November 26, 20195 yr Pretty insane how quickly these went up. Haven’t been to summit park in 2019, seems like it’ll be a completely different place next time I go.
November 27, 20195 yr 9 hours ago, Pdrome513 said: Pretty insane how quickly these went up. Haven’t been to summit park in 2019, seems like it’ll be a completely different place next time I go. A little urban island. It's neat, but sort of a moot developement since most of that area around summit is highly unwalkable with very few dedicated pedestrian sidewalks.
November 29, 20195 yr On 11/13/2019 at 6:55 PM, jmecklenborg said: The murals from the late 70s were way better than the new ones. All of the new ones look like they were designed on Illustrator, because they were. Edited November 29, 20195 yr by GCrites80s
December 11, 20195 yr The right rendering looks like it includes a small Cafe/Starbucks. That would be a smart addition imo and could improve foot traffic a smidge. I also think it would be really smart to commission an ArtWorks mural on the building like the Kansas City downtown library which is a bunch of towering book binds.
December 11, 20195 yr Interested to see how this plays out. I find the graphics (which are all too likely to change drastically between now and any execution of this plan) pretty wild. In the thumbnail, I see words like sexuality, commentary, community, systems, people, stories, culture. In the larger image, those words disappear/become hard to spot and other words emerge. Quite the tromp l'oeil.
December 11, 20195 yr 2 hours ago, Chas Wiederhold said: Interested to see how this plays out. I find the graphics (which are all too likely to change drastically between now and any execution of this plan) pretty wild. In the thumbnail, I see words like sexuality, commentary, community, systems, people, stories, culture. In the larger image, those words disappear/become hard to spot and other words emerge. Quite the tromp l'oeil. I see what you're describing... I wonder if it would have that effect in-person. Regardless, I think the graphic approach looks tacky/temporary. Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but I want a building facade constructed of durable, lasting materials. I think the graphics would look dated within a few months.
December 31, 20195 yr Building Cincinnati had a post on Facebook about all the projects coming through the pipeline that went through council, a lot of these I haven't seen any other details on yet, just wanted to make aware:
December 31, 20195 yr The former Hotel Coco Key across from the Sharonville Convention Center has been painted gray and the red Coco Key signage has been removed. Edited December 31, 20195 yr by jmecklenborg
December 31, 20195 yr 4 hours ago, IAGuy39 said: Building Cincinnati had a post on Facebook about all the projects coming through the pipeline that went through council, a lot of these I haven't seen any other details on yet, just wanted to make aware: That's cool the old proposed hen of the woods location will become a beer garden and bar. Glad that space on main Street will finally be put to use! Also, I was under the impression 1518 race street was never approved by the HCB/city planning commission..did I miss something?
December 31, 20195 yr Has anyone seen what the historic conservation tax credits were awarded to? We saw the $5 million reward to the PNC Bank Tower but the rest haven't been announced I don't think, even though on the website it said they were announced on the 19th?
December 31, 20195 yr 4 minutes ago, troeros said: Also, I was under the impression 1518 race street was never approved by the HCB/city planning commission..did I miss something? All that was approved by City Council was a tax abatement: Quote Authorized a Community Reinvestment Area LEED/Living Building Challenge tax exemption agreement with Veregate Race Street, LLC for the $3.4 million construction of 13 residential apartments and 3,692 square feet of commercial space on the vacant lot at 1518 Race Street in Over-the-Rhine. Four to five of the apartments will be affordable at 80 percent of the area median income. Rents will range from $588 to $4,320 per month for units ranging from 420 to 1,800 square feet. Upon completion, the project will pursue LEED Silver certification. The 15-year tax exemption will reduce the developments' property tax liability by approximately $108,707 per year over the life of the agreement, and the City expects a return on investment of $4.16 per $1 in property taxes foregone. Other aspects of the project may not have been approved yet.
December 31, 20195 yr It's here: https://development.ohio.gov/files/media/pressrelease/News Release - State Supports 23 Historic Rehabilitation Projects .pdf
January 3, 20205 yr On 12/31/2019 at 11:20 AM, jmecklenborg said: The former Hotel Coco Key across from the Sharonville Convention Center has been painted gray and the red Coco Key signage has been removed. Yep, it's being renovated and changed into a Delta by Marriott hotel property. Major upgrade to the days when it use to be a Sheraton...
January 3, 20205 yr Sharonville is going Canadian! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
January 3, 20205 yr A look at building in the city over the past 4 years. Top 10 neighborhoods for residential building permits and total building permits from 2016 to 2019, with totals for each year. The neighborhoods are listed on the right side by rank for total number. Any surprises? Notice any trends? Northside doesn't have as many houses to fix up as it used to. Would like to see more multi-family projects there. Hyde Park is the king of residential projects. Evanston on an upward trend, which is not surprising. On the total building permit front, Downtown is dominant, followed by OTR. These include multi-family projects, which are categorized as "non-residential."
January 21, 20205 yr On 1/20/2020 at 3:38 AM, jmecklenborg said: Jesus Christ. The landlord just jacked the rent on the micromachines man: Its funny this is the second time you've posted about Clancy on here yet you apparently despise her. Last time you posted a video of her I ended up watching a bunch of her videos on my 3rd monitor during my workday and she's fairly entertaining. Gives me insight into a young non-Cincinnati native's mindset. So if you dislike her so much why do you keep coming across her videos on YouTube?!?
January 21, 20205 yr The guy hates everyone and thinks anyone who is successful and somewhat young got a big inheritance from a famliy member.
January 22, 20205 yr This is news out of Columbus but Cincinnati based company Everything But The House. They are expanding to an office in Columbus. I mostly wrote this because I think it's annoying how these start ups try to drum up any and all type of positive press they can find. It isn't really news. Our company leases out warehouse space all the time, it's just the start up culture constantly hyping: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2020/01/22/everything-but-the-house-inks-lease-for-bigger.html
January 25, 20205 yr Wrecking permit application for the riverside switch house owned by Duke Energy in Queensgate. Google aerial. Shame, it's a gorgeous building, at least from the outside. You could imagine a factory district with multifamily apartments running between it and Longworth Hall. Guessing it's more Brent Spence prep? Dunno.
January 25, 20205 yr I wonder if the historic facade that remains is from the old coal power plant that used to be located there. I have no idea when the power plant was decommissioned and it was turned into the power substation that it is today.
February 10, 20205 yr Looks like a Columbus and UC grad has multiple plans and projects in the world for Cincinnati.100 mil plus tower by tower place too. https://www.dispatch.com/business/20200210/columbus-developer-michael-schiff-wants-to-build-100-million-cincinnati-tower?template=ampart
February 12, 20205 yr Downtown's Mike & Carol Trotta (mens/womens clothing) is moving from their longtime home in the Mercantile Library Building (406 Walnut St) to 324 E Fourth St, across from Queen City Club. "It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton
February 12, 20205 yr Port authority approves aid for tens of millions of projects The Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority board unanimously approved using its financial tools for three major projects in Montgomery, Hyde Park and Madisonville on Wednesday. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2020/02/12/port-authority-approves-aid-for-tens-of-millions.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 13, 20205 yr 2 hours ago, Robuu said: ? Yes. Due to the amount of projects, each one gets $1.
March 10, 20205 yr 29 minutes ago, RJohnson said: hello is anybody out there Everyone is under 14 day quarantine...
March 10, 20205 yr Open floorplans and outdoor spaces, Traditions’ Wicks bring ‘luxury lifestyle residences’ to Montgomery The first luxury condominium residences in what will be a $60 million mixed-use development in Montgomery are now complete. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2020/03/10/open-floorplans-and-outdoor-spaces-traditions.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 13, 20205 yr Neyer Properties selected as developer for 12-acre advanced manufacturing site Neyer Properties Inc., one of the region’s most active commercial real estate developers, has been selected as the preferred developer for a 12-acre advanced manufacturing site. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2020/03/13/neyer-properties-selected-as-developer-for-12-acre.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 16, 20205 yr Moved Powell Valves relocation and Kao USA expansion discussion to the Camp Washington thread.
March 17, 20205 yr All City of Cincinnati Boards and Commissions are being cancelled for 30 days in order to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. This includes the City Planning Commission meetings.
May 4, 20205 yr Riddle at Marshall is now a 4-way stop. What's more, they have tiny little blinking red lights on top of the stop signs. It's weird. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1359122,-84.5263438,3a,75y,127.95h,101.05t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syeNjIJ7XSeLmy7hP4g7o1w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 Frankly, this was long overdue. It has always been a pretty dangerous intersection, and really they should have an overhead red blinking light.
May 7, 20205 yr On 5/4/2020 at 5:31 PM, jmecklenborg said: Riddle at Marshall is now a 4-way stop. What's more, they have tiny little blinking red lights on top of the stop signs. It's weird. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1359122,-84.5263438,3a,75y,127.95h,101.05t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syeNjIJ7XSeLmy7hP4g7o1w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 Frankly, this was long overdue. It has always been a pretty dangerous intersection, and really they should have an overhead red blinking light. My brother and the folk from the market put those lights on there a while back to draw attention to them as most people blew right past going both up and down the hill when they were installed at the end of last year. The blinky lights have helped. Guerilla traffic planning, but you are correct on how sketchy that was, i lived on the Marshall dead end for 18 years and there were many close calls. Never trust blinkers and where cars on extreme downward grades are intending to go.
July 8, 20204 yr One of Greater Cincinnati’s largest homebuilders eyes land for 28-unit townhouse development One of Greater Cincinnati's largest homebuilders is looking to develop a new townhouse project just outside of downtown Loveland. Zicka Homes is seeking the rezoning of about 5 acres of undeveloped land for a 28-unit project off North Second Street, just south of the Sentry Hill subdivision. The property consists of two parcels, with 4 acres in Warren County and another 1.5 acres in Clermont County. The city’s Planning and Zoning Commission received a zone change application from the developer June 2. If approved, the property would be rezoned from residential medium density to residential multifamily. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2020/07/07/zicka-homes-eyes-land-for-new-development.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 31, 20204 yr Neyer Properties named master developer of 200-acre advanced manufacturing district The village of Evendale has named Neyer Properties the master developer for AeroHub, a planned 200-acre advanced manufacturing innovation district. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2020/07/31/neyer-properties-named-master-developer-of-200.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 3, 20204 yr Just a reminder that Lockland, Woodlawn, and (especially) Evendale swiped land that the burgeoning Black community of Lincoln Heights claimed while a racist county government delayed the latter's incorporation. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/lincoln-heights-black-suburb/398303/
August 3, 20204 yr 1 hour ago, Chas Wiederhold said: Just a reminder that Lockland, Woodlawn, and (especially) Evendale swiped land that the burgeoning Black community of Lincoln Heights claimed while a racist county government delayed the latter's incorporation. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/lincoln-heights-black-suburb/398303/ I live near Lincoln Heights and drive through it every once and a while. It is absolutely disgusting what happened. The neighborhood itself has good bones and it seems as though there's renewed interest in improving what is left at a grassroots level. They could use some positive news for once, the only time you ever hear about that neighborhood is in the evening news. Some of that black population has shifted over to Woodlawn, which is very much middle-class, and has the tax base to support services. The quickest way for Lincoln Heights to improve would be getting annexed by Woodlawn since there is a tax base there. Of course, Woodlawn wouldn't want to inherit the increased crime and patrols needed in Lincoln Heights now. Edited August 3, 20204 yr by 10albersa
August 3, 20204 yr 8 minutes ago, 10albersa said: The neighborhood itself has good bones... Does it though? The exact center of town is a nebulous greensward/civic center with their two most prominent abandoned buildings and a rebooted public housing project rather than an actual town center or main street. Yes they generally have full curb and gutter with sidewalks, and simple gridded blocks, but there's no "there" there, and the housing stock has zero redeeming value, unfortunately. At least Lockland, for all its troubles, has a main street (two actually, one on Wyoming Avenue next to Wyoming, and another at Dunn, Mill, etc.). The one bit of land they do have to the west of Wayne Avenue that could be useful for larger industrial or commercial is also mostly undeveloped. Maybe it's too steep, but I think the lack of any sort of town center really hurts the village.
August 3, 20204 yr Chicken and egg... my point in bringing it up was that a little bit less than a century ago county government and racist policies prevented Lincoln Heights from gaining access to critical tax base that would, perhaps, allow for a town center to be built. Lincoln Heights is civically malnourished and is a great example for why we need reparations now.
August 3, 20204 yr Ohio's cities don't provide many services to their citizens that unincorporated area's don't. When we moved out of the city to Colerain Twp in the 80s there was agitation to incorporate like Forest Park and Fairfield. It never happened. FFWD 30-40 years and those areas suck equally, city or no city. Every U.S. citizen has always had access to the stock market. Whether or not they choose to go to the library and read investing books is up to them. Stocks are where money comes from - to a much larger extent than home ownership.
August 3, 20204 yr 1 hour ago, Chas Wiederhold said: Chicken and egg... my point in bringing it up was that a little bit less than a century ago county government and racist policies prevented Lincoln Heights from gaining access to critical tax base that would, perhaps, allow for a town center to be built. Lincoln Heights is civically malnourished and is a great example for why we need reparations now. Well no, they need to actually have a main street in order for it to develop into a town center. My point is that it's not laid out to have a main street, it's laid out to have mostly empty land right in the heart of town.
August 4, 20204 yr 14 hours ago, jjakucyk said: Well no, they need to actually have a main street in order for it to develop into a town center. My point is that it's not laid out to have a main street, it's laid out to have mostly empty land right in the heart of town. While I don't disagree that a main street in Lincoln Heights is missing, not all cities are developed on a main street form. Successful cities develop in many ways and scholars like Kotkin or Kostoff would back that up. Some cities are developed around "empty land in the heart of downtown". These, typologically, are sacred spaces... parks, churches, schools, etc. Don't read too much in my examples, but Central Park to New York City, Centro Historico in Mexico City. Nearby, Northside's "Cultural Campus" with McKie Community Center, Community Garden, Chase Elementary, and future civic uses create a non-commercial center for the neighborhood. Now, if you don't attend community council meetings, go to the pool, walk your dog, have kids in school/summer camp, have a plot in the community garden, take a shortcut to Urban Artifact, then maybe you wouldn't consider this part of Northside just as important to its functionality as a neighborhood as nearby Hamilton Ave and I feel bad for you (not you personally, jj). Communities need non-commercial public spaces to self-determine their futures. All this to say, sure, Lincoln Heights would benefit from a main street... but that's not the only pathway forward. Their pathway forward will not be found here, a bunch of avatars behind screens, but through intentional community-led efforts to right past wrongs. Edited August 4, 20204 yr by Chas Wiederhold
August 4, 20204 yr I just fear that the lack of a town center exacerbates Lincoln Heights' problems because it's strictly a suburban residential community otherwise. It's more of a subdivision or neighborhood than an actual village, kind of like Golf Manor. Had they been able to capture some of the surrounding industrial and commercial areas as originally planned, then it might be more like Woodlawn, but that's not really something to strive for. They were probably going for more of a Greenhills kind of setup, but that's not doing so hot either. These older "city infrastructure with suburban density" suburbs and outer neighborhoods have a real problem with tax base and a lack of differentiation. I don't want to downplay the racial component of Lincoln Heights' problems, but I think it's also important to acknowledge that there's separate design/planning fails which are also part of the picture.
August 4, 20204 yr 4 minutes ago, jjakucyk said: I just fear that the lack of a town center exacerbates Lincoln Heights' problems because it's strictly a suburban residential community otherwise. It's more of a subdivision or neighborhood than an actual village, kind of like Golf Manor. Had they been able to capture some of the surrounding industrial and commercial areas as originally planned, then it might be more like Woodlawn, but that's not really something to strive for. They were probably going for more of a Greenhills kind of setup, but that's not doing so hot either. These older "city infrastructure with suburban density" suburbs and outer neighborhoods have a real problem with tax base and a lack of differentiation. I don't want to downplay the racial component of Lincoln Heights' problems, but I think it's also important to acknowledge that there's separate design/planning fails which are also part of the picture. Did you read this: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/lincoln-heights-black-suburb/398303/
August 4, 20204 yr I just wanted to make sure we were on the same page about what I see being the foundational element of Lincoln Height's current state, that the county government blocked Lincoln Heights from incorporating until communities you have listed incorporated with borders that captured the industrial and commercial base that has secured a middle-class lifestyle for surrounding communities. As I re-read what you wrote, I can see that we're together on the history. The only place I want to interrogate more is: 28 minutes ago, jjakucyk said: I think it's also important to acknowledge that there's separate design/planning fails The justice issue which I am focused on here is that Hamilton County owes Lincoln Heights. GE Aviation (Wright Aeronautical), Woodlawn, Lockland, and Evendale have benefited while Lincoln Heights has suffered and the county is ultimately complicit because of what they did and what they failed to do in the 1940s.
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