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Yeah there are mansions in Hyde Park that probably sell for more than that.

Plus there is another Indian restaurant literally right next door. I thought it was ridiculous when Apna moved in, making it the third Indian restaurant in the space of a single block. If a fourth moves in, you could start marketing Ludlow Avenue to tourists as some kind of Indian eatery freakshow! haha

Unemployment is high, poverty is on the rise, crime goes up everywhere. Not unexpected

Kill this. What a silly idea, when there's another entertainment complex in the same location. Why do they think this would be successful when Newport on the Levee isn't really doing so hot as it is? And yeah, please at least use vacant land or repurpose a surface parking lot for projects like this, there's plenty of that to spare. Leave the bridge for transportation purposes -- I agree with the idea that it could be a potential streetcar route in the future

Holy crap, there are actually affordable 1-br apartments at Parvis! I could walk to work! Why is my lease not up at my current place until September :(

RestorationConsultant: Where did you find those K-B photos? I'm ridiculously jealous. The museum center has only released about 10% of the entire K-B survey photos on the web, basically just Barr Street and parts of Baymiller. Those are the only ones I've seen up until now, with the exception of a pic of the Sterling Hotel at 6th and Mound that I came across in a random article on the internet

I can see why they might take it down, it's not actually original to the building. Maybe the American Sign Museum up in Walnut Hills can snatch it up?

Nah. Let's not give that name that much legitimacy :)

Someone earlier remarked that it's a very inward-facing structure, and I think that contributes greatly to its failure. That works in suburban malls that are shopping destinations, but not in a downtown space where you want to attract passersby with street-level retail. I'd like to see it revived, obviously because that's the simpler and cheaper option, but in all honesty I think it should just be razed and replaced with something more street-friendly like a mixed use retail/residential building.

Well, the good thing is they're giving the students a survey to see what stores should really go there. I think that'll pay off because most of the people surrounding UC are young anyway. I've been saying all along, Uptown Commons needs a pool hall. I think that would draw so many people there. I completely agree about opening it up to non-students... Granted, probably 80% of the residents of the area are students, but there are people living in the Heights that aren't. I think they should definitely not limit themselves to the kind of cookie-cutter retail that every shopping mall has. I think the pool hall that charges by the hour is a great idea, by the way.

True, I didn't think of that :P </sarcasm>

I'd remove or reconfigure the whole I-75/US-50/6th-Street/8th-Street boondoggle west of downtown Cincinnati. Just adding another vote to this one, I know it's been mentioned in this thread before. It irritates me to no end when I see pictures of what the west end of Cincinnati looked like before Queensgate and I-75. Not only could the highway project have taken up far less land, there was also no need to completely reconfigure all the streets west of downtown. Now it's a confusing mess of suburban-style divided highways and ramps. Why not return at least the street grid to something that makes sense (like it used to)?

^ I believe that's looking down Frintz street toward McMicken, standing between Peete and Mulberry.

It's a success in providing a quick way out of downtown for white suburbanites when the work day is done :)

I'm not entirely sure I agree with this, since it's not just the buildings that create a historic area, it's also the history that is associated with that particular location -- say, if it was an immigrant neighborhood, or if it was in close proximity to another neighborhood. Sense of place means a lot. It's kind of like taking words and phrases out of context. Though, if it's really the only way an old building can be saved, then sure I'm all for it :)

I was more referring to the growing income imbalance. You've probably seen the statistics -- the top 1% of earners take in something like 30% of all income in America. The old rhetoric "the rich are getting richer and the middle class is disappearing"

I don't think anyone's advocating a return to outdated methods of manufacturing, just for some of the current manufacturing that's being done in places like China and Mexico to return to the U.S.

^ I've been saying this for years, but it's a complex issue. In order for more manufacturing to be done in the United States, a few things need to happen. As a culture, we need to be willing to accept paying higher prices for goods. The demand for a limitless supply of cheap goods to match our ever-increasing consumption is one of the reasons companies have moved manufacturing jobs overseas -- it allows them to keep up their profit margins while providing goods at the low costs that you and I demand, or have simply become accustomed to. A reduction in consumption could have this effect as well. Making labor here more competitive might help as well. Unionized labor, for all the good it's done, has had its negative effects as well. The wage and benefit demands that unions push for are not an incentive for companies to hire American workers in certain industries. And when I say excessive benefits I'm not talking about basic things like health care, I'm talking about things like the jobs bank that the UAW had with GM, where workers who weren't needed were kept on payrolls. Of course, if executives at American companies could do without the excessive salaries they receive right now, maybe some of that money could go toward hiring people. Just saying.

Also it has to be summer because UC's campus looks totally empty

^ Those shots are definitely from this summer. I found my car parked in the lot at work, and it's the car I bought in February of this year :)

It is kinda weird that you can see all the mechanical elements exposed underneath the "tiara", they really should enclose it somewhat. It looks unfinished.

Me too! I hate seeing gorgeous buildings with their windows bricked up, seems senseless to me (though I'm guessing filling in windows was probably done for energy efficiency reasons at some point in history)

Yes, nevermind the permanent obsolescence of routing from Dixie Terminal to the Suspension Bridge. Turned a transit hub into an office mall, and a bridge into a tourist route. Give it time. Shortsightedness is a gift everybody possesses!!! Gotta agree with Blue Line here - though for a slightly different reason. The Freedom Center is way too big for its purpose. As it is, the complex needlessly occupies an entire city block. The museum and its amenities could have been housed in a building half its size, for how little interior space the actual exhibits take up. It's just a lot of wasted space (and money), in my opinion, for something that in all honesty isn't the tourist draw some might have intended it to be. Good idea, wrong location.

I don't really see a future for that site as a mall. It's just too close to two other malls, the three seem to constantly be strangling one another, since all three of them at one point or another have had their troubles. It was just poor planning - how can you expect two malls to succeed when they're only a couple miles apart, in a region where a couple miles means nothing. I dunno, I think it should probably just be demoed and the site reused as something else. I can't see a large indoor mall building being effectively reused or rebuilt as residences or offices.

It's the kind of name that someone who fancies themselves a "hip" marketing genius might come up with -- notice how they included the "at" symbol. It's a residence for the internet age! It's alright though, nobody will actually refer to it by that name. People who live there will just say "I live at 120 Walnut Street" (or wherever it is)