Clintonville no longer dry??? (Columbus, Cincinnati: rental, crime, houses)

[HuskerDu]

Since we moved to Cincinnati, the news from C-bus has become less frequent and much less interesting but this is an incredible turn of events if true!! I honestly thought this would be the first place to find such news but it seems people are rather intent on focusing their attention towards the question of "diversity" in what anyone who visits anything worth visiting knows is an amazingly white bread town. All conversations about Morse road/161 and the crime ridden shambles it has become aside, let us focus on something constructive for a change?

If you are not familiar with Clintonville, it is a beautiful neighborhood that exists north of the OSU campus and south of sister community Beechwold which borders Worthington along High Street. This neighborhood is long known as one of the safest areas in Columbus that also has something of a "granola" feel due to it's close proximity to campus. People who would normally find the well kept houses, tree-lined streets and ravines of this setting more than attractive and jump at the chance to call this community home have, for many years, decided on a less attractive option in Grandview Heights. Why? Clintonville has always been dry and there is more going on in Grandview. Nevermind the post WWII crackerbox houses that fall in between the bigger sears builds from the 1920's and the crappy rental properties that line 3rd to Northwest BLVD... young professional couples seem to want a local buzz or at least a flicker of some activity. I don't blame them.

If what my mother, who lives across from the Park Of Roses, just informed me is true to the full extent (D5 licensing and all), Clintonville is no longer dry and will easily offer more than Grandview as a neighborhood that has it all for post-short north couples. From what she tells me, there are already a few new restaurants going up around Cooke & High.

I only hope they take the time to do it right and avoid what could be the disaster (in my view) that is up around Graceland Shopping Center.

Your thoughts?

[playasurfer]

I can tell you from my experience that lifting the ban on alcohol will certainly affect things. Here in my town, a place that recently lifted the ban on alcohol, things unfortunately changed for the worst...





Not too long after the ban, the new bars welcomed violent customers into our hometown.






It attracted organized crime, hot jazz music, debaucheries, and sin. It wasn't too long after that I found this in my son's dresser. It's hops.


I hope Clintonville does it right, too.