Over-The-Rhine is looking good!

[Kereczr]

Originally Posted by Cincy-Rise

What you just described ... I've seen happen in Northgate Mall, Wyoming, between school games A LOT (I went to LaSalle, by the way ) ... should I avoid these areas? Do you?

No, we live in a real world with real problems, expect to encounter them.

Hence the reason I avoid dangerous areas. My life is worth more than proving I am well endowed.

[Cincy-Rise]

Originally Posted by Kereczr

Hence the reason I avoid dangerous areas. My life is worth more than proving I am well endowed.

I assume you avoid I71 & 75 as well then, you know ... since your chances of being killed or hurt are much higher in comparison to that of OTR?

[jlrosen]

I agree, as a white, non drug using male I am pretty sure I am safer downtown than in the suburbs if you factor in auto deaths and suicides

[Michael Redmond]

I and my wife both live and work in Over the Rhine and have for 5 years now. The pace of both the redevelopment and the decrease in crime is something that I did not expect to see nearly as soon as we have. Now people are beginning to move back to the city in droves, and not just because there are all sorts of new reasons to live here, but we are simultaneously removing the reasons that people did not want to in the past.

New OTR Development, Residents Push Out Crime - News Archive Story - WLWT Cincinnati
"We're the safest neighborhood in Cincinnati right now," said Brian Tiffany of the Over-the-Rhine chamber of commerce. "We're on our 19th consecutive month of double-digit decline." District One, which patrols the historic neighborhood, has posted lower crime numbers than any other police district in the city."
Channel 5 News March 3, 2008


Many people on here seem to be stuck in the past and the terrible safety issues that OTR has indeed had. But today is a new day. The Gateway Quarter that is bringing on 100 new condos a year for the next four years that are currently outpacing sales of any other development. A new School for Creative and Preforming Arts. The Art Academy that moved from Mt. Adams to OTR. A new generation of the Main Street Entertainment Dist that has such clubs as CUE, MIXX, Pitifuls, Kaldis, and Below Zero with even more coming this summer. Jean Robert's Lavomatic that just opened north of 12th and Vine in the heart of OTR. Grammers reopening which is the oldest restraunt in Cincinnati and now owned by Martin Wade. Festivals such as Bock Fest (going on now) and MidPoint Music Festival all make OTR one of the dynamic and exciting neighborhoods in the city.

I think that anyone on here would have a hard time developing a resume of any other community in Greater Cincinnati that even comes close to what I can recite just off the top of my head for OTR. So come down and try OTR again, I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

[Traveler87]

Great news on new development in Downtown Cincinnati. Read in an article yesterday, will try and find it, The Banks is expected to start in April.

[restorationconsultant]

OTR will be hugely sucessful. I am moving there myself from Indianapolis. Why? Because our downtown is essentially restored. We are now seeing the waves of the suburbanites moving downtown into trendy 1/2 million dollar condos and small cottages. The people from the burbs in cincinnati are in for a rude awakening because all those people who will get displaced from OTR will be in their happy suburbia in 5-10 yrs. Section 8 is hitting the burbs now. In Indy crime is going down downtown and up in the burbs. Im selling a 1500 sq ft bungalow for 300K that I bought in 04 for 50K and buying a brownstone in Cincinnati for 10K and a few other buildings also. I've been an urban pioneer for 20 years and Cincinnati will be great! The architecture is amazing!

[Cincy-Rise]

^ Good luck!

There's nothing like OTR in the midwest, you'll need to look on the East Coast for this type of architecture.

[Traveler87]

Originally Posted by restorationconsultant

OTR will be hugely sucessful. I am moving there myself from Indianapolis. Why? Because our downtown is essentially restored. We are now seeing the waves of the suburbanites moving downtown into trendy 1/2 million dollar condos and small cottages. The people from the burbs in cincinnati are in for a rude awakening because all those people who will get displaced from OTR will be in their happy suburbia in 5-10 yrs. Section 8 is hitting the burbs now. In Indy crime is going down downtown and up in the burbs. Im selling a 1500 sq ft bungalow for 300K that I bought in 04 for 50K and buying a brownstone in Cincinnati for 10K and a few other buildings also. I've been an urban pioneer for 20 years and Cincinnati will be great! The architecture is amazing!

Best of luck to you. And so glad to hear someone doing this. Urban living is really taking off, especially here in the Midwest, and Ohio cities could be a poster child for that. Cleveland has one of America's fastest growing downtown populations in the country. I am going to college to be an urban planner, I have about a year left here at Kent, and I have already been offer jobs in Columbus and Cincinnati. I am leaning towards Cincy. I plan on buying a loft in Cincinnati after I have college paid off.