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Even without retail it can't be worse than the garage there today. That's one of the lowest quality garages downtown right now.

Why are we kicking Cincy's butt in the testing timeline? http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2015/12/01/city-live-power-streetcar-tests-in-downtown-tuesday/76598066/ their final track welding was in late October and they didn't finish track work until around the time we got the first train. as you...

kboish wrote:2.9 million (or roughly $3 million) over 25 years. I don't recall the total price of the project.

I was doing the life of the building, not life of the incentives.

Who owns the lot just south of Velvet Freeze (across 31st)? It doesn't show up as a parcel in parcel viewer. that's technically a city street. google street view has a sewer inlet on it (barely) which wouldn't be on a private parking lot the parcel viewer shows it's a parkway so being parkland it w...

mgh7676 wrote:

flyingember wrote:

taxi wrote:Pole dancers.

sadly, this is not completely unappropriate in context

Sadly? I think you mean, "Happily, this is not completely inappropriate in context"

I was being sarcastic, I clearly failed at that aspect.

taxi wrote:Pole dancers.

sadly, this is not completely unappropriate in context

2.9 million over 50 years, the rough lifespan of concrete if unmaintained (for worst case costs) is $58,000 per year to get a quality project.

Sounds like a better deal than some of them on the table.

I suspect the parents had a lot to do with those numbers. There's obviously roadblocks to learning in any poorer school district but even if teachers were incompetent, it's not like the students don't have text books and a functioning brain. A little effort goes a long way. statistically educationa...

grovester wrote:gotta have this:

You provide the custom built pallets and I bet A LOT of people would do that.

A standard pallet is around 1220mm at its biggest side and the track is 1435mm apart
That photo shows narrow gauge

Does anyone know how the streetcar app contest drawing works? The deadline to be eligible is the evening of the 18th but nothing says when the drawing is.
Did anyone here besides me get to the required points?

Opening day can be a celebration. Pick a stop, close the streets off it and do the jazz band outside thing. Drawings, merchandise, food, etc. Have a ribbon cutting and all that. Stage each train at that stop and they start off at intervals. If the weather works get the zoomobile out, bring in carniv...

It's a hard spot for the same reason they're abandoning the site, it's unstable land.

Would come with a major site prep project. With so many other easier and cheaper lots, I expect this would sit empty longer than the Mission Mall site if sold.

My guess is the KC school district is going to be swallowed up eventually. This idea was dismissed a few years back but they have trouble finding school board candidates.

That's not a good sign for the health of the district.

the website says nothing about retail space

As I recall, that was just the KC schools inside Independence? Correct. But the 2000 District population figures and demographics include that portion of Independence and any cyphering of the urban core population would not. I don't know how many people live in those census tracts of eastern indepe...

As I recall, that was just the KC schools inside Independence?

town cow wrote:Olympic swimming pool? Is there a Midget Olympics out there somewhere?

that just means the length of the lanes, 160 feet. could have been three lanes wide.

the storage buildings closer to Linwood and Main had a for sale sign on them for a long time. I've been inside the shorter one, it's in horrible shape and needs a huge amount of work. the basement floods for one, and I'm not talking an inch of water. it's connected to the taller building next to it ...

kboish wrote:The bizjournal article says there will be 350 new parking spaces.

350 spots on that parcel would be a 5-7 story structure just for parking. I think they got that wrong

For reference, this a block away from car wash whose (then?) owners opposed the last light rail plan that would have laid track on this block.

the problems of this segment are self-inflicted as much as anything