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The sprawl building machine continues to grind on.

It has happened a few times in the past 4 years. I have been involved in a few cases where the recommendation from the conservator was overturned for better or worse.

You do know that these are recommendations from city staff right? The hearing for 528 E 12th is next Monday so nothing has been approved yet. While I don't foresee any problems with this application, discussions and board opinions can change against staff recommendation.

Its going in the perogi/vodka bar.

And we haven't even gotten to the white bread vs wheat bread debate... Let's get this thread back on topic folks!

It's a 15,000 square foot site. 100 ft by 150 ft. While a garage there is not infeasible, it would likely not be financeable after reviewing what is coming online in the next year or so in terms of parking (and the streetcar). Looks like the current ownership entity is just a LLC for the previous owner who has owned it since 1983.

I believe part of Fountain Square garage extends under 5th street to the US Bank building.

LQ actually did a good job with this in-depth profile of OTR in 2001. Worth watching at least the first ten minutes or so:

Just have 3CDC turn it into a food hall!!

The federal highway system is one of the largest government subsidized programs in U.S. History and the free market peeps don't even bat an eye.

Even Zundo raised the sidewalk in front of thier building to be handicap accessible. It looks odd but it works.

This is a fishing expedition. The more mud they can fling the better but the whole goal is to smear PG and the other council majority members enough to get their guy elected in 2021. And if they can get a hold of those texts, it's more fodder for them. They can see what the majority was planning regarding Cranley and Black, and maybe then some. Any jokes, insults, name calling, etc, if it's in there and is released, the media will be whipped into a frenzy and the 700 wlw crowd will have plenty fodder to spin about for years to come.

Street alignment was the biggest challenge with developing my map a few years ago. The tile layout for roads does not adequately accommodate real-world road widths. What I would do is divide parts of the city into sections and count off the distance between two major roads and fill in between instead of going block by block. This method really helped with the NKY river cities. And with hillside roads, I really just winged it. It's so hard to get the distances and lengths correct for places like Devou Park or North and South Fairmont.

Finally! They told me they were going to demo that building back in 2012 when the new Tri-health building opened on Dixmyth.

It's the fake it till you make it urban growth strategy!

I think pedestrian annoyance and collision from scooters (and bikes on sidewalks) will encourage more demand for bike lanes. They are so popular and so annoying that eventually, people will demand action beyond "enforcement."

The hang-up with the bar had to do with a combination of delays getting the property transferred and getting funding secured to gap finance the bar. These things take time. I think the unfortunate thing is that most times developers rush to announce a new bar or restaurant to generate buzz or lure investors but the gap between announcement and opening is so long that it gives the impression everything is moving at a snail's pace.

Those buildings were demolished in 2008/2009 in anticipation for residual development from the casino (which never came). It was really the predecessor to Kevin Wright (who left earlier this year) that demolished the buildings. The guy was very old school and Kevin and the group of people that came after him were not. They would have saved them if they could but the buildings were already gone.

Still waiting for that pizza puff wave... Lol!

I worked for two cities that had executive session and have attended a few of those "closed door meetings." Often times they actually remove or reduce the politics around certain issues. EC can be invoked for personnel issues (hiring/firing/etc.), land acquisition, and pending litigation. These are sensitive areas for city leaders to consider and having them potentially be out in the open before actually made it harder for the city to deal with these types of issues effectively.

Not anymore! With the elimination of parking requirements in OTR and downtown at least. Still applies outside of the parking district though.

This reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend from out of town recently. He commented on the pace of development in Cincinnati and basically said in a hot real estate market, developers know that delays like this cost them money. Every day a development is not finished is a day they are not making money on the project. So why is there not a lot of urgency in the Cincinnati urban core? One cause is the small number of developers in the mix (almost all are local). Another is that developments get caught up in the entitlement process. Another is the lack of investors (the same people can only invest so much in a certain amount of time). Another is the labor pool, labor is expensive and there are not enough workers in the region. Another is the cost of construction does not line up with the price of the product so they need a financing gap. In a hot market like Nashville, investors are putting down money hand over fist to build whatever. The city's FBC actually makes the entitlement process easy and the way Tennessee does TIF districts is pretty loose. Put that on top of a population that grows 100 people a day and you have a sure bet, so developers get moving ASAP.

These things take time. Some concepts have been advanced for that space but the operator we were working with decided now was not the right to expand. 3CDC tends to like operators that are proven and may already be within their stable of tenants. It's not fair but it's cautious and conservative. On the other end, this region does not have a large talent pool of restaurant/bar/retail operators. We are getting there with the success of places like Findlay Kitchen, but its one of the regions biggest blind spots. As for chain retail, the problem is that most regional retail reps for large retailers are very suburban minded and are still looking at drive-time maps and using outdated historical data showing most urban cores neighborhoods as declining. Most large retailers tend to think whatever is at Newport Pavillion/NOTL as their "downtown location" because it's within a 5 minute drive time from downtown. This is the type of conventional thinking in the industry that holds urban places back. Its especially prevalent in Cincy because of the negative narrative for downtown still somehow is ingrained in these peoples minds, despite facts showing otherwise.

I support the Executive Session charter amendment. It sounds counterintuitive but it actually depoliticizes certain issues because people can speak freely on sensitive issues (like personnel, pending litigation, acquisition of property). It likely would have led to a more civil handling of the City Manager issue.

https://cagis.hamilton-co.org/opal/apd.aspx?entcode=cinc&ezstdadrtag=100|W|4TH|ST|GJ1487730802|||CINC|CINC|014500010304001004|014500010304|014500010304|CINCINNATI&APD=2017P03857 When all the fields have green circles with checkmarks on them they can begin!