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neilworms

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  1. Seeing the WEBN Fireworks from Mt Adams gave me the first taste of urban lifestyle. It only snowballed from there - so yes this is positive.
  2. Hopefully it will be someone who is less happy to demolish buildings just because...
  3. Mike Brown has nothing to do with FCC.
  4. Seems to work in other places: https://goo.gl/images/LLisqF
  5. Except for dumb lifelong Cincinnatians who are politicians who want to feed their base - eastsiders who love Oakley even the suburban garbage.
  6. I doubt the MLS is cool with the oakley site. The "Leadership" is stuck in provincial thinking mode, I'm pretty sure MLS will respond with a big WTF if they present that plan again. May jeopordize Cincinnati from getting the team...
  7. This thread reminds me of the amazing amount of progress Cincy made between the depths of 2006 and 2014. Things have slowed down a bit thanks to worse leadership, but Mallory pulled nothing short of a miracle - things were grim back then.
  8. And so it begins. People who have sat on derelict property for decades (in this case 2003) are coming out of the woodwork, thinking they can get rich: https://www.sibcycline.com/Listing/CIN/1568302/845-Charlotte-St-Cincinnati-OH-45214 https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1167526,-84.528664,3a,75y,192h,95.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sVuzLNBIggYDy_IBIOOfC1Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 maybe the property has sat derelict because it was unsellable No these people were sitting on these properties waiting to cash out. There has been increased interest in the West End over the past few years thanks to OTRs revival. Guess what adjacent neighborhoods are usually the next to go up in value usually, but a lot of Cincinnatians have no clue how gentrification works.
  9. neilworms replied to a post in a topic in Mass Transit
    Those old industrial corridors oftentimes have disused rail lines running through them which can be converted to light rail. Given LA's regional commitment to investing in transit this could be really good for the region going ahead.
  10. Except in Chicago and even Minneapolis these days ;). Your statement only really applies to St Louis and Cleveland to a degree, but even then ridership is still higher than Cincinnati.
  11. It's a return to the Charlie Luken/Tom Luken years. The big question is why the blue bloods, who owned the Lukens and own Cranley, so deeply fear a city with effective public transportation? Harder to control a city that is prosperous than one that is sputtering along? Maybe they are just collectively morons who can't see past their own noses... I dunno.
  12. Cranley is a scourge to your city's success.
  13. Ugh, save all the freaken buildings. Those people are losers, or are in the pockets of developers who don't know better :/
  14. Proving again that they are morons, it should all be mixed use.
  15. I think the issue is that I'm blunt :), I don't think Cincy's prevaling culture is that way its more of a be polite to people's face and talk behind their backs kind of town ;). When I am blunt I'm not nasty to people I'm just direct - web communication makes it harder and when I direct statements at people I'm directing it at certain forum members not the vast majority of people here.
  16. This city is a place I really want to love, but OMG, the last election really brought out all of my negative frustrations with how things work down there. Your going to hear more of that from me until you guys at large (not most of this forum though there are few people here) elect someone good. Mallory made me less negative and really made me cheer for Cincy, I thought Cranley was an abbretion but it looks like him getting reelected is a return to the same terrible normal. Anyone who is upset about how the childrens thing played out should be more aggressive about it and more critical. A ground swelling of activisim like what saved the streetcar. Instead people were smug and Cranley got away with neighborhood murder ;)
  17. Never ever try to sell Cincinnati on being cheap, your competing against a million other cities that are cheap and not noteworthy. People spend money to live other places for good reason. Sell Cincy on its assets. Politics is much more accessible I'll agree, I just feel like Chicago has a much better grasp of urbanity than Cincinnati does at large. Transit is treated like water here, people don't question you for living in the city (look at how some suburbanites even to this freaken day treat living in OTR as some horrible abbreviation) and while corrupt urban projects like groceries and what not are regularly built not faught for because a lot of close minded people don't even understand the concept and hate change. I guess I wasn't clear enough on my blue blood comment but what I really meant to say was that money matters a lot more than dumb associations like what f-ing high school you went to. So outsiders can at least make a stake in development and bring in good ideas from other places unlike the situation that Cranley has setup where it ensures a perpetual inbred stupidity and validated that dubious quote from Mark Twain.
  18. Except Chicago actually cares about its urbanity :(... Cincinnati is hostile. Also not as much blue-blood bs, money is all the matters.
  19. At least they destroyed the entire neighborhood with a plan :/ Literally one of my favorite streets in all of Cincinnati was ruined by an overflow parking lot by Christ Hospital >:(
  20. This is so funny seriously, because had it not been for the MLS the current powers that be wouldn't be going out of their way to promote the basin. Ha.
  21. KMK is a whose who of Cincy politicians usually...
  22. So provincial idiots are finally confronted with a changed reality of the world. Who knew. Its funny how this whole thing is playing out...
  23. neilworms replied to tastybunns's post in a topic in City Discussion
    On Cincy's accent: I've heard its a mix of Southern with some influences from Northern New Jersey due to shared German ancestry. You had to have heard a few old men who say Cin-caah-nat-uh is interesting its like a mix of NYC and Appalachian. I last heard it from an older TANK driver on the southbank shuttle a few years back - it is getting increasingly rare. For a great example of modern Cincy accents which are the most pronounced on the West side, I'd recommend giving the Urbancincy podcast a listen, Jake and Randy have a west sider drawl, its hard to describe but its a slower way of saying things that has the cadence of a southerner without the twang - last ep has both Jake and Randy. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-urbancincy-podcast/id524361802?mt=2 (I do wish you guys would update it :( ).
  24. Still likely to happen though, I know this city all too well...
  25. Low level workers in sweatshop conditions who could be from anywhere is not anywhere near the same as a giagantic office full of highly paid workers who are most importantly from other parts of the country because there is not enough of these kinds of workers in the Cincy area. Bring in a large number outsiders to disrupt the status quo would do wonders for Cincinnati's attitudes. Its good to have jobs that don't require degrees I'll agree with that, but said jobs are pretty terrible IMO and won't provide the kinds of cultural benefits that HQ2 would have caused. Apple HQ2 is a nice idea, but IMO Apple is even more image conscious than Amazon is - I've been to their campus and the engineers walking around were some of the best dressed I've seen... How is a city that is a (unjust) standin for anywhere USA going to impress a company that cares so much about image? Also Apple is a slowly sinking ship as its literal head has been cut off. I don't see them making up for not having Steve Jobs pushing them forward - they've been loosing market share in a lot of key areas and haven't been able to unveil a product that has the kind of buzz the iPhone or iPad had when it first came out...