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The silver lining to this is that it opens up a huge potential redevelopment site next to the Paramount Square rehab.

So its entirely possible that after all the confusion that will transpire over the BSB we'll get a WIREMOBILE!!?

A part of it is developers looking for incentives but in this case Newport is utilizing its existing relationships with developers to market properties. Capital Investments, Anchor, and Towne have all done multiple projects in Newport in the past. It makes sense for them to continue to rely on them if these groups are bullish about revitalizing the city.

I will be there!

^Tabled to Dec. 2.

Apparently Council still needs to approve issuing the RFP for it.

So at best this trail connects Xavier to Rookwood and the Hyde Park Shopping Plaza?

Do they own the Fountain Place store here in Cincy though? One of the main drivers of this is Wall Street is pressuring them to make money off their real estate. No they lease it and the lease expires in 2018 I believe.

My point wasn't about your taste in music. It was the choice between a cultural asset and "something profitable." Sometimes some of the things we "prop" up whether it is with wealthy donors or taxes don't "turn a profit" in the conventional sense. Sometimes those benefits are intangible.

Please?

I don't live in the city so I don't get a vote. If a campaign wants to use a strategy or idea I might post, good for them. I don't even need the credit. If a campaign person leaks ideas, that is their own issue. If you are working on a campaign and want to keep "strategic" ideas about your candidate from getting out, then manage your own house better. Don't shame people on an open forum. I was posting this as a general reminder that some people have used this forum to strategize for an issue (like the streetcar) only to have the opposition reading and planning for it. That's the general risk of any public forum, sure, and each forum member will make their own judgement on that. Sometimes we get too comfortable with the echo chamber of like minded voices. My intent was to remind people of that early on. But post whatever you want to regarding the topic. It's your own call.

I want to remind everyone posting on this thread that this forum is watched by people on both sides of this race. Please consider this when posting ideas and strategies that could help or hinder any of the candidates in this race. Thank you.

We should appreciate our civic assets regardless of our own personal preferences and tastes. The CSO and Music Hall are recognized cultural assets. The skywalk however; is not.

Its amazing how much that garage killed that block.

There are rumors Rob Richardson Jr. and Charlie Winburn will run.

I really hope these marketing announcements aren't very loud or long...

I walked by the other day. They are framing up the facades a installing new glass. It looks ten times better than when that wig shop was there.

Yes he is out. I am not familiar with the new people.

Looks like it!

The Administration is appointing three new HCB members: Ean Seimer , Pamela Smith, and Allison McKenzie.

The curb cuts for garages are a non-starter for OTR. Plus town homes in OTR are already going between a half million to a million dollars. How much wealthier do you need? They are already happening...

There is a quiet dining revolution going on in Mainstrasse. Love it!

Not every street should be a woonerf and not every street should have bike lanes but we had a plan for a network of on-street bicycle lanes that is now frozen. The only thing going on are expensive trails. We have a DOTE that either is incapable or unwilling to implement these portions of the bike plan and a six-year road resurfacing plan that is squandering the opportunity to implement said plan. I don't place blame squarely on the DOTE because we also do not have political leadership interested in these things. Favorable political leadership is what allowed progress to happen in previous years. We need to shift the conversation to why narrowing streets, adding bike lanes, curb bump outs and other traffic calming strategies are beneficial to residents, neighborhoods and communities. We need to talk about how these things can maximize people capacity, not car capacity. Right now the motorist exists above all else and it will be that way for the foreseeable future.

Its could get to a point where only 3CDC does developments north of Liberty because all the other developers will be chased away by NIMBY's and anti-gentrification advocates.

When we have these discussions with the DOTE everyone gets so bent out of shape about the amount of cars a street can handle, like Cincinnati somehow has Atlanta or NYC levels of traffic. It doesn't. And these cities have bike lanes everywhere. Human beings don't start out in cars, its not our default position. We need to remember that the roads are for people first and we just kinda gave them to automobile drivers because traffic. So we should take them back!