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Wow this has been a long time coming. Its staggering and maddening to look back at all of the horrible mistakes in designs and planning from the 1960s-70s era. Just awful all around.

That style is just a mild refresher of the forms from the 1960's. Lots of staggered glass, boxy form, earth-tone colors.

How long before Mike Brown ties this up with some bs clause from the Bengals lease?

1970s architecture is quite hideous, and the absolute worst at connecting to its surrounding environment. US Bank Arena is a great example. Zero connection to the street.

Ugh... that's heinous. Who let that partial-abortion get built?

Wow... I'm continually blown away by this project. What an absolute gem this will be for the city & region when 100% completed. Let's hope there's a critical mass of everyday users to keep the vandals and other undeseriables at bay.

Sprawl Mall, and fighting for the almighty sales tax dollar, plain and simple.

meh...better than a surface lot. kind of looks like a modern take on something from the 1960's.

It will be a modern glass box with some kind of wavy feature too break up the massing a little. The architecture buffs will decry it, while most people will think that its real progress over a parking lot. It's only 9 stories. There's no real incentive to design something totally outrageous (and budget blowing) that will barely be visible from the highway. We're not getting a 43-story banger like PNC in Pittsburgh is building. Like others have said...temper your expectations a bit.

I'm thrilled at the redevelopment of this, but can the city actually fill all these new hotel rooms coming online? Thats not to mention that the casino gets to build one in a few years too.

What a hideous garage. Needless to say its not pedestrian friendly at all. I will jump for joy the day they start demolition.

I love how that picture shows those eery red pole lights that used to illuminate that pathway along the old RR tracks that hasnt been used in 20 years... The trail to no where!

Residential would be perfect. Unfortunately no developer wants to build a brand new tower for market rate apartments/condos. They all have to be way overpriced. This of course changes the demographics of the critical mass thats desperately needed downtown. I dont know that a 30 story tower full of empty nesters that go to bed at 9pm every night is what downtown needs. Most YP's need something affordable to market rate. The best we can hope for is conversion of some of the older office towers downtown.

Asphalt is 90% recyclable. Might as well rip it up and re-do it, given the opportunity.

I still wish they would have done a more significantly different curtain wall for 303 Broadway. Yeah I get it, its part of the same complex, but from a distance the whole thing looks like a giant capital 'L' 303 could have held its own with a more impressive facade or curtain wall, even with all the parking levels it contains.