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looks like a newish dumpster is there?

Yeah, they aren't going to give up their "country" lifestyle outside Batavia on a ribbon-development road, in a suburban-style ranch house on 3.1 acres, with John Deere memorabilia all over the place despite not owning any actual equipment, bad Nu-Country music and their kid's $549 knockoff Taiwanese ATV that he rides a circle in the yard all day. You have a lot of hate in your heart.

just as a tidbit those were apartments for a few years before they said them as condos. Also the guy who did those also did the Verona and the Cooper.

Welcome to the forum! If you go back through this thread you will see all the different iterations this project has went through. It actually went in front of Historic Conservation Board and got approved, although the plan was for condos at that point. Then another developer took over and wanted to do apartments but within the exact same building footprint. The sale of the land a few days ago shows that the project is still moving forward to some degree. I think it shows that it is going forward at a much higher certainly then "some degree". The question is: what is "it". No developer is going to buy that building if they don't have some sort of plan for it. In it's current state it looses money every month, according to the current owner. Something will happen there now that a developer has bought the building.

Is there any chance MLS lowers the franchise fee to help pay for the stadium ($100M down to $50M)? Tax payer stadiums deals are very rare these days. The MLS may run out of cities because no one can finance a stadium.

Agreed. maybe they ran into structural issues or something. there isn't much left of the front of the original building.

add meyer in Oakley and Costco.

Is this project even going to happen? With now skyhouse a go and the Kroger project just about a go. Does this project still happen? Seems very delayed. The garage has been down for months.

wow. things should get interesting.

It's either new stadium or no MLS bottom line, it has been now said straight from the owners mouth. We should move on from Nippert.

What is everyone's opinion on this: Is this a better overall project then what we would have gotten under a Roxanne Qualls administration (at 4th and race)? If yes, was it worth the wait? I think it is a much better location as it will serve OTR and Downtown well, it directly on the streetcar line and has the largest "grocer only” in the world as the grocer and not an unknown entity that can close after 5 years (which was part of the 4th and race deal) I see the only negative is that we didn’t get a high-rise built at the 4th and race site.

now everyone can move on from the Kroger hates downtown talk...

Breaking: http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2017/06/06/kroger-will-build-downtown-grocery-store-as-a-part.html Kroger will build downtown grocery as a part of major mixed-use project

talk about a terrible location. Any way that looks doable in, what is the footprint of that? and what is the capacity of that stadium?

The one in the cincy casino is closing

Pretty sure it was council was the one's who wanted and did spend the surplus on a bunch of pet projects.

Once the developer is out of the picture they will just leave it up to the HOA to foot the bill to make those types of improvements.

I agree with you. My question is what about parking?( yes everyone hates parking on here). but the banks location has thousands of parking spots to accommodate the new arena. The casino has one parking garage. Where would everyone park? i don't think the surface lots in the area have enough spots and they could be developed on in the near future.

Looks like the plan is a complete tear down. Which is good news IMO. http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2017/04/20/u-s-bank-arena-owner-our-goal-is-to-get-it-torn.html U.S. Bank Arena’s owner now plans to tear down the 42-year-old arena and rebuild it.

Where was St. Louis in terms of rankings/estimate to get a team?

Rusconi's can't be happy about this development. Also Rusconi's is still open. Rusconi's closed about a month ago. stopped paying rent. Next to BRU and The olive bar another pizza place is going in. They are building it out now. Not sure where that Taco Bell is going...

I think the term "condo" as used in the article does not mean they want to turn portions of the building into residential condos. The term I believe is used to spilt the building complex into separate portions or "condos". The hotel would be separate from the office "condo" and they could then sell just the hotel which wouldn't include the office portion/condo. They could also turn the top 10 floors into a residential "condo" which could be sold off and then turned into apartments or residential "condos" leaving the bottom floors as an "office condo" separate from the hotel and the residential portion/condo.

The truck is probably the same, but the top pic's sedan is a Pontiac whereas the bottom's is a VW. not the same truck either... but still pretty funny.

is there enough room? there are what appear to be successful businesses there would would be $$$ to move and then tare down. Also could the new I-71/75 bridge take a portion of the area.

Does Kroger own the stores? or do they rent them? Maybe their lease was up and they wanted a new building so the developer built them a new building instead of losing them completely.