Then what do they do on concrete streets?  There's some places where that's the norm as opposed to asphalt.  Maybe they just finished the concrete too smooth in the first place. 

Or maybe there's a different kind of paint that better adheres to concrete, and the city just used the same "asphalt paint"?

I'm a member of the PR Traffic committee. ODOT has told us when they redo Montgomery Road next year they'll remove the concrete parts so the Zebra lines will basically be permanent.

 

There was wreck on Ridge Rd this morning in front of the Rec center. This has been a problem turn for a long time. The city actually has drawn up plans to restripe Ridge Rd with no parking and a center turn lane but claims it's not in the budget. In the mean time, things like this will keep happening.

Sad news about a fire destroying a building in Pleasant Ridge: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/06/08/fire-destroys-pleasant-ridge-businesses.html

 

The building that housed the Coffee Exchange was declared a total loss and torn down Thursday afternoon, while the adjacent building that houses Molly Malone’s pub sustained $300,000 in damage. Queen City Comic & Card Co. also reportedly sustained damages.

 

 

Sad news about a fire destroying a building in Pleasant Ridge: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/06/08/fire-destroys-pleasant-ridge-businesses.html

 

The building that housed the Coffee Exchange was declared a total loss and torn down Thursday afternoon, while the adjacent building that houses Molly Malone’s pub sustained $300,000 in damage. Queen City Comic & Card Co. also reportedly sustained damages.

 

 

Had some great memories of that place when it was Pleasant Perk. This place, the Dubliner and Everybody's Records were my first real jaunt into Cincinnati proper having grown up in Lebanon.

 

Sad to see it go this way.

The old Burger King is now officially for sale. There were rumors that Burger King/Tim Hortons was going to tear it down and build a new one there but those plans fell through.

 

http://www.loopnet.com/listing/6114-montgomery-rd-cincinnati-oh/12497832/

Good, hope whoever buys it can increase the density.

Post-Fire updates:

 

-Coffee Exchange, which was totally destroyed by the fire, has annoucned plans to re-open at  6041 Montgomery Road. Basically next to the 5/3rd Bank. They have a Go Fund Page to help: https://www.gofundme.com/coffee-exchange-20

 

-No word on Molly's. Lots of rumors that they weren't very successful and are looking to sell but nothing official.

This was posted in the Pleasant Ridge Facebook Group. Has been rumored for a long time. 

Edited November 29, 20186 yr by cincydave8

and here's the story....

Dense, mixed-use development planned in Pleasant Ridge

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2019/02/06/dense-mixed-use-development-planned-in-pleasant.html?fbclid=IwAR3y65fp2C6uXJh3nt2t4z5RbOsdtNQhotfx8RVy0h7grLC_Ggfn5TmD7Tg

 

Pleasant Ridge Development Corp. has purchased a key corner in the Cincinnati neighborhood with plans to develop a dense, mixed-use project on the site.

 

PRDC purchased seven parcels totaling 1.25 acres on the southeast corner of Montgomery and Lester roads from Lester Real Estate LLC for $850,000. Jason Chamlee, president of PRDC, said the organization is looking to develop a dense, mixed-use project that includes apartments and “strategic” commercial space on the site that fits into the neighborhood business district. The idea is to bring an urban development to the neighborhood.

 

I'm terrified of their idea of "dense" and "mixed-use." The recent atrocities that have ruined Oakley have scarred me. 

Is goodfellas still opening a location in pr? Haven’t heard anything about it in a while. 

It is still in the works. It's probably getting delayed due to permitting issues, as tends to happen with most restaurants opening in this city.

Yes, GoodFellas is still planning to open. They're waiting on permits. 

 

Other neighborhood tidbits: The Overlook bought the old Grand Central Deli location and plans to open a steak house there, 9 Giant is still working on their rare beer/event space on Ridge, Molly Mallones plus the hole where Coffee Exchange was is for sale, the new Coffee Exchange is going to be huge located in a building across the street from PRC and somebody bought Burger King or is in the process of buying it, but no word on what the plans are for it.

Edited February 7, 20196 yr by cincydave8

Does anyone know what they are building behind the MCDonalds on Ridge ave? Looks like maybe a restaurant.  

2 hours ago, Ucgrad2015 said:

Does anyone know what they are building behind the MCDonalds on Ridge ave? Looks like maybe a restaurant.  

 

marijuana dispensary

This sign just popped up on the corner of Montgomery Rd and Tulane.

Edited May 25, 20196 yr by cincydave8

Montgomery Road re-pavement has started. Will repave and re-stripe from Norwood line to Silverton line. It's getting the Delta Avenue treatment. 4 lanes to 3 lanes plus a bike lane. Through the PR Business district will 4 lanes with but 2 of the lanes will be parking during non-rush hour. Adds left turn lane to Losantiville Ave. Also adding a stop light to Grand Vista.  Expected to take until New Years.

 

Link to the PDF: https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/dote/dote-projects/montgomery-road-safety-project/montgomery-road-bike-lanes-drawing/

 

Edited July 19, 20195 yr by cincydave8

It's disappointing that the parking lanes will convert to travel lanes during rush hour. Cincinnati has been (surprisingly) willing to make parking 24/7 on some streets (e.g. Hamilton Avenue in Northside) and the world didn't end.

Gotta empty all those secretaries and typists out from Downtown in their Chevy Citations and 4-cylinder Firebirds.

1 hour ago, taestell said:

It's disappointing that the parking lanes will convert to travel lanes during rush hour. Cincinnati has been (surprisingly) willing to make parking 24/7 on some streets (e.g. Hamilton Avenue in Northside) and the world didn't end.

 

And Hamilton is only 40' wide instead of 50' so they don't even get to have a turn lane. 

Can Pleasant Ridge be a good Downtown or OTR alternative?

https://www.wcpo.com/news/transportation-development/move-up-cincinnati/can-pleasant-ridge-be-a-good-downtown-or-otr-alternative

 

The neighborhood decided to start at the corner of Montgomery Road and Ridge Avenue, said Jason Chamlee, president of the Pleasant Ridge Development Corporation. The idea was to attract businesses to some of the adjacent spaces, hoping that would help bring in an anchor tenant on the corner. Meanwhile, Nine Giant is getting bigger. After 3 1/2 years, Hughes said they are opening a second space that uses a breezeway to connect to the current brewery. It will be called Nine Giant Fermentorium.

 

Pleasant Ridge has seen other recent additions to its business district, such as Revolution Rotisserie & Bar, Share: Cheesebar and Coffee Exchange, which reopened this month after a fire destroyed a previous location in 2018.

 

"Having a vibrant commercial district is key to where people want to live," Chamlee said.

 

The neighborhood hopes Pleasant Ridge will soon be seen as an alternative to going Downtown or Over-the-Rhine, he said.

 

 

The business district in PR has done a great job of growing in the last couple years.  It's a great area for that neighborhood.  But they're kidding themselves if they think they're competing with downtown and OTR.  

Purely anecdotal but sometimes I see decent weekend crowds at Westwood businesses when the weather is bad. I wonder if people stay closer to home in such circumstances. 

4 minutes ago, Cincy513 said:

The business district in PR has done a great job of growing in the last couple years.  It's a great area for that neighborhood.  But they're kidding themselves if they think they're competing with downtown and OTR.  

 

Yea, there's way too much competition there. I'd like Northside to be that alternative. Folks in Covington want it. Oakley Square wants it. Heck, even Blue Ash wants it. 

 

It's great that so many business districts are thriving though. Now we just need to make them safer for pedestrians.

To be fair the article is mostly about the growth of the PR business district, they just took one quote and made in the headline for clicks. Realistically, it should be something like "Pleasant Ridge and 9 Giant Continue High Growth Rate." 

Plus in most of these outer neighborhoods and suburbs, for every person who wants to see more restaurants and other businesses, better walkability, and diverse housing options, there's 10 worry warts who will throw a sh*t fit over replacing the 1-story dry cleaner their grandmother's cousin's best friend's dad went to that one time, not to mention hurr durr commercial creep traffic parking neighborhood character. 

3 hours ago, Cincy513 said:

The business district in PR has done a great job of growing in the last couple years.  It's a great area for that neighborhood.  But they're kidding themselves if they think they're competing with downtown and OTR.  

 

Right, every neighborhood business district in the city should have an assortment of businesses that residents can go to so that they don't have to go downtown for a nice restaurant/bar/coffee shop/record store/whatever. But downtown/OTR will always offer a larger quantity. I don't understand why everything in this city has to turn into a "downtown vs. neighborhoods" argument. Plenty of these NBDs were much stronger in the past, like Short Vine and the Walnut Hills NBD, which were nodes that nearby residents could visit for some services without having to make the trek all the way downtown.

Langdon Farm has seen numerous crashes this year including one fatality and one house driven into. The road is basically treated as a drag strip. Here is redone LFR in Bond Hill and here is LFR in Pleasant Ridge. Anyways, after the death, DOTE has drawn up 2 options. Basically one keeps parking on the south side of the road. The changes would go from Montgomery rd to the Railroad tracks near Wiehle Rd where LFR is already redone.

 

Preliminary renderings of the new development from Towne Properties were shown at the P Ridge Community Council last night. This is at the corner of Lester and Montgomery. From Pleasant Ridge Chili to Lester. Picture shows viewpoint from PRM. Will be 1 to 2 bedroom apartments with first floor retail. 

2 hours ago, cincydave8 said:

Preliminary renderings of the new development from Towne Properties were shown at the P Ridge Community Council last night. This is at the corner of Lester and Montgomery. From Pleasant Ridge Chili to Lester. Picture shows viewpoint from PRM. Will be 1 to 2 bedroom apartments with first floor retail. 

Reminds me of the condos in Mariemont. 

3 hours ago, cincydave8 said:

Preliminary renderings of the new development from Towne Properties were shown at the P Ridge Community Council last night. This is at the corner of Lester and Montgomery. From Pleasant Ridge Chili to Lester. Picture shows viewpoint from PRM. Will be 1 to 2 bedroom apartments with first floor retail.

Thanks for sharing! @cincydave8- I'm assuming "PRM" refers to Pleasant Ridge Montessori (I don't like using hyper-local acronyms)? 

 

I love to see this higher density, especially along a primary corridor like Montgomery (on the Metro*Plus line) and across the street from a public school, Pleasant Ridge Montessori. Teachers or families with kids could live here. There aren't many new apartment buildings built directly adjacent to public schools, so I really hope this gets built without too much cutting back of density.

I'm loving that this is starting at 5-stories tall and it's getting built in a spot in PR that certainly could use it.  I imagine that the NIMBYs will use the nearby school and traffic as their excuse for wanting this reduced.

Yes. PRM is Pleasant Ridge Montessori.

 

I’m sure the design will change but right now on the P Ridge Facebook there’s plenty of people upset about the height and traffic but seems to be an equal amount of people supporting it. We’ll see.  
 

edit: PRCC has created a page about it: https://www.pleasantridge.org/lesterandmontgomery?fbclid=IwAR1MjVoeqNh8C5UtFEwSWsOT4XCdFu5RFbLjDqoT6MXTV9HIF-My9MgDihM

Edited May 5, 20214 yr by cincydave8

I take it that this 1920's classic won't be hanging around after this project is over:

 

I like the density. A bit of a shame that it'll require a couple handsome buildings to meet their end though when there's so much open space nearby.

3 hours ago, Ucgrad2015 said:

Reminds me of the condos in Mariemont. 

Same architects, formerly of CR now at M+A. 

The Community Council has a page setup for the presentation and for feedback: PRCC - Lester and Montgomery

 

It appears that the old movie theater will be demolished for parking:

101 tenants and 99 parking spaces:

 

Some units will actually be on the 1st floor:

11 minutes ago, Dev said:

It appears that the old movie theater will be demolished for parking:

That's not cool, it's not even on the same footprint of the project! I feel like whether they A. get a variance to reduce parking requirements B. add structured/dense parking on site or C. reduce unit count so that extra parking isn't necessary; either way demolishing buildings to create surface parking is NEVER the correct move. 

5 minutes ago, ucgrady said:

That's not cool, it's not even on the same footprint of the project! I feel like whether they A. get a variance to reduce parking requirements B. add structured/dense parking on site or C. reduce unit count so that extra parking isn't necessary; either way demolishing buildings to create surface parking is NEVER the correct move. 

 

Said property is owned by the Port's Land Bank too.

Traffic study was presented at last nights Community Council Meeting for the Lester/Montgomery Project. Along with questions and answer session. The major questions asked will updated to the project page in the next few days. A lot of what you'd expect, basic NIMBYism. 

 

Project Page w/ new traffic study

Edited August 4, 20213 yr by cincydave8

50 minutes ago, cincydave8 said:

Traffic study was presented at last nights Community Council Meeting for the Lester/Montgomery Project. Along with questions and answer session. The major questions asked will updated to the project page in the next view days. A lot of what you'd expect, basic NIMBYism. 

 

Project Page w/ new traffic study

Any idea who paid for the traffic study, the City or the developer?

 

2 hours ago, Dev said:

Any idea who paid for the traffic study, the City or the developer?

I believe the developer but I'm not totally sure. 

Rumor that Gomez Salsa is taking over the former Casa Figueroa in PR. The space is really perfect for them. 

Edited March 22, 20223 yr by tonyt3524

So this development officially applied for a zoning change on June 15th. There was a virtual staff meeting on July 18th. Looks like it just needs to go to the Planning Commission now.

 

 

17 minutes ago, Cincy_Travels said:

So this development officially applied for a zoning change on June 15th. There was a virtual staff meeting on July 18th. Looks like it just needs to go to the Planning Commission now.

 

 

Thanks for the update. I was honestly wondering about this development the other day when I was over in Pleasant Ridge. 

Yep, pending anything crazy, construction should start this fall.

 

Look for an announcement on more infill in the form of townhouses/condos coming to Losantiville Ave soon. 

Edited August 3, 20222 yr by cincydave8

51 minutes ago, cincydave8 said:

Yep, pending anything crazy, construction should start this fall.

 

Look for an announcement on more infill in the form of townhouses/condos coming to Losantiville Ave soon. 

Great news! I wonder whatever happened to the proposal of something going in the old Burger King along Montgomery.

 

It would also be a game changer for Pleasant Ridge if a mixed use development went in the Triangular section between Montgomery, Ridge and Woodford Rd.

1 hour ago, cincydave8 said:

Yep, pending anything crazy, construction should start this fall.

 

Look for an announcement on more infill in the form of townhouses/condos coming to Losantiville Ave soon. 

Infill on Losantiville? I didn't think there were any major blank parcels, unless you count the golf course.

 

Burkhart Ave already has a few lots for sale for single-family homes. If you play around on CAGIS you'll see there's a clear right-a-way for Burkhart to connect to Bona Vista. There are two rental houses between Bona Vista and the Golf Course maintenance shed. Those houses, the right-of-way area, and the maintenance shed are all fair game for the new development.

 

As far as Burger King goes, Pleasant Ridge Development Corp owns it now with long-term plans to sell it to a developer. 

 

 

Edited August 4, 20222 yr by cincydave8
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Some more details on the project a few posts above...

 

Towne Properties plans major mixed-use project in Pleasant Ridge

By Chris Wetterich  –  Staff reporter and columnist, Cincinnati Business Courier

Aug 24, 2022

 

Towne Properties and two other developers are planing a five-story, Tudor-style project packed with amenities near the heart of Pleasant Ridge’s resurgent business district.

 

The as-of-yet unnamed project, which is being co-developed by E. Levental Cos. and the Pleasant Ridge Development Corp., would eliminate several blighted properties and add about 100 new residents to the neighborhood.

 

Cincinnati Planning Commission on Aug. 19 approved a needed zoning change and the final development plan for the 2-acre project, which will be located at 6010-6026 Montgomery Road and 5984-5988 Lester Road.

 

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