Entries from May 2007

May 31, 2007

All Aboard!

Well, I’m going to put my money on a streetcar system here in Cincinnati within the next few years. HDR Inc. presented a streetcar impact study to City Council this week and the findings were pretty sensational. The return/investment ratio was 15.2 to 1! For investing $88 million the city is expecting a $1.9 billion [...]

May 23, 2007

Rock and Roll Streets

Here’s a touch of a different twist on the brick streets we were talking about before. Part of the asphalt has worn away on a street near where I work and the under it are the stones that once paved it. I don’t know how old that has to make it but I assume stones [...]

May 23, 2007

Wanna Live On Pike St. With Me?

As some of you may know Erin and I recently moved and are renting a condo. We decided to wait a little while longer to buy because we weren’t sure where we wanted to be and buying something kind of dictates that you’ll be there for a while. Last week I found a really great [...]

May 23, 2007

Road Trip Season!

I was listening to the radio this morning and the guest on the show was Donna Covrett (wouldn’t it be cooler if it was Corvette?), food critic for Cincinnati Magazine. And the restaurant she reviewed? One I’ve been wanting to visit this summer—The Winds in Yellow Springs. Cincinnati has it’s fair share of cool restaurants [...]

May 22, 2007

Coco, Can It Be?

I was buzzing around Most Metro and saw this snipet of info. I couldn’t believe it—another Coco’s creation and in such a great spot! This is a big deal for South Park and even for Dayton. Things like that say a lot to me. Here in Cincinnati, Over the Rhine is basically the neighborhood people [...]