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It's completely sold out... so where's your ticket source? :)

I was there that day as well... visited Eden park, the Art Museum and Krohn... :)

Have a ticket for me? :)

Nice... which day was this?

In my lowly opinion, it is possible to get bored here, but then again I've been here for 27 years :). For me, there seems to be a lot more going on with the 25-30 crowd in other cities, but that's just my opinion. I love and hate the same old crowd, if that makes sense. There are 3 or 4 places that I love, but I'm running out of new places to go (as far as nightlife is concerned). In a city like Chicago or New York, I could probably visit 50 places and still have plenty of undiscovered places to try out. It's just a bit more vibrant. However, I'm sure that happens anywhere... it just might happen a little quicker here. Cincinnati isn't terrible, but I've been to more exciting places :). I'd probably feel differently if I was married and had children. I love my little city, but I'd move to SF or Chicago in a heartbeat if I could relocate my cushy job. Since that's not happening, I do my best to have a good time here. Like it's been said though, there really aren't boring places, just boring people. I will admit however, that sometimes I have to try a bit harder here.

ah ha...thanks for the clear up! Remember this conversation? :)

Corporex built those towers, and are building the Ascent... not Vandercar.

Interesting. I too wish it would have ended up on Broadway. I wish I had an extra million or so to buy and reopen the place, but it's not in the cards at the moment.

Anyone want to open a resturant? :)

Wish I could have made it. Jim Tarbell owns Grammers, correct? Does he have any plans to do something with it?

No, they are seperate companies. Vandarcaar was going to work with Corporex on the Banks.

There is currently a corridor between the square and 6th. How would you know? ;) :P. Gee, dunno, I do live across the street from it :).

Wasn't the great hall renovated not all that long ago?

There is currently a corridor between the square and 6th.

MED did a terrible job with it, but I'm suprised the article doesn't mention the Graydon project which is 29 units.

Exactly. Since I've moved down here, my friends and family have spent a lot more time downtown. They're starting to realize I'm not crazy.

Very nice. Congrats.

And San Francisco...

My place used to be a day care center/childrens restroom :). I'm sure it'll be great once it's done.

Good point Michael. I am also not rich :). Taking a chance and moving downtown has been a substaincial financial drain/risk for me.

I think ignorance is a huge factor as well. People who have spent no time in OTR and know nothing about the history have the 'hopefully they'll just bulldoze it and start over' mentality - hoping ultimately to replace it with cookie cutter condos and a Target, I suppose. The concept of a comfortable, urban, vital neighborhood where you can walk to the store and shopping is seriously a foreign concept to a lot of Cincinnatians out in the suburbs. One time I was at a family gathering and my aunt said something along the lines of "Well, at least if they keep shooting each other they'll be no one left". Once I told her I lived in the neighborhood, she realized she had stuck her foot firmly in her mouth. It's frustrating. I've mentioned it before - but I think a lot of the people who are apathetic or igorant about OTR simply haven't been to other cities and experienced a positive urban environment. Heck, if we could just force them to attend the downtown tour of living here in Cincinnati, I think their mentality would change. I was one of those sheep once. We can be changed :). As a more directlreply to your question, at least in the CBD, demand for renovated condos (esp in the 200k range) seems to be quite high. When my place was on the downtown tour I had a few people ask me if it was for sale, or if I'd be willing to sell it. You just need to get folks thru the door and interested in something different.

I used to live in the Emery on Central. This past summer I moved into Graydon on 6th. There's a thread about it right here: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=3134.60

Indeed - OTR is lucky to have you. Keep in mind, I just moved into a brand new condo downtown, so it would be odd for me to not want development :).

We are so far away from that, it is almost hard to concieve that it could happen here. I think your concerns are a bit misplaced. Also, in addition to the projects MRedmond has mentioned, there is lots of lower income and subsidized projects being built. I'm not really concerned about it actually happening anytime soon - it was just a response to unusualfire's comment... which, like I said, I probably took entirely too seriously.

The unusualfire said it (or at least how I understood it) was that he'd up the rent on everything to 1k - not a likely scenerio, obviously - I probably took him too literally... I am an advocate of renovation and improving the housing stock with a healthy mix of medium-high income properties.