PAVELISH ON THE TRADITIONAL (CORE) NEIGHBORHOODS

It is "great" that the current City Council is trying it's best to work out a plan to build the BANKS and maybe have this plan approved before the election. We are now seeing Cincinnati government at it's " best" with political favors now due butting heads with PART TIME/SECOND job Council "expertise" butting heads with private sector investors. AIG Investment left this circus earlier in the year and how long might the new developers (investors) stick it out? There are TWO Banks plans (if you can imagine that) with each plan taking up to twenty years to complete. Let us say that in twenty years from now the Banks plan is completed (2027) . WOW, GREAT, FINALLY... But wait a minute. We now will have two OLD, outdated stadiums (stadia) bookending this development with the Brown family and the Castellinis calling for new and improved editions (to compete)... And after twenty years there may not be enough Cincinnati population to care. Yes, the Banks is important along with the nice condos that Towne Properties is building along Riverside Dr (Eastern Avenue), and our "cute" bike trail that City Council spent so much time on to please some...

But to enjoy the future Banks and the bike trails, and have the population to do so, we need to tackle the tough and critically needed redevelopment of our traditional (core) neighborhoods. We need to populate the vacant houses (not tear down as Council is planning) and we need to put commerce back into the boarded up storefronts in such neighborhoods as Price Hill, Walnut Hills, Westwood, Northside, upper OTR, etc. We need to bring back the investors and builders that the present Council thru foolish and unrealistic legislation has chased into Northern Kentucky and the suburbs. Our present Council is so anti business that it is a national statistic. and our City is almost void of private investment cash. With just a change in City Council to someone who understands business and housing and will take the time to welcome investors back will be a HUGE step forward.

Only thru the private sector (with some City infrastructure and tax help) can rehabbing of our tradition neighborhoods succeed (or even begin). And where construction begins and continues, not only will neighborhoods come to life but the City economy grows, and the "bad guys" will leave. Criminals seem to like the depressed neighborhoods. And keep in mind that private investors use their own money. not tax money. Our mayor need not to go to Germany and Isreal to look for investment and investors but just look across the river and county and see the friendly faces that was chased away and with pockets of cash. And I was one of them (except the pockets of cash part)...

http://www.pavelish.com/