August 21, 200618 yr Yeah, but that's a given. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 21, 200618 yr My question is why in the past 5 years since Legacy Village, Crocker Park, Polaris, Easton, Crestview and Kenwood's expansion, does it seem like lots of well established chains (Cheesecake Factory, IHOP, Crate & Barrel) are flocking to Ohio? :?
August 21, 200618 yr My question is why in the past 5 years since Legacy Village, Crocker Park, Polaris, Easton, Crestview and Kenwood's expansion, does it seem like lots of well established chains (Cheesecake Factory, IHOP, Crate & Barrel) are flocking to Ohio? :? You answered your own question. With recent expansions of older malls and newer "lifestyle centers," chains (especially those FROM Ohio i.e. The Limited) have realized a state of 11.5 million people has buying power. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
September 6, 200618 yr Author Home decor chain opens in Tri-County Cincinnati Business Courier - 3:11 PM EDT Tuesday Garden Ridge, a home decor supercenter, is scheduled to open a location in Springdale Sept. 16, creating as many as 150 jobs. The 123,000-square-foot store will be located at Tri-County Commons, next to Dave & Buster's. http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2006/09/04/daily10.html?jst=b_ln_hl
September 6, 200618 yr Author Is this filling the space of "The Great Indoors"? If so this is great news, that location is so visible from I-275 and to have that store front vacant doesn't look good to the Tri-County shopping region. If you shop at Michael's or Hobby Lobby, you will enjoy this addition to the region. I used to buy frames at the Garden Ridge by me in St. Louis. They had the best deals in town back then.
September 6, 200618 yr ^It is filling at least a portion of the space, I saw the sign from 275 last weekend.
September 6, 200618 yr Northern Cincinnati is becoming quite the hot spot for home decor megastores... Old Time Pottery, Garden Ridge, Frontgate Outlet, and Ikea. Guess it's not really all that surprising though, given all the growth north.
September 6, 200618 yr Author The Business Courier made it seem like Garden Ridge was new to the region. There was a Garden Ridge in Eastgate that closed about a year ago.
January 21, 200718 yr Hat shop alone on top Batsakes has weathered changes in menswear BY JOHN ECKBERG | [email protected] When Gus Miller landed in Cincinnati from a small village in Greece 56 years ago, he was 17 years old and didn't know a Stetson 10-gallon hat from a Brooklyn porkpie. Soon, he was steaming and shaping hats of all types at Batsakes Hat Shop - a downtown Cincinnati institution owned by uncle Pete Batsakes. But his career didn't start out that way. The first thing Uncle Pete did was give Gus a broom. "He told me that I'd probably get the shop someday, but that you don't start out on the third floor of a company. You start in the basement," Gus said. "He told me to go sweep up. And that was the first thing I did every day. I still do it, too." Read full article here: http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070121/BIZ01/701210306/-1/CINCI
January 21, 200718 yr Batsakes rocks...definitely a treasure. I bought a hat from them a few years ago - service was indeed stellar.
February 23, 200718 yr For what it is worth, it looks like Cincy is getting its Whole Foods store, even if it had to happen via merger
February 23, 200718 yr I honestly couldn't tell the difference between whole foods and wild oats anyway so i don' think this matters at all, but a whole foods at the St. Xavier lot on 8th would be spectacular.
February 23, 200718 yr There is a difference between Whole Foods and Wild Oats (in price). Wild Oats--from what I'm told is a lot more expensive. Organic food is nice if you can afford it. I wish the Ridge Market would have taken the organic approach instead; they would have been more sustainable I think.
February 23, 200718 yr I wish the Ridge Market would have taken the organic approach instead; they would have been more sustainable I think. Early on, I think they did have a vendor selling organic produce (Madison's).
March 7, 200718 yr This store is supposed to be the hottest new thing in Japan. They just opened their first store in NYC and are looking to open more in other cities in the US. How about Cincinnati??? http://www.uniqlo.com/us/
March 12, 200718 yr It appears that in the somewhat near future Columbus based Segway of Ohio will open a segway store in Cincinnati. In conversations with the owner, I suggested the Gateway Urban Living Quarter as a location. details as they become available.
March 12, 200718 yr It appears that in the somewhat near future Columbus based Segway of Ohio will open a segway store in Cincinnati. In conversations with the owner, I suggested the Gateway Urban Living Quarter as a location. details as they become available. GREAT IDEA!!!!!!
March 12, 200718 yr Oh no. Not the GATEWAY URBAN LIVING QUARTER!!! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 12, 200718 yr why cant we just refer to it as the gateway quarter? Isnt urban and living a given?!?
March 12, 200718 yr It appears that in the somewhat near future Columbus based Segway of Ohio will open a segway store in Cincinnati. In conversations with the owner, I suggested the Gateway Urban Living Quarter as a location. details as they become available. we need this and a Vespa dealership in OTR although I would like Main to be considered as well (I am a slave to my own agenda). You have my vote, there is just no good reason I should have to buy such urban vehicles in Blue Ash. why cant we just refer to it as the gateway quarter? Isnt urban and living a given?!? using that same logic, why say quarter, why not just gateway, or for time sake, just ga.
March 12, 200718 yr why cant we just refer to it as the gateway quarter? Isnt urban and living a given?!? Maybe you haven't seen my avatar yet...THE Gateway Urban Living Quarter is truly divine!
March 13, 200718 yr Isn't The "urban living" part of the quarter assumed? All urban neighborhoods offer urban living, hence the whole point of a neighborhood. You don't see the Gaslight District of Clifton referred to as the Gaslight Urban Living District...
March 13, 200718 yr Isn't The "urban living" part of the quarter assumed? All urban neighborhoods offer urban living, hence the whole point of a neighborhood. You don't see the Gaslight District of Clifton referred to as the Gaslight Urban Living District... You must have missed the at length conversation we had about this very thing...good read :laugh: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=2568.msg162097#msg162097
March 13, 200718 yr why cant we just refer to it as the gateway quarter? Isnt urban and living a given?!? Maybe you haven't seen my avatar yet...THE Gateway Urban Living Quarter is truly divine! ^it appears you have a new avatar. Classic. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 29, 200718 yr Mayor rolls out retail plan BY JANE PRENDERGAST | March 29, 2007 Mayor Mark Mallory is rolling out his promised effort to bring more retail to Cincinnati’s urban core and neighborhoods. Shop 52 – named for the number of city neighborhoods – starts with a study by Social Compact, a Washington, D.C.-based agency that measures population, buying power and market demand down to the block level. That data is expected to be complete by early May, after which Mallory, the city’s new economic development director Holly Childs and others will take the information to an International Council of Shopping Centers convention. “This is us beginning to embark on a comprehensive retail strategy,” Childs said. Read full article here: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070329/NEWS01/303290056
March 29, 200718 yr This study was originally announced at the Mayor's 2007 State of the City address. Sounds like a pretty good idea to me. I'll be anxious to see what eventually comes of it...if anything.
March 29, 200718 yr Very interesting. Not a bad name, but there are only 34 neighborhood business districts.
March 29, 200718 yr City debuts retail investment plan March 29, 2007 | CINCINNATI BUSINESS COURIER Mayor Mark Mallory today kicked off a strategy to grow retail investment in Cincinnati's neighborhoods. Called Shop 52, the effort will increase public awareness of the city's true population and buying power, and work with a team of commercial real estate brokers and the International Council of Shopping Centers to bring more stores and restaurants to town. Under way now is a $115,000 study of all 52 Cincinnati neighborhoods, Newport and Covington, to perform an accurate population count by gauging the region's purchasing power. The study will be performed by Social Compact, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that uses transactional data such as water consumption, utility usage and credit bureau data to determine household populations and buying power. Read full article here: http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2007/03/26/daily52.html
March 31, 200718 yr Mallory's retail effort awaits study BY JANE PRENDERGAST | March 30, 2007 Mayor Mark Mallory believes there's enough unrealized buying power to support more retail in downtown and the city's neighborhoods. In his State of the City speech, the mayor promised a plan to boost neighborhoods by attracting more retail development. That promise comes as "Shop 52," his new plan to bring more stores to the urban core and to neighborhoods, particularly underserved ones. The 52 stands for the number of neighborhoods in the city. The first step of the plan is expected by early May - a study by Social Compact, a Washington nonprofit research group that measures population and buying power with data such as utility use and credit bureau data. Using such information can paint a truer picture. Read full article here: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070330/NEWS01/703300400/1056/COL02
March 31, 200718 yr I wonder if that study will be made available online. It would be interesting to see their methodology and data sources.
March 31, 200718 yr Here is a link to Social Compact Social Comapct Social Compact is a coalition of business leaders from across the country who are promoting successful business investment in lower-income communities for the benefit of current residents. For years, Social Compact sponsored the highly competitive and prestigious Social Compact Awards that recognized successful business performance and investment in America's under-served neighborhoods. Social Compact is now further leveraging its leadership's combined business expertise to address some of the key impediments to private investment in inner-city communities, namely, negative stereotypes – reinforced by poverty and deficiency data coupled with a lack of dependable business-oriented market information -- and an absence of effective inner-city market analysis models. Social Compact addresses these issues through its inner-city neighborhood market analysis, the DrillDown, and through municipal and community trainings and consulting, and contributions to community development innovation. Surfing around the site there are downloads of market studies on other cities, as well as some reviews of their work from various sources.
May 24, 200718 yr Mayor back from Vegas today BY JANE PRENDERGAST | May 23, 2007 Mayor Mark Mallory returns today from Las Vegas, where he hopes he convinced some new retailers and restaurants to choose Cincinnati. Mallory went to the annual meeting of the International Council on Shopping Centers with a team of brokers, new economic development director Holly Childs and others to try to show Cincinnati is all about attracting new development. He wanted to go personally to emphasize that economic development is a key issue. “We’ve sort of been on people’s radar screens for the wrong reason,” he said from the convention. “We’re making a pitch to change that.” Yes, he said “pitch,” referring to his tossing out 200 baseballs to people at the convention, as a takeoff on the Opening Day pitch for which he gained national attention. Some people got the joke, he said, some didn’t. Read full article here: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070523/NEWS01/305230024/1056/COL02
May 25, 200718 yr Welcome to CincyShop52.com – our sales pitch for Cincinnati. We want you to open a business in Cincinnati. Check out the information on this website and see why Cincinnati is the place for you. Mark Mallory Mayor of Cincinnati http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/noncms/mayor/shop52/index.htm
May 25, 200718 yr The information on the city's neighborhoods is absolutely mind-boggling! I could look over this stuff for days.
May 25, 200718 yr ^It's a shame most of that neighborhood information is very outdated. Most of the information shows statistics from 1990-1997. Can't somebody at City Hall update the info. There has to be more up to date info out there.
July 2, 200717 yr Retailers missing out on Cincinnati's hidden buying power July 2, 2007 | CINCINNATI BUSINESS COURIER New demographics research, released today by Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory, indicates banks and retailers are missing opportunities by not establishing enough locations inside the city of Cincinnati. The study, by the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, Social Compact, estimates that 28 percent of Cincinnati households are "underbanked," while city neighborhoods hold $122 million in unmet demand for apparel retailers and $29 million in unmet demand for restaurants. The new report, available on the mayor's Web site, rcc.org/mayor/pages/-3048-/, provides detailed analysis of 27 low to moderate income neighborhoods, which it describes as "dynamic diverse communities" that are growing more quickly than U.S. Census Bureau figures indicate and represent "significant opportunity for business investment" and "untapped buying power." Read full article here: http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2007/07/02/daily10.html
July 3, 200717 yr Mayor: Data means growth for city BY JANE PRENDERGAST | July 2, 2007 At the Blue Jay Restaurant here, a plate of home fries, two eggs and toast costs $4. Think how many breakfasts $9.2 billion would buy. That’s how Mayor Mark Mallory wants people to look at the new population and income data he’s pushing – as more money to potentially be spent in existing small businesses throughout Cincinnati, and in new ones he hopes the new numbers help attract. So on Monday, standing between the restaurant’s green vinyl booths and Pepsi dispenser, Mallory and others explained the study by the national non-profit Social Compact. The group says Cincinnati’s 378,259 people have $9.2 billion in income to spend. Those numbers are significantly better than projections by the U.S. Census, which says the city had 332,252 residents last year and a projected total aggregate income of just over $7 million. Read full article here: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070702/NEWS01/307020043
August 24, 200717 yr I thought that these stories might have been getting too split up amongst the Economy/Reports thread and the State of Downtown thread...so here is a new one for new openings and what not for retail establishments (similar to the Restaurant News Thread). Bromwell's owner fans flames of creativity, progress 188-year-old fireplace retailer leaps into 21st century BY LISA BIANK FASIG | August 24, 2007 Once Jeff McClorey found that there doesn't have to be smoke for there to be a fire, a whole new market opened up to him. McClorey is the owner of Bromwell's, the 188-year-old downtown retailer of fireplaces, mantels and anything else to do with the hearth. Since buying the Fourth Street business more than two years ago, he has acquired the adjoining building, expanded into the upstairs and next door, and is now completely renovating the ground floor. All told, he has invested almost $1 million in his new business and expects his sales in 2007 to double over 2006. But perhaps McClorey's biggest push is occurring outside the store. By adding new lines of stoves and fireplaces that do not use traditional chimneys, which were not available before at Bromwell's, he has been able to sell pieces to several of the area's upscale condominium projects, including Captain's Watch, WatersEdge and the Ascent. It has translated to the sale of hundreds of fireplaces, each selling for $1,000 to $7,000, and it has exposed McClorey to the tight-knit community of developers, who often trade supplier information. Read full article here: http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2007/08/27/story7.html
August 24, 200717 yr ^ I think there is great chance for growth in the vent-free and direct vent gas fireplaces. I visited them under the old ownership, and they didn't have anything that would fit in an old victorian coal-sized fireplace. I know that such a thing is made, but they are very hard to find. I will have to visit again and see if they have a better selection now.
August 24, 200717 yr I think the owners who I believe still have a child in school are renovating the top floor of one of those buildings they own into a condo to move into eventually. My husband and I stopped by one day to see what they had in terms of electric grills due to the fact we can't have a gas/propane/charcoal grill on the balcony of our condo. Electric grills we decided were glorified George Foremans........Love to see good things on 4th street.
August 24, 200717 yr I thought that these stories might have been getting too split up amongst the Economy/Reports thread and the State of Downtown thread Business-specific stories were never intended for the Economy/Reports thread. That thread was for economic overviews and general business climate discussion. I've been moving most of those stories that get posted there! (Sorry for the tangent.)
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