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Inner city american youth hardly play anything but basketball due to space (harder to find large open fields in an urban environment), and easier barrier to entry (you just need 1 ball, and one hoop versus baseball gloves, baseball bat, baseball, make shift bases, potentially breaking someone's car window or house window). That's why baseball statistically struggles with the race gap between it's players.

Yes that's what I meant, sorry. They also have a location opening in mason as well.

Lunch spot Burrito Joe is closing Downtown... interesting enough, on the city beat article that was posted on Facebook the owner of the super popular Mexican place "Tortilla Garcia" asked if anyone knew the owner of the building and expressed interest in having a new location downtown. First mazunte and now potentially Tortilla Garcia? O dios Mio.

I don't agree. Cincinnati isn't this dense mega city the size of NYC or Hong Kong. Cincinnati already has an abundance of parks from Eden park, Sayer Point, Smale Riverfront park, Piatt Park, Washington Park, Ziegler Park, Bellevue Park..not to mention the abundance of pocket parks through out the city. I say one of those parks needs to go. Preferably Findlay Playground. Build a dense mixed use structure that can help anchor north of liberty development up on Vine. A Mercer type project, with necessary parking, retail/resturaunts/bars would be a huge catalyst for speeding up development in NoLi.

I believe so..ive seen some work being done and a coming soon banner. Even though 3cdc hasn't listed on their page.

Urban sites is actively marketing that site for commercial space on their lease now page on their website. I'm guessing urban sites won't redevelop the site until the can sign a tenant for the space...which is kinda tricky since that area isn't the most attractive part of otr currently..might take a few more years imo. 3cdc owns that plot of land where the cell phone store is. I'm guessing we will eventually some large scale development at some point. Probably once the liberty street diet is finished, which is scheduled to start this spring.

This would be amazing! Would be great for increasing pedestrian traffic around the library. This seems costly though? I wonder if 3cdc would be willing to partner with them on the residential portion.

I've noticed new Hard Rock Casino billboards around 1-71 recently. Pretty sweet to see Hard Rock in Cincinnati in general, and I can't wait to grab a Hard Rock Cincinnati shirt for the novelty sake.

Just saw on Carriage House Instagram story that they had recently purchased the blue painted 1208 Sycamore Street building and plan to bring a bar and a continuation of their airbnb business to that building with guest airbnb apartments above. For those who aren't familiar with Carriage House, they own the small white brick building thats tucked away in an alley on sycamore. The company is expanding, and offer unique airbnb suites worldwide, and I guess this is part of there next phase with the pendelton neighborhood.

I believe one of the partners of this group is on UrbanOhioForum....I believe it's Tony Alexander? I didn't realize how many projects North Crown properties has in the pipeline for North of Liberty... 112 Corwine St 1614 Walnut 1618 Walnut St 1630 Walnut 100 E McMicken. 64 E McMicken. Somerset I also believe they are bringing a Beer Garden to the old proposed Hen of the Woods location on Main Street...but that could be a different developer.

That's neat..hopefully that's true as it is has a really high profile development site potential. Though, I feel this will once again put fuel to the fire regarding gentrification..especially if 3cdc does the tactic of taking a social service and shipping it off the outskirts of the west end (which they have a recent track record of doing).

Sounds like an awful concept tbh....

I agree that 12th and vine would make for the perfect boutique hotel location. Hotel guests would have abundant parking across the street and would be adjacent to a street car stop and would be in the center of many otr bars/resturaunts/etc. Hopefully 3cdc has a similar vision. Adding a few boutique hotels would also be great for otr street engagement. You typically have hotel guests in and out at various odd hours helping create pedestrian safety during late afternoon hours and busy side walk engagement.

Does 3cdc still not own that lot? That lot was ear marked for future developement at some point.

Dutch in Hyde Park now closed... What's going on with Hyde Park lately and their rash of shut downs?

Whats the latest status with this building? Its been going through the court system and appeals process for what seems like years now...

New infill proposed for Hughes St

That's cool the old proposed hen of the woods location will become a beer garden and bar. Glad that space on main Street will finally be put to use! Also, I was under the impression 1518 race street was never approved by the HCB/city planning commission..did I miss something?

I believe your right. There was a rendering in the HCB packet.

I'm just curious why Thunderdome decided to hold on to the Kaze brand for so long, especially when they stated they wanted to do something new with the space since they aquired the brand last year. Is it a lease thing?

Jacob has a big following. People care about his concepts.

Kaze owner was gonna close until thunderdome approached them wanting to purchase the resturaunt. Kaze did solid on the weekends but was very dead during the week. Their menu was solid, but nothing extraordinary. If anything it was a bit over priced. Sad to see it go, but looking forward to a new original Thunderdome resturaunt. Their latest Italian joint Pepp and Delores on 15th and vine is very, very good.

A new concept will be announced early 2020. If I understand this is in the Rheingeist building, and I imagine that Rhinegeist owns the property by now. So I'm guessing they have the freedom and flexibility to be able to turn over new concepts when they feel one concept isn't being profitable enough.

I meant in terms of chain retail. I'm very supportive of "shop small" but by and large I spend most of my money at chains like H&M, Bath and Body, Victoria Secret for my GF. Downtown has none of this. It's very difficult to find men clothes in general downtown.

I was at liberty not too long ago. The only saving grace about liberty mall is the outdoor portion. Feels like a tiny urban shopping district which I wish downtown cincy could have one day in the future. Also, they have a North star Cafe which makes me jealous. The actual mall is in this awkward phase of tri-county and Kenwood. The food court is really nice, and so is the Dillard's H & M, and Dicks they have there. That said there is a good amount of vacant retail spots, closed food court resturaunts, and awkward businesses like an event space, photography studio inside the mall that make you feel like your back in tri-county mall. Forever 21 is nearly closed in the outdoor portion as well. I'm not sure what liberty mall future is, but I just have a bad feeling that this will be forest fair mall 2.0 in the next 10 years..at the very least the inside portion of the mall.