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This design is my dream, but also that W&S just realize how huge a plus their present set up surrounding the park is. The "campus" is there - and so is the opportunity to make it much better than P&Gs

Understand that they are highlighting the stadium in the renderings, but would really love to see a render with the background buildings colored in too. The number of "people" in the in-stadium shot looks way too high to me as well.

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hi all - Coming back to Cinci for christmas and want to go to dinner with my girlfriend (first time in Cinci) and my parents. Been out of the restaurant loop for a while since moving away. Any recommendations of good new-ish places to eat in cinci proper?

^ because then Cranley gets to take credit for double the road-paving miles?

jmecklenborg[/member] care to share those fantasy maps? What program do you use?

That top image makes me think of what parts of Queens looked like when subways were initially constructed out into literal fields in the 1920s. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Queens_Boulevard,_New_York_City_(1920).jpg

To be fair, this is the view from 14th and Elm looking west. The Monster building is a very tall 6/7 stories, and looks like it's barely peaking out from behind the buildings in the foreground. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1101295,-84.5183478,3a,75y,252.95h,101.03t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s8qOfXKTJpYnNckgwlsRpNg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 You could easily put a modern 8 story building behind Music Hall. I'd advocate for higher elsewhere along the parkway.

Does it really change color....?

The buildings and holdover streets in the bottom right corner are not long for this world.

One of the issues I see with this site is that I'm sure there will be height restrictions put on the surrounding plots of land. I would like Central Parkway to be redeveloped into high rise buildings at least as tall as the Monster building, which means that the upper floors will have a clear view into the stadium. It would be a shame to be left with awkwardly short, less dense buildings along CP once we're done.

I prefer this spelling to Cincy any day of the week. The 'y' is beyond kitschy. edit: spelling

All of that public money and zero affordable housing units. I'm a bit baffled as to why they can't throw 20 affordable housing units onto a project like this -- they wouldn't need parking places. Guarantee that 3/4ths of the market-rate apartments don't "need" car spots either; they just want them. Our public policy refuses to differentiate between the two.

At this point they should just go for it and make the parking garage taller than the County Building.

Links? Screenshots?

Residents that use the Mercer garage and commute outward free up spaces for those who commute into the area. I know that. But I also know that that's not how Cincinnati usually thinks about allocating parking resources.

I still can't believe that we got a substantial building built without a single additional parking space.

So something like the Emery Arcade that predated the Carew Tower?

Said it before and will say it again: this would be perfect at the W&S HQ at the corner of 3rd and Broadway.

The fact that out of 9 council members, a mayor, a city manager, 3 county commissioners, and a laundry list of other highly placed individuals, not ONE to my knowledge has thrown a fit over the travesty of this location, is simply amazing. This artwork truly unique, and we as a city should be trying to hit visitors over the head with it, not hiding it away.

No. A road is a type of right of way, which is used to move people between things in non-rights of way, like buildings. A person can move on foot, bike, horse, moped, car, or train. Depends on what the right of way is designed to give preference to. Cincinnati made the decision at some point to make it really easy to drive. If we woke up tomorrow and there was a singe narrow car lane and 30 feet for bikes, people would bike. And we'd change our land use patterns to accommodate the newly preferred mode of transport.

I cannot image how a 7 or 8 lane street would be any better for the community. it would be like Liberty street in uptown.

Daniels Homes is doing the 9 townhomes on W 15th (5 on the north and 4 on the south). Plans are also to redevelop the firehouse as a residence. http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2015/11/24/10m-townhomes-project-coming-to-over-the-rhine.html thanks

Is Towne Properties also doing the stuff on both sides of 15th? I biked past there the other day and was surprised to see new construction west of the alley.

Looks like the new 830 Main development uses the alleys to access the garage, not Main St, according to the 2nd rendering