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The one-lane roundabout makes sense as the Northside community is also looking to remove the rush hour parking restrictions along Hamilton.

Actually, it was quite well used up until the two hulking empty stadiums were built. Before that there was nightlife and the thriving produce center. Do you remember the days of old riverfront? besides a few produce warehouses and Caddys there was nothing but a sea of parking down there. It looked like Newport from the Licking River to downtown I still miss the Old Spaghetti Factory!

It was penny wise, pound foolish to waste $100 million on road resurfacing. We'll be repaving those roads two times over before we are done paying off the debt for this.

I saw a guy installing a traffic radar pole at the corner of Winchell and W. Liberty yesterday afternoon. I bet they expanded the scope to incorporate a quick traffic study of the West End for FC.

Monthly Ridership reports here: http://www.cincinnatibellconnector.com/about-the-streetcar/about/overview

Or if the filtration system broke in the middle of the summer, they refused to fix it and said, "Sorry, the pool will just be down for a couple of days." And then pointed at the empty pool and said, "See, I told you that pool was a boondoggle!" They could have just built the hop-on trolley instead!

Without the stadium, redevelopment will take longer however it will start with rehabs and infill between John and Central south of Liberty as well as parts of Brighton. After 5-10 years that momentum will start to filter south of Bank Street and north of City West. The final piece will be the demolition of everything west of Linn Street. If CMHA moves forward with demolishing Stanley Rowe towers, it will have an impact on that area as well. With the stadium, all of this just happens faster and may likely be more commercialized.

Sounds like FCC is in bed with many of the CPS school board members, and art pulling purse strings and political favors along the way. Elections have consequences.

It really is. It's a part of the closed society. The west side: There's plenty of ways to get there but none of them are great.

The fastest way to get from Bellevue to the Covington Fast Food district is to go to 471 to FWW then to 75/71 over the BSB. So weird.

MLK is the Liberty Street of Covington.

At this point, CAF should build Cincinnati a 6th car for free and then rotate out the existing 5 one at a time to repair the compressors. It would be a goodwill gesture and also could cover the cost of damages incurred by the city.

Yeah you can see it in the old Streetview https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1178234,-84.5092737,3a,75y,319.36h,97.11t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSledooNZ_HtajlWZtVxeSQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Another issue is that what's high-end in Cincinnati apparently isn't high-end enough to warrant quality building & materials, in most cases. I don't know if that's because the developers legitimately can't make the numbers work or if there's another reason. Cost of construction is slightly above national average in Cincinnati. This means Cincy market rents do not cover the cost of unit construction unless it's at luxury levels. Unless there is some sort of gap financing to cover lower rent price points.

C'mon. No one wants the Ewok Village proposal?

That is a still from a video that came out in the late 90's early 2000's or so where the 'old cincinnati' changed building by building into the 'future cincinnati'. This just caught it at a blending point. I remember being quite amazed at it at the time having never seen 'old Cincinnati' in 3d before. Did that rendering come from here? https://www.midweststudios.com/pages/project/2551/Unbuilt-Cincinnati/?DetailsType=ATOZ

Warren County is a GOP stronghold. As someone who lived in that area for a decade, this is an uphill climb for anyone with a D after their name.

Exactly. Kroger is a partner and will own the entire ground floor retail space which helps greatly with financing the project. 4th and Race are just F&C and 3CD with a traditional leasing strategy for the ground floor. There are more unknowns when it comes to filling the residential apartments and the ground level retail which makes financing harder.

Here are a few I shot this afternoon of the tower crane going up.

Street level small-scale retail is not going to go away. People move into and close to neighborhood business districts for that kind of experiential retail.

It's not contributing to the "district" as in the primary range of dates the neighborhood was constructed. Yet it could be considered historic. Ran into this issue when I worked in Bellevue where the Fairfield Ave historic district did not include the Marianne theater as a contributing building so it had to be registered on the National Register to be eligible for tax credits.

But, but, but...Parking!!!!

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/dining/2018/01/22/coming-soon-otr-serious-simple-food-jeremy-and-bridget-liebs-sacred-beast/1049695001/ I hope the reel-to-reel tape is a self-aware, ironic nod to OTR's sometimes excessive nostalgia for the past. I'm nervous though that they might think reel-to-reel is actually superior to a high bitrate lossless digital audio file. In all seriousness, I'm excited that they're taking the acoustics of the restaurant seriously (it makes a huge difference if you have to shout to hear across the table). Sacred Beast sounds like something totally different from anything in OTR today. I'm curious what price point they'll target. Pontiac BBQ has a reel-to-reel player and it adds a nice touch.

Emphasis added. That sounds like the portion of the park that is still to be built on a pedestal just south of the block they recently finished. Was never slated to be a building, so I'd be fine with that. Any location where there were previously buildings proposed should be met with extreme opposition. There is no reason the Banks shouldn't be built out as anticipated from the get go in order to create a proper neighborhood, not a destination that is empty at all other times. I hope you're right, but I'm afraid they want to build ON TOP of the new garage. The parcel south of the new parking garage is not very large, it's an odd shape, and it's in the flood plain... so presumably it would have to be raised up out of the flood plane, too. The PromoWest facility in Columbus is roughly 300'x300'... which would take up almost an entire block at The Banks (the new garage is ~400'x300'). I'm afraid the County thinks the best use of that whole block would be putting in this concert venue. It is cheaper and easier to build on the existing parking deck. No one cares about people living, working, or whatever there. Bring on the endless entertainment district!!

At this point, the Joseph's are just trolling the future.