On 11/15/2018 at 3:06 PM, YO to the CLE said:

I know this thread is getting derailed quickly, but I'll add to it. The fact that a place like Nashville has gathered this much attention has me worried about the overall "back to the core" movement across the country. People make comments that it is just a "fad" and will fade with time. It's hard to argue that it isn't just a fad when you look at Nashville...No OTR, No Playhouse Square, No German Village, No West Side Market or Findlay Market, None of the wonderful museums left for future generations, No properly built environment or architectural significance, Piss poor transit. Yet, why are people choosing to move here? It's not all just jobs either. Not with that level of growth. The fact that anyone would choose Nashville over any of the legacy cities shows that people may be moving to cities for the wrong reasons in my opinion.

 

This gets back to my idea of Nashville as more welcoming than Cincinnati. Looking at the breakdown for Davidson County, a good chunk of the growth is from immigrants. 

 

Since 2010, Davidson County has added about 65,000 residents. 35,000 was due to natural increase. 24,000 was international migration. Only 5,000 were domestic migrants. 

 

So there's not some huge rush for Americans to move to Nashville. It's the international migration that is behind the growth. Compare that to Cincinnati:

 

Since 2010, Hamilton County has added 11,435 folks. That's due to 23,000 natural increase, 14,000 international migration, and -25,000 domestic migration!

 

So HamCo is worse at attracting immigrants and a lot worse at keeping domestic migrants around.

 

Here are Cuyahoga and Franklin Counties:

Cuyahoga: -32,000 total change since 2010. That's 9,000 natural increase, 25,000 international migration, and -66,000 domestic migration. 

Franklin: 128,000 total increase since 2010, due to 70,000 natural increase, 41,000 international migration, and 18,000 domestic migration. 

 

So, Cuyahoga and Franklin Counties have actually been better than Davidson at attracting immigrants, and Franklin County also blew it out of the water for domestic migration. Cleveland is bleeding natives though. 

But what about the most recent data? Does the 2016 to 2017 annual change tell the same story? Or a different one? Here's the data:

Cuyahoga: -5,000 total... 1,200 natural increase, 4,000 international migration, and -10,000 domestic migration. 

Franklin: 22,000 total... 9,500 natural increase, 6,600 international migration, 5,900 domestic migration. 

Hamilton: 3,700 total... 3,000 natural increase, 2,300 international migraton, -1,500 domestic migration. 

Davidson: 2,300 total... 4,800 natural increase, 4,000 international migration, -6,400 domestic migration.

 

So it's only one year, but it appears that Cincinnati has slowed the domestic drain a bit (but still isn't attracting immigrants) and Nashville isn't so hot anymore. Columbus is seeing much healthier growth than Nashville, and Ohio really needs more immigrants to replace our aging population. I'm not sure how to stop the domestic migration away from Cleveland, but it seems to be continuing. 

A lot of the conspicuous growth in Nashville is semi-idle trust funders. 

 

Imagine an influx of 5,000 25-30 year-olds to Cincinnati who can buy $700,000 homes and go out to eat at expensive restaurants literally 30x per month.  I personally know one of these people in Nashville, who has the same last name as one of the NYC art museums because that's his grandfather.  He's trying to make it as a country musician, and pays to fly in his old band to local bar gigs.  Similarly, I know a 27~ year-old female who is poised to inherit $10+ million from her Ohio family who works as a yoga instructor in Austin.  Why did she move there?  Because some of her friends had moved there. 

 

It's really that simple -- Ohio is losing its young trust funders to new places.  It used to be NYC and California, but now it's these ridiculous places like Austin and Nashville. 

 

A lot of young people that are poised to inherit a lot of money are actually cash poor since the money is all locked up and can't be touched until a significant event happens.

16 hours ago, jmecklenborg said:

A lot of the conspicuous growth in Nashville is semi-idle trust funders. 

 

Imagine an influx of 5,000 25-30 year-olds to Cincinnati who can buy $700,000 homes and go out to eat at expensive restaurants literally 30x per month.  I personally know one of these people in Nashville, who has the same last name as one of the NYC art museums because that's his grandfather.  He's trying to make it as a country musician, and pays to fly in his old band to local bar gigs.  Similarly, I know a 27~ year-old female who is poised to inherit $10+ million from her Ohio family who works as a yoga instructor in Austin.  Why did she move there?  Because some of her friends had moved there. 

 

It's really that simple -- Ohio is losing its young trust funders to new places.  It used to be NYC and California, but now it's these ridiculous places like Austin and Nashville. 

 

 

I don't really think there are enough of those types of people to account for -66,000 and -25,000 domestic migration for Cuyahoga and Hamilton Counties. A larger percentage of those folks are retirees and average kids who leave for college and never come back. 

Cincinnati's Verdin Bell company drops Purdue's clock tower clock:

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2018/11/30/purdue-university-dropped-clock-jeanne-moos-pkg-ebof-vpx.cnn

The Verge Apartments in Clifton getting a Bank of America...branch?  Or will it just be an ATM?

 

Bank of America does not and has never had any branches in Ohio. 

 

 

 

^ I noticed another Bank of America going in on Vine Street between 4th and 5th, in a similarly small storefront. I was talking with someone about this over the weekend and they said they saw another one out near Fields Ertel somewhere.

7 hours ago, jmecklenborg said:

The Verge Apartments in Clifton getting a Bank of America...branch?  Or will it just be an ATM?

 

Bank of America does not and has never had any branches in Ohio. 

 

 

 

 

It'll likely be a branch office that'll open sometime early next year. I believe they're pushing Cincinnati and Columbus for the first Ohio locations. 

 

They announced earlier this year that they are expanding in to the Ohio, Colorado, Indiana, and Minnesota in early 2019 and are rumored to be scouting space for a regional headquarters in Columbus. 

I'm late to the Nashville conversation, but I definitely think that Nashville's explosion can be attributed to their willingness to amplify and advertise what makes them unique and unlike any other American city. At the core of this is country music, but the city has also become a destination for rock and blues musicians from the midwest to move and make their home base. The Black Keys left Akron for Nashville. Jack White left Detroit for Nashville and made that the home base for his record label. Bands that want to appear "authentic" in those genres aren't moving to LA or NYC anymore, they're moving to Nashville or Austin. Jake makes fun of "Nashville hot chicken" but whoever came up with that idea and marketed it did a great job. People all across the country now think of that as "Nashville's signature food" even if it wasn't a big deal historically.

 

I also think that we have reached a point where most Americans cities have the same base level amenities. So when people are choosing where to live, saying "we have nice restaurants and breweries!" is not a differentiating factor—everywhere has that. And in terms of Nashville lacking certain "high art" cultural amenities, I just don't think many young people actually care about that. I posted about this in another thread earlier this year:

 

On 2/8/2018 at 11:23 PM, taestell said:

I just listened to an interview with Carrie Brownstein, one of the co-stars of Portlandia, in which she talked about the final season of that show. One interesting topic that came up was how much American cities have changed since the show first came on the air in 2011. When Portlandia started, the show was making fun of over-the-top hipster stuff that you'd only find in places like Portland (or maybe SF or Brooklyn), but now, most of those things are mainstream. You no longer have to go to Portland to find a gourmet donut shop or a "curated" flea market or a third wave coffee shop with an interior made of reclaimed wood or a dozen microbreweries specializing in obscure styles of beer. Literally every mid-sized American city now has all of those things.

 

Perhaps the biggest reason that so many cities started seeing a resurgence in the past decade is that people were craving authenticity. In particular, people that grew up in the suburbs with bland architecture and chain restaurants discovered that in the nearest big city, there's culture, great historic architecture, cool restaurants/bars/coffee shops, etc. But now that urban revitalization has hit a certain stride, and many of these cities now offer the exact same types of amenities, I think many people are seeking out the next level of "authenticity" by moving to cities that have a very distinctive brand. Nashville of course benefits from their brand as the capitol of country music. Even for people who don't like country music, it has an appeal in a kitchy/ironic sort of way; i.e., they love the fact that Nashville has this country music "authenticity" even though they couldn't care less about country music itself.

 

Nashville did a great job of transforming a lifestyle that was “uncool” for decades into something desirable. Portland and other photo-hipster cities arguably did the same thing when they stole PBR and Carhartt from the Rust Belt and made the blue collar aesthetic cool again. I question, though, what Cincinnati can do to make something like chili or goetta “cool” to a wider audience. Gourmet-i-fying chili won’t change the fact that people will continue to compare it to some... rather unsavory things. Yeah Nashville hot chicken is just a chicken leg slapped on a piece of Wonder Bread, but it’s still more Instagramable than wet brown meat sauce on top of spaghetti. 

My route would be to focus and advertise OTR. Go on Instagram and you will see many visitors who are in aww of otr.

 

I say continue the gentrification past north of liberty, into mohawk and Brighton. Gentrify the old west end and have it merge with otr as a mega historic district.

 

Attract retail tenants like H and M, Express, etc on critical corridors like Vine.

 

Attract chains...Im talking Starbucks, urban McDonald's on say Main St, Chipotle, etc..

 

Add a few botique hotel chains in OTR.

 

All while staying true to the home grown restaurants/retail and let them co-exist like they do in NYC.

 

My idea is to focus on Cincy most unique trait as a city that makes it stand out from the majority of other cities and that being OTR.

 

Advertise it as, "Prague of the Midwest"

1 hour ago, troeros said:

My route would be to focus and advertise OTR. Go on Instagram and you will see many visitors who are in aww of otr.

 

 

^ In aww of OTR because it's cute (awwwwww, look how cute), or in awe of it because it's awesome? lol

Edited December 14, 20186 yr by jeremyck01

23 minutes ago, jeremyck01 said:

 

^ In aww of OTR because it's cute (awwwwww, look how cute), or in awe of it because it's awesome? lol

 

In aww because of it's architecture mostly. Many of them will highlight the murals, restaurants, bars, etc in otr. But many of them will first note OTR architecture and how it just transports you back in time. 

 

My friend rents out a few Airbnb units in otr and his business year over year is booming. He charges $139 a day and rarely has his units vacant for longer than 2 weeks max before a new guest books one of his units.

 

He's planning on expanding this Airbnb business with more units coming online next spring, but noted many others are doing similar tactics in otr. There is a concern of over saturating the neighborhood, but so far he's seen no negative effect on his business.

Edited December 14, 20186 yr by troeros

Random news, but Servatti has shut down it's last urban core location on Walnut Street, completely exiting the urban core.

 

Strange news, considering it seems like the urban core has been on the upswing. Maybe there business model is just completely falling apart and are a failing bakery business?

At the very least, they aren't as good as the bakeries downtown. They may be having some trouble, but the suburbs (especially west) are their bread and butter (no pun intended), so they may just be refocusing on their core customers instead of trying to compete downtown.

I've heard that Servatii closing had less to do with Servatii and more to do with Graeter's wanting to expand into their space. Graeter's business is booming at the Square.

 

I know the narrative that being pushed right now is "Servatii has abandoned the urban core" but I'm more curious why major local brands like Larosa's and UDF haven't opened any locations in the CBD or OTR.

Nashville is in a massive boom right now and young talent wants to flock there because of the country music scene obviously. It is also a State Capitol, in a warm environment, is progressive for the south, and has endless nightlife options in the core of their city. I think like any business, over time people had continued to improve on it and everything just scaled up around the music scene. I think there are some other fairly strong industries in Nashville and I know Jake knows more about it. 

 

With music I am certain the tech scene is starting to become a bigger factor and now they are adding more and more to the scene with Amazon obviously. Talent attracts talent attracts business attracts talent.

 

If you think for a time Cincinnati had some strong recording companies like King Records. Maybe there is some still around?

 

Sometimes, all it takes is one person to grow a business. IMO Cincinnati would be smart to try to attract recording companies to our city core and put some money into it. If we could get a small cluster, work for cheap and work with some companies to help provide affordable housing, you combine that with our arts / symphony, etc., mix in all that together you could start something that could scale up.

 

Our city leaders though are too focused on text messages, keeping corruption alive and well in the police department, and paying off developer buddies while covering their tracks to get any meaningful type of visionary work done.

I don't think immitating Nashville music industry success is the right path. It took many decades for Nashville to have gotten where they are now. 

 

I still think the best bet is to gentrify the basin (South to North liberty of OTR, Old West End, Mt. Auburb, Mohawk/Brighton) and promote the area similar to the way New Orleans promotes the French Quarters. 

 

Focus on the beer history, allow for even more breweries to be built in North of liberty. Distribute even more liquor licenses in OTR where there will be a bar on each block (like how it was back in the early 1900s). 

 

Make OTR the number 1 destination to go to for people who like to drink, who like history, who like architecture. 

 

OTR is the only "DISTINCT" thing about Cincinnati. Without OTR, I for one would have left Cincinnati as a city many years ago. Then my friend, on a whim introudced me to otr for the first time in 2015 and I was shelll shocked that a) this kind of neighborhood existed in Cincy and b) that the architecture was so damn gorgeous, it was unlike what I've seen in majority of America. 

 

Then I saw the revitalizion efforts and the gentrification and the new bars and restaurants that continue to open up in the droves every year and it makes you excited to live in Cincinnati again. It makes you want to see and be here throughout the process as OTR transforms. 

 

Our CBD is fine. Mt Adams is cool for what it is. So are the surrounding urban neighborhoods. But OTR is a pure utter gem that few American cities can boast in America. 

 

Many of the visitors I encounter roaming the streets of OTR for the first time acknowledge similar sentiments, in that there is something truly special about this neighborhood and it similarly makes you want to live in the thickets of the transformation process. 

 

 

Edited December 15, 20186 yr by troeros

Nashville's sudden rise in popularity makes no logical sense.  It's still a dumpy small city that is mostly strip malls.  There is no authentic back story, there is no nothing. 

 

Today I visited the Party Source in Newport.  I noticed a wild scrum of people in the Kentucky Bourbon aisle.  Five years ago you could go there and nobody cared about any of this stuff made 100 miles away.  Now the EXACT SAME PRODUCT has people fighting over it. 

 

It's times like these when I revisit the opening passage from a mid-1990s essay by David Hickey:
 

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"...And you can thank the wanking eighties, if you wish, and digital sequencers, too, for proving to everyone that technologically "perfect" rock--like "free" jazz--sucks rockets. Because order sucks. I mean, look at the Stones. Keith Richards is always on top of the beat, and Bill Wyman, until he quit, was always behind it, because Richards is leading the band and Charlie Watts is listening to him and Wyman is listening to Watts. So the beat is sliding on those tiny neural lapses, not so you can tell, of course, but so you can feel it in your stomach. And the intonation is wavering, too, with the pulse in the finger on the amplified string. This is the delicacy of rock-and-roll, the bodily rhetoric of tiny increments, necessary imperfections, and contingent community. And it has its virtues, because jazz only works if we're trying to be free and are, in fact, together. Rock-and-roll works because we're all a bunch of flakes. That's something you can depend on, and a good thing too, because in the twentieth century, that's all there is: jazz and rock-and-roll. The rest is term papers and advertising.”

― Dave Hickey, Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy

 

 

 

Inevitably, trying to wrap one's head around the rise of sleepy Nashville is to write a term paper about advertising. 

 

On 12/15/2018 at 1:19 PM, troeros said:

I don't think immitating Nashville music industry success is the right path. It took many decades for Nashville to have gotten where they are now. 

 

I still think the best bet is to gentrify the basin (South to North liberty of OTR, Old West End, Mt. Auburb, Mohawk/Brighton) and promote the area similar to the way New Orleans promotes the French Quarters. 

 

Focus on the beer history, allow for even more breweries to be built in North of liberty. Distribute even more liquor licenses in OTR where there will be a bar on each block (like how it was back in the early 1900s). 

 

Make OTR the number 1 destination to go to for people who like to drink, who like history, who like architecture. 

 

OTR is the only "DISTINCT" thing about Cincinnati. Without OTR, I for one would have left Cincinnati as a city many years ago. Then my friend, on a whim introudced me to otr for the first time in 2015 and I was shelll shocked that a) this kind of neighborhood existed in Cincy and b) that the architecture was so damn gorgeous, it was unlike what I've seen in majority of America. 

 

Then I saw the revitalizion efforts and the gentrification and the new bars and restaurants that continue to open up in the droves every year and it makes you excited to live in Cincinnati again. It makes you want to see and be here throughout the process as OTR transforms. 

 

Our CBD is fine. Mt Adams is cool for what it is. So are the surrounding urban neighborhoods. But OTR is a pure utter gem that few American cities can boast in America. 

 

Many of the visitors I encounter roaming the streets of OTR for the first time acknowledge similar sentiments, in that there is something truly special about this neighborhood and it similarly makes you want to live in the thickets of the transformation process. 

 

 

 

NOLA of the North

Troy:
 

I didn't mean to say Cincinnati should copy Nashville.

 

Basically, for us to get everything re-developed, we need to create more demand. I don't know where all the demand is coming from currently (people inside the region already mostly, I am assuming).

 

I just thought out loud that it is an opportunity which I have thought for awhile which Cincinnati could capitilize on to help grow more of the music industry, not for necessarily the tourism factor (though that would benefit) but more towards growing it like a start up sector in the city.

 

This is because Cincinnati does have a history of having reputable recording companies with some high profile artists (like James Brown), and add together with our symphony and other performing arts organizations that outpunch their weight per capita, we could easily start some synergy there in the recording industry. Whether that is rock, funk, whatever, we could make some things happen with the infrastructure we have in attracting talent especially considering we have a low cost of living here and things to keep talented artists happy.

 

That said, I agree with your long term view, to really push Cincinnati at the core of OTR/downtown, but we got to add more in terms of jobs and industry to get to that point, at least to get to it quicker, and would add a great layer to our arts organizations.

Cincinnati financial tech startup relocates to Los Angeles

 

A Cincinnati financial tech startup that helps users secure low-dollar loans without having to resort to a payday lender moved its headquarters to Los Angeles.

 

SoLo Funds, which was founded by Lisnr co-founder Rodney Williams, CEO Travis Holoway, Jarrel Carter and Taylor Conophy on April 2, 2018, completed its move to new headquarters in Los Angeles this month. The company said in a statement that the shift offers opportunity for a broader talent and investment pool.

 

 

I don't know much about this company or whether they had potential to become the next big thing, but isn't it a little worrying that local tech companies are moving to bigger cities in order to find more talent and more investors?

^I have the sense that investors irrationally favor startups based on locale.  Like, if you don't move to California, you aren't serious. 

Cincinnati back in the running?

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/08/tech/amazon-new-york-hq/index.html

 

Nah, they're just trying to get NYC to hurry up and give them billions. 

EXCLUSIVE: GE Aviation moving ‘several hundred jobs’ to the Banks

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GE Aviation, the General Electric Co. subsidiary that provides jet engines, components and integrated systems for commercial and military aircraft, is planning to move hundreds of employees to downtown Cincinnati.

Source: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2019/02/20/exclusive-ge-aviation-moving-several-hundred-jobs.html

 

 

Who knew, Tide does dry cleaning. Now it's expanding the business

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On Tuesday, Tide announced it would pull together these services together under a new name, Tide Cleaners. The brand plans to double the number of places around the country where customers can drop-off and pick-up their laundry to 2,000 by the end of next year.

 

Tide will grow by opening up more laundry and dry cleaning stores, adding drop-off lockers to new apartment complexes and supermarkets, and expanding at schools.

 

Tide, one of consumer products conglomerate Procter & Gamble's (PG) top-performing brands, is making a bigger push in laundry and dry cleaning services to strengthen its grip on young consumers in big cities.

 

Source: 

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/20/business/tide-cleaners-laundry-service/index.html

Tempoe is moving their New Hampshire HQ to downtown Cincinnati. They are a retail focused technology firm. 

 

Great to see our Urban core continually adding new jobs and stealing HQ from other cities. 

This is pretty big news. 500 new, high paying ($100,000 average salary) jobs coming to Marcy's Bond Hill campus following the merger with Maryland healthcare company Bon Secours.

 

Mercy Health Adding 500 Jobs to HQ

Everything But The House...stick a fork in it:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/everything-but-the-house-seeks-court-protection/ar-AAEO8qq?ocid=spartandhp

 

What they do doesn't make money.  Nobody wants the crap the average grandma's house is full of.  

It's really true that the vast majority of stuff in people's houses isn't worth anything besides guns, jewelry and maybe the guitars. The garage is where the money is.

Just goes to show how any company can raise money and grow quickly if you label them a "tech startup" even if what they actually do has nothing to do with technology. EBTH went from being "named Ohio's most-valuable startup by PitchBook in 2017, having raised $84.5 million in venture capital to date," only to crash and burn two years later.

39 minutes ago, taestell said:

Just goes to show how any company can raise money and grow quickly if you label them a "tech startup" even if what they actually do has nothing to do with technology. EBTH went from being "named Ohio's most-valuable startup by PitchBook in 2017, having raised $84.5 million in venture capital to date," only to crash and burn two years later.

 

My company has sold stuff to them for the past 3-4 years and they've been nothing but a pain-in-the-ass.  They've used the "tech" thing to act like they're royalty and act like we were lucky to be doing business with something that was obviously the next Ebay or Facebook or whatever.

 

There is no such thing as a tech company that expands with cash.  They all use investor money to "scale" way before they become profitable.  That sets the stage for spectacular collapses like the one we're witnessing. 

 

Just look at their website -- all they are selling is crap because that's all that is in the average dead person's home.  From what I heard, they had an army of workers at the place, so their labor costs were massive.  An army to get the stuff.  An army to photograph it and put it on the website.  An army to package it and store it in the warehouse.  An army to get it when it sold and ship it out.  Meanwhile, the average item is selling for $15. 

When EBTH first started up, they were somewhat picky about what they would sell. They were more of a traditional estate sale auction house with a great website setup. They only sold tasteful estates. My wife and I have found some great Rockwood pottery pieces, some decent furniture (like a Knoll Barcelona Table), and some artwork. At first, they didn't have a physical presence and you actually had to go to the dead person's house, get your item, and load it up into your car. As they grew, they seemed to no longer filter the junk out. There are only so many estates out there that are worth auctioning off.

1 hour ago, Ram23 said:

When EBTH first started up, they were somewhat picky about what they would sell. They were more of a traditional estate sale auction house with a great website setup. They only sold tasteful estates. My wife and I have found some great Rockwood pottery pieces, some decent furniture (like a Knoll Barcelona Table), and some artwork. At first, they didn't have a physical presence and you actually had to go to the dead person's house, get your item, and load it up into your car. As they grew, they seemed to no longer filter the junk out. There are

only so many estates out there that are worth auctioning off.

 

Working as a photographer and the guy who enters a product's description has to be a hilarious job.  It's like, what do we call this piece of crap?

 

For example, this "Gerold Porzellan Bavaria Sheep Herder with Dog Porcelain Figurine":

https://www.ebth.com/items/10756399-gerold-porzellan-bavaria-sheep-herder-with-dog-porcelain-figurine

 

 

 

Nearly 600 new jobs coming to carrier’s CVG operations center

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

 

New York-based Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Inc., a major contractor for Amazon Air, is moving and expanding its presence in Northern Kentucky, planning to build a new $34.1 million operations center near Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, which will bring 593 new full-time jobs over the next six years.

“Atlas is a premier leader and employer in the air cargo industry, and we are grateful that the company is expanding its operations within this critical North American logistics hub,” said Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin in a news release.

 

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On ‎7‎/‎24‎/‎2019 at 3:41 PM, jmecklenborg said:

Everything But The House...stick a fork in it:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/everything-but-the-house-seeks-court-protection/ar-AAEO8qq?ocid=spartandhp

 

What they do doesn't make money.  Nobody wants the crap the average grandma's house is full of.  

 

I remember seeing an investment perspective about 4-5 years back about this great company EBTH. THeir young late 20 something early 30 something owners who took over this sleepy auction house were going to make it the next Amazon. I could not help but think how. What they were pitching had huge overhead and employee costs offering little in automation and slim margins. Not at all surprised it failed.

And Aero the Acrobat was supposed to be the next Sonic the Hedgehog. Also Ristar, Bubsy, Alfred Chicken and Izzy from the Atlanta Olympics

Edited July 25, 20195 yr by GCrites80s

Oh how the mighty have fallen.  Here is a circa-2016 puff piece on EBTH:

https://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/homefrontblog/everything-house-online-estate-sale-machine/

 

The thing I don't get is how in the heck they kept the "organizers" from simply swiping all of the good stuff from an estate.  Even if they send two employees to a house, no way are they in sight of one another as they go through drawers in separate rooms and find wads of cash, jewelry, stock certificates, etc.  

 

In short, the employee theft issue must have been massive, both at the houses and in the company warehouse.  But the greatest fraud was probably the defrauding of its investors.  

 

Panel to detail the ‘Amazon Effect’

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

Jul 31, 2019, 4:18pm EDT

 

 

A panel of experts will examine the coming Amazon Air hub’s potential effect on the Cincinnati region as well as the changes that have happened in other regions with a major Amazon presence next week.

The Business Courier is sponsoring the panel, whose members will include Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport CEO Candace McGraw, Northern Kentucky Tri-Ed CEO Lee Crume, REDI Cincinnati CEO Kimm Lauterbach and Emory Thomas, former publisher and editor of the Puget Sound Business Journal, the Seattle region’s business newspaper and website.

 

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2 hours ago, The_Cincinnati_Kid said:

Panel to detail the ‘Amazon Effect’

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

Jul 31, 2019, 4:18pm EDT

 

 

A panel of experts will examine the coming Amazon Air hub’s potential effect on the Cincinnati region as well as the changes that have happened in other regions with a major Amazon presence next week.

The Business Courier is sponsoring the panel, whose members will include Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport CEO Candace McGraw, Northern Kentucky Tri-Ed CEO Lee Crume, REDI Cincinnati CEO Kimm Lauterbach and Emory Thomas, former publisher and editor of the Puget Sound Business Journal, the Seattle region’s business newspaper and website.

 

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What effect do FedEx and UPS have on Memphis and Louisville?  Not much.  

 

 

 

Kinda miss Toyota being HQ'd in Hebron. They at least had more high paying jobs.

Study projects Greater Cincinnati’s job growth over the next decade

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

 

Greater Cincinnati will see more job growth in the next 10 years than it did in the previous 10 years but will still lag behind the rate seen by the rest of the country, according to new data presented by the University of Cincinnati Economics Center.

Cincinnati’s job growth rate is projected to be 6.2 % between 2018 and 2028, compared with 4.6% between 2008 and 2018, a period that encompassed most of the Great Recession. National job growth is projected to be 9.3% between 2018 and 2028 compared with 7.7% from 2008 to 2018.

 

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West Elm is returning to Cincinnati and will be opening in Rookwood between REI and Buca

P&G's stock is up over 50% in the past year:

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/money/2019/10/07/investor-nelson-peltzs-profit-on-p-g-1-7-b/3865772002/

 

Nelson Peltz's investment is up by well over $1 billion. 

this is a cross post and i dk where else to put it, but i will put it here too -- play the video its very cute!

 

https://www.adweek.com/agencies/best-diss-tracks-about-new-york-cincinnati-agency/

A.C. Moore in Ridgewater plaza (Columbia Township) is closing January 19th. Same plaza that Lowe’s is in as well as the new Homebuys store. Seems recently that plaza has started to die out. (Used to be a big lots and some other clothing store (can’t remember the name) in the plaza and both closed within the past year)). Lowe’s is prolly the only place keeping that plaza afloat. 

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2019/12/19/4eg-closing-long-running-hyde-park-restaurant.html?iana=hpmvp_cinci_news_headline

 

Pretty big hit for the area of East Hyde Park. I wonder if they are planning something else for that space?

7 minutes ago, Ucgrad2015 said:

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2019/12/19/4eg-closing-long-running-hyde-park-restaurant.html?iana=hpmvp_cinci_news_headline

 

Pretty big hit for the area of East Hyde Park. I wonder if they are planning something else for that space?

 

Im sure the space will be occupied again rather quickly. Commercial spaces don't stay vacant rather long in hyde park. 

 

10 years for a restaurant is a rather long time though and should be applauded for being around for that long regardless. 

Especially with the parking situation in the area.

Whoa https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2019/12/23/cincinnati-bell-to-be-acquired-for-2-6.html?iana=hpmvp_cinci_news_headline

Cincinnati seems to be losing its public companies at a rapid pace and it's disheartening. I'm worried that a lot of jobs are going to be moved to Toronto or another city that the buyer has operations in. It doesn't seem to be very often that jobs get moved here. I obviously hope that I'm wrong.