Historic South Park

South Park as the Catalyst for a Greater Dayton?

It’s nice to see a good news piece about our neighborhood , Historic South Park, as the cover story of the Dayton City Paper. Despite what you may think about this neighborhood from reading the uncensored stories here- of my recent break-ins (which can almost all be connected directly with just a few bad actors). Read More

Dayton still makes business difficult

With massive vacancies in commercial space in Dayton (a banker from out of town told me that his people thought downtown was a ghost town when looking at site selection)- the city of Dayton still does its best to make business all but impossible. Today’s Dayton Daily had an article about businesses moving to Springboro– Read More

Dayton wins!

For all the bad news and naysayers- this one’s for you. I’ve even done my share of pointing out the flaws in our fair city- but with the goal of moving us forward. Today, I decided to interview a neighbor, the lovely and talented Melissa Aldridge. She graduated from Belmont High School, attended Wright State Read More

Dayton Grassroots Daily Show, v.11: ED/GE funds and Corporate Welfare

Greg Hunter and David Esrati talk about your tax dollars being donated to corporate America in the name of “economic development.” With Montgomery County cutting money and jobs for services, we still have money to hand over to private enterprise as payola for running their business here. Also mentioned- the Historic South Park Home tour Read More

The little neighborhood that could: South Park and its home tour

The kids’ book about “the little engine that could” is a parable for the South Park neighborhood in Dayton Ohio. The largest historic district in the city, South Park is a neighborhood defined not by its vast mix of homes, from manses to miniature (there is one house, the “Gingerbread cottage” that is smaller than Read More

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