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So you're the culprit!

OK...we have 8.

A link to an online petition and message board: http://www.save-the-delta-queen.org/

I often use aticles posted on Urban Ohio to research information for articles I write for my blog. Links to a majority of papers expire after a certain period of time, which would make that impossible for me. I agree that we should probably iron out a policy, though.

OTR transitional housing moving to McMicken Building Cincinnati, 8/14/07 45-47 E McMicken Avenue City Council has voted unanimously to extend a forgivable loan to Over-the-Rhine Community Housing for an affordable housing project. The loan of $881,000 comes from federal HOME funds and will be used to rehab the building at 45-47 E McMicken Avenue into transitional housing. The completed building, called McMicken Transitional Housing, will include nine efficiency apartments and three one-bedroom units. An on-site office will be staffed by representatives from the Drop Inn Center. Units will be made available to people with a gross income at or below 60 percent of area median income. Transitional housing had been located at Twelfth and Elm streets. That site was demolished for the future School for the Creative and Performing Arts. Construction on the new site is expected to cost just over $1 million. The funding gap will be closed with a $134,000 grant. Completion should be expected in about a year. Federal HOME grants are given to states and localities to create affordable housing for low-income people. The program, which is administered by HUD, allocates about $2 billion per year. WINDOWS LIVE BIRD'S EYE VIEW (looking west) GOOGLE AERIAL MAP

PC disapproves of Columbia Parkway condos Building Cincinnati, 8/14/07 The City Planning Commission disapproved of a new four-story condo building proposed for East Walnut Hills. Property owner Theodore Gleason wants to build the 12-unit building on four parcels (1.8 acres) that he owns at 2106-2110 Columbia Parkway. A lower-level, 27-space parking garage would also be included, with the total footprint being slightly less than 10,000 square feet. The subject of the discussion was the rezoning of the parcels from SF-20 Single-Family to RM-2.0 Residential Multi-Family. SF-20 districts require a minimum lot size of 20,000 square feet, while RM-2.0 districts require a minimum lot size of 2,000 square feet for every dwelling unit*. The land currently contains two two-family houses, both listed as by the county auditor as being built in the 1940s. The upper of the two houses, 2106 Columbia Parkway, features a mural by Leo Murphy and may be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. Neither of the homes are conforming uses under the current zoning code. The new building would take the place of 2110 Columbia Parkway, while the (possibly) historic home would be preserved. Staff at the Department of Community Development and Planning recommended disapproval due to the prevailing surrounding land uses along the parkway, which have been single-family and two-family buildings. The City's Department of Transportation and Engineering had also sided against the rezoning due to the safety concerns of more vehicles trying to enter the busy roadway via a steep driveway. This issue will likely appear in front of the Economic Development Committee at their next meeting on Spetember 11, though their agenda has not yet been released. WINDOWS LIVE LOCAL BIRD'S EYE VIEW GOOGLE AERIAL MAP * Lot size: 78,797 square feet. A maximum of 39 units would be allowed.

^ As of late July the first phase was supposed to be what was mentioned in the article, plus 100 condos and 200,000 SF of office space. The article made it sound like they replaced the condos with apartments, which they didn't. Either the article is incomplete or it has been changed over the last week or two. I wouldn't be surprised--the project seems to be changing on a daily basis. I'm sure there will be more reported tomorrow.

I like the Cyburbia feature where they aggregate posts from hundreds of urban blogs.

^ Yeah, it was registered July 26, 2007 and expires in July 2009.

That's a sister site of GoDaddy.com that protects registrant's personal information from being seen by others.

I bet I could plead it down to about 150-200 counts, which is about the number of newspapers I monitored!

^ You're welcome. I've poked around that site before because I love Chicago.

Punch... Cook County Assessor. You can search by address or parcel number. You can also search by map by clicking "Interactive Mapping" under Online Tools. http://www.cookcountyassessor.com/filings/searchflat//search.asp That only really tells you how old your building is, though (103 years). The Cook County Recorder of Deeds might be able to tell you what subdivision it was built in. Other than that, I got nothing.

This comment is only tangential and has nothing to do with Eichelbaum's capabilities, but for a marketing company they sure have a terrible looking website: http://www.marketingdevelopments.com/home.html

That's just peachy.

I hate to sound like one of those "_________ was better in the old days" kind of folks, but it applies here. WLW was a solid radio station. Those don't really exist anymore, and I only listen to WLW for Reds games.

This thread is great, but it would be better if we were all sharing a drink and having this conversation at a BAR. (And this thread has come full-circle.)

^ Yep, that's it TCK. There have been signs and bulldozers there for months...years, even. The sign's pretty easy to miss, though, because it's faded.

Other than the cheap materials that I'm sure they'll use, yeah, it's great. :(' That's just an insult.

Progress... LOL...yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking! I'm sure that's what they were telling themselves at the time. Now it's nothing but surface parking lots and lots that are just plain vacant. Think of how many potential shoppers for Newport on the Levee could have been living within a short walk!

I posted scores for Cincinnati neighborhoods on my blog: http://buildingcincinnati.blogspot.com/2007/08/most-city-neighborhoods-require-car.html

I just drooled a little bit. It's a little unsettling though to see all of this centuries-old architecture and see a FREAKING SUNGLASS HUT!!!

I don't think I'd like to hang out in a restaurant or bar within Tower Place, but there are plenty of people who would. I wish them luck if that's their plan.

Coffee? Coffee is the last thing I'd want when I was jittery and freaked out. Try bourbon or scotch, neat!

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