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If stadiums drove development the Banks would be completed by now.

That is an extremely nieve take on that organization. OTRCH provides affordable housing and has partnered with 3CDC on projects to further protect affordable units in the neighborhood. Venice on Vine is a job training program for neighborhood kids and can help teach valuable skills. I bet many of the people trained here have gone on to work in the restaurants you covet so much in OTR. http://pip-cincy.com/ These are valuable programs that help create a ladder of opportunity for the people whose families have lived in OTR for a generation or more. Add to that both of these organizations worked in this neighborhood for years before anyone cared enough to form 3CDC and pour billions of dollars into it. The orgs that merged to form OTRCH were misguided and idealistic but in its current iteration, its a much-needed force for good in OTR.

They or OTRCH owns the building, I can't recall exactly but it has not been market rate owned in decades. So they will be there as long they want to.

It could but if they don't get the lots on Walnut, it probably won't be big enough.

OTR is pretty close to being past maturation of the bar/restaurant retail scene and we could see a shift over the next 18 months as most of the original Gateway Quarter leases are beginning to expire.

If we expanded the FBC or even enacted the long-dormant Land Development Code, these PD zone changes would be needed less since more urbanist development would be permitted by-right. Removing parking requirements are a start, but that only goes so far. My sense is that the Council and the Mayor like to play with these projects for political points so it's not going to happen in this era of Cincinnati history.

This is the only intersection where there are bump-outs and someone still got hit.

Looks great. Thanks for sharing!

They are happy making potato chips. They started it as a way to fund their restaurant project but their chips became popular and they stuck with that. I've seen plenty of passion project restaurants start and fail (LOOKING AT YOU FORK ❤️KNIFE) because the restauranteur was passionate about food but was burned out by the crowds and the demand. If chips work for them then great. They will find their own happiness.

The American Building is 200 ft tall. Kroger HQ is 325 ft tall. Court and Walnut us 206 ft. tall. According to pages 146 and 147 of this HCB Packet: https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/buildings/historic-conservation/historic-conservation-board/july-24-2017-staff-report-and-attachments-updated-7-19-17/

This was a thing as recently as 2013. https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2013/10/29/in-final-state-of-the-city-mallory.html

Lots 1, 13 and 25 still will have garages built to sustain development on top of them. So the garage is not complete per se. Here's more info on the Hilltop situation. Looks like the IDC that went before Planning Commission last Friday was an attempt to slow down the relocation. https://www.wvxu.org/post/one-step-forward-one-step-back-banks-music-venue#stream/

Cool. Maybe they'll start working on getting Phase III together then... ?

Is the Banks parking garage considered underground or not?

If you say it enough, it must be true!

Any more banks on the square and we'll be forced to rename it Bank Branch Square!

Self-driving cars will be considered unthinkable 50 years from now The vision of the “smart city” of the future involves driverless cars. Driverless trucks. Driverless buses. Driverless trains. But what happens to the space inside vehicles when nobody is driving? Is it really a smart social strategy to get rid of drivers? Recently, I rode a bus uptown in Manhattan with a visibly disoriented and distressed man. As we passed 14th Street, the man got up from his seat and started throwing air punches and talking loudly to an imaginary companion. Those of us seated near him started to lean away and wonder if we ought to move.

Zombie road project rises from the grave.

The urban core must pay so the suburbanites can play!

I think apartments on top and restoring the storefront on the bottom. The aim is to get a restaurant. I forget what time of the year they are aiming to finish but I would not be surprised if its Fall of this year.

It's a separate project.

Moved off-topic posts about poverty and SE Ohio into this thread:

Kaze has been treading water since Hideki left to open Kiki in College Hill. Thunderdome buying Kaze is not a surprise but this will be their 6th restaurant in this three-block stretch of Vine Street.

It's...Sky Loop 2.0!!

#2 sounds like a good excuse for a UO Cincinnati pow-wow. Also, I am a +1 on restoring the original International Style facade design. Advancements in technology will allow for bringing the design back with more energy efficiency and perhaps even some solar or other sustainable features included.