SleepyLeroy

He's gaslighting you... Gaslight is is Clifton this is CUF. ;)

Developers in that area want that stuff reconfigured. Cranley-funded improvements, ostensibly for the stadium, will be giveaways to his cronies. Look for multiple Castellini-Cinti State viaducts. My first thought as well, and probably the biggest reason this didnt come out one or two days earlier as it played into one of the biggest complaints about him. This is the same area that the Mayor said, "beggars cant be choosers" when the developer he is friendly to changed from the original mixed residential walkable neighborhood proposal to a sea of parking and big box stores after approval. More of the same I'm afraid, but hopefully the land value increases to the point that the parking is repurposed into garages and the land better developed into what was originally promised. All profits going to his buddies of course but at least Oakley will be better of than the current situation there. Wasnt one of the complaints of the anti streetcar folk that it was just a ploy to increase the value of a house (houses) that Roxanne Qualls owned in OTR?

Good point... they probably can re-use a lot of the pre-cast and granite pieces. Yep they did number & disassemble all of the outer parts. There is a locked fenced area at the front left as you pull in that has all the stone to be replaced.

It is still quite massive though. Imagine two Merchandise Marts side by side (or on top of each other). It would be hard to find enough empty acreage in town to fit them unless you ran it from District One HQ all the way to City Hall and cut through the existing street grid. Spacing it out in different areas would probably be best just for the sheer massiveness of the building required for it all to be in one spot. Not against adding another skyscraper or two to the skyline though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchandise_Mart

I did one of the ghost tours right before it closed a few years back and was shocked at the back room areas where the prop/stage decor shop and dressing rooms were. Really looked like they were supercrowded and repurposing way out of date and ill purposed spaces to the best use possible but I bet it made a bad impression to the visiting artists. The little back stage lounge area was cool but looked more fitting in a theme bar or someones cool rec room, not a world class performance center. I'm betting 3/4 of the budget went to hidden and back of house things with the public spaces being icing on the cake. For all that was done and the speed it was finished it seems to be money well spent.

Shadowhare is still out there....watching,and waiting for when we need him most.

A quick photoshop onto the google map image (ignore the wonky angles). I wonder how something like this would fly here. The build-out on the corner really shows how narrow the sidewalk is compared to the width of the street. From this distance you should see the buildings on three of the corners with one at your back.

Boom!! I was looking for something like this but the closest i found was this one on Blossom St in London. Yours is perfect!!!

Im sure it would be an insurance liability type of thing the prevents it, but more churches and old buildings should have yearly fund raising tours where they open up things like steeples and other hidden cool spaces up for those willing to sign a waiver. I'd pay good money to see the view out of those little gothic windows in the steeple. Union terminal had their 'High Steel' tour and it was wonderful and informative, the PNC tower or the old Times star building would probably pull in a lot of people too.

It looks Mustard Yellow at times too, and even orange and Olive Drab green. Pretty cool in person too.

Which they phrase in such a way so it looks less like the only 18 million more that it MIGHT produce over the current 21 mil, and then only after building the new multi hundreds of million dollar arena for them. Hmmmmm.

Probably just a coincidence, but this makes me very happy!!! The clock may return home, and the public is aware what it is now. Yea!!! http://local12.com/news/local/museum-center-wants-clock-returned-as-part-of-restoration

I purposely put figuring out if it was geographically correct out of my head because if it wasnt it would have bugged me. Haha, glad you did the checking.

So odd that the current owner is an accounting and engineering consultancy with 4 employees. Bought it on 08 for only 165,000. Back in the late 90's i used to frequently visit the old school print company that is still across the street and this place was actively still a metal/machine shop that was humming along. Looks like Powell Valves sold it off to the current owner (after owning it since 1947) in 08 and it went downhill FAST. Tax write off?

I would say for the same reason it is elsewhere. It is a tool to help preserve the existing building stock. The Cincinnati Preservation Collective just had a walk through the Neighborhood Sunday and it was very informative. The artists, musicians and younger folk in rehabbed factory lofts share the neighborhood with lifelong residents and are close to lots of things without the entertainment zone feel some other areas are striving for. They have lost much with the highways the suburban exit feel of what Hopple became and the loss of employers like Kahns & the old Workhouse. The historic district tries to keep together what is left. There is quite a bit of history down in the valley. The foreground of the pic is now I-75 but a lot of the buildings in this pic are still there, and this is probably no later than the 1920's if not earlier. https://scontent.fluk1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/21743666_1794531600576198_3863799467752336126_o.jpg?oh=b042796767387a2515107f2a4cf6537c&oe=5A54892D

This address in Camp Washington on Colerain is now on the city demo list. That whole complex on the corner across from the park i assume. If i had the money i'd love to save the outer walls and bigger more intact buildings (as the roof has fallen in on parts) and make a sweet industrial courtyard complex that still keeps the presence on the corner and facade along the street wall. Sadly it will probably be an open lot. I wonder if the Rhinegeist folk would want a satellite tap room that looks like a giant version of Queen City Radio? It would be right down the block from their hopefull farm operation and in an up and growing area of industrial lofts. Maybe even kick the Crosley building plans into gear. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Colerain+Ave,+Cincinnati,+OH/@39.1422318,-84.5378574,127a,35y,257.43h,45t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x88404a8c20989ba1:0xd30c5ab1bb9c852!8m2!3d39.1718522!4d-84.5601155 https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1422094,-84.5386879,3a,90y,284.18h,104.01t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0r4B8IKFdkdHR1dodJ0pWQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

^^ Not too familiar but they have been there as early as i can remember (mid 70's) with the "arting up" occurring in the early/mid 2000's perhaps as an artworks project.

I stumbled on this render just now and dont remember seeing it here before though i know this has been in the works for years. Any chatter on this one lately? http://www.smpconstruction.net/#prettyPhoto[gal1496]/0/

Woah, i just read a comment that the clock in the amphitheater is a clock from the back wall mural of Union Terminal! It does look art deco, but i never knew this other than a comment on this article. We need to get that puppy back home while they are remodeling the Terminal. Also they have the mural clocks too at fenton rigging. It could be a forgotten artifact that needs to be saved if they redo that corner. https://cincinnatiideas.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/img_0053.jpg?w=652&h=489 https://cincinnatiideas.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/img_0053.jpg?w=652&h=489 http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2014/11/01/union-terminal-mural-clocks-found-still-marking-time/18356367/ Oops: Edited to add the site i found this at. https://cincinnatiideas.com/2016/08/15/reconnecting-the-west-end/

But without the Charles Town Center at the Queensgate II Center (!?!), how will people know they are near the town (using the logic from the article)? Reading old Cincinnati magazines you really get a sense of why things went the way they did for redevelopment in urban Cincinnati. Lots of adds for new business sites with plenty of parking in the suburba and and people pondering what to do with vast swaths of urban fabric like a monoploy game. Apparently the area was build by Urban Design Associates back in the day and got national recognition at the time (hence the desire to build more fortified urban bunkers). https://books.google.com/books?id=n8VyCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA471&dq=queensgate+II+town+center&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjC-Nms5LHWAhXKdSYKHbSdAFEQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=queensgate%20II%20town%20center&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=pldUAAAAMAAJ&q=queensgate+II+town+center&dq=queensgate+II+town+center&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjC-Nms5LHWAhXKdSYKHbSdAFEQ6AEILzAC

I got to sit in on a show back when WAIF was in the basement. Didnt see the upstairs, but in my hazy memory the area in the basement reminded me of a slightly cleaner, tiny version of the bad areas of the Kawloon Walled City. With less Triads of course. http://www.greggirard.com/content/gallery/girard_kowloon004.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City

Slightly related in that it has the Baldwin Building but i just stumbled across this aerial that i had not seen anywhere else and wanted to pass along. http://library.cincymuseum.org/cgi-bin/starfetch.exe?LWEjwQT.D.nTQm1EY7CC@GTtog13qTLFas0Kj0QjJs82jzrw8qFITrL7BwAhKwW6jDjdacB2@i2RrFi8ui76zEWgd.4F.nLwDVlpnNLRkk4XllnCpWRIzl0Wapw4udEHD6vqAp5iU4frBkVDSOl6vW0L2Ptd8EVx/SC318-0269-w.jpg

Maybe not the biggest thing but I always see people working on single family homes here and there throughout the neighborhood, and in more 'on the outskirts' places. Most recently one across from the cemetery on colerain was having its porch sanded and looked to be gutted for reno on the inside. Hopefully the nearby old hotel that was saved from demo and mothballed gets adopted by a renovator soon as it got graffiti bombed again. More eyes in the less populated areas should chase things like that to somewhere else.

To get a jump on art suggestions, i recommend this. How about that Indian rolling the tire? That too, but only if it is my folk art hero Raymond Thundersky a.k.a. "Construction Clown". He lived up on hamilton by the Comet for many years so it fits.