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Speaking of Sawyer Point, they started work on the renovation of the tennis courts this week. From January: City to invest $500,000 for Pickleball at Sawyer Point The Cincinnati Board of Park Commissioners will spend $500,000 upgrading tennis courts at Sawyer Point to pickleball, a fast-growing paddle sport that combines elements of tennis, badminton and table tennis. The money will be used to resurface the courts, improve lighting by installing LEDs, buy new nets and make interior renovations to the tennis building, which is near Montgomery Inn at the Boathouse. About half of the court area will be redesignated for pickleball, with half remaining for tennis. The Sawyer Point facility will have 12 courts, with eight overflow courts available from the remaining four tennis courts (a Pickleball court uses about a third of the space of a tennis court). Cont

^100% agreed.

Need to get that Rock Bottom space filled.

I've witnessed a car drive right through them get into the garage. They didn't want to wait the 15-20 seconds for the stopped streetcar.

Most of Great American Insurance Group's 33 Property & Casualty business units are headquartered or have operations in Great American Tower.

Who is "FC"?

Eagle Realty to completely renovate nearly 50-year-old Lytle Park apartments Eagle Realty Group, the real estate arm of Western & Southern Financial Group, has started to renovate the 550 Apartments on Fourth Street fronting Lytle Park. The property, which has been in operation for nearly 50 years, will see “major capital improvements to maintain its status as one of downtown’s finest apartment buildings. Located at 550 E. Fourth St., 550 Apartments is one of several downtown Cincinnati developments led by Eagle Realty Group and Western & Southern since the 1970s. The project started when Interstate 71 was being planned and constructed. The building is partially located on air rights over the interstate highway. Diane Planck, spokesperson for Eagle Realty Group, said the firm is finalizing design decisions and hasn’t received pricing on the project at this point. The exterior appearance of the building will stay substantially the same, with some additional windows and a spruced-up entrance. The building was recently vacated. Cont

Berding: It's time to build a new arena Jeff Berding, the FC Cincinnati co-CEO and chairman of the Cincinnati USA Convention and Visitors Bureau, said Friday that the region needs to decide soon whether to build a new arena to replace the Heritage Bank Center on the riverfront. Berding, speaking at the CVB's annual meeting, said he is in favor of it. “It’s time we have a modern arena in Cincinnati," Berding said. "By the time we build it, it will have been 50 years since we first built Riverfront Coliseum." Riverfront Coliseum was the original name of Heritage Bank Arena. Cont

I'm looking for recommendations on local architects in the city with experience in historic and hillside construction being a plus.

The two to the right will soon be the new corporate headquarters for Pure Romance

Evidently they'll also demolish the building housing Hi-Fi (former Alive One space) for the condominium. Also, appears a new home is being built on the empty lot at the SE corner of St Paul & Pavilion.

Rumor floating through the hill is that Towne Properties wants to demolish Pavilion and build residential (condos).

63º and sunny in Cincy at the moment.

Yea, that’s the Eventbrite event I linked. Refund came across around 3pm but no reason was given for the cancellation.

Anyone know if The Mercer OTR has permanently closed? Wife was supposed to attend an event there Wednesday and it was just canceled. Their website returns a 404.

Gari is looking for another location. Want's it to be small, carry-out only.

I enjoy this place and hope they succeed in Mt. Adams. Surprisingly, they are open for weekday lunch. Although I was their only customer (taco) Tuesday.

Memphis traveled to Honolulu to face Hawai'i only to have the bowl game canceled due to the COVID impact on the Rainbow Warriors.

College Football Playoff champion can be crowned via COVID-related forfeit, new policy states A new College Football Playoff policy written this week in response to the surging omicron variant allows for a team to advance to the national championship -- and ultimately win it -- by its opponents having to forfeit, according to an updated set of COVID-19 policies the CFP released Wednesday. The changes, which were made by the CFP's management committee during a videoconference Tuesday, also provide flexibility for the Jan. 10 national championship game in Indianapolis to be pushed back no later than Jan. 14. If one team is able to play in the title game and the other can't because of COVID-19 -- and the game can't be rescheduled -- the team that can't play will forfeit and its opponent will be declared the national champion. If both teams can't play on the original or rescheduled date, the game will be declared a no-contest and the CFP national championship will be vacated for this season. The CFP is still expecting for all games to be played with no reduction in attendance.

I believe the name of the food hall will be "Dominick's". He's the son of Medpace Founder/President/CEO Dr. August Troendle.

How UC’s sports budget stacks up with the Big 12 The University of Cincinnati’s athletic revenue and spending fall short of even the lowest-spending teams in the Big 12, but that could change when it moves up to that conference. UC’s football spending is significantly less than the Big 12 teams, a newly released database from sports business website Sportico shows. UC spent $15.4 million on its football program in the 2019-20 fiscal year ended in June. It will have to boost that by 50% to match the lowest-spending football program in the Big 12 that year – Kansas – which spent $22 million. UC’s overall athletic budget also fell shy of the money in Big 12 programs. UC spent $74 million on athletics in the 2019-20 fiscal year. The lowest-spending Big 12 program was Kansas State, at just less than $80 million. Likewise, UC’s athletic revenues in the fiscal year were $81.7 million. That too is behind all Big 12 programs. But it’s only slightly behind Kansas State, the lowest-revenue Big 12 school with $86.4 million in athletic revenue in 2019-20. The highest athletic revenue of any Big 12 team that will be in the conference when UC joins (Texas and Oklahoma are leaving) is Kansas' $103 million. Cont

Inside Tire Discounters' aggressive plans to become king of the road With 60 new stores on the slate for 2022 and plans to become a national retailer, here’s how downtown-based Tire Discounters has shifted into the fast lane. Tire Discounters CEO Jamie Ward still remembers the day in 1995, right after he joined the firm, when founder Chip Wood shared his dream — to expand the company’s footprint to Columbus. The idea sounded … lofty. “It was super-exciting,” said Ward, who initially joined the firm as an assistant manager and became CEO two years ago. “We were the little guys in Cincinnati.” At the time, Tire Discounters had eight local stores and one extremely catchy radio jingle. (The commercial is still a mainstay on 700 WLW.) It would take 10 years and 32 more stores before Tire Discounters finally made good on Wood’s dream. But Columbus was just the beginning. The family-owned tire business that started as a single location on Wooster Pike has since exploded into 150 stores across seven states. To hear them tell it, Wood and Ward are getting ready to smash the accelerator. They plan to add 60 stores in 2022, entering the Carolinas and Florida, and to build out operations elsewhere in the South. Their end game? To become a national firm. Cont

Developers pitch 'Redlegs Landing' concept for riverfront boat dock Park Board 'sorting out' new dock wrinkle The Cincinnati Reds could become the naming rights sponsor of a floating hotel that would serve as the head boat for a riverfront dock, under a proposal submitted to Cincinnati’s Park Board Thursday. It’s the latest in a string of surprising twists for a project that city officials have been unable to complete despite three bidding competitions since 2015 to find companies willing to build and operate a “transient boat dock” on Cincinnati’s central riverfront. The latest competition, which began in May, resulted in two bidders – H. Hafner & Sons and Queen City Riverboats. Each presented their proposals to Park Commissioners Thursday. The Redlegs Landing concept came from Queen City Riverboats. It wants to convert a riverboat casino into a floating hotel, or “floatel,” that would be moored in front of the National Steamboat Monument on Mehring Way. Docks would extend west from the four-story riverboat Cont

Don't you mean Meta? 😆

? His website is still up. Was also available last weekend while I was doing research.