15 minutes ago, edale said:

Wow, this is huge. The last grouping of buildings alone is quite significant, and it marks 3CDC's grand entrance to OTR North of Liberty. I hope they keep Alabama Fish Bar when they renovate that building. Also, new construction will be coming to the lot at 1602 Pleasant, which will block the view of the Rosemary Clooney mural. A shame, but obviously infill trumps views of murals.

It be great if artworks would just do a new one with Rosemary and Doris Day. 

1 hour ago, 10albersa said:

It would be wonderful if someone with more time on their hand than me put these on a map.  In the few years I've been paying attention, this seems like the most individual projects we've been awarded. 

 

Looks like development is creeping up and bridging the gap between 12th & Vine and Findlay market, finally.

 

So not exactly what you're asking for, but I found this map on their website that shows Cincinnati really does well at securing these grants. 

 

Also, does anyone know where I can find a full list of the awards? 

Some streetscape improvements coming as well. Looks like the plan is to turn 15th from Vine to Republic into a pedestrian plaza, which seems like a wonderful idea, especially with the parking lot going in where the Kroger is. 

 

https://city-egov2.cincinnati-oh.gov/Webtop/ws/council/public/child/Blob/53905.pdf?rpp=-10&w=doc_no%3D'201901142'&m=3

Edited June 26, 20195 yr by Pdrome513

thats awesome! 

Over-the-Rhine brewery, event space lands crucial tax credit

 

 

A long-planned brewery and event center in Over-the-Rhine is one of 13 local projects that was awarded Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credits.

 

Clyffside Brewing, located at 244-246 W. McMicken Ave., will rehabilitate the long-vacant building into a brewery and event spaces with bars, catering kitchens and decks. The total project cost is estimated to be more than $13.5 million.

 

More below:

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2019/06/26/over-the-rhine-brewery-event-space-lands-crucial.html

2 hours ago, DEPACincy said:

 

So not exactly what you're asking for, but I found this map on their website that shows Cincinnati really does well at securing these grants. 

 

Also, does anyone know where I can find a full list of the awards? 

 

I would love to see another version of this map  with another circle for Total Applications

Wow. Really awesome seeing North of Liberty start to take off!

9 hours ago, Pdrome513 said:

Is the Clyffside project the first to benefit from the new Mohawk historic district? I’d think it is but not entirely sure. 

Julie Fay got tax credits for the Fromm Building at 286 West McMicken. 

9 hours ago, thebillshark said:

These are great. There’s no program we have that does a better job of facilitating incremental, granular development than these historic tax credits. I wonder if any of these projects also benefited from the removal of parking minimums in OTR. 

The Clyffside project benefits greatly as event centers have a huge parking minimum.

9 hours ago, Pdrome513 said:

Some streetscape improvements coming as well. Looks like the plan is to turn 15th from Vine to Republic into a pedestrian plaza, which seems like a wonderful idea, especially with the parking lot going in where the Kroger is. 

 

https://city-egov2.cincinnati-oh.gov/Webtop/ws/council/public/child/Blob/53905.pdf?rpp=-10&w=doc_no%3D'201901142'&m=3

 

Links been deleted?

 

Regardless, that's awesome news. I think that many of the narrow otr side streets should be transformed into pedestrian Plazas, including all of pleasant 

6 hours ago, troeros said:

including all of pleasant

 

Pleasant won't be turned into a ped plaza because of the sheer number of homes on that street and it intersecting with Liberty, but it certainly is a candidate for an East Coast or even European narrow shared road (only deliveries and resident parking/people have the right of way and cars have to work around them). It could provide a really cool green trail from Washington Park to Findlay Market if they lined trees all up and down the street and if the Liberty St road diet also provided a crosswalk there.

18 hours ago, Pdrome513 said:

Some streetscape improvements coming as well. Looks like the plan is to turn 15th from Vine to Republic into a pedestrian plaza, which seems like a wonderful idea, especially with the parking lot going in where the Kroger is. 

 

https://city-egov2.cincinnati-oh.gov/Webtop/ws/council/public/child/Blob/53905.pdf?rpp=-10&w=doc_no%3D'201901142'&m=3

 

Not sure if making W 15th street ped only changes much in the grand scheme of things. If the plan is to do it in order to get rid of the traffic light at Vine, it could actually be detrimental to pedestrians. Unless they just want to move that light up or down on Vine slightly to accommodate  new developments on E 15th Street or the Kroger site.  

All great news with all these buildings. Sometimes we know a lot of this stuff doesn't end up getting built but with 3CDC and Model I assume that for sure will get built and also the Clyffside Brewery. It's going to be really interesting to see how North of Liberty looks in the next 5 years.

 

Wondering if we should look to create a seperate thread for North of Liberty Projects vs. South of Liberty projects? Maybe that is redundant but now with the numbers really ramping up North of Liberty it would be easier to follow the news.

 

Glad also to see the work going on East 15th. I lived there for over a year and those buildings are big and beautiful and need more productive uses. The next big one south of Liberty is obviously the Kroger redevelopment and jogging that over to Walnut. Walnut from Liberty to 14th Street is an area where there isn't a lot or next to nothing going on that will really fill in the whole corridor, close to from Walnut over to Elm. The streetcar is pushing work on Elm corridor from Wash Park to Liberty, 3CDC with their big projects on Race, Pleasant and Vine, then just need to finish up Walnut. I wonder if that will be all finished up in the next 3 years or so?

 

Also, I know there was a real big building slated for redevelopment and that received credits on Vine Street, maybe this building? Has there been anything going on with it and is it still moving forward?

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1151896,-84.5164983,3a,75y,265.26h,112.68t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCwrgH9MZUy7Oes2Ua2eZaw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

42 minutes ago, thebillshark said:

 

Not sure if making W 15th street ped only changes much in the grand scheme of things. If the plan is to do it in order to get rid of the traffic light at Vine, it could actually be detrimental to pedestrians. Unless they just want to move that light up or down on Vine slightly to accommodate  new developments on E 15th Street or the Kroger site.  

 

I would think they would still want a street crossing there as its too far of a walk from 14th to Liberty without one.

Right now 15th and Vine is unofficially the only "Pedestrian Scramble" intersection in Cincinnati. 

2 hours ago, 10albersa said:

 

Pleasant won't be turned into a ped plaza because of the sheer number of homes on that street and it intersecting with Liberty, but it certainly is a candidate for an East Coast or even European narrow shared road (only deliveries and resident parking/people have the right of way and cars have to work around them). It could provide a really cool green trail from Washington Park to Findlay Market if they lined trees all up and down the street and if the Liberty St road diet also provided a crosswalk there.

Current Liberty Street plans show a dedicated crossing at Pleasant.

2 hours ago, thebillshark said:

Not sure if making W 15th street ped only changes much in the grand scheme of things. If the plan is to do it in order to get rid of the traffic light at Vine, it could actually be detrimental to pedestrians. Unless they just want to move that light up or down on Vine slightly to accommodate  new developments on E 15th Street or the Kroger site.  

 

Yeah, I'm not sure what making that one half-block of 15th pedestrian-only really does for the neighborhood. I would be curious to know what the motivation is, because it doesn't seem like something that the neighborhood is asking for. Honestly it seems like this decision is being made more to improve the flow of automobiles on Vine Street — by eliminating left turns from northbound Vine Street onto 15th and potentially eliminating that light. Really, Vine Street itself needs some major improvements for pedestrians. It needs to get the same treatment that Main Street recently got. There needs to be additional pedestrian crossings at East 14th Street and Mercer Street, and all of the intersections should be shrunk down by adding bump-outs.

We have Imagination Alley, here comes Imagination Street.  

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Over-the-Rhine Mixed Income Project (Cincinnati, Hamilton County)

Total Project Cost:  $50,348,738

Total Tax Credit:  $5,000,000

Address: (historic) 1600, 1601, 1606, 1611 and 1623 Race St., 124-128 W. Liberty St., 1445 and 1447 Walnut, 211 and 215 Woodward, 1604 and 1606 Pleasant, 1510 and 1512 Moore, 20 E. 15th; (new) 1602 Pleasant St., Cincinnati, 45202

This large multi-building project in Over-the-Rhine includes 17 historic buildings and one new building. Several of the buildings are mixed-use with commercial spaces on the ground floor and residential above. A number of the others were originally residential only and will remain that way. In all, 169 residential units will be rehabbed along with 33,000 square feet of commercial space.

 

I'm disappointed that this project doesn't also include the former Mercy Housing buildings on Main Street that have been sitting vacant for a few years. I assumed that they would be fixed up at the same time as the Woodward Street buildings.

^I don't know anything about that project, but sometimes a project will include a larger scope of buildings but some may not be included in the historic tax credit package because they are not seeking credits, don't want to meet rehab standards, etc. on those specific buildings. 

 

 

Does anyone have a rough guess how many new residents will be added with these new otr projects by model group and 3cdc?

 

I know it's roughly 200 apartment units, but if we add the Sycamore Project and Freeport Row along with the other miscellaneous projects in otr how many new residents could we potentially see be added in otr?

14 minutes ago, troeros said:

Does anyone have a rough guess how many new residents will be added with these new otr projects by model group and 3cdc?

 

Overall it looks like we'll have at least 2,000 more residents Downtown and in OTR in two years, assuming the economy holds and existing buildings are able to fill vacancies. 

2,000 would be huge (assuming everything new coming online gets filled).   That would put us at 12,000 downtown/OTR.  8,000 more and I think the whole perspective changes for downtown.  Right now the ratio of workers - residents is way too high and can cause some major issues in regards to vibrancy and low traffic for businesses on weeknights.  Right now, most people see downtown as dead on weeknights with the added bonus of crime, so why live there when you can drive there and enjoy it when it is vibrant on weekends or during events?

 

The increased workers/residents is starting to show in the streetcar numbers.  For the past month, we are seeing at least 1,000 daily Mon-Thurs riders for the first time since the sheen wore off.

 

The more people living downtown, the more other people want to live downtown, this could pick up quickly... barring a major economic recession.

Edited June 27, 20195 yr by 10albersa

Also, don't forget the number of new hotels going in. I don't have a list right in front of me, but it seems like 3-4 are in the process of being developed with several more on the horizon. Not as great as permanent residents, but hotel guests often walk around the area, visit restaurants, etc, and generally add to the vibrancy of an area. It's also nice to have more smaller hotels spread out around the CBD vs the old school tower hotels clustered around the convention center. 

Are there any updates on the building that was supposed to replace those two one story garages across from Washington Park? I have heard nothing since summer of last year. 

2,000 new residents would great. Besides reviving our downtown to be a weekday and weekend destination, giving life at all times of the day...It would also be another push for 3cdc to convince big retailers to move downtown to cater to these new residents. 

 

Adding an Urban downtown Target, a Movie Theater, Apple Store, clothing retail like H & M, Express, etc...all that  retail, entertainment stuff creates a feel of livability to downtown. 

 

People who visit cincy on the weekends, eat at a resturaunt, maybe go relax at the banks but then what? Adding anchor retail destinations creates the perception of a living and breathing downtown. 

2 hours ago, oudd said:

Also, don't forget the number of new hotels going in. I don't have a list right in front of me, but it seems like 3-4 are in the process of being developed with several more on the horizon. Not as great as permanent residents, but hotel guests often walk around the area, visit restaurants, etc, and generally add to the vibrancy of an area. It's also nice to have more smaller hotels spread out around the CBD vs the old school tower hotels clustered around the convention center. 

 

Any tourist spot ranging from Las Vegas to Gatlinburg to Niagra Falls has a lot of street life because of the hotels.  No doubt 1,000 tourists create exponentially street activity and restaurant patrons than do 1,000 residents.  

 

Remember, at any given time, 5-15% of residents are out of town.  

 

Or simply, the reason why Vegas is Vegas and Raleigh is Raleigh in terms of bustling pedestrian zones.

15 hours ago, troeros said:

2,000 new residents would great. Besides reviving our downtown to be a weekday and weekend destination, giving life at all times of the day...It would also be another push for 3cdc to convince big retailers to move downtown to cater to these new residents. 

 

Adding an Urban downtown Target, a Movie Theater, Apple Store, clothing retail like H & M, Express, etc...all that  retail, entertainment stuff creates a feel of livability to downtown. 

 

People who visit cincy on the weekends, eat at a resturaunt, maybe go relax at the banks but then what? Adding anchor retail destinations creates the perception of a living and breathing downtown. 

Not to be a pessimist but.....I think big retail downtown is dead for now, Kenwood won that battle. If we want to grow the retail district in Downtown we should look to what has worked in Over-the-Rhine, local boutiques with a smaller footprint. Once the area grows and becomes more established, downtown can work its way back up to the bigger retail chains. I think the perspective of most retail companies looking to expand in Cincinnati would be to locate near hotter brands like Warby Parker and Bonobos. Rather than being the only retailer downtown, next to a Saks that is most likely leaving. I think an Apple Store in Downtown right now is a pipe dream, it would probably be more likely to see one on Vine Street. Apple is the last piece to the puzzle they won't go into a location until the sales and the traffic have been fully established. They're not going to be pioneers in an up and coming retail district because they just don't need to be, I think they're the highest dollar per square foot retailer in the country. 

I read or maybe it was the podcast with Steve Leeper on "That's so Cincinnati" that Apple would need a lot more people and traffic.

 

2,000 new residents in the basin is fabulous, if we can get to 20,000 people in downtown and OTR I bet it's a go. We need to keep building on this.

 

Also, I am interested to see what other big project 3CDC churns out next. After Kroger (maybe they are done with that) and 4th and Race, is it the new convention hotel and Fountain Place only, or do we see another mid-rise south of the Kroger tower?

 

On the Podcast with Steve Leeper, he talked in depth of the need to keep connecting from that area around the library to Fountain Square. He specifically talked about redeveloping the North Branch of the Library and re-doing the main library, but before it gets to that point, maybe they construct another mid-rise south of the Kroger tower.

3CDC would be wise and get involved in the Garfield suites building. Talk about derelict and falling into disrepair. That owner was way over his head and the property is getting rougher by the day on Vine Street

1 hour ago, d_burnham said:

Not to be a pessimist but.....I think big retail downtown is dead for now, Kenwood won that battle. If we want to grow the retail district in Downtown we should look to what has worked in Over-the-Rhine, local boutiques with a smaller footprint. Once the area grows and becomes more established, downtown can work its way back up to the bigger retail chains. I think the perspective of most retail companies looking to expand in Cincinnati would be to locate near hotter brands like Warby Parker and Bonobos. Rather than being the only retailer downtown, next to a Saks that is most likely leaving. I think an Apple Store in Downtown right now is a pipe dream, it would probably be more likely to see one on Vine Street. Apple is the last piece to the puzzle they won't go into a location until the sales and the traffic have been fully established. They're not going to be pioneers in an up and coming retail district because they just don't need to be, I think they're the highest dollar per square foot retailer in the country. 

 

I'm a big fan of small botique shops in otr but I will be the first to admit that the prices are typically sky high, the shops have limited hours, and typically mainly cater to women.

 

How are you supposed to convince someone to move downtown, especially if it's a man, and tell him, "Well we don't really have any place where you can buy men clothes, men underwear, men socks, men shoes, etc.."

 

That is a big problem. It makes downtown seen like a playground for bars and food instead of a functioning liveable city.

Edited June 28, 20195 yr by troeros

18 minutes ago, troeros said:

 

I'm a big fan of small botique shops in otr but I will be the first to admit that the prices are typically sky high, the shops have limited hours, and typically mainly cater to women.

 

How are you supposed to convince someone to move downtown, especially if it's a man, and tell him, "Well we don't really have any place where you can buy men clothes, men underwear, men socks, men shoes, etc.."

 

That is a big problem. It makes downtown seen like a playground for bars and food instead of a functioning liveable city.

 

There are a number of stores that sell clothing for men downtown. They are niche market stores but they serve a purpose. With more and more people buying online you are going to find any retailer bullish about opening a store in an urban region at the moment. You post on here alot about wanting alot of national and intl retailers to come downtown, but the numbers are just not there yet. If downtown can secure an urban format Target similar to Corryville things will start going in the right direction. Everything takes time. I remember when tower place mall was nicer than Kenwood back in the day. 

1 hour ago, savadams13 said:

 

There are a number of stores that sell clothing for men downtown. They are niche market stores but they serve a purpose. With more and more people buying online you are going to find any retailer bullish about opening a store in an urban region at the moment. You post on here alot about wanting alot of national and intl retailers to come downtown, but the numbers are just not there yet. If downtown can secure an urban format Target similar to Corryville things will start going in the right direction. Everything takes time. I remember when tower place mall was nicer than Kenwood back in the day. 

 

It's the, "what comes first the chicken or the egg"....

 

 

 

You need the population to obtain these retail destinations, but it's hard to convince someone who lives in Kenwood or blue Ash, hey come move downtown! 

 

It's a bad pitch when you say, well we don't have any dry cleaning stores, we don't have any bicycle shops, we don't have a apple store, barely any men clothes stores, etc, etc.

 

Alot of concerns about folks who are interested in urban living but don't is because they don't know where to get groceries, where to go work out, where to buy a new bike, where to get their iPhones fixed, etc..

 

Our Urban core needs to resemble like a functioning liveable city where you have all the daily necessities that the suburbs provide. .. Obviously Cincy is doing miles better with the new downtown Kroger and the new planet fitness opening at the banks.

 

That said, I don't know how you convince someone to live downtown when it still doesn't have half of the ammenties that a suburb like blue Ash or Kenwood can provide. 

 

This isn't even touching the cincinnati public school system which doesn't even compare to say mason or sycamore school systems.

 

I don't know how we create a migration where people could sacrifice goof school systems for the subpar cincinnati public, and give up so many amenties that the suburbs provide.

 

I want families living downtown to! I see so many 25-35 year olds, with no kids, no families and it just creates this empty void downtown 

 

 

Umm where are you looking??  There are a fair amount of families in the downtown basin.

I mean in those suburbs they have to drive to those amenities that we don't have downtown.  You can easily drive to Newport or Oakley in 10 minutes and get the same amenities.  I would obviously prefer they were just located in downtown so I can walk to them, but it's no different for me to get to a bike shop or apple store then it is for someone who lives in the burbs. 

 

Btw there are multiple dry cleaning services that will pick up and drop off at your place downtown so that isn't something we're missing.  

^Troeros I am with you that we need a lot of things downtown still and in OTR, but you are kind of contradicting yourself. They are filling these apartments and building 1,000 more plus all the hotels, etc. There is demand to move downtown and we are getting a huge migration to the basin in spite of everything you stated. As more and more people come it will be more and more amenities.

 

Chicken or Egg, if the egg is population increase, it's going to be the egg. We aren't going to incentive Apple or Macy's to stay downtown anymore so it has to be the egg. It is what it is. I wouldn't worry about it.

2 hours ago, troeros said:

 

It's the, "what comes first the chicken or the egg"....

 

 

 

You need the population to obtain these retail destinations, but it's hard to convince someone who lives in Kenwood or blue Ash, hey come move downtown! 

 

It's a bad pitch when you say, well we don't have any dry cleaning stores, we don't have any bicycle shops, we don't have a apple store, barely any men clothes stores, etc, etc.

 

Alot of concerns about folks who are interested in urban living but don't is because they don't know where to get groceries, where to go work out, where to buy a new bike, where to get their iPhones fixed, etc..

 

Our Urban core needs to resemble like a functioning liveable city where you have all the daily necessities that the suburbs provide. .. Obviously Cincy is doing miles better with the new downtown Kroger and the new planet fitness opening at the banks.

 

That said, I don't know how you convince someone to live downtown when it still doesn't have half of the ammenties that a suburb like blue Ash or Kenwood can provide. 

 

This isn't even touching the cincinnati public school system which doesn't even compare to say mason or sycamore school systems.

 

I don't know how we create a migration where people could sacrifice goof school systems for the subpar cincinnati public, and give up so many amenties that the suburbs provide.

 

I want families living downtown to! I see so many 25-35 year olds, with no kids, no families and it just creates this empty void downtown 

 

 

You need to be patient. Everything takes time and in this city it takes a bit longer. Hell no one lived north of Central 10 years ago and now look at it, you have people living north of liberty even. There were only a handful of residential projects and they were around garfield/piatt park back in the 90s early 2000s. I have see a major uptick in activity downtown in just the past five years. There are plenty of amenities already for residents. Once the grocery opens it will be even better. You dont need to convince people to move downtown, there are alot of empty nesters moving down here, and alot of young families too. You might see too many 25-35 year olds  because that is probably the crowd you run in and around town. Trust me the city is going in the right direction, this is a conservative city so it takes more time...

2 hours ago, troeros said:

 

It's the, "what comes first the chicken or the egg"....

 

 

 

You need the population to obtain these retail destinations, but it's hard to convince someone who lives in Kenwood or blue Ash, hey come move downtown! 

 

It's a bad pitch when you say, well we don't have any dry cleaning stores, we don't have any bicycle shops, we don't have a apple store, barely any men clothes stores, etc, etc.

 

Alot of concerns about folks who are interested in urban living but don't is because they don't know where to get groceries, where to go work out, where to buy a new bike, where to get their iPhones fixed, etc..

 

Our Urban core needs to resemble like a functioning liveable city where you have all the daily necessities that the suburbs provide. .. Obviously Cincy is doing miles better with the new downtown Kroger and the new planet fitness opening at the banks.

 

That said, I don't know how you convince someone to live downtown when it still doesn't have half of the ammenties that a suburb like blue Ash or Kenwood can provide. 

 

This isn't even touching the cincinnati public school system which doesn't even compare to say mason or sycamore school systems.

 

I don't know how we create a migration where people could sacrifice goof school systems for the subpar cincinnati public, and give up so many amenties that the suburbs provide.

 

I want families living downtown to! I see so many 25-35 year olds, with no kids, no families and it just creates this empty void downtown 

 

 

 

My old building had lots of kids and families. I moved to Northside and I still need to go downtown for some things, but I've literally never needed to go to Blue Ash. So I'm not sure I buy your argument that Blue Ash has more amenities than downtown. And as others mentioned, if you count driving radius, downtown is the most amenity place in the entire region--and probably in all of Ohio or Kentucky. 

14 year old shot and killed in the same place that a 37 year old was shot and killed.  

 

if you look on shot spotter almost all of the shootings in otr this year have now taken around the park in e McMicken in otr. 

 

This probably correlates with the closing of Findley playground last year...

 

That said, why aren't police patrolling this area 24/7? Why aren't there giant patrol lights that illuminate this park? It's clear that all the thugs are making this HQ for crime and death in otr.

On 6/30/2019 at 3:03 PM, troeros said:

if you look on shot spotter almost all of the shootings in otr this year have now taken around the park in e McMicken in otr. 

Is there a publicly accessible site to look at shotspotter maps? I haven't seen one.

1 hour ago, ryanlammi said:

Is there a publicly accessible site to look at shotspotter maps? I haven't seen one.

I get printouts of incidents at the monthly safety sector meetings. They appear to be the same as these: https://cpdmobile.cincinnati-oh.gov/Neighborhoods/default.html

 

This portal appears to be the same data but actually updated more regularly: https://public.tableau.com/profile/cincystat#!/vizhome/CPDNeighborhoodReport28/NeighborhoodReport

 

These are not shot spotter though. I have never seen one presented publicly in any meetings in OTR at least.

 

I think what @troeros is trying to say is that most of the gun murders have been around Grant Park, which is accurate.

OK. The Mt. Auburn Community Council gets a printout of this info with some trends from previous months/years as well. I was surprised when troeros said something about shotspotter maps because I didn't think the city released that info publicly.

Greek food/Cafe/bakery coming to OTR

 

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2019/07/15/greek-cafe-coming-to-over-the-rhine.html?iana=hpmvp_cinci_news_headline

 

Loving otr being a multicultural hub for food. Still need legit Indian food, legit Mexican food (not Bakersfield), Ethiopian food, Cincinnati Food (Chili, Goetta, Larosas? Anything that is actually Cincy food related would be great), etc...

 

Still really excited to try Teak again once it opens up soon as well in otr. 

2 hours ago, troeros said:

Greek food/Cafe/bakery coming to OTR

 

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2019/07/15/greek-cafe-coming-to-over-the-rhine.html?iana=hpmvp_cinci_news_headline

 

This is actually super exciting to me. I LOVED getting bougatsa every morning while in Greece. I wonder if they will use the cream-based Thessaloniki style or the mizithra-based Cretan style... 

 

2 hours ago, troeros said:

Loving otr being a multicultural hub for food. Still need legit Indian food, legit Mexican food (not Bakersfield), Ethiopian food, Cincinnati Food (Chili, Goetta, Larosas? Anything that is actually Cincy food related would be great), etc...

 

Bridges Ethipoian will be on Court Street and Gomez Salsa is in OTR (more authentic than Bakersfield by far) and I believe Eckerlin has goetta. But I agree there's still a lot of missing pieces. Probably driven by the high rent prices that these types of businesses can't afford.

 

 

Bridges Nepali

1 minute ago, Chas Wiederhold said:

Bridges Nepali

 

Yeah, my bad. Not even close haha.

I just saw on Instagram that Urban Expansion is renovating 1709 Race into 2 micro apartments and 1 commercial space. It's great to see more projects finally happening between Liberty and Findlay Market. That stretch of Race has a lot of great buildings that are vacant or underutilized.

The latest HCB packet has a request to demolish 34 Green St: https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/buildings/historic-conservation/historic-conservation-board/july-22-2019-staff-report-and-attachments-updated/

 

It is a non-contributing building, so typically a demolition request would be granted, but in this case the developer hasn't shared any details of plans, so the board's recommendation is to only issue demolition permit under the following conditions:

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1.The Director of Buildings & Inspections shall authorize the issuance of the Wrecking Permit only when the Historic Conservation Board approves a COA for redevelopment of the site, and when a building permit in substantial conformity with that COA is issued.

2. This approval of a COA for a Wrecking Permit shall expire in two years from the date of this decision if the Historic Conservation Board does not approve a redevelopment COA for the site.  

3. If a redevelopment COA for the site is approved by the Historic Conservation Board, the expiration date of the Wrecking Permit shall be extended in a duration consistent with the redevelopment COA.

 

Edited July 17, 20195 yr by jwulsin

On 7/15/2019 at 5:11 PM, taestell said:

I just saw on Instagram that Urban Expansion is renovating 1709 Race into 2 micro apartments and 1 commercial space. It's great to see more projects finally happening between Liberty and Findlay Market. That stretch of Race has a lot of great buildings that are vacant or underutilized.

Am I missing something or do you mean 34 green? 37 Green looks like a perfectly good building (at least in google maps)

No, 1709 Race...the small two-story building just south of the Findlay Market parking lot.