SleepyLeroy

I thought you were kidding about the cat video festival........you were not.

How does this jive with Octoberfest? It is the 9th to 11th of September this year, did they to the smart thing and decide to work with the streetcar? Doh, i looked it up and got the Mainstrasse date. Thanks! Oktoberfest is 16th to 18th. So open for a week then shutdown the very next weekend.

How does this jive with Octoberfest? It is the 9th to 11th of September this year, did they to the smart thing and decide to work with the streetcar?

Anyone else on here blown away by the quality of the latest iteration of Google's 3D maps? I used to make chamber of commerce maps in the late 90's when map making was just going digital from films and placing type by hand. I saw the days of paper maps for travel info coming to an end but had NO idea stuff like this was just about 15 years away. I explore a different city almost every day. Cant wait to get my own Google Cardboard and virtually tour. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Munich,+Germany/@48.1353946,11.591059,186a,20y,218.63h,79.68t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x479e75f9a38c5fd9:0x10cb84a7db1987d!8m2!3d48.1351253!4d11.5819806

I lived on the CUF side of the hill for for 18 years, and the hum of the city lulled me to sleep with the knowing that even though i was switching off for the night, life was moving right along. Plus the screech of the rail cars on the CSX hump were like metallic sirens singing. Seriously, i loved it there, but my dream next house is also a re purposed industrial space and i love all the flat bike-able streets and rusty metal decay so i realize I'm in my own little sub group.

Impressive! Hopefully they can stick around after this and go nuts in Camp Washington. Just put those wonderful looking industrial casement windows back in the Crosley, all the empty Powell plants, old abandoned pattern shops, etc.

Now that they are gone I doubt anyone would ever step up to build the 5+ story foundations needed to support buildings at the top of the hill again but I'd love to see a restored recreation of this view in person some day.

Is it normal for developers to propose projects on land they don't own like in Mt Auburn above? I see the one for listed for Cold Springs is marketing the Furniture Fair store for redevelopment and even has a note not to call the current business but to call the developer. BTW the McDonalds on that cold springs plan dosent exist. It is an empty lot where the worlds slowest Burger King used to be.

Did anyone else notice this (literally) sketched out "development plan" from the former Developer who started Kenwood Towne Place? http://nebula.wsimg.com/2182fe22b95d2c8e8ff459b3a53e9ce6?AccessKeyId=42515753DAC9BEC5148E&disposition=0&alloworigin=1 http://www.meridianrealtycap.com/developments.html http://www.wcpo.com/news/insider/cincinnatis-changing-retail-landscape-on-display-in-las-vegas-this-week

It is the one by the steamboat works and the pantaloon manufacturer. (I kid). Is it this one? https://www.google.com/maps/place/Linn+St,+Cincinnati,+OH/@39.1151268,-84.5266114,92m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x8841b6a9f39703e7:0x63254ec8e0056049!8m2!3d39.108769!4d-84.5277951

^ Pretty sure you are seeing the stable area where the carriage horses stay.

Sadly, I would say this is true of most places in the US anymore, not just OTR. Those places exist either because they have been there forever & weathered the storm through the recessions & big box rise or the rent is cheap enough to get a foot in the door. I share your desire to make it a 'real neighborhood' though. With the residential density and money moving in Id say they have a better chance to reestablish those things over other neighborhoods that have lost them though.

Yep there are, though towards the front they face a blank wall. The further west ones are unobstructed. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cincinnati,+OH/@39.099616,-84.5176749,193a,20y,47.82h,69.54t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x884051b1de3821f9:0x69fb7e8be4c09317!8m2!3d39.1031182!4d-84.5120196

A little different perspective than the usual thanks to a condo being for sale in this building. Very 'Ship-like' as it sails upstream on 6th street.

^ Perhaps the extra height is so they can sell advertising space on the bridges so that the project pays for itself. :evil:

Seems legit, being all official on the window like that. :-D

We live nearby and XUMelanie sat down with the developersa week or so ago. It sounds like demolition will happen this year and the early project estimates have the project completed some time in 2018-2019. So, basically we're a ways off. I wouldn't doubt that the OTR Community Council is looking to stop this project and others in the neighborhood. They've really gone off the deep end lately. Seems like their leadership is lacking and in some serious disarray. The extreme elements of the community have taken the opportunity to hijack the organization sadly. Im not in the OTR community loop but I'm curious who the extreme elements are. Is it NIMBY folk or a resurgence of the homeless advocates of old or something else entirely?

Yes, but front doesn't rhyme with Jack like back does. Bla bla, marketing talk, good idea, lets do it.

Although........ if they make it look like the old 'Cincinnati Exposition' bridge than i'm back on board with the skywalk plan!

I realize the tunnels go perpendicular to where people would be traveling if they were just crossing the street but this is the look i was thinking. It would serve the same purpose as the sky bridge but wouldn't muck up the exterior of music hall like the current 70's looking bridge does.

Too bad the water main is down there, because we could just have an underground connection using the subway tunnels. It could be decorated all fancy like a European subway station/subterranean entry hall. They would have to make a bigger connection between the two tubes unless that intersection is actually near a station, I cant remember if there is one after Liberty and before the bend. As a 'Jake like' aside i was once exploring down there back in the early 90's when it was easier to hop over the door and happened to be underneath the Chili Fest. Nothing is creeper than the faint echoes of 'Ackey Breaky Heart' reverberating in the darkness. :|

Hopefully not final, just the last one of phase one. :wink:

As an alternative to powered bikes, just start building these all around the city. They are pay per use too, so maybe they would eventually pay for themselves.

Or in the absolutely factual series CSI MIAMI, all glass and lens flare.

Yep, good point but maybe the more they know eyes are on them they will not go this path. Not that these groups play above board, but hopefully they stay on the right side of the law at least.