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You could still bike or bus to Oakley? Rt. 11 runs on Madison and the other branch will also serve the new transit center. Also, two crosstown routes will serve that center. Madison's also a fairly good road to ride on. Not sure where your commuting from though. Yeah but its still so much farther away via transit. To Madtree is about a half hour on the Rt. 11. If you are coming from Westwood or Northside via either Rt. 41 or 51 its basically riding almost the entirety of those lines across town.

Looks like they fixed the article. Its 611 Main. The old player piano storefront.

I forget where I saw it but someone said that there has basically been a "hole" in downtown real estate for years. By "hole" they mean famous downtown project that stalls out and becomes surface parking. For the 90's and 2000's that was 5th and Race. Now its 4th and Race.

The Oakley site's biggest flaw is the traffic cluster it will create as there are really only three ways to the site. This will be compounded by the fact that Crossroads already has a huge crowd for their Saturday night service. Strangely bus access to the area is okay with two crosstown routes terminating there. The bad news is that it's a long bus ride and they'll get stuck in the same game day traffic as everyone else.

Developers in that area want that stuff reconfigured. Cranley-funded improvements, ostensibly for the stadium, will be giveaways to his cronies. Look for multiple Castellini-Cinti State viaducts. My first thought as well, and probably the biggest reason this didnt come out one or two days earlier as it played into one of the biggest complaints about him. This is the same area that the Mayor said, "beggars cant be choosers" when the developer he is friendly to changed from the original mixed residential walkable neighborhood proposal to a sea of parking and big box stores after approval. More of the same I'm afraid, but hopefully the land value increases to the point that the parking is repurposed into garages and the land better developed into what was originally promised. All profits going to his buddies of course but at least Oakley will be better of than the current situation there. Wasnt one of the complaints of the anti streetcar folk that it was just a ploy to increase the value of a house (houses) that Roxanne Qualls owned in OTR? Roxanne is a realtor. It was the value of the properties listed with her.

Can't believe Norma Rashid and Shadow Hare actually made it tonight!

I walked by the other day and it looks almost ready to go. Just need to stock the shelves and open. I'd say they open by at least Dec. 20 of this year, the last technical day of fall.

My office is at 13th and Main and I constantly see cars speeding by. While Main Street is in no ways too wide for pedestrians to cross, its one-way nature lends to it becoming a speedway from 13th to Liberty. These improvements are designed to help break that up and potentially lessen speeds. We'll see if it improves the situation.

Below is a list of who I've calculated is likely to win the council election. The list was compiled using traditional metrics (fundraising, incumbency, party endorsements, other endorsements) so it could be spot on or totally off. List as follows: Top 9 Elected P.G. Sittenfeld Chris Seelbach David Mann Amy Murray Wendell Young Tamaya Dennard Chris Smitherman Greg Landsman Derek Bauman 6 on the cusp Michelle Dillingham Leslie Jones Ozie Davis Laure Quinlivan Jeff Pastor Henry Frondorf Not Competitive Brian Garry Seth Maney Tamie Sullivan Manual Foggie Tonya Dumas Beverly Odoms Christina Burcica Hershel Chalk II Kelli Prather

LOL. I'd love to see somebody buy the 11' of new ROW north of Crossroad Health Center. And then build a fence!

EXCLUSIVE: $44 million boutique hotel coming to downtown Cincinnati By Tom Demeropolis A nearly $44 million transformation of a class B office building into a boutique hotel is expected to start soon in the heart of Cincinnati’s Central Business District. Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants will open a boutique hotel in the Traction Building, also known as the Tri-State Building, located at 432 Walnut St. Just steps from Fountain Square, the conversion of the nearly vacant building into a 153-room hotel would be another step in the city’s renaissance. Mike DeFrino, CEO of Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, said after seeing success with opening hotels in Milwaukee, Cleveland and Chicago, “Cincinnati seemed like the natural next step.

Nostalgia is in: '90s-inspired Asian restaurant coming downtown A Court Street restaurant space that has hosted multiple Asian fusion concepts over the last four years is transforming itself yet again. The space at 29 E. Court St., which formerly housed Asian barbecue fusion restaurant Huit and Chino-Latino concept Lalo, will become Dope! Dumpling and Noodle Shop, as soon as this weekend. Partner Tobias Harris said the small restaurant and its layout lends itself to use as a lab to test new restaurant concepts. He points to his group – consisting of himself, Eduardo Reyes and Trang Vo – validating its Lalo concept there and moving it to a larger spot at 709 Main St. downtown.

There are some parking lots and I will add more of them later!

Yes. It exists because the developers saw that the new Sim City flopped and wanted to build a better city sim.

So I took a hiatus from Cities Skylines for about 8 or so months but got back into it last month. The Cincinnati sim is mostly done. Need to add a few more bus lines and some other small stuff.

From what I am putting together from the post on FB, and what was reported on in the media is that there was an effort at some point. The community responded to that effort and did what they were asked. Expectations, however realistic, were created and then somehow ignored. At some point, these voices found a friendly ear with Yvette and she voted against it as a protest to stand with the neighborhood. She even said at the debate that she wanted to prevent what happened with Cleveland Clinic. At the time of the vote, I thought it was hugely foolish because all I had was what the BizCourier and the Enquirer printed, or the outrage and reaction. I was startled to hear about a list of demands without Children's having a seat at the table. Now it is public that Children's asked the neighborhood to create this list and then chose to ignore most of it. Could there be something both sides are not disclosing? Probably. But the more I learn about what went on with this the more I get the perception it was Children's trying to figure out how to get around the community rather than Yvette extorting the institution.

The guidelines for the OTR historic district say new buildings should be within one story height difference from the neighboring buildings, which basically makes a 5-6 story limit. This is pretty standard historic district language. The only buildings in OTR over 5 stories are church steeples, Music Hall, The Emery etc... I think the guideline makes sense for OTR. I love going on a roof in OTR and seeing all the roofs, chimneys and church steeples! It is worth preserving IMO There are a few more. The old Moerlein Ice House at Henry and Race (7 stories), the building Lightborne is in on 14th is basically 6 stores tall, the Pendleton Art Center... so not just churches and landmark buildings after all.

Is this scenario really a bad thing? Obviously we want OTR to be densely populated and filled with a variety of commercial uses, but if it trends continue, the neighborhood will become out of reach for some middle class residents. If these people who want to live in the core but cannot afford to instead land in Walnut Hills, Price Hill, Northside, etc. then you get more of a widespread renaissance across the city. Isn't that kind of a secondary goal of 3CDC's work in OTR? Make downtown/OTR as desirable as possible, turning the area into an asset that people would want to live near. It's kind of like the Hyde Park/Oakley effect. People getting priced out of Hyde Park has helped to turn Oakley into a hot neighborhood, so now we have two cool, urbanish neighborhoods instead of just one. I still think this discussion is very premature, though. OTR still has a long way to go, especially north of Liberty, before we can start saying that the neighborhood is an urban Indian Hill (lol). Even if every portion of OTR and Pendleton become super gentrified, there is still the West End, Brighton, Lower Price Hill...lots of basin neighborhoods that are in rough shape. There will be room for the middle class in the basin area of Cincinnati for quite some time, I think. In general, I agree with the last part of your statement. OTR is a pretty big neighborhood so it should be able to accommodate all income levels. However; the biggest challenge is the availability of move-in ready housing. Most of Northern Liberties has been bought by shell LLC's of 3CDC and Model. Mohawk and the northern parts of McMicken are mostly run down. Same with most of Brighton in West End. These are places where the sweat equity makes the value still but it is very little (or really nothing at all) that is affordable to middle-income earners that is move-in ready.

We've been told that ODOT is repaving the entire road, so then the city will restripe it. We've been pushing very hard to have a bike lane on one side of the street with 24 hour parking on the other side. Similar to parts of Madison Rd in E Walnut Hills. That design is actually listed in the drop down as Alternative 4, but isn't in any of the maps. The city will never consider the bike lane option unless there are massive community support and tons of media exposure...like what Northside had to do.

Just modeled a gray building at 135 ft on the site. Can you see it from Washington Park?

I would hate to see a tower looming over Music Hall. I'd be fine with a 5-6 story building there. Plenty of other places to go high that wouldn't ruin the views of an iconic building. Okay, so a 135 ft building on one side of a 125ft wide street will block the back end of a building that fronts Elm Street... and that is somehow bad...

Yes, it should probably not go in an "S" like that. And what's with these Uptown shuttles being proposed? Are they going to be part of the bus system? It will probably be "Hop-On Cincy" style shuttle buses to prevent Uptown from even considering a streetcar extension.

They should maximize the height of the project along Central Parkway. Go 12 stories or go home! :-P

They will probably relocate to the hills like all the other TV and radio stations did.

If I recall correctly a few years ago there was a dispute between the approved plan to run an eastern trail along the river or to convert part of the Oasis line to a bike path. The Mayor and City Manager didn't like whatever was approved during the Mallory era so as per the norm...nothing happened.