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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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 […]
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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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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 […]