I ran across a development newsletter the other day from Clemson, SC. This appears to be the trend among small cities and communities trying to attract retail to their communities. This brings up a great point about the efforts that Fort Thomas could employ. Many of you may be thinking but Clemson, SC must have […]
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Street Calming in Fort Thomas?
Kevin Lemaster, the blogger over at Building Cincinnati has a recent post on a street calming program in Cincinnati. If you are like me you are probably asking ‘what is street calming’ and apparently it is a nice term for putting speed bumps in roads to protect safety. Apparently the city of Cincinnati had a […]
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Newport / Fort Thomas Subsidizing Ohio Drivers?
There is a post from Kevin LeMaster’s blog, Building Cincinnati, about a public meeting tomorrow night in Cold Spring for citizens concerned about the I-471 corridor study. There is concern that widening to four lanes, while possibly needed, is a subsidy for Ohio commuters driving to and from the east side while possibly hurting the […]
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Hillside Development
A meeting is being held tonight in Fort Wright to discuss hillside development in Northern Kentucky. The meeting is being facilitated by a group of students from UK. Hillside development has been in the news a lot lately such as a move to restrict hillside development in Covington including a 90 day moratorium. A few […]
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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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Home Depot out at Newport Pavilion
The Cincinnati Business Courier reported in their Friday edition of the paper that Home Depot has abandoned one of the three anchor tenant spots in the Newport Pavilion shopping center off 471 between Grand & Memorial. The other two tenants, Target and Kroger, are still committed and the developers Bear Creek Capital are now planning […]
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Traffic Counts in Fort Thomas Business Areas
A reader’s comment on my previous post made a great point about traffic counts and its impact on the ability to attract retail. As a result I did a little digging and came up with the following information as it relates to traffic counts in Fort Thomas (I believe these numbers are vehicles per day): […]
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Another Story About Milford Renaissance
The Enquirer has published another article on Milford’s development. While there is not a lot of new ground covered in this article there are a few items that are of interest for Fort Thomas. Before I jump into those points I want to say that it was just 6 or 7 years ago that I […]
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Fort Thomas Conservancy Forming
A group of citizens are forming a Fort Thomas Conservancy with the stated mission of creating ‘a grassroots, nonprofit organization charged with promotion of the protection and preservation of natural areas and green space, along with the responsible management of wildlife and the development of park amenities and trails for the enjoyment of nature within […]
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Candidates For City Council
As has been widely reported in the area media (Cincinnati Enquirer, Pat Crowley Blog) there was a large amount of interest in the local council races. The community recorder plans to have a brief summary of each of the candidates in their upcoming issue. Many of you will see that I have also thrown my […]