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Or demolish a section of the levee and replace it with a plaza at ground level. They can do an arcade wall or something like an old aqueduct to support removable flood wall panels for when the river is high. Or do something like the entrance to Sawyer Point/Yeatman's Cove that can be closed off.

I don't see how any of the schemes that have these huge elevated lawns with Rivercenter Blvd in a tunnel are going to fly, they're going to be budget busters. Plus elevated plazas/lawns need tons of density to activate them, and even then it's very difficult. William Whyte dedicated a lot of analysis as to why elevated (and to a somewhat lesser extent sunken) plazas don't work without very specific characteristics, even in New York.

The garage's/hotel's support columns would be in the parking lot, so they might lose a few spots, but if the hotel garage's entrance is on Euclid or Taft then there wouldn't be any ramps to that lower level. It would basically be a parking lot under a garage, which is only slightly different from being the lowest level of the garage itself.

I don't have access to the Courier articles, but simply identifying "corridor goes here" without actually designing it as a bikeway is just as bad as ODOT's rapid transit "accommodation" in the I-75 rebuild. I see lots of zig-zags, no MLK crossing, and no connection to anything else. If it's left to be figured out later, then it's already over, because there will be critical roadblocks and any solutions will be totally botched. From what I can see, if they did design a bike path through this thing that's visible at a different scale, then I bet it's a windy, slow, frequently impeded kludge, but I'd love to be proven wrong.

The parking structure would be four stories tall as viewed from the Kroger parking lot, with the bottom level being the parking lot that's there now. From Taft it would be one story below and three stories above, with the hotel lobby taking up most of level 2.

Considering the way it's designed right now, they're not even thinking about that. Also, look at NIOSH, they couldn't design a more 1970s suburban office park site plan if they tried.

If that. This side lot is just one aisle wide, and a good chunk of it is taken up by the pharmacy drive-thru, so there's only 32 spots. I don't think this hotel project goes farther west than the west facade of Kroger, but I'm not positive about that.

^ You were gonna go weren't you?

It's filling in this bowl to the south of the Kroger. https://goo.gl/maps/MWQEbLGXePqukLrbA You can see there's probably room for two levels of parking before you get up to Taft/Eden, but I don't think that's enough so I believe that while the lobby is supposed to be at the Taft level, there's still going to be some garage above it too. At least that's what I saw several months ago. Seriously, parking just ruins everything.

It's not replacing the parking lot, which will just become the bottom level of the hotel's garage.

Were they able to find decent public schools in the city? Was the best job they could find in the suburbs? Could they afford a house in the city with the extra bedroom (or more)? It's been pointed out over and over that people can only choose from the options that are available to them. Schools are a huge factor for any family with kids, and very few people are willing to risk their kid's education by pioneering in a bad district. They're making rational choices based on the situation they're faced with, but it doesn't mean that's their preferred choice.

Do we need to bring flashlights?

There's an awful lot of space in the 1st and 2nd floors to program, which is easier to fill up with a hotel (lobby, dining, bar, communal work areas, lounge, etc.) as compared to a condo. The 2nd floor is the signature interior space in the building, and since it was an open-plan bank originally, cutting it up into more condo units would threaten historic tax credits. Also the lack of on-site parking isn't as big a deal for a hotel, where they can just valet everyone.

As part of the Riverside Drive rehab project they're removing some (maybe all?) of the bus stop pullouts. That's nice to see, but at the one that's finished they didn't move the sidewalk, so it leaves a crescent shaped planting area between the sidewalk and curb. Not sure about that detail, but it's interesting at least. This is a big project, with probably half of the curbs and sidewalks being rebuilt, especially at the landslide area.

I wonder about some of the drivers' priorities too. I've seen plenty who are obviously watching the ped signals count down and rather than going for it just sort of saunter along and seem to be deliberately get caught by the red light.

Since Lucius Q opened I don't bother going up to Eli's at Findlay anymore, or Pontiac, but Eli's is still my favorite pulled pork so I could see going there. Since Dope re-re-branded to Huit (or is it Little Huit?) it only lasted a few months and it's been closed since. Maybe they're open for dinner but I doubt it. So it will be nice to have them back as I do really like their ramen, but for all I know they're going to change to yet another concept. I can't speak for the rest.

The landslide on Columbia Parkway near Kemper from a week or so ago was massive. The pile of dirt covered all three inbound lanes. Now that they've got a bulldozer working on scraping down what's left, the dirt pile is even bigger.

But wouldn't NOT building on the transit ROW be the prudent choice if you want to keep transit possibilities open?

^ And screw up the transition between the bike lanes and shared path. Where a two-way shared path is on the same side of the street as the direction of travel, it's no big deal, but when it's on the opposite side, "just use the pedestrian crosswalk" is not acceptable. They blew it at MLK and Gilbert by making no accommodation, and they'll do the same at Marshall.

You have to have a lot of businesses in the first place in order to see any significant number of them failing. They can't go out of business if they're not there in the first place.

Oh give me a break.

Sedamsville is like a small version of South Fairmount, upper Northside around Kirby Avenue, and Columbia-Tusculum around Delta and Hoge as far as the terrain and development pattern. Fairbanks Avenue and the one-waying of Delhi Avenue hurt it, though not to the extent of Queen City/Westwood in South Fairmount. Still, it's lacking in critical mass, and River/Fairbanks are not the type of streets to attract any sort of density or fine-grained development. The neighborhood has mostly been ceded to drivers from Delhi just as South Fairmount has been ceded to drivers from From a biking standpoint, Lower Price Hill to Hillside Avenue is a critical missing link. Hillside itself is a great street to ride on, and you have an easy connection to Anderson Ferry which is also fun, but having to ride on River is enough to put the kibosh on most planned rides through the area. The Ohio River Trail West does have a route planned, and they're starting work on part of it, but this one really needs to go all the way through to be of use.

I should be able to make it, it's in my calendar. I haven't been inside Jackson since my 4th year architecture studio in 2001. At the time it was full of ratty used furniture equipment, and most of the above-ground floors were pretty grungy poured concrete or the very sketchy wood framing on the attic level. The vaults however, especially the lower vaults, were fantastic. I'd love to see it again after so long.

Did they really narrow the street? Sure doesn't look like it.

The city has also done a major rebuild of Woodburn from Chapel up to Gilbert/Hewitt. Curbs, sidewalks, storm drains, everything. Did they extract some concessions from the developer(s)? That's not a typical street rehab program.