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I saw people out and about on Walnut, too, this morning, but don't know if they will get over there today or not.

From this morning:

^Or maybe not--I have no real time frame of how long it takes to bring something like that down.

Wrecking ball has hit 1314 Vine Street as of this morning. I expect it will be down later today.

Oops--didn't see Brad had already answered that.

First Street = the Ohio River

Isn't the Sharonville exit (Sharon Rd) north of Glendale Milford, or am I imagining things? (That is a very real possibility.)

No idea on Bakersfield. Speaking of services, it looks like they're doing work on the dry cleaners. That will be nice.

I'd say the Cincinnatian or the Hilton Netherland Plaza are your best bets for neat old hotels downtown. As far as restaurants--there's a lot. Again, just downtown, Nada, Nicholson's, Jean-Robert's Table, Via Vite, Jeff Ruby's are all very good options.

BBC story on the High Line: http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20111202-walking-new-york-citys-high-line

^^It's not Bakersfield. This is a storefront past/in the bottom of Parvis lofts.

^It's had signage up for awhile now, but I haven't ventured over to see what it is.

They are great photos!

In number 3, the building on the extreme left (left of the pole--a small sliver) is the PNC Center. Most of the beige building is the Chemed Center.

Bingo. The traditional retail model is changing rapidly. There may not be room for a place like Sears in the future. Sears has plenty of money and management power to re-invent itself as a competitor to kohls, home depot, target. It's America's department store, and will not be leaving our sprawl malls anytime in th near future. 30 years from now, I could see kohls or target gone before Sears. Had to respond to this one--been bugging me for a couple of days. You mention Target and Kohl's. The first Target store opened in 1962, and Kohl's was founded that same year. Sears dates its history back to the 1890s. Yet now Kohl's has revenue approaching that of the Sears brand (exclusive of KMart); Sears 2010 revenue was 23 billion, while Kohl's was 18.4 billion. Meanwhile Target had revenue of $67 billion, which is over 20 billion more than all of Sears Holdings combined brands. And based on recent financials, both are more profitable than Sears Holding too. The decades-long trends are pretty clear that Sears is headed in the opposite direction from Target and Kohl's. I think Sears (and probably JCPenney's) is in the toughest retail spot, and its exacerbated by the fact that Sears Holdings is a combination of Sears and KMart. There just doesn't seem to be a lot of room for the middle of the market department store. If you want the name brands and don't care about price, you go to Macy's and above (Sak's, Nordstrom, etc.). If you want lower price, you don't go to Sears, you go to Wal-Mart (for the lowest price) or Target (for the discount price but relatively more cache). Sears has a tough task to compete with that from the department store model. It has to be "we're higher quality than Target/Wal-Mart, etc. but we're cheaper than Macy's on up," but I don't know how far that gets you today. Add in the fact that they have direct competitor's in that same niche--JCP, Kohl's, etc.--and it seems like a tough spot to be in. That doesn't even mention KMart, which is the other big piece of Sears Holdings. That brand was already very clearly passed in the discount world by Wal-Mart and Target, leading to its early 2000s bankruptcy. I guess one thing Sears might have going for it is the hardware/appliance/electronics piece of the business, but there again, they get a whole new level of competition from brands like Home Depot, Lowe's, Best Buy, etc.

Didn't Omnicare (which is No. 371 on the F500 list) just announce it was moving across the river to Ohio from Kentucky last month?

I think it's related to the size of the incentive. Here in Cincinnati the city still gets blasted for the incentives it put forward to keep Kroger and Convergys a few years ago, and those are absolutely dwarfed by this reported $400 million figure.

That seems like a lot of money.

Where do those teams play now? I don't know Dayton that well, but it seems like Dayton already has a lot of arenas for the size of its metro. UD Arena, Nutter Center, Hara Arena...would this just be a replacement for Hara? Man, there are a lot of arenas in SW Ohio. The three in Dayton, plus Shoemaker/Fifth Third Arena, Cintas Center, the Gardens, US Bank Arena...and that's not even counting facilities at NKU or Miami.

I walk from 14th and Vine to 4th and Sycamore each morning, and it takes at least 15 minutes (sometimes more depending on traffic and catching the lights). It has to take 20-25 minutes just to walk from Pete Rose Way to Findlay Market. You better have a 2 hour lunch if you want to do that.

I doubt that. There is no other way for the public to get from concourse to concourse. ?? You can walk instead of ride the train at CVG. If you come down the stairs from Concourse B just as the train is leaving and there is only one running (as seems normally to be the case), it is only the tiniest bit slower to go ahead and walk all the way to the terminal instead of waiting for the train.

Probably on Delta connections through ATL and Detroit.

The timing of the Liberty lights is terrible.

Fifth and Race is another spot that the city can really influence development of. No luck there yet.

I'd love to see this progress get built on with a comprehensive rail plan for the region/county put on the ballot. Give them something else to worry about besides the streetcar.