Sadly the inmates are still running the asylum there while clueless ‘leaders’ fritter away resources like the absurd Underground Railroad museum (smack in the middle of a sports/entertainment complex - shrewd!) and The Banks - a full 20 years after the entertainment options on the Ohio side of the riverfront vanished or migrated across the river.
The Banks is another white elephant disguised as civic pride and downtown development. There are far too many cooks in the kitchen with no guarantee of customers or foot traffic (especially considering what we discussed previously).
All this Celebration, FL-inspired mixed-use stuff sounds wonderful and makes a nice 3-D model to show off but how realistic is it?
By the accounts I’ve heard about Syd Nathan from the musicians who recorded for him, they almost had to come to blows with him to get him to pay them money received on sales.
The Underground Railroad museum is suffering exactly the fate those of us that were against said it would...if you bother to visit it once...there is no reason to return. The proponents claimed it would be ‘self sufficent’.
Right now those same idiots are begging for millions to keep the doors open. And because of the racial context, even if it closes, the city will NEVER be able to tear it down and rebuild something positive in its place.
Bottom line: Cincinnati is quickly becoming ‘lil detriot’. And it will never recover, just as Detriot never recovered from the riots in the 1960’s.