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Hmm, all those strip mall bars here in town (partially due to annexation) that have reviews like "No hipsters here; drink specials during NASCAR" indeed could be messing up the rankings. Though an advanced hipster could look really deep by genuinely enjoying NASCAR and being knowledgeable about it.

It would probably be cheaper just to build rail transit and provide more tax incentives for non-sprawl building patterns so that they don't leave. But uh, that's something an entrepreneurial-minded dictator would do rather than a gridlocked representative democracy whose politicians only aim to please those living in ribbon development. It would also require leaders that are capable of connecting the dots between brain drain and the built landscape. Doing something more direct like you propose is less effective and more expensive but much more realistic in today's Ohio political climate.

Is The Chamber still open after the bath salts bust? I think it is.

Then comes the conga line of different owners and management companies.

Chicago will change anything in any old way to make it "Chicago-style" Like their 3x2 cornhole boards.

ashville - T town I'd call Upper Arlington a square.

That's nuts.

Yeah, I wanna be able to show the graph to dumbasses, but if I don't understand the graph then uh...

Is this going in where Stelzer used to connect directly with Morse? The one that had the '60s ranches in ribbon development down the road?

I saw an article from the early '80s calling the Short North "SoButt" for "South of Buttles". Imagine if that stuck.

To me, a strip mall bar isn't a replacement for a traditional bar in a walkable location. I know that's not true for everyone, but I think more of the deathmatches will be between the various chains themselves.

Maybe it's one of those "attitude" restaurants where they give the customers a hard time on purpose. And burn everybody's stuff in this case. Either that or they took out some really good insurance.

Groveport, but that's not in NEO though.

CITY SPOTLIGHT: Cincinnati and the Streetcar: Part II Submitted by kapoppel on Thu, 08/30/2012 Recent chatter covering my prior blog "Cincinnati Chooses the Streetcar...but Why?" is propelling me to clear the confusion. READ MORE: http://www.cnu.org/cnu-salons/2012/08/city-spotlight-cincinnati-and-streetcar-part-ii Looks like Columbus Underground scooped us. It's Katie Poppel's rebuttal to the concerns raised by members of of this site and other individuals regarding her first CNU editorial.

Man, we really get stuff like this banged out well, don't we? Too bad we don't have the "can do" spirit with rail that we do with other projects.

8th & state, you seem like you're in the pleading stage.

What about Huntington? They've got all those really good hot dog places like Hillbilly and Stewart's. City might be too small.

Not much left of the old shopping center/mall left at this point.

That gallery will probably have the inadvertent effect of exposing people to new drugs that they didn't know existed.

The other thing about subcultures and trends within these interest groups is that a lot of it is driven by marketing. Growing up with BMX in the '80s, I really dug the brightly colored bikes and gear of the last half of the '80s. BMX racing doesn't really change that much, but freestyle changes at the drop of a hat. The '80s stuff was all about people smiling and having fun impressing the neighbors. The riders did their thing to stuff like Iron Maiden, synthpop and Van Halen. In 1991, all of a sudden the bikes were all either black or chrome, everybody was listening to Faith No More and the Beastie Boys, the videos were all fisheye lenses and people acting like goofballs (putting on animal suits and running into walls, so not quite Jackass level or anything). I didn't get it, so I tuned out freestyle. I had a hard time learning tricks anyway. But there's no way that things can change overnight like that without assistance from the business community. Over on the motorcycle side, the subcultures are just as notorious. Everybody knows about Harley guys, Ruff Ryders sportbikers and the Goldwing crowd. But, there's also plenty of others including the 2-stroke streetbike crowd (known for their smoky exhausts, heroic marijuana consumption and being from California) and the cafe racer crowd (long gas tanks, super stripped-down bikes, small engines, flat paint). Largely, you'd think they have a lot in common because the bikes are somewhat similar. A guy over at the 2-stroke forum converted his '70s Yamaha RD350 over to cafe racer style, which is a somewhat popular and easy thing to do. But of course, he goes to the cafe racer meet and guys get cranky because he's not on a Norton and isn't wearing an ancient pudding bowl helmet and glass goggles as portrayed in the old advertising and on the Cafe Racer TV show that's on now.

And most pleasure boats get like 2 mpg. I still remember a fight breaking out at the gas station across the street from my high school when gas crossed the $2.00 mark. Those even dollar amounts are simply psychological barriers. That shows the ridiculous sense of self-entitlement drilled into Americans' heads about cheap gas.

That's hard on your fuel pump. You won't save money that way considering that a fuel pump costs $600+ to replace. Today's in-tank fuel pumps require gas around them to keep 'em cool.

Frankly, I thought that was a dead zone that we were just going to be stuck with.

I'm pretty sure the banks and other REO holders would rather have the cash than the houses, even if they have to sell them at a discount. But, if REOs are assets for them then they can use them as collateral to borrow money for other things. Perhaps it's more complex than that, though.

I'm surprised that this piece wound up on the CNU web site. It doesn't really reflect the CNU's vision if you ask me.