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If you're in Class C space, then it's likely you can't afford Class A or B leases. It's likely that Class C users will either relocate or be absorbed into existing vacancies. Given that there's so little Class C space to begin with, it should have a negligible effect on the overall CBD office market. Though I do like your idea. I'm no expert on the office market. I speak only from observation, so I could be wrong.

It's on the western riverfront?

His is a popular sentiment, but you're right. We won't really know until the more detailed census in 2010. Then we can track from where people have moved to NKY.

Damn, you sure got around a lot for such a hot day! So you left out Cadillac Ranch but somehow managed to post a pic of the CBD's ugliest building?

City eyes Avondale aquatic center Building Cincinnati, 8/7/07 An ordinance to build a family aquatic center in Avondale is currently in the Education, Health and Recreation Committee. Passage of the ordinance would allow the City to execute a restrictive covenant with the trustee of the Otto Armleder Memorial Trust, National City Bank, to develop the complex as the the Otto Armleder Memorial Family Aquatics Center. The City would also enter into a disbursement agreement with the bank to receive $1.9 million for the complex, which would be built at 3630 Reading Road, adjacent to the Hirsch Recreation Center. The Cincinnati Recreation Commission (CRC) first applied for the trust proceeds in 2000. The CRC currently operates one Otto Armleder Aquatics Center at 226 Stark Street in Over-the-Rhine. A second will open in 2008 at the Dunham Recreation Center in Price Hill. The next meeting of the Education, Health and Recreation Committee is September 4 at 3 PM. WINDOWS LIVE BIRD'S EYE VIEW (looking east) GOOGLE AERIAL MAP http://buildingcincinnati.blogspot.com/2007/08/city-eyes-avondale-aquatic-center.html Wrecking Cincinnati, 8/7/07 RIP: 1703 Sutter Ave, North Fairmount Single-family DOB: Circa 1900 Died: July 2007 Cause of death: Apparent indifference. The house was ordered vacant for numerous code problems in June 2005, then there were no repairs and no VBML compliance. It looks like the owner razed it himself to avoid problems with the City. RIP: 1110 Garden St, West End Single-family DOB: 1873 Died: July 2007 Cause of death: A collapsed roof and cornice and a lack of windows led to severe water damage. It was ordered vacant in January 2005 and condemned in November of that same year. The house was then declared a public nuisance in July 2006, but demolition was put off while a check was made of its historic credentials. It was razed by the City. RIP: 505 Poplar St, West End Multi-family DOB: 1879 Died: July 2007 Cause of death: The roof was open and the rafters were rotted, the chimney fell off, and the masonry walls had huge cracks. Trash was everywhere. The owners had no means to make repairs and couldn't sell it, so they simply abandoned it. It was condemned in February 2006 and was declared a public nuisance in June 2007. Demolition started in late July, much of it done by hand. http://buildingcincinnati.blogspot.com/2007/08/wrecking-cincinnati-8707.html

Service agreement, funds for Columbia Square Building Cincinnati, 8/7/07 The City has authorized a service agreement with Al Neyer, Inc. (Neyer) and Columbia Square, LLC for the Columbia Square development at Columbia Parkway and Delta Avenue. The service agreement sets the terms for the issuance of bonds for each of the project's three phases. As reported yesterday, the City authorized the issuance of $4.3 million in bonds to help pay for the parking, site improvements and utilities. Debt on the bonds will be serviced by tax revenues generated in an already established Tax Increment Financing (TIF) district. City Council approved the use of TIF for the site in 2003 and codified it by entering into a development agreement with Neyer in June. The City also has replaced $500,000 taken from the Columbia Square capital project account, which will fill a financing gap and allow Neyer to proceed with their construction loan from National City Bank. In 2005, the City transferred those funds from that account to cover costs for the Stetson Square project. They recently found a source for reimbursement in three other project funds (figures rounded): * Retail/Commercial Opportunities 2007: $165,000 * Downtown Housing Development 2007: $95,000 * Neighborhood Housing/Commercial Development 2007: $240,000 Later this month, the City will use these funds--in conjunction with the unspent $150,000 in the project account--to purchase land from Neyer for construction of public surface parking. The three-phased project Phase I will consist of the construction of a 49,000-square-foot office building and public parking on the southeast corner of Columbia Parkway and Delta Avenue. Phase II will be 29,000-square-feet in neighborhood retail buildings on the south side of Columbia at Hoge Street. These possibly could include restaurants and a bank. Phase III will be a 34,000-square-foot office building on the northwest corner of Columbia and Delta. Residential uses, which at one time were numbered as high as 72, are absent from current plans. The project cost is estimated at $23 million. The city has already spent nearly $850,000 for the local share of the $1.6 million Columbia Parkway streetscape project, which was necessary to make the project feasible. The streetscape was dedicated June 21. http://buildingcincinnati.blogspot.com/2007/08/service-agreement-funds-for-columbia.html

I don't think there's much demand for Class C office space in the CBD in general, so I'm not surprised that the building owners would try to go condo. The loss of this office space shouldn't affect the market at all.

That looks bloody horrible.

^ Why don't you click on it and see what happens? :D Seriously, I'm not sure but I think it has to do with wireless access. It think the phone icon signifies a post submitted via WAP. I may be wrong, though.

You bring up an interesting point about the maintenance issue. I'm far too lazy to research this, but I wonder about the makeup of the commission. Are these "lifers" who could have done something about it, or are these relative newcomers? I'd wait around for a Seneca County forumer to answer this question, but I'd probably be waiting a while....

You guys do realize that the pedestrian mall is the result of a downtown explosion that killed 41 people in 1968. There's a memorial downtown, but I didn't see it pictured. The pedestrian mall was scrapped in the late 1990s. I used to work in Richmond and I had to pass through downtown to get to work, which was on the north side of the city--out in the sticks. I remember that Indiana Football Hall of Fame because it sits at a traffic light that seemed to always be red.

I haven't noticed any real change in my water. BUT IT IS SO FREAKING HOT!

The last I heard it was August 9, which is Thursday. Nothing has come up in Council regarding an extension.

Residents in the East Row area are all up in arms because some of the alternatives involve adding an extra lane northbound and southbound. This would result in the loss of quite a few houses. This should be interesting.

Jeffrey appears to have abandoned this thread. WHAT LIST?!?!? :D

Good choice.

Idiots.

I'd like to say they have a better shot at 10 or 11 wins because their schedule is a little easier. Then again, it's hard to know how good any of the other teams are until they play. What I want to see this year is some damn tackling by the secondary. If the Bengals could just tackle better they probably would have had an extra win or two the last few years.

San Diego has great weather but I'd get bored with 77 and sunny every day.

Commissioners okay Forest Park annexation Building Cincinnati, 8/3/07 Wednesday's Board of County Commissioners vote may help Forest Park redevelop an underperforming retail site. The Commissioners voted unanimously to grant a petition for the annexation into the city of 1.226 acres of adjacent city-owned land. The land, which is at 2245 Sevenhills Drive in Springfield Township, is part of a four-acre shopping center that the city purchased for $725,000 earlier this year. The justification for the annexation is that Forest Park wants to market the combined site to developers and would prefer for the development to be done under one set of rules and regulations instead of two. City officials see this site as an opportunity for a gateway project that will help spur other redevelopment of the Hamilton Avenue corridor. Ideas have even been floated about combining the Kmart property with the Thriftway property (across Waycross Road) for an even more massive project. Funding for the infrastructure and site improvements would come from the creation of a TIF district. Currently, there is no timetable for a decision. The city is currently working on a comprehensive plan for the site. In the April 18, 2007 Hilltop Press, City Manager Ray Hodges mentioned that we might see the demolition of the Kmart building in September. Further information, including maps: BC: Forest Park: Kmart redevelopment (5/23/07) http://buildingcincinnati.blogspot.com/2007/08/commissioners-okay-forest-park.html

I could never remember the name of every bar I was in. There are countless bars in places like Chicago where we'd go on a "Drink 'n Hike". I never knew the names of those places by the end of the night.

Living in a house like one of these in college would have definitely messed up my scene. I think my head would have exploded.

That first building kicks ass. The Peoples Federal Building is quite an imposing structure, indeed--but in a good way. It conveys power and stability.

I like Wilmington. It's a pretty town. exurbkid...Sprawl will eventually reach Wilmington. (Hell, it's already happening!) As an insider, do you think this will have a positive or a negative effect on the downtown?

Fort Wayne is an interesting city. I was very surprised by it when I visited--I went in with low expectations. Thanks for the tour.