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That last rendering is interesting. Is the bottom part meant to fit in with the neighborhood more closely, and the upper level is meant to be more modern? I guess those combinations can work, but when they don't, they really don't. (That's how I feel every time I see Soldier Field in Chicago these days...) Other than that, can someone who is an architect or designer (I am definitely not) explain the appeal of offset windows? I am fully prepared to accept that it's something I just don't get, or that there's some practical aspect to it that I don't understand.

Having a good manager makes all the difference. It's a barrier to getting the first one, and then it's an absolute incentive to get the second (and third and fourth) as soon as you can, to justify having someone on the payroll in some fashion to take care of it. (We've lucked into having an excellent one.)

June was another huge month at CVG -- over 850,000 passengers, a 10% increase over last June. YTD the passenger numbers are up 17%. http://www.cvgairport.com/docs/default-source/stats/cvg-stats-2018.pdf?sfvrsn=10

So did they clear out the camp yesterday?

^^CVG has felt hopping the last few times I've flown this year. You can tell it's really picked up traffic-wise. Not quite the hub days, but in terms of local origination and arrivals, it's busy as it's ever been.

I'm pulling for Belgium, but all 4 teams could win it. It's been a great World Cup.

Well, to be fair, UD also doesn't have a 40,000 student research school 1.5 miles away from it, either, so it's kind of an apples-to-oranges comparison. I think if you check out the benchmarking and the student populations, you will see that there's a lot in common between the schools. As for the party culture, I can only speak for my times as a student, but there was definitely plenty of social activity going on--multiple house parties in Norwood and North Avondale every weekend night, etc. Every Xavier student worth their salt did the Montgomery Mile, starting at Sorrento's on the north end of Norwood and hitting every bar on the way. And as for Dana's--hey, it's no Uncle Woody's I guess (actually, it's at least as nice as that), but it's undeniably a Xavier thing. I was sad to see The Woods go, too. That was a fun spot. But I'm sure others who never went to Xavier know far more about the Xavier scene than alumni.

We have a fair number of families up on Mulberry in the north end of OTR. But the houses are a bit bigger (and the newer construction is certainly such that it can accommodate families).

Xavier's done a fantastic job with the campus. As a graduate of both Xavier and UC, I prefer Xavier's campus feeling of green space and continuity to UC's urban starchitecture approach (though I understand that's a matter of taste, and others prefer UC). Xavier and UD are pretty comparable schools--the "national vs. regional" university thing is just a matter of classification, and it does make it very hard to figure out where everyone "fits in" in the rankings. For example, Villanova (listed up thread) was traditionally included in the "Regional Universities -- East" listings until a year or two ago; it was moved over to the national universities, where it immediately went into the top 50. I think if you look at things like test scores, etc., Xavier does pretty well. And it's become more and more diverse through the years, to the point that it's student body population is now more diverse than many state schools. One minor quibble--Villanova is not a Jesuit school; I forget what order it is (maybe Vincentian?). The top 2 Jesuit schools, without any doubt, are Georgetown and Boston College.

I appreciate the history you provided in your other post. One nitpicky thing I'd point out is that it's a little off to say 5/3 and Huntington are just "nice" banks but Key is a big player. 5/3 is the 24th largest bank in the US, Huntington is 35th. Key comes in right between them at 30th. In 2018, 5/3 is top dog in Ohio. Yes, 5/3 is definitely bigger than Key and Huntington, though it's not some huge disparity. And Columbus and Cincinnati have some interesting former banks that moved on. Bank One was a Columbus bank that expanded, moved to Chicago after acquisitions, became top ten in size, and merged with Chase. Likewise, US Bank directly traces back to the old First National (Star) in Cincinnati; Star bought Firstar in Milwaukee and then moved there, taking the Firstar name; it then bought US Bank in Minneapolis and moved there, taking the US Bank name. (One of its largest--if not the largest--branches for its corporate deposits is still the downtown Cincinnati branch, which is why US Bank is always listed as first in deposits in the Greater Cincinnati region, even though it's significantly smaller than 5/3 in Cincinnati.) If Star had done those same acquisitions but stayed in Cincinnati instead of moving out, it would be an entirely different landscape (ditto if Bank One had stayed in Columbus, though I can't recall if it was the acquirer or the acquired in the deals that got it to Chicago).

The Xavier website has a nice rundown of work currently underway on campus: https://www.xavier.edu/now/Summer-Campus-Construction-Projects.xm

My initials and the year I graduated college. (Seemed much better when it wasn't that long ago.) "Standing on a corner, Jameis Winston, Tampa Florida...."

^I can really see a difference when I am flying out of CVG. It seems so much busier than, say, 3-4 years ago.

Man, Eastland Mall, Northland Mall, Westland Mall, and City Center all on that map. I guess in the 1990s we were a lot more mall focused!

Kind of depends what part of the city you are comparing it to, though. According to Google (not authoritative), Rickenbacker is 14 miles driving from the Ohio Capitol building, while CVG is 13 miles driving from Fountain Square. (With traffic, probably takes longer to CVG.) That said, obviously this gets into the grander issue of the southern part of the Cincy metro not being in the city proper (or even in the state for that matter!).

^Thanks.

Anyone know how passenger numbers are at Dayton?

^That's amazing in this day and age. Whatever works, I guess.

Sounds like Columbus needs to take a page from the Cincy playbook and use the "Short North Near" moniker. (I don't know if it's still the case, but when I first got to Cincy the number of apartment listings in Oakley, Norwood, Madisonville, O'Bryonville, etc. that were "Hyde Park NR" was astounding.)

http://www.cvgairport.com/docs/default-source/stats/cvg-stats-2018.pdf?sfvrsn=6 According to the spreadsheet, passengers in April were up nearly 150,000 at CVG to nearly 760,000, for an increase of 24% over last April; for the year, passengers are up over 17%. Air freight is experiencing even bigger growth--tonnage is up over 50% this year.

^ The tennis center in Mason is a big complex, even putting aside the various parking lots and grassy parking areas. I don't know how they'd find room to fit both it and a soccer stadium somewhere downtown.

Wembley is probably a better comp to MetLife than either White Hart Lane or Stamford Bridge. It looks a lot more similar to the images you showed. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Wembley+Stadium/@51.5560208,-0.2817075,545m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x48761181d57a876d:0xa64f9f185de8e097!8m2!3d51.5560208!4d-0.2795188 Wrigley Field is a pretty good analogy to a lot of European (or at least English) football stadiums (including for the hated Spurs). https://www.google.com/maps/place/Wrigley+Field/@41.9484424,-87.6575214,652m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x880fd3b2e59adf21:0x1cea3ee176ddd646!8m2!3d41.9484384!4d-87.6553327

Nashville's ambitious transit plan loses by about a 2-1 margin.

They really did a fantastic job with that building on 15th and Vine.

I don't quite get where their numbers are coming from, actually--what is the 3.2 million figure? In 2017 they had passenger traffic of 7.8 million people (see the first story on the previous page of posts), and if they are growing by 15% then presumably they'd be on pace for somewhere around 8.7 or 8.8 million passengers.