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I dont know too many specifics on the house, I know the owner is an artist who has been transforming it over the past decade. I know around 10 years ago (sometime in the mid 90s) the locals were getting pretty upset trying to force the city to make him tear down the house because they felt it was going to destroy the character of the neighboorhood. I guess nothing ever came of that. The house looks very different now than around 10 years ago. It is pretty much a work in progress it seems like because the owner always seems to be adding or doing something to it.

I dont find it hard to believe W&S will move their offices once the building is finished. They are building Class A office space. The 300 jobs they are moving from Louisiville are back office functions. You do not put back office workers in class A office space, it is uneconomical. W&S can make a lot more money renting out their building to various outside tenants who are willing to pay top dollar and using cheaper office space for themselves. if you want a prime example of this look at the big banks in town. Both 5/3 and USBank own their buildings yet they have the majority of their operations staff scattered throughout various sites around the city because they make more money leasing the building than using it themselves. In fact, the floors that both banks occupy are the lower floors which usually rent cheaper than the higher floors with a view.

It is amazing to think that the national sports writers used to never say anything nice about Bob Huggins are now coming to his defense. In the meantime Nancy Zimpher has egg on her face. We'll say this slowly ... May 17, 9:38 a.m. How can the school president be the dumbest person on campus? It happened a few years back at Georgia, where president Michael Adams hired Jim Harrick despite the fact that he was, well, Jim Harrick. And now it is happening at Cincinnati, where president Nancy Zimpher has gone out of her way to undermine her athletic department's cash cow -- the men's basketball program -- at the exact moment the Bearcats are entering the enormously competitive Big East Conference. Cincinnati announced Monday night that Zimpher won't extend Huggins' contract. With only two years remaining on his deal, Huggins and his staff will enter the Big East shark tank with dull teeth. If Zimpher was smart -- too bad she's only the university president -- she'd have extended Huggins' contract through 2010, 2015, whenever ... and then written in a university option to buy out the contract for $1.4 million after the 2006-07 season. If the school was willing to pay $1.4 million to buy out Huggins now, and is only guaranteeing him two more years, what's the difference? More at http://news.enquirer.com/

That would be an ackward addition to the existing parking garage. I always thought that greenspace was too small to build anything there anyway. INteresting

I agree with the guy that thinks the design has too much trees and that it needs to be more like a European square. I mean it is an urban envrionment and an urban square not a rainforest.

Too bad the Rhodes Tower is the tallest in Columbus, It would have been nice if it were a little more picturesque or significant (like Key or Carew). Are there any other cities that have their tallest building as a pretty boring box shape like Rhodes. Off hand I can think of Milwaukee with the US Bank Building (pretty ugly), and Baltimore's Legg Mason tower.

I think you should get a yellow light to hang outside your apartment wherever that is.

I think we need to invite "the Donald" in to built Trump Tower Cincinnati. It will be an 1100 ft tower with a hotel, office tower, parking garage, shopping mall and luxury apartments. It will be the biggest and best in cincinnati because that is the way "the Donald" does things. Hey, its fun to dream

Not that I did not think the Christams story was a good movie and all, I think it is kinda corny to turn a house in a neighborhood into a museum and think it could make money. Who knows, I hope to be proven wrong

I think the project looks great, and the neighborhood would really benefit too once it is complete.

The question is what is going to move into City Center once Kauffmans goes out of business probably within the next 2 years?? Would shoppers from the suburbs be drawn down to city center to shop in Columbus's hometown department store Value City at the City Center.

I still think the Ackerman Group has much more appealing designs than Neyer

Yea, but Tower City is a lot more functional as a city square than the City Center mall and Tower place could be. True the big time stores are no longer in Tower city but it still is a very viable mall. Tower city has a hotel complex, and it is a major rail, bus hub for the city where a lot of transfers take place thus making people converge on the area. The fact that it is also a major connection to the Jacobs field Gund arena areas and the Stokes courthouse will continue to sustain it. Sure it will no longer have stores like J crew or Coach or whatever the new trend is but there will be stores that will be drawn there because Tower City will always be a hub to draw people. If you want to draw parrellels in Cleveland of a failed downtown mall, look at the Galleria. A very nice mall built in the heart of the buisness district connected to a major office tower. It caters solely to the work crowd and has no sustainability after hours. It is not conveinent to the hotels, or stadiums, and there really is no other retail in the area to draw people to the mall.

Tower place was never designed to be the same type of mall or have the same appeal as city center or Circle Mall in Indy. The planners of tower place purposefully tried to create a small scale mall, which would not have the anchor department stores to minimize the amount of street shopping that would have been lost. Yes, Tower Place is a mall, but it was not on the same level as city center.

Ah I remember 10 years ago when people said how great city center is and how cities like Cincinnati needed to be like Columbus and build their own downtown mall in order to attract people to the center city. For once I am glad people in Cincy never bought into that misguided view.

For all of Neyer's willingness to develop properties around here, they certainly have awful architects. The Delta Call Center is hideous, as well as the garage they designed on 7th street. This project on Columbia Parkway is just another one of Neyer's bland designs. As much as I would like to see it happen, I wish someone other than Neyer were designing it. Although in all fairness to Neyer, I do like his design for the Michigan Terrace Condos in Hyde Park.

I was in Western Massachusetts a while back and saw some of them. Has anyone ever been up there.

It will be interesting to see how much longer Kauffman's remains at City Center. I believe they are the only anchor store left. Now that Federated is buying out May, I dont think Federated has any desire for a downtown store in Columbus, especially under the Macy's nameplate, otherwise they would have never closed the Lazarus store at City Center. I imagine that Columbus will not have any downtown department store in the not too distant future