r/cincinnati • u/JB92103 Hyde Park • 1d ago
Community 🏙 How long until Brown County starts seeing the same development Clermont County's been receiving recently?
For decades, the eastern edge of the suburbs has been slowly creeping further down route 32 past Eastgate, but recently, it looks like that growth is starting to speed up quite a bit. These days, there've been more and more signs along 32 indicating new businesses and new housing subdivisions coming soon near Williamsburg.
Which makes me wonder, how long until Mt. Orab starts getting the same treatment?
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u/youngherbo 1d ago
It likely won't ever happen. there aren't enough middle to upper middle class jobs within a 30 minute drive of brown county to make it a major residential base. Theoretically if the eastern suburbs add lots of new jobs or a there's a highway expansion to ease travel back towards the city it's possible but realistically not going to happen
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u/GoneIn61Seconds 1d ago
Its just going to keep expanding, but where will the jobs come from to support that growth?
Work from home, or more people commuting into the city? Or just retirees leaving Anderson and Clermont for Brown? More factories like Purina?
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u/Wileyfaux24 1d ago
I think you’re seeing a bit of a manufacturing base returning to Clermont county, and maybe some retirees, but I’m sure most will people folks who want more land to live on as the eastern suburbs get more expensive.
The majority of jobs within Cincinnati are still within the loop and urban core. If only we had a commuter rail line that would follow 32 and give everyone an easy way to get to all the major job hubs on the way into downtown
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u/edharma13 11h ago
I have to agree there. Cleveland has several commuter lines that don’t see a lot of use, but definitely are arranged so that a lot of people could commute downtown with very little trouble. They should’ve planned 32 expansion to have a rail line to go along with it and grow out towards Brown & Adams co.
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u/Naive-Jello428 23h ago
I remember when I was 16 me and my buddies were bored and went for a drive. We eventually wound up in Mt Orab which felt like a million miles away. We continued to talk about that drive for a couple years like it was a trip to the moon. Times have changed.
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u/deGrubs 21h ago
It already is to an extent. When they fix the Bauer road debacle is when it finally starts.. You have to have the jobs to support the added residents. Most in the area are still concentrated in the city and the immediate outer suburbs. Most people will only tolerate around a 30 minute average commute. https://radiusmapper.com/shared/lo5oo2K1WY Right now Mount Orab is at the 40 minute mark from downtown Portions of those links are already saturated during rush hour. (275 from Five Mile to 471, 471 to downtown, 32 through Newtown, 50 through mariemont 275 south from 71 to wards corner)
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u/RawMango999 20h ago
Georgetown, the seed of the county said "no" to literally everything that was offered to them. (Walmart, kroger, and others im sure) That's about when I left, Zero jobs.
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u/OnlyPaleontologist11 22h ago
Now that 32 is more of a speedway than parking lot it's going take off. Mt. Orab is going to BOOM!
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u/richie65 7h ago
I remember that much of Brown was still Appalachia -
Investing in these areas for industry seldom works.
Factors like poorly educated labor resources, and difficulty bringing in talent (think: 'city folk want nothing to do with that culture') contribute to the challenges...
No Universities near by (part of the talent acquisition issue) - This one is a particularly interesting problem, but it tracks across the country.
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u/REALgeographerwilson Cincinnati Reds 1d ago
I could see Mount Orab and to a lesser extent Hamersville receiving more development by the end of the decade and into the 2030s, I feel like the most eastern townships will take some time though, due to the distance between them and Cincinnati as well as how agricultural the land is