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Couple things: -There isn't a nearby Kroger or other grocer in the area, right? That certainly gives them a leg up -Less population and less avg income, but they are actually using a low-cost supplier (probably lower-quality produce too), which makes all the difference. It is so hard to bring in enough bodies to your store when you charge premium prices for premium food. Not sure if anyone ventures to my neck of the woods in Wyoming, but there is a grocery in Hartwell that does well for all types of incomes and demographics. Country Fresh Farm Market on Vine St is one of my favorite groceries in Cincinnati. If I were to open a co-op, I'd be asking questions about how they do so well.

This is awesome. I've got thousands (maybe 10s of thousands) of assets downloaded at this point in C:S, and I've tried making Cinci, but it never quite ends up the way I want it. I usually just make Cinci-inspired what could have been builds now. I'm much better at detailing small areas rather than large-scale cohesive city building.

I just realized I went to a food hall when I was in DC a few months ago (Georgetown). At first I thought I was just at a sandwich place, but when I walked in there were other counters and businesses with coffee and smoothie offerings as well. It was kind of odd figuring out what was going on at first, I thought it was all one business and I didn't know what line to start in. It is just a 'hipster' food court, but it lowers the barrier to entry for small businesses, which is usually a good thing. Helps more good ideas with low funding get off the ground.

Stop collecting fares. This thing is meant to be a way to quickly get to different parts of downtown. But of course, since this was designed to fail, we were given crappy vending machines that don't work half the time. The Cincy EZ Ride App works great, but out-of-towners are not going to want to download an app and enter credit card info, just to buy a ticket on a 5-10 minute ride. I'm hoping this winter brings out much better weekday ridership numbers. At some point, the increasing density downtown has to bear out in those numbers. Then again, that will also hinge on making sure these things don't break down in the winter.

The town in Indiana that I grew up in had a number of them. It's not all that great, it's similar to CiCi's. The buffet is the only reason to ever eat their pizza.

Not getting talked about enough is that these governors will be in office for redistricting, this is a huge deal. I know Michigan and Ohio will probably have redistricting councils in place now, but having a D in office should hopefully help even these states' reps out so that it actually represents the electorate.

True, I guess I should have said the 538 'political climate/generic ballot' adjustments over the next few weeks.

After this past week, I'm interested to see how the polls move. I'd guess he goes from 40% to 50/50 chance. Although early voting may have cancelled out a portion of the recency bias.

Here's the full list: OKI This is great news and sorely needed!

What is kind of disappointing is that one of the reasons the SORTA tax and budget gap tax were pulled is because they feared it would bring out too many republicans and thus guarantee Aftab loses. It's looking like Aftab will lose and there are no increases to cover those budget shortfalls... COAST wins again

The front-facing buildings are going to be key. This needs to be somewhat covered by a mall in front that makes the transition a little less stark. I like the way Sevilla FC has theirs situated; I was there back in May. Seville Stadium