We ‘got out’ just a few months before that happened. Told my previous neighbors in Pleasant Ridge ‘a race riot is coming’ and I’m sure they thought I was ‘nuts’.
Couldn’t help but remember that as I watched it play out on television.
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?