OliverHazardPerry

Oh wow, I completely missed that part of the article where the jail will be separate. Ok yeah, $1 billion sounds really high just for the Justice Center portion. Still doubt that a corporate headquarters is going to be more secure than a criminal justice complex. Unless SHW wants to come off as being a jail for its workers lol

Plus a jail and court compound is probably much more complex to design. There need to be secure areas that require more robust construction than a simple office building. More sophisticated surveillance systems, higher capacity plumbing, facilities for laundry, cooking, etc. I don't work in jail construction, so I don't know what a reasonable amount for that should be. But I could see it easily costing at least twice as much as SHW's headquarters despite being a shorter building.

Not to defend any of the insane things that Hudson's mayor has said, but I just found out that his wife died of leukemia back in September. Since then, he has had the crazy rant about the child pornography in schools in October and now the ice shanty prostitution comment. I don't live in Hudson and haven't paid attention to him except for these comments, but it sounds like he might have suffered a mental break since losing her. Question is up to his constituents as to whether he should remain in office, but knowing more of the context I kind of feel bad for the guy now. Hopefully someone close to him gets him the therapy he needs.

Isn't the same guy was railing on and on about "child pornography in classrooms" over that one college level creative writing class? Sounds like Mayor Shubert has an obsession with sex that is unhealthy.

Even if the Great Lakes are deep enough for submarines, the Welland Canal that links Lakes Erie and Ontario probably isn't. Having a naval yard on the Great Lakes probably provides a good savings in labor costs compared to the East and West Coasts, plus it's a more secure region being this far into the heartland. Like others have said, this would be some of the biggest economic news in decades for Lorain if it comes through!

If Blink comes back in October, they could easily shatter the monthly record. They almost did it in 2019 with fares.

Are you asking for World Class Signage(TM)...in THIS economy??

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/20/peloton-to-pause-production-of-its-bikes-treadmills-as-demand-wanes.html Not looking good for the planned Peloton factory in Wood County. If they can't even use their current manufacturing capacity, highly doubt that they will need the new space. Their stock price has crashed over the past several months too.

Key point in their ruling is that the Ohio Supreme Court retains their jurisdiction in approving the updated maps that the Legislature is now tasked with re-drawing in the next 10 days. So the Legislature can't just keep sending obviously rigged maps. I know this ruling only applies to the statehouse maps, but this is a VERY good sign that the congressional maps will probably be found unconstitutionally gerrymandered as well.

I know nothing has functionally changed yet (the new Council and Aftab have only been on the job for 2 days), but it so nice to read that the new administration won't be actively kneecapping public transportation in the city like Cranley.

Agreed. There is a nice node of evening activity up in the Rhinegeist/Northern Row/E19 area, but extending that down to Findlay Market will be good for the area north of Liberty.

I think that "intersection" would be best served by a roundabout. Would eliminate the odd tangle of turn lanes and stop signs when going from west bound Central Parkway to southbound Plum.

That's a cool re-use thought, but CTI is most likely going to be building a brand new, state of the art lab/cell therapy manufacturing facility. Renovating an old building that has seen multiple uses is probably way too complex of a project for a mid-size company like CTI. If I had to guess, they are going to build it in the new Innovation District off MLK and Reading.

I'd be shocked if 3CDC sits on the former Kroger lot that long. Everything in the immediate vicinity in the block surrounding it (14th, Vine, 15th, and Walnut) is either already renovated or in the process right now. That huge plot of land is going to be too valuable to sit as a parking lot. Building something brand new is probably much easier from a financing standpoint than having to renovate historic buildings that have sat vacant for the past 15+ years. Only holdup I could see is Urban Sites trying to squeeze them for their lot.

I was very interested in this listing because I had remembered hearing that the oldest apartment buildings in the US were the Upper Pontalba buildings surrounding Jackson Square in New Orleans. They were also built in 1850 and those appear no where in the article. The article also listed the 10 oldest apartment buildings in Cincinnati, with number 10 on the list only being 99 years old. My building in OTR is almost 130 years old and wasn't mentioned. Turns out, the article is a bit misleading. The authors only analyzed apartment buildings with 50+ units.

Cincinnati had its first population growth since the 1950s in the newest Census results as well. Up approximately 4%

The Republicans' proposed map is illegal according to the constitutional amendment passed in 2018 by voters. "If the biggest city in a county is smaller than one district and larger than 100,000 people, it may not be split." The map is illegal because it splits Toledo and Akron. The Ohio Supreme Court would knock it down pretty quickly.

If they don't turn it around next year, the front office is going to have a financial nightmare on their hands. 2022 season won't have the shiny new stadium draw to fall back on. Jeff Berding will probably wish he stuck with the Bengals.

I attribute higher weekly ridership into the fall to two things: 1. The weather in October has been unseasonably warm. That brings more people out and about. Will be interesting to see what happens in November. 2. The new FC Cincinnati stadium being open to full capacity. The team has had 7 home games since the beginning of September. And I've seen the streetcar used fairly heavily on gamedays. And if the Bengals continue to play well, I suspect we will see an uptick from them too.

The gorilla's name was Harambe, show some darn respect! Lol

I think it depends on the diocese. In New Orleans, they sold a former church property which was converted into an event space/opera house.

Using Walnut/Main ties into the Government Square transit center better than using Vine all the way into the CBD. Also, the number of streateries on Vine Street will make it more difficult to build out true BRT infrastructure. I could see the restaurants throwing an absolute fit about it with 3CDC, who could easily throw their weight behind opposing it.

Moved my comment over from the Middletown thread. I honestly have no idea how anyone quoted in this article can advocate for this project with a straight face. This is such a pie-in-the-sky idea that I can't believe any serious investor thinks this can work. What movies have been filmed in Middletown other than Hillbilly Elegy in the last 25 years? How is an indoor amusement park going to be profitable 6 months of the year when you have the well established Kings Island just down the road? Why would a touring Broadway show choose Middletown over Cincinnati? I want Middletown to do better economically, but yikes. This isn't it.

I disagree that the new garage will have parking spot shortages between FC Cincinnati fans and Findlay Market patrons. FC Cincinnati games are almost always in the evening, usually starting at 7:30pm. Findlay Market's prime business hours are in the late morning/early afternoon and it closes by 6pm. I'd be willing to bet that the average FCC fan doesn't arrive more than 2 hours before a game. There isn't going to be a large amount of competition for spots between these two uses of the garage.

That doesn't necessarily mean that the economy is fully revived. July is one of the peak leisure travel months. Business travel is still down significantly industry-wide and many airlines have revised their projections downwards into 2022. I couldn't find it on the Cleveland airport website, but I would be willing to bet that budget and leisure focused airlines like Frontier, Spirit, and Southwest had almost normal numbers while the legacy airlines of Delta, American, and United were still well below their 2019 peaks.