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The team is saying WR Marvin Jones should be back for the Patriots game so that's HUGE.

I agree they look very good I told myself after the San Diego playoff lost and my heart being broken last season that I wouldn't buy tickets this year but I can't help myself I'm ALL IN!

I was wondering when they say New Scoreboard will that mean both or really just one?

I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure Bengals height restrictions does not effect the hotel project now in focus. The Bengals lease only covers the west side of development not the east side by GABP. If you recall they didn't need the bengals if GE wanted the office lot on the east side but rejected it because the floor plates would have had to be smaller with less space to work with but would have been a taller building.

New 21c Hotel (ranked one of best new hotels in the world), New Renaissance Hotel, New Dual Brand Hotel under construction, New Marriott Residence Inn hotel (ranked one of the best in the company), Hyatt Regency full renovation. Then we have The Banks Hotel, I was told by a buddy thats a manager that a Westin Renovation is in planning, Garfield Suites was recently purchased and will be renovated into a doubletree and we have the Red Cross sycamore hotel project. Then to finish The Cincinnatian is for sale and I'm sure will be renovated into a luxury brand everyone will know and one way or the other Cincinnati will address its Convention Center Hotel.So I think Cincinnati is far from lagging behind any city on the hotel front in terms of activity.

The Westin Cleveland was a renovation not a new property and the Convention Hilton is under construction and with about 600 rooms I wouldn't call it "massive". Many cities even mid size ones are building thousand room convention hotels so 600 is on the small side, even our lame old Millennium is almost 900 rooms. The rest you named are smaller projects nothing big but nice. If I had to bet I would say The Banks hotel will get done.

And I know nothing has been reported or concrete yet but I'm certain a new Convention Center Hotel/ Major Millennium Renovation is probably going to happen in the near future and will need city funding as well and with Cranley in office we are not getting both.

I kinda agree...... http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2014/09/16/city-no-subsidy-for-banks-hotel/15722779/

There are only a few Caesar Properties in the world, years back I was told they will only use the brand in terms of future expansion in major international destinations. Put simply Cincinnati, Cleveland and now with a new 400 million dollar Horseshoe Baltimore is not a correct fit for a Caesars which I have visited and command much higher tbl bets and so on. I think them changing that formula for Cleveland is unlikely but you never know. I'm just happy that Cleveland and Cincinnati didn't get stuck with the Lame Low end Harrahs Brand.

Haha

More about the crane that's putting up a crane suppose to be the tallest mobile. http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2014/09/15/tallest-crane-us-goes-cincinnati-riverfront/15678657/

Channel 5 reporting some streets are closing for a few days due to crane install for GE building

Didn't take a picture but It's starting to look Pretty OK/GOOD!

The NFL is a JOKE, how ludicrous is it for them to cut him now only after the inside elevator video was released to the public. For a human male or female to be knocked unconscious it was obvious that he must have hit her really really hard. Shame on the NFL and for her to jump and marry him after getting whacked like that is CRAZY.

Question... Driving up elm street tonight I was a bit surprised to see the streetcar shelters themselves already installed. I feel like what's the point of having them go thru 2 years/winters/possible graffiti before it's even up and running? Im just saying shelters are easy and quick to put up and kinda a "finishing touch" on transit projects so why so early? (I'm OCD and just want everything to still be sparkly and new at launch :-).

SAF what I am saying plain and simple now that Kenwood Collection is scraping the High End Luxury Approach both Liberty and KC will be going after many of the same tenants that would be new to market or even a little "unique". My second point is in my opinion if those tenants look at both of these locations and projects KC is probably going to land them over Liberty, it's not all about area income but just as much location and shopper volume which everyone knows Kenwood Is King.

2,3,4 hundred dollars is ludicrous OTR is not some ultra wealthy 90210 part gated community that would pay that. The more Cranley talks this non sense the more I wanna get a group together and protest for his stepping down.

With developers of The Kenwood Collection now focusing on a more mid range group of tenants rather than luxury high-end I would say that is going to hurt the mix at Liberty even more. Retailers and Restaurants when opening new stores look at the entire metro area as a whole and the Kenwood property is still going to be more attractive than this up north from a business stand point.

The Streetcar will not be cancelled nor will its operations be kept to weekends or almost nothing hours. Construction is wayyyy too far along and when it's done it will be very popular. Do we really need to post 700 wlw scripts everyday it's getting silly yes it's on topic but my gosh it's the same info from the same sources. The debate about a phase 2 is very valid but for Mayor Cranley and others to waste so much time still talking about phase 1 is a joke it's a DONE DEAL.

The Banks is fine, and that Chicago development certainly doesn't look better than The Banks.

I Absolutely Agree.

The fact is yes The Banks design so far has not at all been special but the way it is being constantly attacked on here is crazy. I personally wish more thought was put in it but its not that bad it's a perfect case of you get what you pay for. I have been blessed to travel a lot and have seen some impressive new developments around the country but most are similar to The Banks. Everyone needs to keep in mind that Texas, California, New York State and many others would love to build GE a boring glass box. We on this forum including myself are kind of " The Crazies" at times and we forget that the general public doesn't have the same vision or eye that we do so 90% of area residents feel The Banks look just fine.

Things Seemed very very odd to me for months now that no retail tenants had been announced since Saks so I'm shocked but then I'm not. So I would assume Tiffany's is not going to Kenwood Collection either and I'm wondering will this mean a major renovation of Saks Downtown location?

About time we start to hear about some tenants. http://m.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2014/07/16/preppy-retailer-looks-at-kenwood-collection-for.html

So if apartments or whatever development happens on top of fountain place what happens to the video screen?? I hope they don't get rid of it that would be horrible, is there a good spot to move it maybe on the north side above the tunnel to sixth street?