"If they can't drive there and find a parking space, they won't go there."

 

That is just bizarre to me.  Is there that much of a parking crisis in Cincy that you can't park within two or three blocks of where you want to be? 

 

America is a weird place...

"If they can't drive there and find a parking space, they won't go there."

 

That is just bizarre to me.  Is there that much of a parking crisis in Cincy that you can't park within two or three blocks of where you want to be? 

 

I think there is plenty of parking in Cincinnati in the evenings and weekends.  However, a lot of people do act like it's a big deal to walk 2 or 3 blocks.  I think some people believe that walking one block is too far.  I don't understand it myself. 

 

For example, people I encounter at work will complain about not having enough options for lunch.  On the other hand, I think there are many great options for lunch.  I have given out several recommendations of places that I think are good that are within 1 or 2 blocks of the building.  People have told me that these places are too far for them to walk.

 

 

    Numerous surveys have revealed that the lack of parking is the number one reason why people don't shop downtown. Crime, or the perception thereof, is second.

 

    People view their cars as a door-to-door service. If they can't park within sight of the door, they will go somewhere else where they can.

 

    It's strange, but true.

"If they can't drive there and find a parking space, they won't go there."

 

That is just bizarre to me.  Is there that much of a parking crisis in Cincy that you can't park within two or three blocks of where you want to be? 

 

I think there is plenty of parking in Cincinnati in the evenings and weekends.  However, a lot of people do act like it's a big deal to walk 2 or 3 blocks.  I think some people believe that walking one block is too far.  I don't understand it myself. 

 

For example, people I encounter at work will complain about not having enough options for lunch.  On the other hand, I think there are many great options for lunch.  I have given out several recommendations of places that I think are good that are within 1 or 2 blocks of the building.  People have told me that these places are too far for them to walk.

 

 

You wind up walking at least that far at the mall.

:-)

I go out to eat in OTR at least once a week. Most of my co workers are convinced there is no place to eat there.

Dunno what they think I am doing.

 

You wind up walking at least that far at the mall.

:-)

I go out to eat in OTR at least once a week. Most of my co workers are convinced there is no place to eat there.

Dunno what they think I am doing.

 

That's so true about walking at the mall.  Back in December, I went downtown on a Saturday to do some Christmas shopping.  My first stop was at Macy's.  The next day I went to Kenwood Mall, with my first stop at Macy's.  By the time I found parking at Kenwood, I walked at least the same distance from my car to the entrance that I did during my trip to the downtown Macy's.  I felt safer walking downtown, too, because I could actually walk on a sidewalk to get to the store.  At Kenwood Mall, I had to dodge several cars in their large parking lot.  I remembered exactly why I try to avoid Kenwood Mall now.

Kenwood at Christmas is eggregiously crowded.  If we have to do any Christmas shopping there, I'll just drop my wife off then go somewhere else...there are something like 5600 parking spaces, and there will probably be a hundred cars circling, looking for any opening...

Bump. 

 

This thread is pretty amazing to re-read.  Many of the characters are still around.  Nick Spencer is gone, of course, and Nate Livingston moved to Toledo.  Michael Redmond went on to start Neon's and a few other successful bars. 

 

Most frightening was the specter of CPS tearing down the center of OTR for a grade school that would have replaced Rothenberg.  So Mercer Commons, 16-bit, all that which appeared 10 years later -- was slated to be bulldozed. 

 

 

 

This thread reminds me of the amazing amount of progress Cincy made between the depths of 2006 and 2014.  Things have slowed down a bit thanks to worse leadership, but Mallory pulled nothing short of a miracle - things were grim back then.

I thought Nick Spencer had good ideas and I liked his fresh energy. I don't know what ever happened to him but it's tragic he fell of the face of the earth.

 

Riverviewer was just insanely intelligent. It used to p!ss me off when we'd get into it and he'd beat me in intellectual arguments. I had the privilege of meeting him quite a few times. Actually, the first time was when he came into Via Vite where I was working part time while I was at UC back in 2007. He used to post all the time but then he suddenly lost a bunch of weight and joined the Army and I don't think anyone heard from him since.

 

Michael Redmond... you already know the deal with a person who's username is his first and last name.

 

A lot of the great Cincy posters are no longer here. I haven't heard from UncleRando in the longest time. That was my buddy.

I thought Nick Spencer had good ideas and I liked his fresh energy. I don't know what ever happened to him but it's tragic he fell of the face of the earth.

 

Apparently he is a controversial comic book author now?!?

 

https://amazingcavalieri.blogspot.com/2017/05/a-primer-on-nick-spencers-shitty.html

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/05/11/a-primer-on-nick-spencers-cincinnati-politics/

 

^The above links are a take-down and a defense of Spencer's politics from his aughts-era city council campaigns.