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Originally Posted by ColDayMan
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.
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With the rehabbed buildings, are almost all of them used for residential, or are small offices moving in on the upper stories as well? If it has a pretty big office component it would help explain why the densities remain relatively low.