With each passing day, month and year, my departure from detroit grows ever more distant and faded. While the wonders of this newfangled world wide web continue to keep me ensnared like a wayward stegosaurus in the Detroit tar pits, truth be told, we are now reaching the 5 year anniversary of my exodus, and it doesn't look like I'll be back any time soon.
As such, I will use this thread here to burble about my current digs, thereby sparing all from any such exposure in other threads. All mention on said subject shall thusly be confined here, regardless of any relevance to Detroit or Sports. This is as much an act of self-muzzling as anything else.
Nobody should be exposed to such chatter other than by their own volition....that said, I like to have an outlet....
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For starters, here is a great project going up adjacent to the CBD in Over the Rhine (OTR). OTR occupies a role similar to that of the lower cass corridor, in that it is full of social service agencies, and has long been regarded as an ash dump of human refuse and detritus for the region. Thriving open air drug trades can be found with relative ease. That said, the building density is much higher, and the architecture is amazing. There's also a lot more in the way of new business and investment, and the 3CDC (cincy equivalent to DEGC) has taken over a lot of the redevelopment, owning something in the nature of 300+ buildings. The ballet, symphony and opera also perform at Music Hall in OTR, many local theater groups operate in the area, and the Art Academy renovated a large warehouse in the heart of the neighborhood as part of their new campus. One of the prime new districts, the Q (featured in this spread) has unique new retail and a really outstanding new restaurant/wine bar, the Lavomatic Cafe. excellent stuff. the neighborhood is about a 10 minute walk from my downtown office, which is near the river. Here is a decent thread from urban ohio.com:
http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.p ... 347.0.html