It has been steadily improving for the past ten years. It's to the point now where every block and alley is perfectly safe to walk down. That eventuality was inconceivable up through about 2006.
Unless we hit another major recession the area should be just about built-out by 2025. There are still 75-100 individual vacant lots which are being filled one-by-one with single-family homes. There are about five major surface parking lots left but I imagine that we'll see apartment complexes go up on those shortly.
Also, redevelopment has started to creep west into the West End. That neighborhood is basically a continuation of the same sorts of buildings but was much more chopped-up in the 1950s and 60s. There aren't too many signs of it now but I'd expect that by 2030 that will be mostly rehabbed.
The large number of hotel projects are all small 150-250 room hotels. The market for all of these small hotels appeared because an outfit from Singapore bought the 872-room Millennium Hotel about ten years ago and has allowed it to fall into mild disrepair. The blue bloods had the paper run a hit piece on the hotel (they attempted to find bed bugs) but it had no effect.
All of these old office buildings opened up because the gigantic Queen City Square Tower, completed 2010 and with about 1 million square feet, hoovered up a number of Class A tenants from former Class A towers that are now considered Class B.
All of those prewar buildings dropped from Class B to Class C and with the help of Ohio's historic tax credit program they're either going residential or being turned into boutique hotels.
Aside from the Queen City Square tower, the only other office tower in DT Cincinnati built since 2010 is the General Electric building south of Second St.
Aside from incredible urbanism and what appears to be several very well executed new developments... a utility undergrounding program would do wonders for the historic core streetscape. See photo #2 and imagine that being cleaned up.
Aside from incredible urbanism and what appears to be several very well executed new developments... a utility undergrounding program would do wonders for the historic core streetscape. See photo #2 and imagine that being cleaned up.
I always thought overhead lines gave street character. Tree cover sounds nicer though
Aside from incredible urbanism and what appears to be several very well executed new developments... a utility undergrounding program would do wonders for the historic core streetscape. See photo #2 and imagine that being cleaned up.
Pretty much everything in this thread was slated to be demolished in the 1960s for public housing and light industry so no money was put into it.
It all became one of the worst ghettos in the United States for 50 years and didn't bounce back until the 2010s. There was a 100+ year stretch with virtually zero new construction in the 15x15 block area where most of these photos were taken.
Unfortunately the Jackson Brewery suffered a major fire this past fall. I was lucky to tour it back in July. I reposted those photos and then added updates from January 1, 2020.
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