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Originally Posted by eschaton
I think a lot of the Over-The-Rhine buildings were effectively vacant and abandoned before the neighborhood was gentrified. Likely even some of the ones which had stores occupying their first story had upper stories which were unused except for storage.
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This. OTR was essentially a drug-den with mostly vacant buildings until the mid-2000's. It's population density was that of a western Kansas town until recently. Cincinnati has many depopulated neighborhoods that are structurally dense yet mostly empty (West End and Camp Washington come to mind immediately). Think of OTR like Disneyland's Main Street USA for crackheads...until the current gentrification-wave.