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I know the building needs a ton of work, but seriously what a steal. I think there are houses in my parents neighborhood in suburban Cleveland that have gone for more than that. Unbelievable.

The vacant storefront next to the Proud Rooster on Ludlow has a building permit posted for conversion from retail to restaurant space. It looks like it's the same guy who owns Ambar and a few other area restaurants (Jagde Singh) so I'm assuming we can expect some kind of Indian restaurant...which to be honest kind of sucks. I like Indian food, but there is definitely a lack of variety on Ludlow now.

keep in mind that "Holiday Inn" could mean the IHG group of hotels, which includes: InterContinental Hotels & Resorts Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts Hotel Indigo Holiday Inn Hotels & Resorts Holiday Inn Express Staybridge Suites Candlewood Suites

Agreed. Many area bars have pool and they seem to handle the demand just fine. From what I've heard, there will be a much bigger push for retail in this development, rather than restaurants and entertainment....which is much needed and appreciated. I hate having to always to to Kenwood, Rookwood or Florence to get clothing or electronics. I do wonder, however, if some of the same chains at said shopping centres would be willing to open a second location in CUF. Specifically, I could see H&M, Forever21, Apple and Trader Joe's doing very well in this area.

They have actually begun framing the buildings....tons of carpenters on site every day it looks like. I would love to see some renderings if anyone has any.....hint hint.... where do you co-op btw?

Today, a poll was opened to UC students on our student interface... Would you like to have input on what stores will be located between Calhoun Street and West McMillan Street? Yes 147 / 91.88% No 13 / 8.13% Answer: Towne Properties and Al. Neyer, Inc. are developing the grassy piece of land between Calhoun and McMillan. The vibrant mixed-use project will be called U Square at the Loop. It will include 155 apartments, 2 parking garages totaling 750 parking spaces and commercial space containing retail and restaurants. In order to provide retail tenants that will fulfill the needs of the student body, we are looking for YOUR input on the non-restaurant stores to attract to the project. Fill out the survey and be entered in a chance to win great prizes! We will be giving away one iPad and five $50 Bearcat Campus Card credits. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/helpushelpyouusquare

amazing amount of work has been done on the site and it has really changed the feel of the intersection there at Ohio and McM, for the better. I never realized what a hulk that Friar's Club building was...

I don't know if the Ludlow plaza is complete or not, but from what I saw today, color me VERY unimpressed. It looks very cheap and half-assed. At this point I think the space would have been better used for much needed housing or a business that could generate revenue and tax dollars instead of a couple of picnic tables.

While I definitely agree high-speed rail could/should replace much of the need for RJ flying, it doesn't totally solve the problem. And because I'm a realist and I know HSR is not going to be built all over the US anytime soon, there is still a need for smaller airplanes, especially since the legacy carriers use them to feed their hubs. I'm kind of intrigued by the turboprop argument. I have heard good things about the Q400 and I know it's popular around Europe. I have heard that the flying is generally not as comfortable (ie. greater turbulence) but I've never flown on one so I can't say...and I've had plenty of uncomfortable flights in CRJ's and ERJ's. I do think that CVG stands to loose alot of its CRJs even as a hub, but thats for discussion in that thread...

they must have hit some roadblocks or something: "This hotel will soon be joining the Hilton Worldwide Portfolio of Brands and is presently accepting reservations for arrival January 2, 2011 and beyond."

"The 50-seat jets once prized by carriers such as Delta Air Lines Inc. are being culled from U.S. fleets as higher fuel and maintenance bills make them too expensive to fly." http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-03/airline-era-ends-as-carriers-cull-50-seat-jets-nobody-wants-.html?cmpid=yhoo This article really struck me because Ohio is a market where there are lots of 50-seat CRJ/ERJ frequencies across all of our major airports, and especially at CLE and CVG. Do we stand to loose service to several markets when airlines phase these airplanes out?

but the hipsters love their 40s! more bang for the buck!

I, too, am very sad about what might become of Cleveland. I grew up flying CO out of Cleveland and it's truly a great airline. I wish better for my hometown and for CO's generally great employees. I will say this though...at least CO is being upfront about it. Many people feel DL led Cincinnati on while gradually taking the floor out from underneath and refusing to acknowledge they were de-hubbing CVG. If the cuts are really as bad as it sounds, hopefully CLE leadership can be proactive and not put all their eggs in one basket here. The other question is who will come in to pick up the slack and give Cleveland a chance....I do hope that we see more mainline DL metal in here, I think WN will do a little expanding on key routes (PHX and MDW) and I wonder what will happen with AirTran's ops at CAK. I mean, there's endless possibilities here and Cleveland is well positioned both in terms of location and RASM for new growth opportunities.

Looks like CLE will start to get some Delta mainline service finally! I'm seeing 1x MD-88 starting on 8 Sept 2010, flight 1261 CLE-ATL (the first flight out of the day at 6:30AM, the rest are still CRJ) MSP, DTW, JFK, CVG, MEM remain all CRJ

I hope you use the word "required" loosely. They never check. Plus the hotel has their own shuttle that will take you door-to-door anywhere in the immediate area.

but in this market they will because they are really the only 2 properties serving the University and Uptown area. I would not be surprised if the Marriott lowers their rates or if the Hampton sets their own slightly higher than market average to exploit the rate environment in this area of the city. The one benefit the Marriott definitely has though is their conference space which may serve to attract an overall different dollar then this Hampton will... also -- many, many business travelers are extremely loyal to a frequent guest program and are willing to go up or down in price/quality to stay within their favorite hotel family. What we have here is essentially a Hilton vs. Marriott competition on that front which is much bigger than just Hampton Inn vs. Marriott...

Delta announced new service to DCA today, beginning 31 October. 3x daily to/from CMH on mainline fleet I believe. This is in addition to other key business cities that are getting new service to DCA. imo this is a direct punch to US Air for not playing nice on the proposed slot swap... read more: http://news.delta.com/index.php?s=43&item=1088

I heard the completion date is November. I also heard that the plans for retail at the other end are on hold and may not be completed for some time. Blame the economy. The progress they have made lately is pretty phenomenal. With a major chain hotel like this, everything is so regulated/cookie-cutter by their parent company, so things can happen fast. In my experience, Hilton is pretty accurate with their website updates on new properties. My guess is that there is a push to open ASAP because there will be tons of easy revenue with UC football games and whatnot. I would expect that this hotel could be sold out most weekends fall quarter.

The website for this location went up a few days ago...says August 2010 opening but not accepting reservations yet. A great addition to Uptown, we can use more hotel rooms for sure! and this is the first Hilton-family property in the area too so people don't have to stay at the Kingsgate Marriott... http://hamptoninn.hilton.com/en/hp/hotels/index.jhtml;jsessionid=0DUUGU3RV1SZYCSGBJT222Q?ctyhocn=CVGUPHX

Seating for 600 supposedly...that doesn't sound too shabby to me. ps. anyone see those wide stairs leading up to the terrace in the rendering? yeah, I can't wait to stumble down those :wink:

I never said that they were obligated to do so. All I said was that I'm tired of the current (and even the former) situation, and I hope that another airline increases its presence at CVG in the future. The demand is certainly there, so what's wrong with that? If that was the case, the routes would still be on the schedule. That's a good point. I guess I was referring to how most flights I took out of CVG seemed to be consistently packed, despite having the highest fares in the nation. If there was no demand, those flights should have been empty. It's possible that most of those people were just connecting through Cincinnati, but I have no data to back that up. I've always thought that CVG has been redundant for Delta since the merger. It's just too close to Detroit. Another bit on "full" flights, especially on DL: many people are non-revenue passengers, ESPECIALLY in Cincinnati. Airline employees, family and friends are utilizing connections through CVG now more than ever before because of how full (by rev PAX) flights are out of ATL, MSP, DTW, etc. I did a ATL-CVG flight last week coming back from a business event and the MD-88 was occupied by around 50 non-rev passengers coming to Cincinnati to connect to their destination elsewhere because CVG is considered generally less congested than other DL hubs right now. Going back to my $30 comment...thats the case now, 3 years ago however it's true you would have paid 2x vs. DAY, IND, LEX, etc. I know of many people that will still drive to hop on a Southwest flight a small savings, or won't even look at CVG because they are unaware of the fare decreases that have happened. Fares out of CVG now are pretty average but it's still a tough, tough market with so many other airports taking CVG pax. Why do you think IND advertises so heavily in the Enquirer? I'm not sure what you were getting at, but PDX flights have little to do with Comair except for the fact that many people were probably connecting onto the PDX route via Comair flights into CVG. When that operation wound down, it made less sense to keep a flight here that less pax had access to. The market for that flight was probably never natively Cincinnati, but rather lots of connections. West coast flights are strictly mainline flights flown on the non-regional Boeing/Airbus fleet operated by Delta (not Comair, Mesaba, Skywest, etc.)

maaaayjah demo work here over the past few days. everything is down except for a small corner at Ohio and McMillian where the grade of the property requires extra bulldozing. Kinda creepy seeing the Ohio st. entrance still there with no building on top of it!

DTW and MSP are far better hubs from DL's perspective for many reasons (that's a whole different discussion), but at the end of the day, DL is not trying nor are they obligated to make anything easier for people in Cincinnati. Lots of people have this misconception that airlines are a service that should make getting from point A to point B as easy and cheap as possible, like a city bus or subway or taxicab. Airlines exist to make money and to take advantage of routes that allow for high yields. If a market is not performing well, reducing capacity and ops there is the name of the game. DL is not obligated to provide the people of Cincinnati with hundreds of non-stops, flights to Europe, etc etc and many people believe they are. DL's pricing definitely turned lots of people off, but the location of CVG does not help also. When many pax are willing to drive to Columbus, or Indy, or Dayton, or Louisville to hop on a different airline to save $30 DL has good reason to focus their efforts elsewhere. Seriously though, with those PDX flights...they went away for a reason. What exactly that is, I don't know, but DL is not just going to drop a profitable route because they want to screw over the people of Cincinnati like you're making it out to be. Paris is still here because it's profitable...AMS and FRA not so much becuase things were just not working out in the Cincinnati market for those routes.

It's important to remember that a full flights does not mean it's profitable. It's possible that the fare environment was not conducive to DL keeping that route at CVG, or any other number of factors like decreased demand, changes in landing slots at PDX, or better efficiency by shifting that route to another hub. I'm also disappointed by the changes at CVG in late, but there are so many factors that go into this discussion. CVG's loads are generally very good, but that does not mean that these seemingly full flights are going to stick around just because they are full.

as much of a quality-development lover as I am, I am simply just happy that they are pushing forward with this at all, even if it is rather crappy disappointment. UC students are GREATLY disadvantaged by the quality of the current store and facilities over there. Everyone I know leaves Clifton/Uptown to go get groceries because of how ghetto that current Kroger is. While this new store may not be the best fit for this location long-term, it is definitely a win for UC students and the community.