I know this is old news but I wanted to at least comment on it before it was too distant a memory, but a few months ago we lost a good business along the central business district to Newport and their Monmouth business district – Gallery Zaum. I spoke with the owner to better understand […]
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Big Crowd Tonight at Council
A large crowd showed up tonight at the City Council meeting. I would estimate the crowd to be about 100. After listening to about 40 minutes of commentary it was clear that about 90% of the crowd was against the current ordinance allowing deer hunting in the city. Of the 10% that were not 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 […]
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Nevada Building Sale Rescheduled
The sale of the Nevada building (see history of the building in a previous post here) has been rescheduled for January 29th at 10am at the Newport Courthouse. Hopefully the sale will complete this time. This is an important property for the revitalization of the Midway district. The building has good parking in the back, […]
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Disappointing News Story from Channel 12
I came home from work today to a disappointing news story on Channel 12. According to the news story some of the worst fears related to the new deer hunting ordinance appear to be coming true. In the news story (there is also video provided) there are at least 2 disturbing reports that include random […]
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Coffee Shop Being Considered in Midway
A reader of this blog is seriously considering opening a gourmet coffee shop in the Midway district. The space they are considering for the shop would be the old ceramic store in the Midway, a couple doors down from the Pub. Their early vision for the shop would include a fireplace, long serving bar, all […]
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Lawsuit Filed to Stop Deer Hunting
Additional news has broken since my post yesterday. First there is word from Channel 5 that a lawsuit has now been filed to stop the deer hunt. I have attached a link to the article here. Additionally, those mentioned in my previous post continue to gain momentum in there efforts to overturn deer hunting in […]
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Opposition Mounts to Deer Hunting
I recently received an email from a friend who received an email from a concerned mother, Kathy Surrett. In this email, which she sent to many local news media outlets, she outlined some of her primary safety concerns: 1. There will be no minimum requirement on how large of a tract of land the owner […]
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Fort Thomas Walkability
One thing that makes Fort Thomas such an attractive community is the walk-ability of the community. A recent article in the Ground Floor – a blog on Urbanism – talks about how Gen X sees walking communities as attractive places to live. In the last paragraph of the post there is an interesting quote: “In […]
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Fort Thomas Demographics
As I mentioned in a previous post, Focus on Retail, one of the three main ingredients to attracting retail is the demographics. Also in a previous post we compared socio-economic numbers for Fort Thomas to comparable, model retail locations. In this post I would like to focus on the age demographics of the community. According […]
