Chas Wiederhold

Exactly. Don't touch it. Come up with a plan for the future. And I should add: PAR is already moving forward an Arts Complex for the neighborhood and my suggestions here are not invalidating what they have going on. I'm they type of person who will fight for everything we can get in the way of community benefits.

I don't think we need to figure that part out right away. I would prefer to be an arts complex that an arts organization operates, like the Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami. Closest relatives to that project in Cincinnati would be the CCAC, Kennedy Heights Art Center, and Baker Hunt. http://www.bacfl.org/ourmission

It doesn't cost a dime to not tear down the building.

I just posted this in Only in Northside, but to get this audience's reaction I'm just going to paste without rewriting here: I didn't attend the community council meeting last night, but I did catch a glimpse at the plan for Dane and Knowlton. I am so excited that a program like Scholar House wants to build one of their residences in Northside. I am excited about their mission and I think it is a noble project. I don't bring this up to make the development of the site more difficult or costly... but to what point do we want to breathe new life into Northside's remaining historic industrial buildings? These buildings might fade to the background or even be an eyesore for some, but an imaginative eye could imagine a vibrant community arts center, a vendor market, an event space, coexisting on the Scholar House site. What happens to this building when it has new windows and a fresh paint job? How would it benefit Scholar House residents and their neighbors? I ask this question because just by rotating the current development plan, you can see that these two projects can coexist. Is there a will in our community to imagine something like this?

Is there more recent analysis on the CBA signed by the City and FCC since this? https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/i-team/analysis-how-community-benefits-agreement-between-fcc-west-end-compares-to-other-mls-teams I think most of my sarcasm/what took the joy out of my support for FCC was the less than ideal CBA process which has become a repetitive story in Cincinnati. It was not long ago that Yvette Simpson stood up for community benefits in Avondale and got the villain edit from Jason Williams' political reality TV show of a column. If FCC and The West End had a good faith CBA, I would not be nearly as cynical about the team... I might have even renewed my season tickets.

Thousands!

Would be very cool and useful for folks in New/North Oakley who work in Norwood (and especially those who would work or play at the US Playing Card Development). Creating something like Gasworks Park (Seattle) in front of the Waterworks would create a nice destination between the two developments and give additional purpose to the mixed use path.

There will be a bridge over I-71 that I couldn't imagine would have any further rail use once Graphite is completed in Oakley. It's a bit away from the US Playing Card site, but does offer an opportunity for connectivity between US Playing Card, Graphite, and Oakley Yard. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1662297,-84.4347383,236a,35y,186.19h,65.46t/data=!3m1!1e3

Wow, the way that hill is just cleaved off is disturbing.

Are there 7 different materials on this one building? Oy.

Alas. I think you could get COVID-19 there WAY before last November. I kid, I kid. I've had a lot of terrible good times at Daniels and will be sad to see it go. Looks like now I'll just have to make my own Flaming Dr. Peppers and risk burning my own bar down.

I have a similar relationship to him. Designing building as diagram!? Who would have thought it!? Yes! Yes IS more! (except Rem had thought it) Today... being architecture's face of the green-washed techno-fascist dude-bro persona, I just can't with him. And it's hard to praise someone you don't like even if their work is good. This is what Bjark does with a triangular urban site (look at the condos at the base not the tower) : https://big.dk/#projects-van

Tell the clients to pay for GBBN's Chinese stuff in Cincinnati! Haha. I'll pass it along. To be serious though, there is some very good work here. I love the Hilltop Concrete Project. I was so proud to see Luis Sabater Musa and Alex Gormley's project in there as I went to undergrad with Alex and to grad school a year behind them both. They are incredibly talented and I'm happy they have found someone to commission them. Love Terry Boling's Elm Street home, especially that patio! It looks completely secluded but on the other side of that steel wall is the Findlay Market parking lot. Hub + Weber's Train Viewing Platform rocks. It's contemporary but it also looks like it's been there for 150 years.

Bjarke Ingles is too busy "redesigning the planet" and "hanging out with fascists" to design anything in little ole Cincinnati.

Check out this year's Cincinnati Design Awards video. A lot of renderings of proposed and unbuilt projects. Some final photos of Cincinnati's newest buildings.

Only thing I like about the NEW historic infill guidelines is explicit language suggesting that buildings should not be faux historic. In that case, 1713 Main Street would not be approved because of its faux historic window ornament. Outside of that... if I were the architect for that triangle lot, I would have a lot of fun trying to create something contextual contemporary. The proposed design squanders a lot of possibilities.

Thanks for sharing the map @ryanlammi. I had fun making it. Thoughts on annexation: I don't know what would begin that kind of conversation, but if it even happened I would imagine if Elmwood Place, St. Bernard, and Norwood were to become part of the City of Cincinnati, then you would see a lot of folks expand their home search to those places, really changing the politics.

Hahaha... I'm an acquaintance of someone who I've seen working on it and I can confirm!

Just a couple updates from my evening run yesterday... Rock Island's Knowlton Station has risen above its deep foundations: Greyrock's Cherry Street Project has popped its top and has been reclad.

Or for some grungy Northside graffiti to make the building really fit into the neighborhood. For real, though, the building is a single loaded corridor (you can see the floor plan on the roof)... so at most you are going to get south facing windows in the hallways and stairwell, but no balconies on that side. I had originally written in my survey that it would be great for Vandalia to be pedestrianized and for storefronts to open onto it to create a little ecosystem with Collective Espresso's courtyard. Maybe there is still an opportunity for that. I agree with this. I also wish that the roof of the remaining historic building would be public, but it looks like it may be an amenity deck for residents. In any case, I wish the canopy over the roof deck would extend for the entire footprint of the building, giving the building an entire covered outdoor public space. I don't see why the building on the corner couldn't be taller unless it has to do with parking requirements... in which case I would go for a variance because of the proximity of the transit center.

John 11:35

Under a Joe Biden New Deal (it's taboo to say Green New Deal in these parts, apparently), I would organize a push to make a light rail/streetcar line extend from downtown on Daulton/Spring Grove Avenue, through Queensgate, Camp Washington, Northside, Spring Grove Village, to Ivorydale, transition to something a bit faster there and follow the old commuter line to Elmwood Place, Wyoming, Woodlawn, Glendale, Springdale and on to Hamilton and beyond. In Northside, you would get a big push for redeveloping everything on and in between the Mill Creek and Spring Grove Avenue. The neighborhood would push hard to make it something much much better than sprawled out Oakley car-oriented urbanism. The main station in Northside would be at the narrowest point between Spring Grove and Dooley creating a pretty substantial transit hub with 8 bus lines intersecting with a streetcar/light rail both north and south.

I'm interested to see a 7-story building get argued for the Boys and Girls Club site. If HCB allows it, which I think they should, it could open up the possibility for higher density along the east side of Central Parkway which is something I have argued for publicly in front of HCB. This section is part of the historic district, but could definitely handle far more density then whatever the in-limbo infill guidelines are proposing.

I love the new station, art, and the historic information. I think the architecture is aspirational. I don't *love* stencil typeface but it doesn't offend me enough to complain. My fiancee said, "It kind of looks like a gas station... I don't mean that in a bad a way. It looks like a really nice gas station I wouldn't be afraid to go to by myself".

In my survey response, I suggested turning Vandalia into a Pedestrian only street between Apple and Hamilton. Only posting here so that others might also consider the idea.