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I think you guys are looking at my post in the wrong way. If you read the article, you'll see this: I disagree with Qualls here. Stetson Square does not exemplify a great urban environment which I wish to see replicated in other neighborhoods. And I don't appreciate Qualls, assuming she knows what a great urban environment looks like, blowing a bunch of hot air and endorsing Stetson Square as the pinnacle of what Cincinnati developers should strive to produce. Because I really do want to see great urban environments, and I want those environments to be recognized as such by our leaders, rather than something that is arguably-better-than-average-for-contemporary-Cincinnati-development. Some people here are taking my statement and warping it into an endorsement for Cranley, which is completely wrong. I like Qualls, but here she demonstrates something about her and Mallory which I don't like.

"Irreparably harmed" is relative. Yes, they will likely plow down a number of buildings for highway expansion. Is that going to drastically change the character of neighborhoods outside the immediate vicinity? Probably not. Will it irreparably damage parts of Covington? Most definitely. If your property is not immediately adjacent to the current interstate right-of-way, it's probably not something to worry too much about. What are the changes you're afraid of, specifically?

w00t Yes. Let's get the streetcar operational by then!

STL-CIN-PGH River city solidarity. We need more of it. Plus we can let Louisville in when we are feeling nice.

Dear lord, that place is in the middle of nowhere & requires a half mile walk down a street with no sidewalks to get to a bus stop. a warehouse under a rug To be fair, it might be less stressful for blind people to live in a less-busy environment. I don't know any blind people, so I wouldn't know. But I could imagine being able to walk a decent distance without concern for getting run over might trump typical accessibility concerns. Not that walking paths and transit access are mutually exclusive.

Great set of photos. Makes me want to visit. Handsome city!

^ So let me get this straight, that is basically the full Adobe Suite, complete with serial numbers for registration, for people with old hardware/OS's? I have Win7 Professional, which I have read somewhere is capable of emulating some older Windows version(s) (I think XP included). Do you know if that's true? And if I can run this software? It would be nice to have a real copy of Photoshop, even if it's an old version.

Innnteresting. I don't see it happening for a while, but I guess you never know.

Not to mention the rail lines could connect to those airports. Since airports are along highway rights-of-way and distant from populated areas, the relative cost of building rail lines between airports (along the highways or in the medians) is low, compared to laying track into cities.

At the very least she doesn't need to hype it up as something it's not.

http://www.building-cincinnati.com/2013/01/second-phase-of-stetson-square-breaks.html This is exactly what bothers me about both Qualls and Mallory. They are willing to go to bat for developers who want to build crap. Stetson Square is not the worst of new construction in the city. Not even the worst of new construction in Corryville. But it's not something I want to see replicated anywhere, and the praise is completely unnecessary, unwarranted, and untrue. 4 to 8 years of Qualls will mean 4 to 8 years of the status quo, when it comes to demolitions and ugly/boring infill.

I didn't say it was particularly funny, just that I understood it. The humor comes from the simultaneous truth and untruth of the statement, depending on how you think of it.

^ To you, it didn't. It was also a factual statement, if we are considering counties. Which is how I think of it when people talk the way EVD mentioned.

You may be. He was runner-up for the Heisman Trophy as a defensive only player, which is just as unheard of as having a dead girlfriend online hoax.

Take heart; I knew what you meant.

He used to come back there and wait tables even after he was famous. Source: Went there once in high school and he was our waiter, after seeing him on Times Square a few months earlier.

If you're going for the heritage look, you shouldn't wrap the cars...that looks awful.

So weird to look at threads like this and see months/years of headlines. This one is looking good! (Others, like the CVG thread, are terrible!)

Wow that's amazing! Did the mall have stores along the lines of what Tower City had when it opened? Not really. Tower Place is much smaller than Tower City. But in its heyday, Tower Place (and the adjoining Carew Tower arcade) had Victoria Secret, Banana Republic, FYE, Foot Locker, the Nature Company, Structure, Williams-Sonoma, Express, Brentano's, TJMaxx (still there, with separate access from the mall), Morton's The Steakhouse (still downtown, but no longer at the mall), a watch store or two and a decent food court. Tower city should have approached more modest retailers like this (Except TJ Maxx) when it opened instead of shooting for New York style shopping throughout. My question is in Tower Place malls heyday was the downtown area a hot place to live like it is now and how was the surrounding area around downtown? Was the surrounding 5-10 mile area an area that would shop at Express, Banana Republic etc. or was it a lower income area? I ask this because that's one of the areas Tower City messed up at (along with aiming for too high end of shopping when the area regardless of downtown pop. couldn't support it) Also was downtown viewed as a "Safe Place" to shop in during the malls heyday because that subculture in Tower City that started to come around played a factor in driving people away, so I want to know was this the same thing in Tower Place. Downtown was in a long spiral of decline when Tower Place came online. I'm sure it was a hairbrained attempt to revitalize the downtown area. Downtown was not a popular place to live or shop. 5-10 miles is probably not a useful distance to consider, since most parts of the region within such a boundary would have had closer malls or retail centers in the burbs. There were a few upscale neighborhoods within 5 miles, but generally the inner-city population was lower income. That is still the case now, though less so.

I've flown out of DAY as many or more times than CVG. CMH several times. IND a couple times. Most of the times I've recently flown out of CVG, it was with airline miles, since it seems only distance is calculated in the mile price. Delta has trained Cincinnatians to shop around, to the extent that even if they lower fares people will bargain hunt and drive. If the fares were never so out-of-control, it wouldn't have evolved into such a problem. I think it will take a discount carrier moving in to get people used to flying out of CVG again, before the wound can heal. People living in the northern burbs, which is much of the region's population, surely consider DAY to be their local airport.

I don't see any reason to think Finney will step aside just because he said that.

FTFY

Haha, I used it today, possibly for the first time ever, to describe this guy: http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/11/world/europe/uk-savile-sex-abuse/index.html The description is just too apt.

Springer would be a good challenger for Portman. Mallory would be great for Governor. Qualls, when she is done being mayor in 9 years, would be a great pick for statewide anything. She's awesome. I can think of others, but those are the best.

Agreed. The idea that anyone in SWO gives a **** where NEO politicians come from is crazy as far as I know. We all love Sherrod.