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Maybe they will go into that abandoned 13 story Trump tower on Reading Rd?

Maybe these parking proposals need a 3rd party analysis/audit from KPMG?

The smartphone capability allows you to refill the meter after you've left your car. Eliminating the need to go back to refill the meter for more time.

Council would have to vote on these plans. When the Planning Dept. was eliminated in 2002 it was done so through the budget process.

Phase II posturing Streetcar Phase II: An uphill battle Extending line to Uptown, major city employment center, faces roadblocks Efforts are quietly underway to get Cincinnati’s streetcar route another mile up the hill, just weeks after work resumed on the initial Downtown loop. Already the challenges are mounting. Uncertain costs and complex utility-line relocation are just the start. Political opposition also threatens to complicate plans for expanding the route to Uptown, a major employment center for 55,000 people. Project leaders, meanwhile, are being asked by the pro-streetcar Obama administration, some City Council members and influential local supporters to update plans for expanding the route.

Word on the street is that he will propose to eliminate the city's Planning Dept. Office of Environmental Sustainability and vastly shrink the law department. The catch? Doing that will only provide half of the revenue needed to enact the police and fire proposals Cranley has been touting over the past few weeks.

This is just ridiculous. Phase II was slated to break ground in Dec. 2012, then Dec. 2013 then last month. What is going on? Apartment demand is through the roof. Carter has sold all of Phase I so they are sitting on a pile of money. The county & the Bengals say the hold up is not the height limit controversy. So what is it then?

There are not as many poverty pimps in the suburbs and rural areas to exploit the unfortunate circumstances of those low income populations.

Expect grease trap thefts from fast food restaurants to rise!

I doubt the author of this article would want to have a real constructive conversation about the issues he lists affecting low-income populations in the urban core.

OTR was German till the 60's then primarily Appalachian till the 80's when African Americans relocated there due to urban renewal and I-75 in the West End. Kenyon Barr, the neighborhood where Queensgate now exists was the site of the a huge community of African Americans. The city changed the building code and declared all the housing their blighted to demolish the buildings for the industrial parks that now sit there. That population scattered with most moving to OTR, the remaining parts of the West End and up to Avondale.

Discussion of grocery stores moved to: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,10268.msg694756.html#msg694756

^There was supposed to be a presentation on it at Monday's Community Council meeting but it was delayed to next week due to weather: https://www.facebook.com/events/212462305608026/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming&source=1

Wasn't the whole square redesign tied to rebuilding the deteriorated garage underneath? I think the city saw that as an opportunity to redesign the square, remove the skywalks, and also get rid of the embarrassing yearly KKK rallies.

Is this the article you're talking about? http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/blog/2013/08/is-banks-phase-iia-saving-room-for-a.html?page=all Cool. Hope this becomes a reality!

I think this is from 1958:

Where was it said? I got that info looking through the Planning Commission packet and then I checked the minutes of the meeting. There was no mention. If it is that would be great. An earlier render had retail lining the entire block. There is no reason that it should have been sacrificed for more parking as the whole development is pretty over-parked to begin with.

Oh and there will be no Second street retail frontage fyi. That was sacrificed for.... more parking!

The 8 feet of building will obstruct the view from one...yeah that's right, ONE box in the stadium. The view of what? Downtown. But the Banks is part of downtown!!!

Lets not forget the scare tactics employed by the city's powerful business interests during the era of the Banks Working Group. In 2008 those groups pushed hard for a height limit at the Banks out of concern that their properties on 3rd street would no longer see the river. Of course they threw out this ridiculous render of the site with nothing but 20-30 story buildings on it.

^ Lets not forget Atlantic Cities as well. They have been pushing their BRT agenda for quite some time now. Last month I saw an article about how BRT was a proven economic generator but that streetcars were "questionable" at best.

No what? Those are huge floorplates, I bet there aren't more than a handful of true office properties in greater Cincinnati with floorplates that big (not industrial/flex space converted to office). It is sadly suburban in design though, as we have all said since the beginning with this development. It was implied that it was good news for walkable development, for which it is not. Hence the "no."

^^ No, considering the parking ratio for the development is 3.5-4 per 1,000 sq ft of space. Not to mention they are building a skywalk between both buildings. The dream of the suburbs is alive and well in Oakley!

Richard Vedder and Christopher Denhart: How the College Bubble Will Pop The American political class has long held that higher education is vital to individual and national success. The Obama administration has dubbed college "the ticket to the middle class," and political leaders from Education Secretary Arne Duncan to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have hailed higher education as the best way to improve economic opportunity. Parents and high-school guidance counselors tend to agree. Yet despite such exhortations, total college enrollment has fallen by 1.5% since 2012. What's causing the decline? While changing demographics—specifically, a birth dearth in the mid-1990s—accounts for some of the shift, robust foreign enrollment offsets that lack. The answer is simple: The benefits of a degree are declining while costs rise.

I guess will have to wait until 2015 to find out! Er...2016.