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COAST went off the deep end long ago. They aren't anti-tax and anti-spending, they're anti-spending on very specific items - ones that benefit the dense, urban areas of the city. COAST stopped being just a differing opinion long ago, and now just seems like a real life troll to me. I'm on the fence about the particular issue at hand here (the change to council rules), but that's another debate.

I just glanced at the letter and noticed one of the lawyers that works with Finney is an OTR resident, oddly enough, as COAST always seems entirely anti-city and anti-OTR especially.

It'll probably be for sale at an architectural salvage yard in Chicago for $40,000 in a couple weeks.

1329 Walnut St. is coming down as of this morning.

Are there still pool tables at Tangeman? There are 3 or 4 in the basement, in what is UC's best kept secret: Catskeller. It's one of the best beer bars in the city, with 8 microbrews on tap at any time, and beers like La Fin du Monde for $4.25.

I used to hang out around there quite a bit. I like to think of that Citi Tower as the EiffelTower of Queens, a lot of the roads seem to be on axis with it accidentally, and you can see it from all over the place.

Artswave stuff on this building would be hideous. I know it's a giant solid brick wall, but it is a historic building and should be treated with some respect. The movie theater idea is a good one, and there are any number of potential tech uses, as well, such as a data center.

My dad commuted from Cincinnati to NCR in Dayton for a good 15 years when I was a kid. The gas prices then weren't quite as high as they are now, though. I know plenty of people that drive from the West Chester area to downtown, but that seems to be about the farthest up I-75 that is a popular commuting distance.

A full season suspension for a fight is completely unprecedented. As for Holloway, Xavier has Gonzaga game coming up, there's no way they'd suspend him for that. Suspensions are done strategically, UC's just aren't as transparent since Big East play doesn't begin until after the new year. Xavier has a #8 ranking to play for, and important games coming up. Wasn't much of a fight. More like one sucker punch.....Yancy is a coward and should be suspended longer than 6 games. Yancy Gates was classless; I don't think "coward" is the right word, though. There was, however, some cowering during the fight, if "cowered" was the word you were looking for.

I'm not too upset about the "front lawn" as I could see that being used as an event space of some sort when the weather is nice; that said, I hope it has a program of some sort. What I don't like are the lawns along the bulk of the Reading and Gilbert street frontages. There is a nice attempt to approach the street along Reading at the main casino building, but the rest is just empty grass. Those should be plotted into smaller properties and sold off.

A full season suspension for a fight is completely unprecedented. As for Holloway, Xavier has Gonzaga game coming up, there's no way they'd suspend him for that. Suspensions are done strategically, UC's just aren't as transparent since Big East play doesn't begin until after the new year. Xavier has a #8 ranking to play for, and important games coming up.

I don't think I've ever seen this be an issue at any of the other parks around the city... There have been a lot of issues at Washington Park that aren't issues at any other parks around the city. I'm confident this redevelopment, along with the renovations going on all around the park will take care of those past issues, though. A few relocations wouldn't hurt, either.

Holloway for one game? Seems like somebody has more interest in keeping a #8 ranking than handing down proper punishment.

Under section 15.9 Permitted Uses of Airport Revenue, item "i" is "Ground Access Projects," which specifically references intermodal transportation. The streetcar doesn't go to the airport, but subsequent rail projects certainly will, namely the forthcoming Eastern Corridor rail project which has a stop at Lunken.

There are plenty of apartments scattered around downtown and OTR that do not have on site parking, and those living there do not expect it. Condo's probably come with the expectation of an on site garage, and rightfully so, but rentable apartments don't need to have that expectation. A building this size packed with 1 bedroom apartments for $800 or so would do fine. The highest expectation I'd have at that price is, perhaps, a negotatied monthly discount at a garage within a few blocks.

How is selling the airport "airport revenue?" It seems like it was nothing more than selling of real estate. It shouldn't matter what was on it.

A Herzog and de Meuron building a block from where I live might be the highlight of my life. Some day...

I think it should be Short Pete. It is technically very close to Pete Rose Way, I'd call it a realigned version similar to how Vine St. was cut up in Clifton. We colloquially know that as Short Vine, so there's no reason not to use Short Pete to refer to the street in question.

I read this the other day and didn't like it. The new rules literally allow the mayor to push anything under the carpet that he may disagree with. The power to set the agenda should not lend itself to the power to usurp a vote. I like most everything Mallory has done, but what if the next mayor isn't so bright? The committee system was set up for a reason.

^ I’ve been to plenty of Mets games and when they let out, they do line up and run the 7 trains at rush hour intervals (which is one 11 car long train every 3 minutes!) for a short while. Sure that takes a lot more than 1.5% of the crowd away, but even if the streetcars in Cincy could take 1.5% of a sellout crowd (very few games actually sell out, anyway) up to OTR, that’d be great PR for the bulk of people at Reds games that don’t use the streetcar daily. I know the streetcar is transit, but being the first train in Cincy it is going to need to serve as an example to the hundreds of thousands that will see it but not need to ride it daily. The events that make up that 10% of actual ridership make up 95% of the PR campaign the streetcar is going to be putting on.

I've seen the basement. It is amazing. The fault is huge, and while you really couldn't ever do much with it - I don't see why it's a problem, nobody really uses basements anyway. The building actually has a few sub basements too, it's pretty impressive. The strange thing about that basement though, was a basement mezzanine level that had some white tilework with the street names tiled in like someone had planned to tie in to the subway station at Fountain Square. It was built in 1901, but renovated in the 1920's so they could have gone out on a limb.

^ But there are cops there directing traffic and controlling the crowd, already. It wouldn’t take much to make sure the streetcar tracks stayed clear, and after the first couple weeks of the season everyone would be so used to the streetcars being there it wouldn’t matter. I think it would do a whole lot for PR if the streetcar went that extra block south.

Are you saying corruption maybe involved? Steering development to a certain part of the state at the expense of others? Not saying it's corruption, I just don't remember when Cincinnati got tossed out as a candidate and Columbus got tossed in, or why that happened. I remember it was Cincy, Washington DC, and a couple other cities at one point. I wonder why it changed to Columbus v. Austin, TX.

$400 million, and it'd be to get Sears to Columbus, not Cincinnati. I'm not sure when that switched but I'd assume Kasich had something to do with it. He's done a number of things that show he doesn't care much for Cincinnati.

True, that and a mechanical bull (for right inside the window) will probably be on Craigslist soon, if they aren't already.