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Geez, how much are Lackman Lofts going for? That much Rookwood tile sounds expensive Eventually I would expect this to become a destination, when I worked at a paint your own pottery studio on "the upper west side" I occasionally had people coming in looking for Rookwood. It would have been great to send them to the factory.

Bummer, I wonder how the company is doing?

nah, you're wrong. it's all about the orange bowl.

I was just thinking we don't have enough pizza options in uptown

orange bowl.

haha exactly

The Phoenix Posted by PollyCampbell at 5/7/2009 9:45 AM EDT on Cincinnati.com The restaurant at The Phoenix, downtown is closed, at least for awhile. But the banquet business is most definitely not. Kent Vandersall, the general manager, told me that every year they debate whether to keep the restaurant open, or use the room for private events. Most years, sentimentality wins out over business, he said. But this year, they decided to put their energies into the more profitable part of their business, the corporate events, weddings and bar mitzvahs. Most of the kitchen staff will go to the banquet business, as will some of the servers. Vandersall said if they feel it makes sense, they can always open it as a restaurant again. They will be open for special events, including this weekend's Mother's Day buffet. Customers with points built up will still be able to use them for special events. It's too bad that gorgeous 19th century room, which used to be a private club, isn't open to the public--make sure you get yourself invited to a wedding there sometime, so you can enjoy the atmosphere.

Any one visited? I'll have to swing by next time I'm up there

Yeah, the article I linked to above discussed the lack of outlet malls being built or surviving. This location would seem to have a built in client base with Trader's World and Treasure Aisles but yeah certainly not the latest fad in retail

Even with limited signage, I'm not really sure you can miss it...

Agreed! But that doesn't mean it won't be successful. And I would say malls and outlet malls are different beasts, you don't see a lot of out of business outlet malls. In response to myself I remembered there being a second Jeffersonville outlet that looked pretty empty. I found this article that discusses success and failures of outlet malls: http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/2586890 While Jeffersonville II failed it was probably due to Jeffersonville's success which is still at 90% and adding retailers. The question is how much traffic Cincy Premium will draw from Jeffersonville. Even more interesting is that Jeffersonville II apparently has a 21 and up video game parlor. I think that may make it worth the drive. I hope Monroe gets one.

I agree with everything you said. The point I was making is that I agree with arn that it will probably be successful because many people don't take issue with these things. They tried an outlet mallish thing in Forest Park and it didn't go so well. Typically that type of development is way out of the city because the low overhead requires it. Placing it in between Cincinnati and Dayton gives it a bigger draw. And Monroe is south of Middletown which is the northern edge of our MSA.

eeerrr....yes to each his own. I mean, who cares about how such crap affects the region. Who cares about regionalism at all. Thank God we have 60 plus suburbs in the area....to each his own. :roll: Different people want different lifestyles, regions should provide space for all of them. There is a place in the region for an outlet mall. It's not like these stores could go anywhere else. The whole concept is based on a model that requires this type of exurb development. The option of not having them just takes the money out of the region.

I'll agree with arn. Just because urbanites don't want to go to the outlet malls doesn't mean that there aren't a lot of people that will. To each his own. And taestall maybe the question should be how did this project come to be discussed on URBANOhio?

It IS a warehouse with banners

gnarls barkley is a group with cee lo and danger mouse.

BCBG is a clothing store http://www.bcbg.com/home/index.jsp Nike prolly sells a lot more than shoes Hug Boss is a clothing store Just because those places have shoes doesn't make them a shoe store. You could also call them all sunglasses stores or handbag stores. Also interesting Brown Shoe owns Naturalizer

"Hellllllllll yeeeeeeeeeeeeeah! West side best side. You're proud not to be one of those yuppie East side jerks. Besides, they've only been here for 2 generations anyway. Now go put on that 1988 AFC champions T-shirt and have a Hudy Delight." So funny thing is I actually own a 1988 AFC champs T-shirt, though I got it at a thrift store.

wonder how much longer we'll have our coach

Bring on 6 and 7. 6 & 7 under contract, #8 will probably be by the end of the week. That will only leave 3 units, get em while ya still can!

Yeah, "stellar" was a poor word choice. lol I drank a little bit yesterday while posting this. ;) Surprise!

we have a mediocre team that is still young, and we play like it

we couldn't at least get an honorable mention?

Are we playing what we want to see at the Banks or what we reasonably expect at The Banks?

i think you're all wrong.