This is exactly how people of the West End were treated when I-75 was built through the heart of their neighborhood. They are seen as dispensable and unimportant, and when they actually tried to stand up for themselves by securing a CBA, they were lambasted by the team, their fans, and the media. We STILL don't even have a final site plan. The team is presenting phony renderings and site plans to frickin' city council! In what world is any of this acceptable or appropriate? The way this whole process has been allowed to play out is shameful but not surprising for Cincinnati.

That "where are all the people" sentiment is something I've heard about midwestern cities from Californians and people from the big East Coast cities pretty frequently. I had a friend who's an LA native who attended grad school at Wash U in St. Louis, and when I asked her how she liked the city she said "it's nice, there is some great architecture and the people tend to be friendly, but it feels so empty." I've been told similar things by people I've toured around Cincinnati. Great city, but where is everyone? Anymore, when I come home to Cincinnati, I increasingly feel the same way. It's odd to be driving at night (like 10 PM) and be one of the only cars on the street, even in dense or popular areas.

^ WTF? In what world would any of that make sense? FCC is building their own soccer specific stadium precisely because they don't want to be in PBS (even if the Bengals were cool with it). PBS would still be just as problematic for FCC in 6 year as it is now, and I don't think an open air soccer stadium could just be 'converted' to an arena, either. It would need to be demolished and an arena built in its place, which seems unbelievably wasteful just 6 years after the stadium is supposed to open. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your post, but this seems like one of the sillier ideas I've ever come across on this forum.

^That’s not accurate. I went to first round games last year that were held at San Diego State. On campus.

^ Yes, it always mentioned it was going to Kettering. I wasn't confused with the Downtown CVS site. I was merely saying the article makes a big deal of calling it a "lease for a fortune 100 retailer", but it's just another distribution center, which is really not that big of a get in the grand scheme of things. Greater Cincinnati is getting one of those near the airport in Kentucky and one in Monroe. They're crap jobs that don't pay well, and will probably be fully automated as soon as Bezos can figure out how to do so.

Cincinnati Royals ---> Kansas City Monarchs ---> Sacramento Kings I appreciate that they kept the same naming theme each time the franchise has moved.

Who can blame them? 4th and Race has been a complete fiasco from the beginning, and Millhaus was treated extraordinarily badly by the city. They won the RFP to develop market rate housing on the lot next to City Hall, only to have that taken away from them by some good ol' Cincinnati nepotism which awarded the land to Cincinnati Public Radio. If PG Sittenfeld ever runs for Mayor, I hope people call him out on that stunt. We practically begged out of town developers to come to Cincy in the Mallory administration, and then when they showed interest and came to town, they got run through the ringer. Imagine being Millhaus and spending all that time and money to design a project, win the RFP, and then have it all taken away from you at the last minute for some stupid homer project. They weren't even asking for a subsidy! Same thing happened with Promo West and concert venue at The Banks. Columbus company wants to develop something positive in Cincinnati, only to be chased out by defensive, myopic locals. It's stuff like this that makes me think the city will never really turn the proverbial corner. It's much too incestuous and skeptical/hostile to outsiders.

Ok, so say the old store closes in September or October. They still need to demo the store and its parking lot, do whatever sort of environmental testing and clean up that would be required, design the infill project, get financing in place, obtain permits and a COA/CCMP from the HCB... No way that all gets done in 2 months. I'd say groundbreaking in summer of 2020 might be more realistic.