While ultimately I do believe the Midway can look great, on my way to the Y yesterday my worse fears were realized regarding the street scape work along Fort Thomas Ave. Removing the trees and burying the lines highlight the public housing that exists next to the Midway. In the poll on the right side […]
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Why I Am Excited About the Future of the Midway
The more I think about the prospects of the Midway the more excited I get. We are just a few short months away from some serious momentum. Lets take a quick inventory of some of the important changes that are imminent in a very short space: Nevada Building purchase & redevelopment Tower Homes Farmer’s Market […]
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Midway Streetscape
Another article in the Community Recorder today on Council moving forward with the street scape changes in the Midway. Some observations: 1. The article contains comments about Council moving forward despite a majority disagreeing with the plan. Does this sound familiar to anyone else out there? (can you say deer hunt?) The following is a […]
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Missing Piece of the Midway Rehab
Here is another recent story from the Enquirer about the streetscape work about to begin next month. This is a story I mentioned a few weeks ago here so not new news but there is an interesting quote at the end of the article from the owner of the Midway. “The city needs to get […]
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Officers’ Quarters in Tower Park
We appear to be 1 hurdle away from new housing in Tower Park. The long sought after sale of the 14 officer homes in Tower Park (many with views of the Ohio River) is only 1 signature away from being the property of the City of Fort Thomas. It has been nearly 5 years since […]
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Recent Events
Since it has been a couple of weeks since my last post I thought I would bring you a collection of small stories that have been reported elsewhere with a little commentary: Status update on the Midway – this was a recent article in the Enquirer from a recent Council meeting. The story covers other […]
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Status of the Nevada Building??
It has now been 6 months since the Bank of Kentucky purchased the Nevada building (see this past post for background) and it continues to sit empty. I am reminded of some of the discussion about the purchase at the time including: The Bank of Kentucky could sell the building for more than the $240K […]
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Downtown Revitalization
I recently came across an article by ‘Solutions for America’ on downtown revitalization. I am not fully aware of all the politics of this organization but they make some great points in the article about revitalization. While most of the article is focused on big city downtowns many of the points that are made are […]
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Bank of Kentucky Buys the Nevada Building
Today the Nevada building sold at auction to the Bank of Kentucky. While I am not sure the full motivations of the Bank of Kentucky, the purchase appears to be speculative. According to the article in the Enquirer the bank felt that it can sell for higher than $240,000 (the price paid) and feels there […]
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Can a Coffee Shop Thrive in the Midway?
As a result of a recent post about investors looking at opening a gourmet coffee shop in the Midway district a question that I have pondered is the competitiveness of this new shop compared to Starbucks. Will enough morning coffee drinkers choose a new shop on the way to work over Starbucks? Here is a […]
