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I love downtown cincy, the two aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, NOTL is about as urban as you can get for entertainment options like that. ALso, don't we urban enthusiasts like mixed use too? NOTL has converted some of that vacant space to offices. Some sort of wine importer/distributor, channel 19 etc... I like NOTL precisely b/c it fits into my urban lifestyle. I can walk there for a quick dinner, meet friends, see a movie etc. I understand it's a little 'fake' for most people on this board, but to compare it to lifestyle centers like Crestview Hills (hate) or Rookwood (like), isn't fare. As has been pointed out, retail doesn't really stick (aside from the Hot Topic, game store, shore store, some clothing shop), so we're left with a lot of restaurants/bars and of course the movie theater. Oh, and the aquarium... I'm a Cincinnati native and ever since I jumped over the creek I've been amazed at the disregard for the other side of the river from both Cincinnatians and Kentuckians. Methinks that if something like this was built at the OTHER end of the purple people bridge, people here would be all about it. Just my opinion. Don't make me jump to the Urban Kentucky forum :wink: So back to Southsore....I hear Eric Kunzel's going to live there :-)

This is a subject near and dear, I grew up in Price Hill & Delhi but have lived nearly everywhere else in the city. The westside is essentially an amalgamation of suburbs. A handful of first generation 'burbs - Price Hill, Cheviot, Westwood and a lot of post-war suburban housing - Delhi, Green Township etc... You'll be looking all day if you go there trying to find a 'sense of place.' I used to think Delhi Pike had everything I ever needed.....I was very naive. As somebody mentioned earlier, the beginnings of glenway (price hill chili area) are as close as you'll get to an urban feel. Parts of Westwood & Cheviot as well. Price Hill has a lot of gorgeous old housing but unfortunately that gasbag Witte is right - it has more than its fair share of CMHA housing. That can be said of a lot of westside first generation suburbs as well.

I also go quite often on Sundays, full of people. Also for lunch during the week, has a nice business crowd. I've seen people talk about how the place isn't making money, etc... Do we have any facts to back this up? P&L's for whatever company owns/runs the place? Sorry for hijacking the thread... :|

To get on topic. Southshore is becoming quite a striking building...at least if you look at it from Ohio. I live in Bellevue, and whenever I get off the N471 exit I have to look at the back of it, much less windows, much MORE concrete showing. Hate to say it, but it reminds me of One Lytle Place from the back.

First-time post, long-time lurker. I've never quite understood the hating on NOTL? Is it because it's in Kentucky? Pent-up anger about the banks being delayed? I'm an Ohio native, transplanted to Northern KY and I've never once got the impression that NOTL was struggling, sure restaurants do better than anything there but they generally stick around. Maybe I just go during the peak hours, but it's always packed when I'm there.