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I think Corinthian has to move when the MLK interchange gets built. I'm pretty sure conceptual plans are posted in their lobby. They probably land-banked for the future, and figured they could offset some costs by having a tenant.

I know Corinthian's sign says outparcels available, but I guess I was thinking something smaller than a company HQ.

Perhaps I missed the news, but it appears - at least in the neighborhoods I've seen - that Metro is no longer putting outside ads in their bus shelters, even the old ones. It seems they've moved to uniform Metro-only posters instead. Is this a thing?

Apparently Jake's newest hobby is to find silly things on local news websites (unfortunate misspellings or the fact that - GASP! - two guys wore a similar shirt) and go for cheap laughs. Try harder.

It'd be nice if Kroger could set aside a tiny fraction of the funds it's using to buy every single grocery chain in the country, and use it to better support the OTR and Walnut Hills stores in its own back yard.

I can't really believe the original highway planners built all that right there. Trying to shoehorn Central Parkway, an interstate interchange, the Mill Creek, and a major rail line into a 500-yard-wide swath of land (at it's widest) was bound to present challenges.

^ What I object to is taking a screenshot of someone's malapropism (which, let's face it, could be an auto-correct error he didn't catch) and pasting it into an unrelated forum for a cheap laugh - especially because he has since fixed it. I'll grant that Jerry was going for a quick joke with the "Elf" quote, yeah, but that doesn't make it OK to treat him like an idiot for a misspelling. If you want to quote and critique someone's online forum post/opinion/LTE to illustrate a larger point about the readership of a website, fine. That's interesting and conversation-worthy. But pointing to someone's honest mistake in a separate place where they likely don't know it's been reposted, and so can't defend themselves, is akin to a kid making a simple mistake in math class and then finding out everyone was making fun of him for it in the lunch room when he wasn't there. It's a cheap shot and more than a bit juvenile. Like I said before, try to remember these are real people, and imagine what it would feel like if your mental mistake was displayed for everyone else to laugh at.

Jerry Gels is a friend of mine, a father of two, a long time supporter of the central city, and runs a successful business of guided tours of the city's history. Please remember these are real people that make honest mistakes. Not everyone is the idiot you might paint them to be.

The Williams Corner-Stonelick Covered Bridge collapsed while undergoing repairs. http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/clermont-county/stonelick-township/portion-of-stonelick-covered-bridge-collapses

It's not an official Park and Ride location, but I wonder now why it isn't. The #11 has a stop right in front of Crossroads, and #4, 41, and 51 already loop through by Target. If Crossroads gave permission to use their auxiliary lot, I can see that working really well. Metro could even add a stop there for the #12x.

Yeah, with three other competitors (plus the Enquirer and various radio stations) producing essentially the same content, I can't see paying $80 a year so John Matarese can tell me how not to waste my money. EDIT: Matarese is still free. So there's that. On the other hand, you have to be a subscriber to comment on news stories, so it's about to be a very civil place to get news. Bonus.

It's probably only busy during rush hours. It serves no purpose other than getting people to/from I-71 and the Norwood Lateral. I still think they need to do a massive overhaul of the highway ramps in that area. It's a complete tangled mess right now. It's actually just getting them to the lateral or 71 south. The ramps from either of those highways are unchanged. Previously, traffic leaving 5/3 (for example) and wanting to go south or west would either need to go Duck Creek-Oaklawn-Madison-Ridge, or Duck Creek-Red Bank-71S. Agreed on the tangled web of ramps, but I've found it's instructive to think about why it was built that way to begin with. When that section of I-71 was built around 1965, the main traffic driver at that exit was Milacron. Those ramps were sandwiched in with two highways, but it worked because there wasn't a lot else there. It's much the same reason there are weird ramps at the Montgomery exit off the lateral (GM Norwood plant) and why GE has such weird ramps to/from I-75

^It gets a decent amount of use at evening rush when 5/3 lets out, but otherwise, you're right.

The better bike share companies have specific bicycle designs where parts are not interchangeable with standard bicycles - e.g., different lock-nut distances for wheels, atypical tube diameters, etc. Thus you can't strip the bike down to sell for parts, and you're less likely to sell a whole bike because every buyer's gonna know it's the bike share's.

Fresh Thyme Farmers Market signs lease for 1st Cincinnati store Fresh Thyme Farmers Market, a new specialty grocer that has been scouting the Cincinnati market for locations, signed a lease for its first store. Fresh Thyme signed a 10-year lease for the former Circuit City building at 3321 Alamo Ave. in Oakley, a nearly 30,000-square-foot store. http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2014/01/24/fresh-thyme-farmers-market-signs-lease.html

Aren't most auto manufacturers moving plants out of cities to the non-union south, or outside the borders? And I have trouble seeing a major chemical concern being permitted to locate that close to downtown, where an accidental spill or gas release could waft over the CBD.

I always think of demolition as just knock it down and clean it up. There's clearly planning, technique, and skill at work. Great video.

Can we start calling him "Johnny Eyebrows"? Please?

^Yes. You will pry Coke out of Frisch's customers' cold dead hands. Sneaking it up on them like that would have been a far worse PR move.

^Agreed. Having to use that end-around via May, Taft and Essex adds a few minutes, and does nothing to help the McMillan business district.

Isn't 471-275 already the preferred route for Midwestern traffic bound for southern OH (and vice-versa)? I know all about induced traffic demand, but you make it sound like there will suddenly be thousands and thousands of extra cars crossing those bridges. The 471 bridge is heavy at rush hour, yeah, but any other time of day it's fine. And the Combs-Hehl bridge can't be anywhere near capacity.

The BizCourier article, and especially the map, seem to be answering questions I suspect no one has asked. Why are they considering upgrading Old Red Bank? That road has been defunct for thirty-plus years, and Red Bank Expressway is far more direct. And I can't see much clamor for it in Madisonville, since to use it as an alternative to RBE you'd have to cut through MedPace and make your way through that weird concept of an intersection at Erie/Brotherton/Murray/Old Red Bank. I've also never understood the project's continued emphasis on connecting Hetzell and Babson. I think this was in various iterations of the plan before MedPace was even a glimmer in Madisonville's eye. Neither end of Babson or Hetzell is heavily populated, nor can anything on those roads realistically be considered a destination. Stewart-Amanda-Hetzel-Babson is also far too circuitous to use as a bypass for the Madison/RB intersection. And to connect those roads would require demolition of a couple of shopping centers and office buildings, the very type of development you're ostensibly trying to help access. And connecting Duck Creek and MedPace way? Really? All you're doing there is giving I-71 traffic bound to/from MedPace a slightly faster way around the Madison/RB intersection. I don't get it. Does anyone see an angle on this I'm missing? Really, the only thing I can think of is they want to ease access to/from Medpace. That's the only explanation I can figure. Or, as others have said, this is a tiny baby step toward making RBE a full-limited access highway.

^That I'd actually agree to. The entire length was done in concrete, including a large railroad tunnel and a crossing of the Duck Creek. (That rail tunnel was built of 50 80,000-lb precast arches.) It goes up and over a pretty sizable ridge. Still, on a per-mile basis, WAY more expensive than the streetcar.

Kennedy Connector (aka Mill Ridge Road) opened Monday: http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=45c52e7ac37a5e5f75832a2d6&id=d8a099a219 (Snark: is this the part where I mention this 1/4-mile road project designed to ease access to a suburban-style mall cost 1/5 as much as Phase I of the streetcar, with no public outcry?) Site prep continues for the Kroger at Oakley Station. Build-out of the apartments at the southwest side of the site is maybe half done, if I'm guessing.

Just curious. Let's say COAST decides to try a third round of voter approval. What's the timeline there? Is it May, like the pro-streetcar charter amendment? Is there any indication of how much spending the project will have been incurred by then? I guess what I'm getting at is where is the point of no return, even for COAST?