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Probably a bad sign that they only got one response from the RFP.

Stuff like the reversed charge call and the total inexplicable JR Smith play makes me think the NBA might really be rigged. JR is complete garbage.

^ In my experience, black Cincinnatians are really into hot metts. I hadn't heard of them until high school, actually.

^ Oh yeah, Washington Park is definitely special. Greater Dayton has Clifton Gorge and John Bryan State Park, plus Glen Helen in Yellow Springs. Some of my favorite places in the country, to be honest. And I enjoyed my time in Cuyahoga Valley NP and Edgewater Park in Cleveland.

^ Haven't been to the Twin Cities, but I have heard they have great parks and recreational opportunities. Hard to argue with the rest of that list, except maybe Irvine. Of the big cities I've spent any time in, San Francisco has the best and most plentiful parks by a large margin. Golden Gate Park, the Presidio, Sutro Forest, all the neighborhood 'square' parks (Lafayette, Washington, Alta Plaza, etc.) are each great. Los Angeles is probably the worst parked city I've ever spent time in. Beyond the beaches and the great parks in the hills, like Griffith and Elysian, the rest of the city has almost no sizable parks to speak of. Lots of private and semi-public greenery around, but few quality parks. In Ohio, Cincinnati's park system is definitely the best, imo. Even before Smale Riverfront Park, the park system in the city was amazing. Ault, Eden, Alms, Mt. Airy Forest, the riverfront parks east of downtown, Mt. Echo...each would be the showcase park in most cities.

If true, this helps explain a lot. Throughout the Crew saga, I've been wondering why the real power players in Columbus haven't stepped up to put some muscle into the the save the Crew movement. The grassroots effort has been incredible, and very impressive. But money talks, and to my knowledge, the Cbus power brokers (Les Wexners, Wolfe family, Nationwide, etc) have been pretty quiet. Brew Dog is not a viable buyer for a major league team. Not when the league is courting billionaire owners. I sincerely hope the Crew stay in Columbus, but I think the FC Cincinnati announcement all but sealed their fate to move to Austin.

Item 9 in the 6/1 planning packet: Proposal to build 128 (!) home subdivision on the former Mercy Hospital site. Homes would start at $280,000. Would be a big win for this part of the city! https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/planning/about-city-planning/city-planning-commission/jun-1-2018-packet/

Item 4 of the 6/1 planning packet: Model group is proposing a 5 story building with 45 units of housing and ~4,000 sq. ft. of commercial space on McMillan between Gilbert and Curtis. Called 'Scholar House', the development will be low-income housing for single parents who are enrolled in a full time degree program. 9,4000 sq. ft. of child care and supportive services to be included. Sounds like a great development, and it will fill in one of the missing teeth in the WH business district. https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/planning/about-city-planning/city-planning-commission/jun-1-2018-packet/

Item 8 of the 6/4 Planning packet says there is a proposal to build 24 new single family homes in the 5 points area of Evanston. The site is currently a former school bus depot and vacant land. 11 attached, 10 detached, and 3 carriage houses. 3110-3116 Woodburn. https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/planning/about-city-planning/city-planning-commission/jun-1-2018-packet/ This is great news, and goes to show how important the Port Authority's renovation of close to 30 homes in this neighborhood has been. Now we have comps and banks have confidence in the neighborhood that previously did not exist. Great stuff!

That's far from a certainty. Your endless conspiracy theories are nauseating. Nauseating? That’s a bit much. I find the conspiracy theories entertaining, even if I don’t always agree with them.

Ah yes, the Bogarts Battle of the Bands competition was a staple of my high school experience, too. Untold Friday and Saturday nights spent in that smoke den. Good times. My friend's band actually won Junior year.

^ Yeah, and if there was a real blue blood conspiracy in action to preserve land values and office rates in the downtown core, I think they'd be more concerned about Rookwood, Kenwood, and Mason than the West End. Maybe in the past these areas immediately adjacent to the CBD presented a threat, but nowadays, the 71 corridor is where the money is flowing. When you look regionally, the difference between Fountain Square and Central Parkway is really negligible.

A year ago I think people said that about a soccer stadium. These people are able to play sim city. The tennis center is much larger than a soccer stadium. Nevermind that the Mason facility has had millions of dollars poured into it in recent years, and is now one of the premier tennis facilities in the world, having such a large use downtown or in the basin would be a huge waste of land.

Sucks about Blink 182! I'm 29, and that band was one of my favorites in junior high and through high school. They definitely benefited from the MTV age, as I can still remember many of their videos, and even calling in to TRL (shamefully) to vote for their songs. Seeing them now would probably be kinda sad, though.

Well, yes and no. How buildings meet and interact with the street plays a huge role in the walkability and street level activity in neighborhoods. All of the examples you posted look to have solid urban development, and the biggest difference between the first pic and the other two is tree canopy. Here's an illustration of what I'm talking about: Here are two neighborhoods, one in San Francisco (North Beach), the other in Los Angeles (Palms). Both have population densities of just over 20,000 per square mile. North Beach: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8005179,-122.4085817,3a,75y,64.72h,95.95t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sU3wrmrRAq0_U6XK9bQEFRQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 Palms: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0199717,-118.4066946,3a,75y,337.39h,93.3t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6F4azJ418OO5LE0cPwlZHw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 And an Ohio example. Here is OTR and Harrison West. Both neighborhoods have about 12,000 people per square mile. Harrison West: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9831668,-83.0155192,3a,75y,312.24h,81.68t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sE5visNSh7iMORaLXGCIHEg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 OTR: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.110731,-84.5137105,3a,75y,342.01h,85.82t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-eK2ZeTdEs4ueN5Jg50ZfA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Clearly, population density is not everything when it comes to explaining how an area feels. Building density, but also building typology and setbacks all matter, too.

It's been an amazing post season for the Cavs, and I sure hope they can give GS a good fight. It's incredible to me that Golden State has been able to keep their stars healthy, for the most part, through each of their playoff runs the past 4 years. I know Steph had a bit of an injury in the earlier rounds, but they've not had to overcome any sort of real obstacle to get to the finals/championship. I obviously don't wish injury on anyone, but it sure would make for a more interesting series if one of their guys would go down like Chris Paul, or Kyrie/Love from the Cavs finals a few years back.

So this little feud is cute, but maybe take it to personal messages. Columbus has a higher population density than Cleveland and Cincinnati, yes. The on-the-ground perception of many people is that the reverse is true. Now, the question is, why is this? We can argue over lot size and the like until we're blue in the face, but I think the answer is pretty obvious. Columbus is a flat city largely (but not entirely) without the giant industrial corridors of the other C's. Sure there are airports and quarries and other areas that aren't suitable for development, but overall, Columbus is a much easier city to build in than Cincinnati. Because of this, it has a more consistent density than Cleveland and Cincinnati. This gets at the point that other posters have made about LA vs NY metro. LA's metro is more dense than New York because the land area is constrained, and there is a consistent density across basically all of developed Southern California. Even in the far out suburbs, houses are packed closely together- resulting in high densities, even if the built environment doesn't feel urban. This gets at another point- population density does not always equate to solid urbanity. Orange County, CA has a much higher population density than either Cuyahoga, Franklin, or Hamilton Counties, and it contains very few areas that anyone here would call urban. So, Columbus has consistent density across its boundaries. It also almost certainly has higher rates of occupancy in its housing stock, because the city has been consistently growing for years, while Cleveland and Cincinnati went through extended periods of decline. Columbus' core also experienced dramatic decline, but it went relatively unnoticed due to the annexation the city undertook over the years. Columbus has been filling in much of its annexed land, which was mostly farmland instead of already established communities. I think these are the reasons Columbus is the densest city in Ohio, by the numbers. In terms of feeling, Cincinnati developed much earlier than Columbus. It has more neighborhoods that were developed around non-automotive modes of transportation, and it has a host of built forms that Columbus simply does not. The 4-5 story tenement housing of OTR and Pendleton simply does not exist in Ohio outside of Cincinnati. Hell, that style of housing barely exists in the US outside of NYC, Boston, Philly and maybe Baltimore. The age of construction, density of the lot sizes, attached vs detached housing all contribute to the city feeling denser, in places, than Columbus. Due to the hills, flood plains, and industrial corridors, Cincinnati's density is extremely spikey, meaning you might have a very dense neighborhood built adjacent to a massive, unbuildable forested hillside. This obviously drags down Cincinnati's overall population density. Combine this with the abandonment and underutilization of several of Cincinnati's neighborhoods that, while structurally dense, are not actually all that dense in population, and you get a city that feels larger and denser than it is.

^ You're totally missing the point. Brutus said that he noticed a lot of people from NEO go down to Columbus to seek better economic opportunities. I said that part of the picture might be the economy, but part of it also might be the fact that so many NEO students leave for Columbus to go to school, and they don't always come back. Cincinnati sends far fewer kids to Columbus than Cleveland, or really any other region of the state. That has the effect of keeping kids local, and develops a better pipeline of students --> local jobs. Case, while a great school, cannot fill the role of a UC in terms of keeping Cleveland kids in Cleveland. Not sure why you brought up jobs in University Circle at all, tbh. We all know it's a booming part of the city and a major job cluster. What's your point?

Large, urban, research institution. You cannot compare a college town to a real city that also has a large public university. This type of situation draws kids from all over the state, but then keeps them because they also have diverse economies. Look at University of Minnesota, UCLA, Berkeley, University of Washington, UT Austin, and OSU for examples.

CWRU has a stronger research/innovation curriculum. It's why it draws thousands of students from Asia each year. A walk around University Circle will reveal a stunning number of Chinese, Indians and others. Ok, and? Case is not the answer for keeping local university aged kids in Cleveland.

Partly a regional economy thing, but I'd imagine UC also has a fair amount to do with that. Cincy sends far fewer kids up to OSU than the rest of the state because of UC. The faster Cleveland State can turn into a real urban research university, the better NE Ohio will be.

It looks like Springfield has almost torn down its entire core to create parking, but they need to build another parking garage? Springfield: Nothing to do or see, and no reason to visit, but parking is a breeze!

Yikes. That's a pretty bleak graphic ??? . But, yay for Cincy and Cbus!

No, we're pointing out that the messenger has no message besides complaining and posting the same vague critiques over and over.

Er...you mean til I looked it up for you? Because you don't conduct any research before making your wild claims? Yeah? List the new hotels Columbus has added to its downtown. I'd love to see it. Any proof of this? Any examples you can offer? How about the Freedom Center and Zaha Hadid designed CAC? How about American Sign Museum, which is a new attraction. How about the zoo expansion and renovation of Union Terminal and Music Hall? Are those not new or improved things that would specifically attract people to Cincinnati? What about the whole push to get FCC in the MLS? Until you can site any sort of example, your claims are worthless.