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They're going through the zoning process now to tear down the homes east of Mr. Tuxedo and create a 23-space parking lot, so it appears for the time being, the Mr. Tuxedo building and the Adriatico's building are staying put.

I agree it doesn’t make sense if you assume the design review’s substance is what matters for Lot 24. I’m assuming it matters more for that lot as a symbol. The very timeline of the Lot 24 RFQ indicates it’s more important to interested developers that the design review exists than what it contains, in the sense that it de-risks the city/county component by offering good faith evidence of their collaboration. Everyone already knows what kind of project will be built on Lot 24 anyways.

Because the Bengals have what amounts to veto power over development on 70% of the remaining acreage and this offers the team a process for structured input. And because the next time the city/county go to the feds for money on FWW highway caps, they want to have a grand development thesis that would compel a funding award, including proof of city/county/reds/bengals collaboration and a social equity component with gobs of feedback and buy-in and community blah blah. That sort of thing might also provide assurances to private developers who would otherwise be wary of investing in a project on Lot 24 when it has such a checkered history, being caught up in the strife of 2019/20. It’s important to remember just how bad things were between the city and the county a few years ago. Did they patch things up by the 2022 application for the FWW caps (that was denied the following year)? Unlikely—signs point to the DECC deal with 3CDC as the first instance of real collaboration between the two. In any event, the toxic legacy of that fight, which played out in public, is likely the sort thing that takes a $500,000 report to clean up, once and for all, in the eyes of federal grant writers and private developers.

The sage against the red brick elsewhere uptown is gorgeous. Hope there's more of this throughout the city.

The developer believed there was enough demand to satisfy an 18-story tower, 12 residential floors over a 6-story podium. They would have moved forward with it but for community feedback indicating that sort of density was a nonstarter in the area.

I was wrong on this, turns out. The development referenced to me is actually the one below, hope to have more on it soon. No idea about the Crossroads site.

There’s a project already planned for the Crossroads site, but not from 3CDC. More to come in a few months I’d guess.

Unfortunately not, from what I’ve heard. It will be a substantial facelift though.

Here's the official update we received last week from the CDC. Full steam ahead it seems. CDC’s official response is: The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) preliminary title review, which will enable CDC to move forward with the purchases, is currently underway. Upon U.S. DOJ’s completion of the preliminary title review, CDC will complete the purchase of the University of Cincinnati Foundation (UCF) parcels and shortly after, the purchase of the City of Cincinnati parcels. CDC anticipates completing both purchases by the end of 2024. Soon after the purchases of all the new campus properties, the solicitation and bidding effort for the construction of the NIOSH consolidated facilities can begin. The award to a General Contractor for construction will take several months following the announcement of the public solicitation.

What makes you say this about the Court Street store? I go there literally every day and have noticed no chances, always a good experience.

Publix refuses to cross the Ohio River, at least right now.

Story is updated with comment from UC health

There's a pipeline of projects, some mentioned on here already but not yet formally announced, others not yet mentioned. There's significant activity.

The 1819 Innovation Center is completely full. The first Digital Futures building will be full as soon as UC completes the buildout of the whiteboxed upper floors this year. The second Digital Futures building is being marketed to tenants. Will know more about what sort of success they're having in a few months.

Don't say "target infill sites" the Enquirer might hear you