SleepyLeroy

Not sure when the asphalt roof and loss of the metropolitan facade happened, but in this pic from 1986 it still looked pretty good too. I never saw it till the 1990's so to me it has always looked like it did for most of its life as the church but your right that it faded fast.

Which sets up the joke.....How does a Cranley Donor cross the road?

Not positive but i think they still use barges to get material delivered so any new location site may be limited.

Don't forget the Czech's! They love their Pierogis (But apparently not Spell check as it keeps trying to turn it to 'GROUPIES'). I dated a girl from a czech family up in Massillon Oh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierogi When will the Kabob carts hit Cincinnati? Or Khlav Kalash?

Whoever parked their car there is going to be surprised that they restripped and put that new sign up since they parked. There is even still a meter at that spot which i guess will be removed (hopefully after they leave)

Or maybe these folk? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Wings_%26_Rings

Not sure what is on the top floor, but if they don't build a penthouse like this and put glass windows behind the signs they are missing out. I'm sure it is full of boring stuff like AC units and elevator motors, but i'd gladly live among that stuff rent free in order to keep an eye on things for them. https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/10/20/garden/21WHOss.html

It took me a minute but i got it. Long live the wiremobile!!

^ Would be cool to see what a combination Soccer stadium/Ballet facility would look like too. I bet Austin (or insert current hip city here) isn't building one of those!

I read that only as 'Ballet wants FCC to pay for it to move'. I didn't realize that they didn't own their building either, and since it is physically connected to the one being demolished it will be an interesting and delicate process to keep them in the same spot I assume.

^ Since Friday it dropped to 45% of that! ?

^^ Pretty sure I saw on the Demo plan that there was a note that specifically said 'demo and fill Old Lager Cellars' but i hope that doesn't mean what it sounds like, Would be sad if they wasted a potential feature like that. FCC Underground in the historic Lion Brewery tunnels would be a killer pregame spot.

Bars are also not designed to be seen with the lights at that brightness. Turn on the lights in most after work non sports bar and you would probably be horrified at what you see. Sadly there isnt an add disco ball reflections everywhere button but it would be like this 99% of the time i bet.

YUP

They said that they purchased it (Columbia REI/The Joseph family real estate arm) to prevent any uses that would be detrimental to their other property (currently and for decades now has been the parking lots). They demolished it in order to assemble a ready to go set of land to market to a "fortune 500 company" that would want to lease all the land to build a HQ on. Similar to what they did with the Columbia Square building (formerly the Chiquita HQ). This is the only plan they have for that area. It will stay parking till this magical company comes knocking. I assume this will stay a park until they can convince a favorable Mayor and future council to let them bend even more rules to pave it and give them the alleys they need for their mega block dreams. It isnt over till they sell it all or build something, as they will always look to tear down any building they can snag on that block.

I guess whoever has the key to the locked gate. (AKA not us)

I love the Good Trump. Bad Trump houses...or is it Left & Right Trump?

Alrighty then, show me on this map where Cincinnati hurt you?

'The Majority' is the secret pet name the Mayor has given himself though.......

^ TLDR: Boston may be historic.

^ True on both your accounts, I didnt think of the revenue of the new south side lots being used to fund the project too but good point. Hopefully this was just some out loud talking that got more play than it deserved.

I heard on WVXU the other day that it was mentioned that since the water main was in the way to shrink the south side at the previously thought price why not just shrink from the north side of the street. Just wondering if this went any further than 'thinking out loud' as it seems to bypass all the chances to fix the south side street frontages.

Ugly? Why on rainy days you can check out the view of water draining off that huge lower roof all day long, and from most any window!

^^^^ All true, my fingers are crossed as well. Biggest worry I was alluding to was the possible parking garage at the corner of Liberty & Central. Would really be nice if that was not on the most prominent corner or if it is that it would be a quality looking thing (if that is possible with a modern parking deck style garage).

I think most people here were for FCC in the West End and were happy to hear they wanted to be a part of the urban core for the same reasons many of us here like being in the urban core. The entertainment options, the feel of the dense built environment, the walkability options, ect. I knew things would need to be torn down to accommodate a large stadium, some of them old but that is what happens when progress happens and a big new neighbor moves in. Where FCC is going off the rails in my opinion is by now adopting a more suburban mindset in all the latest press with their desire to have a large campus under their control and seemingly built to capture and cater to people driving into and out of the neighborhood. Im not wanting to revert back to Fur trappers & Indian Mounds down there but I would also prefer not to have a suburban 'bulldoze it all to make it easier for cars' layout either. I think that most people on this site for URBAN appreciation are more towards that range and are expressing opinions with that as a general guideline. People here still disagree though, and do it quite often but the disagreements are not usually followed by a juvenile 'I guess you would rather have ye olde bell ringers and tinsmiths and town criers who call out the news about how the new horse drawn trams are going to ruin life for all of the citizens who would prefer the status quo of walking thru horse filth in their Sunday best pantaloons' level of rebuttal. All are welcome, everyone sees things differently but people react better when you turn down the intensity and respond in kind vs the level 11 responses to level 2 disagreements. That kind of thing is what trolls do who just want a reaction and not a discussion.