Streetlife and foot traffic

The southwest corner of downtown is resident heavy but business thin. That could all be changing soon with 3CDC's purchase of a 1.7-acre parking lot that sits between 4th and 5th St. The parking lot is split into two parcels, 221 and 250 W. Fifth St.
3CDC has said before that the lack of a strong headquarters hotel has been one of the biggest issues facing the Cincinnati USA Convention & Visitors Bureau.
I'd love to see a hotel go in that space, it would give W 4th St a jolt of needed foot traffic.
While they said all uses for the site will be explored, they've already started the exploratory part of the site drilling core samples.


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Bunbury

This isn't strictly a downtown thing, anyone could roll down to the riverfront and duplicate this experience. Living downtown though its pretty incredible to roll down to Bunbury on the bike and experience almost the entire festival without buying a ticket. Hanging out at friends riverfront apartments, hanging out on bridges. It was even more eye-opening to realize for bands on the big stage, I was actually closer to the action than fans in the very back of the crowd.
They did put up a fence with construction privacy screen on one side of the Purple People Bridge which seemed like a dick move, we were channeling Super Troopers, they don't own the bridge, God, it's God's bridge! But all you could see were trees anyhow so I didn't get it. But it did give me respite from the sun.
That was an awesome weekend.




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5th Annual Preservation Ride

Every year the Cincinnati Preservation Collective hosts a bike ride around a neighborhood highlighting historicly significant building under the most threat. Why bikes? Well they are the fastest easiest cheapest way to move people around cities for one. You really can't experience a neighorhood any better than being immersed in it.
This year the ride wandered through Walnut Hills and Evanston, I didn't realize how much awesome housing stock was located in that area.
And then we ate ice cream!














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