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I....think I hate Nashville without ever having been.

Ok, I feel validated in my decision to never check it out! When I lived within a 10 min drive of Deweys, Larosas*, Adriaticos, Pomodoris (RIP ?) and Donatos, there just wasn't much of a reason to try ol' Snappy lol.

Has anyone on this board ever had Snappy Tomato Pizza? There used to be one in Fairfax that I'd drive by pretty often, and I'd sometimes think about trying it. But Cincy has too many good pizza options to waste a pizza occasion on something bad, so I never gave it a shot. Their jingle was pretty janky, but very memorable.

Uh, he is a head coach in the NFL. Of an undefeated team. I appreciate the optimism of Browns fans, but these moves look pretty awful from the outside. Why was Hue not fired after last season? The new interim head coach had a record of 17-31 as an NFL head coach, which I guess is an upgrade over 3 win Hue, but enough of an upgrade to blow up the season over? What kind of coach or player would want to come to an organization that routinely pulls sh*t like this? The team has shown dramatic improvement this year compared to last year, and if at the end of the season the ownership feels like it wasn't good enough, then they fire the staff and start fresh. Doing this mid-season just reinforces the perception of the Browns as a clueless organization. Ultimately, I am not a Browns fan, so I don't too much care what the team does in terms of personnel moves. But I do want them to be good, and to be competitive, and to represent Ohio in a positive way. As inept as the Bengals have been forever, they have kind of settled into always hovering around .500. If the Browns could have such success, it'd make for a more competitive (and fun) division. I hope these new moves work out for the team, but I have little confidence they will.

Or, you know, the police could have just not tased an 11 year old.

LOL! Why the hell would McVay want to leave the undefeated LA Rams for the perpetual mess Browns? The Rams have a good thing going in LA- lots of fan support, moving to what will surely be one of the nicest football stadiums in the country in a year or two, great team and coaching staff. I see no reason why he'd leave to coach any team, let alone the Browns.

Man, the Browns are a mess of an organization. With all the close games they've had this season, it seemed like things were starting to turn around, even if the record didn't really show it. Now you have a mid-season complete shake up, with the head coach gone, offensive coordinator gone, and a rookie QB who came in mid-season, too. What is gained from making these coaching moves now opposed to in the off season? It's just constant turbulence from the Browns.

^ omg shut up. If you don't like this thread, don't comment. See how easy that is? ?

I went to a bat mitzvah there once about ~15 years ago. I remember thinking it was an odd choice for a venue, but it was very nice! The only other time I was in there was for an Uptown Consortium luncheon a few years back. Hope the new owners can keep the quality up. Damn this is way too relatable. My mom worked at UC and back in the day they NEVER cancelled for snow. So guess where I’d get to hang out when my elementary school called a snow day? My mom’s office, which used to be in a trailer by the Shoemaker Center. I think I was the only kid who hated snow days growing up.

Well if it's bigger, it has more space to accommodate such things. Grand Central Market in downtown Los Angeles has no such store, but there are several drug stores in surrounding blocks. I don't remember seeing anything like a dry goods store at West Side Market in Cleveland, but perhaps I missed it. Findlay Market is small. The vast majority of its business comes from visitors on weekends, not from neighborhood support. The area around Findlay Market is still pretty light on activity and residents, and you only have to look at places like EMC and others who have attempted to have more of a comprehensive grocery option (and ultimately closed) for proof that there isn't a market for such a store. It's not really a big issue...I don't care if they add a drug store there, really. I'd just rather see more unique places represented in the market.

Wow, that seems to be clear evidence of intentional sabotage, confirming what most of us suspected. I, too, worry about the reputational damage that has already been done to the streetcar. Even if the city can implement signal prioritization and better handle the issue of track blockages, will people be willing to give it another chance? I think supporters need to start thinking of some more drastic measures to immediately improve performance. In addition to the signal prioritization, I think it makes sense to remove or decommission some of the most lightly used stops. If it can be made free, that would also have a big impact, I think.

I disagree that Findlay Market needs a dry goods/drug store type of place, and I don't think Findlay Market needs to have all the stuff you could get during a normal grocery run. It's a specialty market and tourist attraction, not just another grocery option equal to a Kroger. There are lots of drug stores in the CBD, and I do agree that OTR should probably get one when there is enough population (residential or daytime) to support one. Kroger is building a big new store downtown, too. Findlay needs to be different. It's the place to buy farm fresh produce and meat, try new ethnic cuisines from the markets and restaurants, buy artisan bread and baked goods, etc. Not so much the place to grab some toilet paper or Campbell's soup. Just my opinion.

I'd very much appreciate this!

^ I appreciate the update. It'd be great to get more photo updates of some of the larger projects getting built around town. If this was going up in Cleveland, we'd have a solid 3 pages devoted to just pictures of the damn crane being assembled lol.

There was recently an article in the Enquirer that said streetcar ridership continues to fall. This time, some of the blame was placed on.....bird scooters. The streetcar feels like it's sinking fast. As more development comes online around it, ridership surely should not be decreasing. What the hell is going on here? Has the mythical traffic study been completed yet? Are supporters (hello, John Schneider, where are you?) still fighting for improvements, or have people kind of given up? It's depressing to think that something so many of us fought so hard for is proving to be quite a letdown.

I haven't seen too many photos of the building. Has steel construction started yet? I believe the garage portion was just about complete when I saw it at the beginning of September, so I would imagine they have a floor or two of steel by now. The Downtown Kroger instagram appears to have been abandoned.

Has construction started on the building at Madison and Whetzel yet?

So...are you asking a question? It sounds like you have your answer, no? I remember having this conversation in another thread on UO, and I too was surprised Columbus had so many more visitors (or at least hotel nights) than either Cincinnati or Cleveland. I would be very curious to see a more detailed breakdown of how these numbers are calculated, and what accounts for such drastic differences. Is Columbus in the same tier as Indy when it comes to conventions? Are most visitors from within the state or from other states? What is the average length of stay? Without knowing more information, it's hard to draw any conclusions about tourism or the impact of convention business, I think.

This, combined with the 4th and Race project, could really help transform this part of 4th St. Removing old, obsolete office space from the market is a positive thing, and with a lower vacancy rate for office space, maybe we will finally see the office pad at the Banks built on spec.

That is a bit of a bummer. Given that CVG still has a direct flight to Paris, I imagine most of the European travel opted for that over the Wow service. I'd imagine the majority of the CVG-Paris fliers are doing it for business, so people are less likely to look for discount service, and don't want to deal with the added time of stopping and connecting in Iceland. It would be really great if we could get service back to London, too, but I don't know what the odds are of that happening.

Thanks for the pics! I have only been to Northern Michigan one time, and it was about 20 years ago when I was a kid. I remember it being so pristine and just heavenly. We stayed in Harbor Springs, which is an adorable little town right on the lake, but we also made it to Charlevoix, Petoskey, and Traverse City. I took a float down a creek, and I remember you could see every stone at the bottom because the water was so clear and clean. Just perfect up there in the summer. It feels more like Maine than somewhere in the Midwest. I really must get back soon.

Or, conversely, Haslam could threaten to move the Browns to Columbus if they offered to build a big new stadium that both teams could use.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say with this post. Yes, of course Mexico and Puerto Rico are different places....? Maybe I am misunderstanding the point you're trying to make. I know that Cleveland's Latino community skews much more toward the Caribbean than Mexico, and that makes it a bit of an outlier in the Midwest. Cleveland does have a sizable Puerto Rican community, but the total population of Latinos is pretty small. Let's look at some numbers (2010 census data): Cleveland: 10% Latino 2010 population: 396,000 # of Latinos: 39,600 Columbus: 5.6% Hispanic (primary country of origin is Mexico) 2010 population: 787,000 # of Hispanics: 44,072 Cincinnati: 3% Hispanic (Mexico and Central American countries represent the most common countries of origin) 2010 population: 296,000 # of Hispanics: 8,800 (!) Milwaukee 17% Hispanic 2010 population: 594,000 # of Hispanics: 100,980 Indianapolis 10% Hispanic 2010 population: 820,000 # of Hispanics: 82,000 Now, I know that these numbers are almost a decade out of date, and I know enough about demographic trends to realize that many recent immigrants are bypassing urban cores, and living in suburban areas. In Cincinnati's case, the heart of the Hispanic community is in the northern suburbs, and the total community at the metro level is about 60,000 people strong, which isn't insignificant. I don't know if there are any lessons that can be learned from other cities about how to best attract immigrants, but there's no doubt that our cities could use the shot in the arm that immigrants can provide. I'm a bit of a demographics nerd, so I find this stuff endlessly interesting.

^ True, but places like Virginia and North Carolina have experienced huge waves of Hispanic immigration. Even Midwestern cities like Milwaukee and Indianapolis have much larger Hispanic populations than any of the 3 Cs. The Hispanic population (gross numbers and percentages) in the Ohio cities + Pittsburgh + Louisville are all some of the lowest in the country for big cities. I think that's weird.

There is something weird about how Ohio's part of the country has largely been passed over by Hispanic immigration. Yes, there are Hispanic communities in each of Ohio's big cities, and yes those numbers have grown dramatically. But, as DEPACincy[/member] notes, our share of immigrants is a fraction of other states. Pittsburgh has the lowest levels of Hispanic immigration of any major city in the country, I think, and Cincinnati can't be too far behind. I know a lot of immigration just follows job availability and proximity to the border, but I don't know if that tells the whole story.