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 […]
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Deer Hunting in Fort Thomas
OK – this is my last post on deer hunting. This blog was supposed to be about development and working to try to bring retail to Fort Thomas but I can’t ignore a very short-sighted decision by our city council last night as this has ramifications on our ability to attract retail. The reason I […]
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Deer Hunting Vote Tonight
Tonight is a final vote by city council on the deer hunting proposal that has worked its way around the council and committees now almost a year. The council meets at 8 tonight to take a final vote. If you feel strongly about this issue one way or the other then be sure to attend. […]
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Bellevue Incentives
A recent article in the Cincinnati Post provides another great example of an area town thinking outside the box in regards to defining an objective (promote more owner occupied housing) and then offering real incentives to affect change (initially $2,500 per unit and now $5,000). In this case the objective is reducing multi-families and helping […]
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Fort Thomas Demographics
As I mentioned in my post on Friday entitled “Focus on Retail” I wanted to provide a comparison of Fort Thomas demographics as compared to other retail areas that have been mentioned as being a model district for what we are trying to achieve in Fort Thomas. I looked at demographic data for Loveland, Mariemount, […]
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“Focus on Retail”
Today there was a panel discussion called “Focus on Retail” held in downtown Cincinnati and sponsored by the International Council of Shopping Centers and Neyer Holdings. The focus of the panel was on attracting retail and hits on some great points that we should focus on in regards to attracting retail to Fort Thomas. A […]
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Holiday Walk Rescheduled
The city has decided to move the event to this Thursday, the 6th. The tree lighting ceremony will be at 6:00 p.m. They will follow the same format as best they can. Here is a link to the city’s site that has the new date and time.
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Apartments on Memorial Pkwy
If you have driven down Memorial Parkway you have noticed the work going on along the road between 471 and Inverness near the Memorial Village Apartments. As reported by the Enquirer this summer the plans are for more apartments with views of the city to be built around the existing unit. The developers are Wessels […]
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Holiday Walk
The Fort Thomas holiday walk is an annual tradition in Fort Thomas that brings the community together and gives business owners an opportunity to thank the community for their support. It is also just a great way for institutions such as churches and schools to connect with the community as well. Not to mention that […]