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W&S cutting down a few trees at a public park That's the issue

NIMBYs care about keeping the status quo and keeping their neighborhood exclusive, they don't care that much about traffic. It is just an easy way to convert the masses to supporting their cause. "Your already bad commute will be even worse!" A hotel doesn't increase housing supply in Hyde Park, so that's a win for them.

Their Facebook has had posts about them visiting Atlanta and Indy's trails... And they were adamantly opposed to the original mixed-use proposal that would have been an excellent addition to an ugly corner. Most of their team is likely just Hyde Parkers concerned about the values of their houses and traffic.

It doesn't, so that also means they need a small barge facility on the river for deliveries, then load to trucks and bring it to the plant. Honestly would be better if this facility was on the river with the barge terminal attached.

here you go. Pleasant street renderings start on page 25. If people are going to reference the HCB packets on here, at the least provide a link and page number... Telling people to scroll through a 225 page document isn't helping anyone.

Residential would do better in that spot, but the Hyde Park NIMBY's won that fight. What a waste of prime Wasson Way trail frontage too.

Yeah I took a dive this morning. 1) Madisonville Phase II seems to have the green light. For now, it looks like they are just improving the sidewalk. 2) Wasson Way homes are going through, the billboard is staying though. Those homes would look 1000% more attractive if an ugly billboard wasn't right there in front of them. 3) Uptown Gateway looks like a decent proposal, but I wish the buildings were more than 6 floors. Also, the park is walled off from the street, so it will look 'pseudo private.' And there is no room given for the extension of Wasson Way past MLK.

We need to thank our stars we have a community asset as amazing as Findlay market. Otherwise our city's restaurant portfolio consist mainly of Thunderdome clones.

If we are looking to compete with Indy or Nashville for major nationwide conventions, I highly doubt we can do that given the constraints of the current set-up. I don't know much about conventions, but it would be prudent during this expansion to try and develop with a niche or two in mind, something those other two can't offer and lock it in that way. If we actually worked as a cohesive region, the best idea would be to expand the Covington convention center into the IRS lot, at which point, we could create a better convention center than Indy or Nashville, but it is KY, so nah.

Agreed. And I actually like the design of the building too, I much prefer the adaptive reuse idea

That's annoying. You can't access the articles via the "Latest News" section, you have to go via the front page, which is probably a bug. I hate the layout of the front page, it is so hard to find anything.

Interestingly enough, it still locks me out of the articles. I may end up subscribing to CBC anyway given how much I read their stuff or follow Chris W's tweets.

It likely will be wait-and-see until they get a good reading on how in-demand these are. Hopefully they do well, because other developers will also take a look at micro-apt and no parking if this does well. A project like this is the best way to address rising rental rates in city cores all over the US. It is so refreshing to see a new, decently tall building without a parking garage under it.

Which is too bad, because Oakley Station gets locked up if there's high amounts of traffic because there are only 2 ways out of there and the lights don't let many cars out. It would be better to have more ways to disperse them.

True, there may be "undesirables" driving in THEIR neighborhood from Oakley Station after a long night at The Casual Pint... can't have that.

On top of that, a huge connection to Oakley Station via a bridge over the tracks. Despite its flaws at least it will be connected pedestrian-wise to a population center. And given the connection, may spur major development on the Cast Fab site, and hopefully a parking garage allowing that ridiculous Cinemark parking lot to be redeveloped along with the lot south of their parking lot. Oakley Station may have been bungled, but they can at least back into some sort of pseudo-density by filling out as they go.

I wonder though, how the chamber would react if Cincinnati voters rejected the .3% earnings tax decrease, but county voters passed the sales tax. I would find it funny, because the big companies are only behind this improvement if they get to decrease their earnings tax. They'd show their true colors if that result happened.

Honestly, it is a good thing that the "nearby" NBDs are hot as well. OTR will always have solid demand, but since it isn't THE place for young families to live, it allows for prices that aren't ridiculous. I'd rather our city have a fairly even spread of investment and interest, which is something a lot of cities don't see. The positive in that is that an incredible place like OTR isn't completely locking out middle-class people, which is a huge problem in bigger cities in top neighborhoods. Most other cities will have a hot downtown area, and one or two hot neighborhoods near to downtown, and the rest of their inner-ring suburbs look like a tornado ran through there. Off the top of my head (West to East): Westwood, College Hill, Northside, Clifton, Pleasant Ridge, East WH, Obryonville, Hyde Park, Oakley, Mt Lookout, and Madisonville are all great options within Cincinnati. There is less area being 'left behind' than being invested in, which itself is a huge win.

Probably not, given the underwater approval rating city-wide of the streetcar and mayor's office. If the upcoming bus levy passes AND it is implemented well, then you will see people advocating for a streetcar extension to UC. But it seems that all current political will is going to SORTA right now, which is a good thing and more important for the region. BRT isn't as flashy as the streetcar or a subway, but it will turn some millennial heads and garner some moderate news (as the IndyGo one has).

He was at 119 pitches with 2 more innings to go, he would have ended around 150+. If it was a shutout, maybe, but this call makes sense for a young arm.

In one of Chris's tweets, he stated that this will be taller than GE, which I think is less than 15 stories. The Bengals were probably worried about people being able to watch the games from the top floors of the GE building, which is an odd concern, but with this building being further away, that shouldn't be a problem.

If they say 2020, it's either late 2021 or early 2022 that this starts. The new Kroger is the only project I've ever seen actually start and get completed on time.

Big news, unless I completely missed this announcement some other time... Looks like more office space is coming to the Walnut & 2nd lot at the banks

It may have even been this year that there were articles about it. The businesses were 'desperate' for the music venue to bring year-round business. Which I think makes sense, the Reds are far better for The Banks than the Bengals, who only bring people down there 8 times a year. Given we are in the middle of a decent Reds season, it may just be recency bias that we think it is more popular (year-round).

If the plants get shut down after this bailout then of course that's a huge problem, which is why I said that the state should have had some say in what happens. New nuclear power plants will never get built though, they are way too expensive to build nowadays.