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If either a PBS roof or full US Bank reno are the focal point of the renewal, and it's about half the cost of a new WE stadium, I'm in. If we're paying for an indoor practice facility and keeping a slush fund for the Bengals and Reds, they can go ask Butler/Warren county.

If they put out a plan for where the renewal money is being spent, and it has actual benefits, then I would vote yes. Adding a roof is cost-effective in comparison to a US Bank reno, or tearing down more of the West-End for a 1bn indoor stadium with no sports team residing there. A roof on PBS gives us year-round options to bring in tax-paying tourists for things like a political convention, NCAA tourney, and mega-concerts. Giving them a slush fund because they're good again? No thanks. I will vote completely on how they sell this.

I had heard that if the maps that the Republicans come back with doesn't satisfy the court, that the court can draw a 10 year map? Anyone know off the top of their head if that's true? If it is, I'm sure we get a legal slight R gerrymander so they can lock in a 4 year map and O'Connor will be gone the next time this hits the court, but wow would it be amazing if the court could draw a 10 year for us if the "committee" screws the re-draw up.

Yeah i fear that too. I get the flight to the suburbs for established brands that got their start in OTR. There's plenty of money to go around in the Cinci burbs, and OTR's established restaurants are currently too dependent on suburban families making their way downtown. Instead of doubling down and trying to compete with suburban restaurants for business, keeping spaces small/takeout-oriented for the growing residential base/worker base downtown should be the focus.

There's only 2 ways out of this: 1. Ohio SC forces a more fair map 2. New ballot initiative for fair maps Is a the proposed 10yr map a best-case (given the makeup of the statehouse). Yes. Is it fair? No. If we're stuck with a 4 year map, then I want the Ohio SC approving it, obviously.

Great write up! And yeah, despite this being 95% favorable to the GOP, at least there's a chance in 3 years for this to be decent. My only question is: if this goes to the Ohio SC, would that automatically place this map in 4 year territory? Also, unless we get another ballot initiative, the state rep maps are going to make the current rep % even more red, meaning this process is doomed to be controlled by the GOP for the foreseeable future. This process will ALWAYS be controlled by the red team here in the state. Is a 4 year Ohio SC map worth it if it can narrow those margins for a 4 year map in 2026?

And Aftab has said as much in his campaign. The wild card could be an 8-1 city council, but I see them adopting the same vision. Hopefully they push OKI to apply like bananas for grants.

It'll be there, but will anyone ask for it? Certainly not Mann, maybe Pureval. But this also depends on the makeup of council after the Nov elections.

Like ink asked above... do we have proof they're pocketing the donations? Or are they still in a holding tank?

It's definitely attempting to be "West" Walnut Hills with the built environment, which is nice. This development is massive for the look of the neighborhood. To really complete the Hamilton corridor in their neighborhood, they need to add a development where Hook Fish & Chicken and the massive parking lot is now. I doubt anything ever happens to college hill plaza, but that would be target #2.

Or, we try out something like this in a new development. From Paris, France:

I doubt the bipartisan bill is done by the 21st. He'll just use the Stay-Puft Michelin Man Bridge as an example of a crumbling piece of infrastructure in desperate need of repair, and emphasize the need for Mitch and others to get this done. Amtrak might come up, but I kind of doubt it. It's basically an unknown here among your average citizens.

There's 3 major league stadiums within walking/streetcar distance, OTR doesn't really have hotels, and the convention center wouldn't be a long haul either. They will find the money to get this built-out.

Yeah we've been over this time and time again. Look at the dollars spent, not the number of cranes. We have a large amount of rehabs ongoing across the basin, those are low-hanging fruit, and it isn't necessarily that visible. And CBD will get its large projects. The Banks has an office tower coming, W&S tower, convention center hotel, residential rehabs from former office buildings. I don't know how the dollars compare to other cities, but I think we're doing just fine. Check out the Cincinnati Crane Watch for the projects in the area: CBC Library Link

Missing middle... Like the development that was originally supposed to go on the plot where the big ugly billboard is at the intersection of Paxton & Wasson? Nope, our sewers don't have enough capacity, sorry, I prefer billboards.

Oh I know, your inside information this morning immediately brought back bad memories of their power move to cut down trees at Lytle Park. They love flexing and flaunting their influence when they can, and this would be the ultimate show of that power. That said, this is the type of building that would have severe public backlash if it was in danger. Politicians may jump on the bandwagon and complain about W&S if it was on the chopping block (especially in an election year).

They wouldn't be able to tear that building down though, right? No way in hell anyone in council, or dare I say, even Cranley would allow that to happen.

There has been a string of new NIMBY comments on Hyde Park developments now that the Wasson Way trail is mostly complete. People on the WW facebook page have been commenting "we need to protect the safety of the users of this trail" or "the trail will be too crowded." They're already gatekeeping a 3 mile trail to nowhere (for now). The other potential development that this was commented on was the former train yard along Lexington in Norwood. Perfect for a mixed use apartment building, but not perfect if you care about the safety and traffic on the trail!

Ha, this is the first time in a long time that I've seen something not requiring public money or variances, so I doubt there's much recourse... It's just going to happen. Love it

I just checked in on this, and it appears that Norwood has agreed with the "Protect our Trail" folks. The group has examples of dense-ish development as alternatives on their website, so this could be good news if they push for it. YIMBYs actuallywon?!? As a sidenote, I biked Wasson Way for the first time last weekend and this lot is literally perfect for an mixed-use apartment building. I couldn't imagine anything else going in there. There's also built-in potential residents with Xavier right there and this would appeal to young professionals right out of college too.

They're painting it gray too, I was really hoping they'd do something crazy that would pop. I'd rather have the rust/gritty look if they were just going to paint it gray.

I didn't visit when it was closed to vehicles, but I heard that closing that street solved a lot of the disorderly conduct issues. There was momentum to keep it closed, then some people complained that the closure was racist and got it reopened. That's going off of word of mouth and a few articles from local news stations last year. It's in an embarrassing state right now, and if closing the street fixes that, then it needs to be done. That said, people need spaces to congregate and socialize, and just because it's loud and there's trash doesn't mean these people should be exiled.

Maybe they've improved it now, but we walked around OTR a month ago and the streateries were very much in the way if there were people walking in both directions on the sidewalk. Don't get me wrong, I love that we have these and they took some space away from cars, but it was frustrating walking on the sidewalk and we ended up walking in the street multiple times.

Of course it isn't all of one or the other, but I guarantee you the OTR businesses would prefer a consistent base of people rather than the wild swings that can come from being more focused on tourism (slow winters, bad Cinci publicity/lack of events, pandemics).

This is a great idea, we've already litigated a lot of this route, with the exception of Eden Park, which is so sorely lacking a non-vehicular connection to downtown and even UC. It's a place that visitors are told to go to, but it isn't necessarily easy to get to. Also, this would hopefully allow them to close some roads/parking spaces in the park (like they did during the shutdown), because right now, that's the biggest problem with it.