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Pretty sure the Convention Center added 15k square feet or so of exhibition space with the renovation but the rest of your opinion on the project have at it.Looked it up 80k square feet of additional meeting space and 13k for exhibition space is being added after renovations.

So I heard through the grapevine the EPA campus next to UC might be targeted by DOGE=Trump for closure.Good and bad with this of course.UC would be able to buy some much needed land for it's campus.Shame to lose the EPA jobs of course.The campus already has had sizable cuts. https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5200544-trump-administration-epa-science-arm-elimination/amp/

The EPA campus all 22 acres of it,480 k sq feet of office buildings next to UC is looking to be available soon.Wonder how and what UC will do with it.

Without a doubt the 23 acres Covington riverfront site will be developed and fully built out years and years before the Banks is finished. The Banks had a 24-25 years head start. 18 aces of development with a county sales tax and state to help build out the infrastructure and still only half way built out. The IRS site already has anchor tenants like NKU medical school and law school building fully funded.Also a 400 room convention hotel will be announced soon as another anchor tenant.

The Masonic building with renovation plans tailored to it by Western Southern would be featured prominently for Sundance multiple theater venues dining options ect.Sponsorship money is also in play here

Marge Schott was the only aggresiously horrible owner the Reds have had and she at least won.The Haslams and Art Models of the world have taken and tried to take your football team out of town beside losing and a lot.

No offense given but for a region with arguably the best pro football history there is Could Cleveland pro football have gotten 2 worse owners than Art Modell and now the Haslam family?

The Reds have give or take 25 owners with voting shares in the team as well.It is not like Bob or Phil Castellini can just decide to move the franchise without the other owners consent.Also FWIW most of the other Reds owners have generational family roots in Cincinnati. I am pretty sure the Castellini's own about 30% of the Reds.

Slim to zero chances a new arena will be getting any Hamilton County sales tax funding. The stadium .01 sales tax has no sunshine date to it and it will be used to fund these next round of stadium upgrades well into the 2040s before it is paid off. I could see a ballot issue going up after the Reds and Bengals leases are finalized to sunshine the sales tax though.

If major league baseball itself keeps on losing market share to the other sports and TV revenue continues to be stagnant or even decrease.Yes it very possible more than a few teams will be contracted for the league to stay alfloat.It almost came to fruition not so long ago. The Reds are not one of those teams.

Again the Reds regularly draw league average attendance historically for the 28th smallest metro areas out of 30 mlb markets. 1 season in the last 40 below 1.5 million. The Reds market is drastically larger than Greater Cincinnati. https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CIN/attend.shtml

Again those markets are not larger than the current the Cincinnati Reds market.The Reds draw from at least a 300 miles radius and there are a lot more people in that radius than any of the listed above besides Nashville.Which is a overlapping market for the Reds Portland and Salt Lake City are much smaller markets that are quite isolated metro areas. Utah and the Mormons sure have some faith I will give them that.A metro area of 1.2 million about half Mormons.With about 4 million people within a 300 miles radius trying to get a major league team must have that. Cincinnati has around 35 million people at 300 miles by that same standard.

Lindner absolutely got Charlie Winburn to change his vote with a last minute meeting a few days before the final conservatory vote. Damn shame too because nothing ever did get built stop the department store building to date. https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2018/01/04/city-says-replacing-macys-can-quick-history-says-no-reality-check-history-says-replacing-macys-wont/1001714001/

To be exact Lindner killed the conservatory that was to go atop the new Lazarus department store fwiw.

Portland, Nashville, Charlotte, Orlando, Salt Lake City — all with active groups looking for an MLB team whether via relocation or expansion. None of those markets mentioned above offer anything that the Cincinnati Reds now have except perhaps Nashville. Portland,Salt Lake City, Orlando ,Charlotte have little to zero baseball history with proven attendence metrics to entice a established franchise to relocate. Possibly Nashville would cause the least amount of market disruption but what is the point in moving a established team and market for almost the same thing.

Carl Lindner nixed Fountain square West,Twin Tower proposal by the peace bell site was always a pipe dream for several reasons.The rest yes bank financing and lack of market demand at the time.And yes the Cincinnati neighborhood councils have killed many a Cincinnati large scale development.Although that is changing somewhat with the glaring lack of housing in Cincinnati now.

The banks was built on the cheap end of costs by Carter Dawson then their Atlantic Station development in Atlanta had massive cost overruns that deep sixed further development at the Banks.One master developer choice set the Banks development back around a decade.The Banks development was the best thing to ever happen to Covington IRS site as a blueprint on what not to do.

People don't really understand how large of a market and area Reds baseball is it has fans in.150 years of baseball in the same city will do that.The Reds Caravan is unique to the franchise as well. This franchise has been around in its current form since 1881.Yes I know the Reds first team was in 1869 that team is now the Atlanta Braves.

Hamilton County and the Banks steering committee screwed this one by picking one master developer.Going all in and giving one single developer all development rights over to a development site this large was incredibly short sighted and frankly idiotic.

There just are not that many markets left that are superior to what the Reds have and draw people from.3 state 300 mile radius being a historical franchise has it perks. Honestly zero markets left offer from what the Reds current market is.The Reds even when the suck which is quite often still draw a minimum of 1.5 million fans a season.I guess Nashville could be a fit but Salt Lake City or Portland isolated metro areas no way

Oh Mike Brown absolutely had a agreement in place with Baltimore to move the team in place pending the sales tax voting passing Hamilton County.Even with the one sided agreement with Hamilton County Baltimore was still going to pay the Bengals 15-20 million more per year than the Hamilton County lease did. Yes the Brown family is loyal to Cincinnati almost to their own detriment.If you understand the Brown family and it's history you can see why.The family was basically cheated out of a partial ownership stake of the Cleveland Browns.Paul Brown was run out of Cleveland by a PR campaign from Art Modell.The family has had roots in Cincinnati since the 1960's.It is a conservative frugal family that counted a few million in profits a season for over a decade to buy out any and all partnerships the team had to own the entire team.If the Bengals can be as profitable as they are now there is near zero chance they would relocate.They want to be in the city and not the suburbs as well. The Reds relocating? Still one in a thousands chance but I guess more possible with the waning profits of MLB and the rising costs compared to the NFL.Lot more teams would have to fold and or relocate before the Reds would be up.

A new arena will get done but it is still a few 2-3 years out from breaking ground.I could see a funding model private public partnership details start to come out by late summer. The stadium tax will not be used but a 30-35% private 30-35 TIF funding 30-35 % state funding model will be the financing tool.The Port will obviously be involved and FC Cincinnati ownership.The CET site will be the location just too long to wait for the Brent Spence bridge land to become usable. The Reds will never leave town not a chance. The Bengals would if the Brown family was not loyal to a fault and making near 50-100 million in profit every year.

From people in the industry and various city planning departments. Sundance board has visited Cincinnati at least 8 times in the last 6 months including as soon as 2 weeks ago.The mayor meet with Sundance out in Austin this week at South by Southwest. Sundance board has not been to Boulder since August of last year.Boulder being seen as the favorite is simply not even close to being accurate. This is down to Sundance staying in Utah or making their new home in Cincinnati. And with recent Utah flag bill recently passing state legislature I sure am not seeing Utah as being the pick here.

Headed to redone Newport riverfront park at some point. https://www.wvxu.org/local-news/2024-08-01/newport-world-peace-bell-temporary-home

Fwiw the mayor was at SXSW few days back. I would think to get some ideas how to help facilitate Sundance expanding in Cincinnati.