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A few years back I took a direct flight from HNL to CVG. Let me tell you, I appreciated the west cost layover on the way there. That was a loooooong flight. The Delta seasonal to HNL we flew a couple of times and it was a miserable flight. First day and half in HNL the family was basically sore and miserable. It was convenient and at least they flew a 767-300 on the route. I think the last time it flew out of CVG was 2010 or so.

Allegiant is great if your schedule is flexible and you have time in case of issues/delays. If the flight out of Cleveland is first thing in the morning to Savannah, I would book it (plane has been at airport overnight). If its later in the afternoon be prepared for possibility of delays. Also try and keep an option b available, just in case they decide to cancel your return flight. It happened to me before.

If they have to and i mean have to rebuild the skywalk, this would be a great basis of design. It be enjoyable to drive under going down central.

Cincinnati has non-stop service to Seattle on Delta currently for $341. Plus Frontier just announced service to Seattle starting Spring of 2018 and with Amazon Prime hub happening at CVG, the airport is in talks with Alaska and Southwest for additional service to Pacific Northwest.

It is an industry number that international carriers look for to determine if there is enough revenue out of a city. If your airport can hit the 10 million mark in a year and hold or continue to gain passengers then you will see airlines start knocking. Even though Austin and New Orleans are more vacation destinations, they didn't get international service til they surpassed the 10 million mark. New Orleans surpassed 10 million in 2015 and Austin did in 2013. Both have multiple international carriers now. That's not entirely true. See Pittsburgh's airport as a prime example of international service with a passenger count below 10 million. Yes but Pittsburgh has given major subsidies and concessions to land Condor and WOW. I mean if the Cleveland business community wants to shell out money, then you will get intl service. It is an ongoing discussion in Cincinnati, we still have Paris and it does well thanks to GE. However we wont see additional routes until our numbers increase or someone in the region wants to guarantee seats on planes. Until then passenger numbers have to get higher at both airports. Norwegian, WOW, etc ULCC international service is targeting medium size cities along the east coast that can create traffic from bargain shoppers not wanting to pay to fly out of JFK PHL BOS etc.

It is an industry number that international carriers look for to determine if there is enough revenue out of a city. If your airport can hit the 10 million mark in a year and hold or continue to gain passengers then you will see airlines start knocking. Even though Austin and New Orleans are more vacation destinations, they didn't get international service til they surpassed the 10 million mark. New Orleans surpassed 10 million in 2015 and Austin did in 2013. Both have multiple international carriers now.

Like in Cincinnati, Cleveland is going to be chasing international routes until passenger counts are higher. Cleveland stands at 8.5 million passengers for 2016. Cincinnati was 7.3 million passengers for 2016. Nashville was 12.9 million for 2016. For either city to be taken seriously on an international route without major subsidies given either city needs to be above 10 million plus passengers a year.

First and foremost I would like to see this get past the historic review board and all the historic building preservation groups. Seems like the design would get held up for awhile with meetings, petitions, holding up the building getting the help it desperately needs. Second, this building at the moment is falling in on itself as we speak. The last owner that removed the brick around the old water tower enclosure punctured the roof of the hotel. They did not repair it and water/weather has been coming in and down through the hotel tower. The building was gutted of all the existing furniture and finishes so it has that going for it. The stack course brick work around the old department store/A&TT center is in really bad condition. When we were proposing ideas for the base building, it was common knowledge that you would have to remove large sections of the brick top to bottom, preserve, place back and re-mortar in any areas that work was to be completed. I do hope something happens with this building sooner than later, but i dont suspect it will happen right away.

In less than two years of sun the Red paint job will look pink and then we would have a pink Taylor Southgate bridge. Nah just keep it white, it needs a new paint job soon.

I have been in this building on a couple of site surveys, The building is so cut up from different users and programs, the floor heights are extremely low that it would have been difficult to reuse the building. The upper floors do not meet any building or fire codes. The original owners looked at a number of scenarios and with the age of the building it would have taken a massive construction overhaul, and an expensive cost to make the building viable on the upper floors. Grant it that the building is historical, but the proposed project will be a nice swap out compared to Joseph's tear it down and build a "park" plan.

Well we are in August, half of summer construction is over and yet this project has yet to break ground. Congrats Cranley on your meddling. Does anyone have information on what is going on with this project, something seems odd that its been very hush hush and no action beyond demolition.

Some others on here would probably like to burn me at the stake but...I would like to see Steiner Development take over the banks. They tend to spend more on designs, and even though there developments look kitschy at times they tend to look better ten and fifteen years down the road. Then what Carter dropped on us with the Radius development at the Banks.

Best news in awhile. Carter was using Preston Partnership out of Atlanta, and they were creating the ugliest ho hum designs for center stage of the city. The Radius at the banks just looks like garbage, hoping future developments surround and block it out of sight. Real question is who would people like to see be the developer? On an aesthetic design going forward someone like Steiner could create quality looking buildings down there. Great to hear about the caps as well.

It just seems more and more like Newport is going to be the overall winner. I know I know so many people on here would boo and hiss at the thought of the soccer stadium in Kentucky, but Bill Butler with Corporex wants to jump start that development, and Campbell County and Newport have been working behind the scenes lately. Plus with the county and city having backs against the wall with the Tea Party anti tax folks it seems like a stadium deal in Cincinnati will become harder to achieve.

As an architect, you will rarely see balconies on an apartment development. They are an insurance nightmare and most developers/owners will just avoid them so they don't have to insure the building for a higher cost. This is because the thought process is most renters are more negligent than a home or condo owner. Therefore they might throw things off the balconies or even have parties beyond maximum capacity on balconies, or worse. Comment about operable windows again goes two fold. One being insurance companies don't like the idea of the exterior being perforated allowing the chance of people falling out, throwing out items, etc. Other being someone could leave windows open, leave for weeks on end and allow the weather to come into the building and cause damage. Both operable windows and balconies are more likely in a condo project than an apartment complex. I am an agreement with you on the parking garage it needs to be finessed. Again it comes down to ROI though and alot of developers will look at what has already been achieved through design and say that is enough. Push comes to shove and things start to become over budget you will start to hear Value engineering pop its ugly head out and those panels you see now might just become horizontal guardrails at every level.

Seems like if they can work a deal out with the Gregory family, this project will break ground. Its interesting to think Novare Group is revisiting the project. Gives me hope that there is still desire from more prominent developers nationally to start working in this city. Might give some of the local guys competition to start upping there game...

Only place in the neighborhood where power lines were buried was in the business district, and even then it was done through the community council and fundraising.

It was spec'd out to be gray, in all documents called out as gray. But end of the day the contractor got a deal on the beige, so who cares what the architect and interior designers wanted for the project... This is way too real. That's why you should always push for Construction Administration when it comes to interior design haha. Otherwise you wind up with that one random element that the contractor gets a "great deal" on and substitutes thinking it won't matter at all. Not realizing all it takes is one weird element to throw off an entire scheme. If you haven't realized in commercial architecture, clients are looking to save money at any turn. Tile color in a guest bathroom isnt a big ROI for a hotel owner. Therefore at the end of the day if beige is cheaper than gray, who cares. It just hurts the reputation of the designers involved when the design is bastardized, not the owner or contractor. There are alot of contractors looking to pad there profits at any turn by finding "cheaper material" most of the time we can deny material at submissions, but they will just run to the owner and get it changed.

It was spec'd out to be gray, in all documents called out as gray. But end of the day the contractor got a deal on the beige, so who cares what the architect and interior designers wanted for the project...

This might be looking into a crystal ball, but looks like US Bank Arena might be getting some upgrades. With the official announcement that US Bank will host the first and second rounds of play in the NCAA basketball tournament in 2022. Can only hope that the arena comes out swinging, so the city isn't an embarrassment in the national spotlight...

Still has this 1970's brutalist jail feel. Not feeling the design, granted these are renderings and final product might look better. Jury is out deliberating on design at this time.

This is what happens when all your tenants are college students, and the parents are paying rent. No one is truly held responsible, so its basically a free for all frat house.

Its Exterior Porcelain Tile. At least it has some color, originally was intended to be white. If they would have left it white we could have called it the "White Castle Hotel" especially with all the notches or battlements along the roof line...

Towne Properties = Bortz Family Bortz Family + John Cranely = FWB Elm Street Development + Cranley appointed board members = approved development design.

Does anyone know anything about this proposal? Seems that I was poking around on Senhauser's website for information on another project came across One River Plaza. I did some more digging and found additional renderings and information. Looks like someone else getting in on the old Montgomery Inn site that was proposed for Skyhouse before they backed out. http://www.senhauserarchitects.com/oneriverplaza.html http://glaserworks.com/portfolio-item/one-river-plaza/