New to Cinci, Westside?

[otters21]

Originally Posted by restorationconsultant

I think you would be fine over there and 'new people' coming in is always a good thing as its always good to have new people advocate for their neighborhood because they know it better than anyone else.

The entire westside is improving. Price Hill Will has invested several million in Price Hill. The new Incline entertainment district appears to finally be going somewhere and I know a lot of people moving in and restoring troughout Price Hill.

Covedale is looking to become the latest "neighborhood Community council' and they have a strong group of people. My neighborhood Knox Hill (One the Hill between N and S Fairmount is getting better and we are working on a national district nomination for our area. Over a dozen home that were abandoned or vacant, are being restored and more are in the pipeline, in fact we will be having our first historic walking tour and open house this summer. The old Roosevelt school has reopened as a private academy over on Tremont just this year.

Riverside continues to get better as the old estate homes are restored.

There is a plan to convert the lower industrial area of S Fairmount into a greenspace park a part of the MSD sewer project.

Westwood has been very instrumental in getting many of the old apartment Buildings torn down and more and more of their area is going back to single family as homes are restored. There is a new plan for Harrison that includes dealing with some of the curves that will spur some new developments there and result in streetscape improvements.

I get the Police reports for the area and crime is considerable down in Price Hill and the Fairmounts

In short the West Side Bashers may be just a little envious of what is actually going on over on the west side and generally are clueless as to all that is going on over here, The area was hit hard during eth foreclosure crisis and it still has a long way to go, but it is coming back and doing so with a lot of new people coming in from out of town and out of state that are attracted to its historic architecture.

I think you will be just fine over there. We come to the West side

With the price of gas rumored to go up to five dollars per gallon , this does not surprise me.

[restorationconsultant]

Originally Posted by kjbrill

restorationconsultant... Wondered how long it would take you to chime in concerning the bashing of the West Side.

What area was not hit hard by the foreclosure crisis? I see the ravages of it where I live.

From what I can see from your descriptions, most of what is being done on the West Side is strictly private investment. Do you agree with me not enough is being done by the City, in fact they may be an impediment. It appears to me that if it is not downtown the City is not interested. Am I right or wrong in that conclusion?

Clearly the city is more interested in keeping those federal dollars coming in for Demo since part of that is administrative, it easy to understand why city inspectionsn is "addicted' to Fed money.

However I don't feel that a city should be responsible for rebirth of neighborhoods at taxpayer expense. I do feel that they should not put up redtape and roadblocks to redevelopment and to some degree that is what they are doing. I have worked on several neighborhood turnarounds in differrent cities and it was never dependent on City dollars, nor, in my opinion should it be.

To me the only thing I expect cities to do is provide police protection and maintain infrastructure.

[Bhiggins]

I think the best thing for South Fairmount is to first get rid of all the eyesore slums along Queen City, get rid of anything in the middle of Queen City, then maybe put urban condominiums in the median with your shopping and dining on the other sides of Queen City, while retaining some historic look without keeping the old buildings because the old buildings there are in VERY poor condition.

... But this is Cincinnati and a project like this is going to make people reject it right away if something like this ever happened... Unless... OTR turns out a MAJOR success (it is already impressing me) then possibly people will take interest in this area next.