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Another historic preservation article on CityLab, this time about the Terrace Plaza: What's In the Future for Cincinnati's Modernist Icon? America’s first International Style hotel was designed by a famed architecture firm in its early years and is filled with art by Alexander Calder, Joan Miró, and Saul Steinberg. Now, local preservationists are rallying to give it a secure future. More below: https://www.citylab.com/design/2018/02/whats-in-the-future-for-cincinnatis-modernist-icon/552968/

Yeah, the appeal of places like Nashville or even Austin really gets lost on me. But it is an interesting philosophical study in cities' reputations and word-of-mouth. Maybe if we can get enough people talking up the super-luxe hidden speakeasy inside of the White Castle kitchen on Route 28 in Milford, it too can start commanding crazy rents and make Clermont County the center of a new tech hub.

Seconded on the Grant-Deneau Tower... it has so much more character than a lot of other skyscrapers from the same time period. As for this development, I'm hoping that if it proves a strong draw that it'll help serve as a catalyst that leads to more "stuff" to make the strange mix of residential and light industry between 3rd and the Ballpark into a more cohesive area, so that there's more of a flow between Webster Station, Water Street, and even Tech Town.

^^^^ What the heck is that grey building in the lower right corner of the second rendering? And are those... trolleybus wires??

^Any relation to Shree Kulkarni of Conservation Board/Dennison Hotel infamy, or just an odd coincidence? EDIT: Poking around on Kulkarni Properties' website, it appears there's some sort of connection between them; Samir's company Solica Construction is linked on Kulkarni Properties' "about" page.

ColDayMan[/member] Back, Elsa! Back! Over the falls with you!

I suppose this could be cross-posted in the Demolition Watch thread; mods can move it if the conversation belongs over there. The New Deal Landmark That's Cannibalizing Itself ALEX BACA 10:30 AM ET Greenhills, Ohio, is a National Historic Landmark, but town officials have demolished some of its 1930s buildings, unable to bear the cost of preserving them. Go north on Winton Road out of Cincinnati, through Winton Woods Park, and you’ll slice through Greenhills, Ohio, which at first looks like any aging American suburb. It has low-slung homes, a church, a small shopping center, and a village green. Late in the afternoon on a winter Sunday, with the custard shop closed for the season, the laundromat was the busiest joint in town, although a few customers shuffled in and out of the Ameristop food mart. (The lone sit-down restaurant on the Eswin Street strip had closed at 3 p.m.) Tucked behind the retail strip is a surprise: an Art Deco swimming pool and community center. Behind them stand clusters of older attached houses and apartment buildings. These structures hint at Greenhills’ significance as a radical social experiment of the New Deal. Like its sister cities of Greenbelt, Maryland, and Greendale, Wisconsin, Greenhills was built by Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Resettlement Administration to provide modern, affordable, community-oriented housing to working-class Americans. (The town’s motto: “Pioneering a Dream.”) More below: https://www.citylab.com/design/2018/01/the-new-deal-landmark-thats-cannibalizing-itself/550679/ Greenhills is interesting from a preservation standpoint because it really isn't, for the most part, renowned for its architecture, but its role in urban planning during the Depression certainly merits historic significance.

Apparently this house in Walnut Hills has had a demolition permit issued... What a waste. I've seen buildings in worse shape in Detroit get rehabbed instead of demolished.

^^Honestly is confused drivers coming to a full stop such a bad thing, though? I'd rather cars stop more often that the awkward dance that often happens when people are halfway into the crosswalk and you still have to stand there and wait till the driver waves you on.

New Dayton coffee shop will blend java with jazz music A coffee shop is in the works in the South Park neighborhood of Dayton that will also include jazz music, tea and if things go as planned, a dram or two of alcohol for certain coffee drinks. The new business will be called Wholly Grounds, and it could open as early as April at 825 Wayne Ave. in Dayton. More below: http://www.dayton.com/news/sneak-peek-new-dayton-coffee-shop-will-blend-java-with-jazz-music/Gvld644xmmgeHVACYpAPSO/

Mount Auburn is really just a crappy location for such a large hospital, even if we ignore the historical significance of the stuff that Christ (and Uptown now) keeps tearing down. It's in the heart of a residential area, abutting a very narrow thoroughfare and a steep hillside which is also full of tight, out-of-the-way roads. And the MLK interchange doesn't make it any more accessible for ambulances.

Holy sh!t they're actually not just trying to turn it into some weird corporate campus! If they even manage to pull off 1/10 of this (namely, lining Main Street with 3-ish story buildings) I'd be pleased.

Denver is the Kansas half of Colorado. The mountains are there, and they're beautiful but always in the background. Not really a part of your life unless you road-trip out to them.

I had a friend from Finneytown who pronounced "museum" as "mew-say-um", but I'm 99% sure that was just him not knowing how to pronounce things.

Although the heights are similar, Broad Ripple is significantly larger than the 2 blocks of "downtown" that Loveland has. It's mostly one-story, but that's how a lot of commercial strips are in the New South and even out west in places like Portland. Most of Broad Ripple looks like this: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8696774,-86.1444522,3a,75y,70.26h,93.97t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sRt6DmOBIKU55t177vg_0TQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 It's also similar to the Highlands neighborhood in Louisville, although the Highlands has a lot more grand old homes in the immediate area, whereas the mansions of Indy are in Meridian Hills: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.2374412,-85.719246,3a,75y,314.06h,95.91t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sWNbvy5P21rtUzl29qJg32A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 It's hard to get a proper sense of how bustling and crowded any of these neighborhoods actually are from Streetview, too. Something else to keep in mind.

I think I'm actually going to show this to the Dayton Riverfront redesign committee as an example of how to really integrate a bike trail into a space; I'd love to see more stuff like this directly along the bike paths here. Yellow Springs and Xenia both have some integration with old train stations along the trail, like what you see here with the Monon.

Well you have to have somewhere to buy a car so you can drive your bike to the half-mile long bike trail!

^ I tend to forget that being a homeowner who cooks at home 5-6 days a week for all 3 of my meals puts me in the apparent minority of millennials.

I can’t say I’m the biggest fan of the food hall concept... I guess they’re relatively harmless if they present themselves as “food halls” right up front but I don’t like how so many public markets have shifted their focus away from the unprepared food side of the operation and have turned into food court sideshows.

Raging Wolf Bobs! It wasn’t the most thrilling roller coaster (or even anywhere near the bes at Geauga Lake) but it was one of Charlie Dinn’s few creations that didn’t actually bash you to death after the first year. He also built Mean Streak at Cedar Point, but I think only 3 or 4 of his rides are still in operation; the rest have either been modified into being steel roller coasters or were torn down.

^Wow... you can see clear out to The Greene!

I didn't even know UC existed until my parents decided to sign me up for a campus tour since we were already down in Dayton checking out UD, which until visiting UC was my #1 college choice at the time. Honestly my entire mental picture of Cincinnati prior to 2011 was the Beast and the Eiffel Tower. I think there were 3-4 kids, including myself, from my graduating class in Olmsted Falls that started at UC with me. Almost everyone else went to Kent, BGSU, or OSU. As for co-ops, a large portion of my engineering classmates stayed within Cin-Day, with very few exceptions. DAAP kids definitely got out a lot more to the coasts and Chicago, but other than my one friend who did a rotation for a firm in Columbus, most of the DAAPers seemed to stay in Cincinnati or an "alpha" city as opposed to really anywhere else in the midwest.

^It's hard to take a bad photo in SF... except of the Golden Gate Bridge apparently. I don't know if it's the International Orange's inherent brightness or the contrast of the bridge against the sky, or my poor technical skills, but almost all of my GGB photos came out blurry, unfortunately. Also, I resized all of the photos to a smaller size so that they're hopefully more visible/loading properly, in case anyone was having issues viewing any of the photos.

Have KCMO's vehicles been having these issues? I'd like to assume that our maintenance guys are in conversation with their maintenance guys, but who knows.

If anything, just being on this list might be enough to get smaller companies to look at Columbus, seeing as Amazon saw "something" special with the Columbus bid... hopefully a little bit more of an "it factor" than just a good financial incentive package.