neilworms

If this forum were more leniant on cussing, I'd be cussing a storm. That guy needs to be thrown out ASAP.

Cranley is a real piece of &(*&)&*(&)#*(^&*(^!@#!! http://www.wlwt.com/news/mayor-moving-downtown-events-for-streetcar-is-nuts/32508308 Is there any way council can overrule him and the city manager on this?

Leave it to the bizjournal to actually cover what the Enquirer isn't: http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2015/04/21/later-cincinnati-streetcar-hours-could-be-on-tap.html?ana=e_du_pub&s=article_du&ed=2015-04-21&u=YhY%252FQfXAMCgNyFrEjw9v+w0e0d9800&t=1429644224&r=full

No mention at all about the obvious - later hours. Did anyone attend this meeting? Someone had to have proposed later running times.

I kind of Consider Salzar - http://salazarcincinnati.com/ and The Mercer http://www.themercerotr.com/ to pretty much already fit that mold.

What's pretty awesome about this OTR restaurant scene is its creating an environment that's much more like a bigger city on a small scale where many small restaurants are being opened with unique concepts as opposed to larger restaurants with more bland concepts are opening. Its really cool and allowing for a real "food scene" to open up in Cincinnati - its small scale now, but the growth potential is astronomical as is the effect on local tastes. At its end game such a foodie scene turns into this (West Loop pretty much being OTR scaled up to Chicago): http://chicago.eater.com/2015/4/15/8393037/au-cheval-burger-week-the-hot-dish#4716834

And way too sterile. Too much old was torn down :x

A large reason for that population shrinkage was tearing down projects - and after the people left the projects their wasn't a 100% replacement rate in the city, some folks moved to the immediate post war suburbs (like North College Hill for instance or Colrain Township). In Chicago its the south side suburbs and a few west side suburbs.

I just saw this in the Sun-Times - no mention of Cincinnati: http://chicago.suntimes.com/business/7/71/520394/new-operator-big-plans-chicago-indianapolis-rail-service KJP, has your organization reached out to Iowa Pacific/Amtrak regarding extending this to Cincinnati?

How many more hotels can downtown support? Plus this area would be better with residential which is needed everywhere.

Just so I'm reading this right, this means the VBML has been waived?

What's the likelyhood of this getting demolished then :(

Sounds like it might be better to check it out on an off night or on Sat or Sun afternoon.

^-I also get the feeling that there are some people in Cincinnati who are happy with being unhappy and shaking that miserable little world is something they can't handle. Its self-abusive loathing in the worst possible way, I hope that change continues to charge forward and leave that type of thinking behind.

Btw, the thing that OTR has that is really awesome (other than a few cafes with courtyards that are cooler than the photo you provide like Iris Book Cafe and Collective Espresso as well as MOTR), are the old brewery buildings that are revived to include tap rooms - this is super unique and is something Cincy should sell as a tourist attraction: https://www.google.com/search?q=rhinegeist&espv=2&biw=1536&bih=758&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=JN8lVfyhDIHmsAWc8YH4AQ&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAw and http://d2zrqxibtw5pa4.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/Array/public/articlephotos/MoerleinTapRoom1.JPG Or even Taft's Ale House which is a fantastic adaptive reuse of a church as a brewpub: http://media2.wcpo.com/photo/2015/03/31/Tafts_Ale_House_pre_open-13_1427854718940_15930937_ver1.0_640_480.jpg Iris's courtyard: http://otrmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/yard.jpg

I meant more towards the ratio of wealthy residents who abide in Indian Hill will be similar, down the road, in OTR. And I know, that said, I'm not sure how that will blend in well. You will have Half a Million to a Million (potentially) dollar condos right next to affordable housing....? I don't see how these wealthy CEO's will feel about that. Larger cities have this, there are affordable housing units in Wicker Park right next to multimillion dollar single family houses I used to live there, and that's what I saw, there were no issues from the section 8 housing. On the whole it seems to be working as long as the poverty isn't concentrated. One of the best examples of this working is in Charleston SC, where the idea of mixed housing was pioneered, I found a little bit of background here: http://fayettealliance.com/events/smart-growth-by-mayor-joseph-p-riley-charleston-sc/ (*I need to find a better article about this, I saw a video a long time ago with this mayor explaining what he did and why - I can't seem to find it). One of the craziest areas though its too early to tell is the Tenderloin in San Francisco where they are trying to balance very expensive condos/apartments with SRO hotels: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Gentrification-no-longer-a-dirty-word-4302093.php Finally just because the single family houses are multimillion dollar homes, doesn't mean that professionals won't live in smaller condos, that's how such dense urban neighborhoods work, I know its a paradigm shift from what Cincinnati's been used to for the last 50 years or so, but its how it works in more developed urban real estate markets.

I truly see OTR becoming the next Indian Hill. A luxurious urban neighborhood for the Mega-Rich. Indian Hill is not really a neighborhood, that's the difference. And Ugh, how many times do I have to fight this ignorant view - 30 % of all housing is affordable, that's a requirement.

Shame said CEO is completely contempt of preservation.

The American Heritage Tour in OTR opens it up for people to look inside.

I didn't say the bus was the best alternative, but I really like LAs method of incremental improvement, make what you have better first, while your working on making the system as a whole much more robust. I prefer riding a train too, but as a regular rider of the CTA that has to get to areas far from trains now and then by Bus having a bus that doesn't stop at every little side street a wonderful thing and for LA ridership as a whole is up due to these changes, which will in part help supercharge growth on the better form of transit when its done. I also really appreciate the branding because it helps set the identity of the city makes transit as a whole more attractive. I'm not using this as a crutch to say that the streetcar is not needed, because yes it is, and its going to be a good thing for Cincinnati, but I am saying that Cincinnati like LA a few years back (and still to some extent) has serious cultural barriers towards using transit. I did see a few tweets from someone I know from Price Hill who is most likely along a bus route still complaining about not finding parking on opening day when really with the amount of time she spent finding parking she could have easily just hopped on a bus and not had to have delt with it. Why didn't she ride transit when it was an option, and a viable one given the circumstances? These issues have to be addressed in order for better transit to exist.

LA did a great job with their buses by branding them in bright colors, not sure what their streetcar will look like if/when it gets online: http://la.curbed.com/archives/2010/04/rebranding_metro_marketing_like_a_private_company.php

Not to mention the fact that some people will live physically in the market, with apartments overlooking the square. There already are a few there, but seeing that area fully redeveloped there will be more. All they need to do is fix the parking crater just to the north.

He should work in Cincinnati that fits in better than the Banks does.

Most interesting part: If journalism were better in Cincy Cranley would be completely railroaded for his actions, he's so blatant and not very good at what he does.

Yeah McCabe would be the right guy for the job. I kind of wish people would work together here though, come to some kind of compromise.