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If the proposal for Lot 24 is chosen I hope they force them to put rent-able space along Freedom Way. This way there can be bars and restaurants along there activating the block opposite Taste of Belgium and Pies and Pints when concerts and events are not happening. Otherwise the block is just going to be dead like it already is without development.

Thing that bothers me at night when the band is lit up, is that the under band lighting was not mounted the same. You can see it the way it cast light down on the vertical members. I look at it all the time from my place and my OCD makes me want to write to them and say hey you know the northeast corner of the signage band has a lighting placement issue...

Jake what happen to the two images you provided in your post, I saw them when you first posted and wanted to go back to it at a later time. Now poof! they have disappeared.

That's what should ultimately happen to that site (assuming that it's going to stay a gas station). Kroger-owned Turkey Hill has a gas station in Columbus with a convenience store fronting the street and the pumps hidden behind. Actually, now that Kroger is building a grocery store downtown, maybe they should acquire the Shell and turn it into a Kroger Fuel Center with that sort of design. If Kroger didn't sell off its convenience store brands last month, they would be a great for this, but I doubt they want to mess with a non-compete on the buy out contract with the new owners...

I don't mean to sound negative, but I am over this new proposed stadium. I really wanted FC to become an MLS team but the city is showing its true colors and while there is a constant road blocks everywhere, Sacramento is lining up new billionaire investors. Plus lets be honest the Newport site is not a bad site, but the anti Kentucky crowd rather go without MLS then have the stadium on the other side of the River.

So damn happy to hear this happening, especially since the Cheapside guys decided not to do there ice cream idea on Main street.

I would suspect Allegiant to drop Denver and depending on the slug fest with Delta, United and Frontier to see one of them down size aircraft or reduce flight numbers. Southwest, Frontier, and United have the appeal of connection Hub. Delta has the appeal of all the skymiles members base in town.

I have two colleagues that live in Radius at the Banks. Seems they are struggling to rent the building out and realizing the prices are too high. The leasing company is trying to meet one on one with tenants to reduce rents to keep tenants in the building. However it isnt working and alot of tenants leave after six months. Could be a sign of more to come.

No, the existing structure can only support a tower of about 20 stories. You can see the space for the elevators when you look down from the Carew Tower. I don't know if a 20-story tower would require converting the current department store space into a parking garage or not. I just looked at existing structural drawings we have in our office, the podium can hold up to 40 story tower. We worked on a couple scheme for Towne a couple years ago, Also have worked on a scheme for 84.61 a year or so back. This unfortunately is due to old blue blood ownership just sitting on something like the Joseph family does with all there property downtown...

Macy's podium was designed to hold a 40-60 story tower. Fountain Square West by Kohn Pederson and Fox was 50 stories and they made a podium to hold a taller structure at a later time.

Don't forget about USPS. USPS is in the 525 vine building technically. However how long do you think it will be before Saks says F off and closes its doors. I imagine that is soon and inevitable. And may not even be a bad thing. If those two corners can be replaced by taller residential buildings with smaller more manageable retail component that would add a lot to the center of downtown. (Granted here we are still waiting for 4/Race). Ha! this is Cincinnati we wont get taller residential projects, we get weird mid-rise apartment buildings on ugly parking garage podiums. For whatever reason the city wont force developers to disguise the parking podium better and it just looks like this cheap building. Oh that is right you just need to write a check to Cranley political campaign and you get a hall pass.

Don't forget about USPS. USPS is in the 525 vine building technically. However how long do you think it will be before Saks says F off and closes its doors.

I remember being at Logan back in 2002 and seeing multiple flights per hour to Cincinnati. There is three daily flights a day to BOS from CVG. Two mainline and a connection flight. Mostly GE, Fidelity, and P&G folks on those flights.

Btw does everyone like how quietly Delta has moved CVG from 'hub' to 'focus city' terminology? Seems this was presented and decided in the 2017 December Investors packet. Boston was also made a focus city as well. Delta hubs by size ATL, DTW, MSP, LGA, SLC, JFK, LAX, and SEA. Delta focus city by size CVG, BOS, and RDU.

Delta flights to Phoenix will be using 737-8 aircraft on the route. Nice to see this route return to Cincinnati via Delta, I question if southwest, allegiant, or frontier will try to compete or just end there flights to Phoenix.

Looks like my source was not completely wrong, great to see it will be mainline service though year around. Aircraft sizing will change during off and on season (757,737-9, 737-8) flight will always be early morning 7am with arrival in SEA at 845am. With Amazon beefing up its cargo service here it just makes sense for this route to be year around again.

I been across this bridge in France and its amazing, the idea is good for the situation in the river valley. However, I would think this would get shot down quickly because of the landing approach with the airport runways. Bad enough planes have hit the side of the hill back in the day...

Do we know if Delta is going to be using Skywest E170s for the CVG-AUS flight? Delta/Skywest is using a CRJ700 for the daily flight, with plans to increase to a CRJ900 if demand happens

Yes Hudson Bay can close at anytime now because there lease agreement is dependent upon other major retail nearby.

I would think you all get Condor service to Frankfurt. Condor and Lufthansa are code share partners which means all your United, Star Alliance folks could easily use points and get points by using Condor...

Delta will start Austin service back in May and Seattle service starts back in March. Word around the airport is Delta is looking at Skywest flying an E175 during non peak season to Seattle to bring year around service to the Emerald city. Mainline in the summer and connection in the winter.

If people don't realize that SW is using this as the ultimate test on expanding service at CVG, they must be blind. A seasonal service for one month out west, every plane load percentage will be looked at to determine if west coast service is viable and how many days a week they would want to fly out of Cincinnati. Its like the best way to see if it would be successful or not without throwing a ton of time or money at an experiment.

Delta has finally increased aircraft size in Cincinnati on a number of flights. All the CRJ200 are gone and we are seeing alot more 717 and larger aircraft on flights. I think Delta realized that CVG is a great city to move alot of the midwest traffic through and get over flow east/west coast traffic flights At the time the decision was made, it was probably (as usual) a short term benefit decision that could possibly have appeased shareholders to say "hey we are trying to do something to maintain high profits", but I think they underestimated the ability of their other hubs (particularly Chicago) to absorb the traffic. CLE was never a "big" hub for Continental, but it served a purpose to move around their mid-continent traffic pretty well. I think UA is playing catch-up with Delta (again as usual) and perhaps should have maintained Cleveland the way that Delta maintains Cincinnati airport; it is a hub, but a very small one and can serve to relieve pressure on their larger hubs. I would imagine CVG saw some more connecting traffic this past weekend due to the interruptions in ATL; on my way out of DFW this weekend there were definitely more people waiting for a CVG flight than might usually be seen. I think UA could get their route analysts on the case and restore some limited routes that are crowded out of ORD and have business ties with local origin/destination traffic... relieve some of their on-time/traffic woes in ORD and try and make a little more money at a station they know they are obligated to pay for (Concourse D, anyone) for the next decade. They probably wouldn't even need to obtain any more gates... what they have would probably be more than adequate and they could occasionally use the common use gates if necessary.

When the airport gets new carriers with additional routes, prices drop. Two cities I travel to for work. Chicago use to be 400+ round trip, Tampa 500+ round trip. Now I can fly Delta to Tampa for 300 round trip and Chicago on any legacy carrier for under 170-180 round trip. Do I like frontier? No. but they have helped make the big boys lower their prices. I wouldn't mind either another carrier adding a route to the Northwest or getting Alaska in here. Indy, Pittsburgh, and Nashville have all gained service from Alaska this year alone.

This is a shame considering it would have been good direct competition with Delta to lower their seasonal flight price. I can only hope Alaska quits screwing around and lands here.