Chas Wiederhold

A lot of folks don't read the other regional threads and it shows. There is a lot of enthusiasm on the NE Ohio Projects & Construction thread for the potential construction of a new HQ on public square in Cleveland. I would much rather them stay put in Cleveland. What is the incentive to move to Cincinnati? I don't know this for sure, but I can't imagine there being big tax differences between the two cities.

Yes. https://goo.gl/maps/7ixo3e64yCrLqcWv9

I love Cartopia, and you are so right. This spot is perfect for it too. One day, if development pressure comes, it is easy to move. Added bonus. A more upscale version of this is 'Proxy' in Hayes Valley, San Francisco. Good to see this type of development in the Cov.

One block away you can go to Halfcut and Revel. I think it is important to think about how Kroger has been researching what an urban store needs to be. It does not need to be the one-stop, load the car trunk, buy bulk toilet paper store. That, at least, is not how I will be shopping there. I truly believe that they see themselves as part of a downtown ecosystem of businesses. I'm on a lot of NDAs for this project, both from my research work while at DAAP and now in my position at the firm I work at, but I feel secure saying the above.

Townships work pretty well for rural Ohio where the municipal areas are the anomalies. They are Tea Party havens for suburban Ohio. They seem to be nuisances in urban Ohio.

I will be there at 9:30PM for sure. So many times I'm not even thinking of grocery shopping until 8/8:30 and I sprint to Vine Street.

1) On page 201, you can see a concert layout, which is pretty cool. 2) Cell phone tower has got to go! Anyone have any idea what it takes to move one of these guys? 3) If I had the time to attend more of these meetings, I would push, push, push for more trees, especially on the west side of the stadium. All parking lots should be completely shaded by trees. 4) happy to see them preserving the cellars. I am really hoping that translates into a public facing tap room, team shop, restaurant, etc with great halls in the old cellars (haven't seen them, but I'm guessing they are large) 5) I am reluctant to swing my support to changing the protected bike lane BUT a raised bike lane will be MUCH safer. This is what I would do if I could attend more of the meetings/ what I will do if I can build a little coalition of cyclists: get FC Cincinnati to raise the entire protected bike lane from Ludlow all the way to Central and Plum. I'm really interested in swinging the political opposition to this project into political action... get this bike lane to be MORE permanent and make FC Cincinnati pay for it. I could really envision something a lot like Indy's trail along CP. It would be nice. 6) All "Future Development" must be rendered and shown. Jeeze, seeing these surface parking lots are the greatest crimes in my mind. This building is no less ostentatious than Music Hall or Union Terminal, but the surface lots are criminal.

This makes it look like Yard House will be providing concessions based off the location of PBS in the rendering.

I stare at the redundant Gilbert Ave overpass every single day (or did, at least, until we started renovating our office a couple weeks ago) and haven't been able to stop myself from dreaming about the attached trace paper sketches. Who's got millions of dollars and political connections? I have another sketch that incorporates a new Greyhound bus terminal, but I can't find it...

@Phil Those amenity deck shots are unreal!

The northern third of the neighborhood (north of I-71) stands to benefit from Wasson Way, IMO.

Wasson Way gets the connection to Uptown/Pill Hill and Evanston becomes a really choice neighborhood.

I think I’ve drawn this before, but I’m on jury duty and bored to death with a new iPad and want to draw it again. Parking garage under a new Findlay Park just north of the market with an entry aligned with Pleasant. Extend Republic through existing Findlay Playground and infill with affordable housing along New Republic and Vine Street. That’s the idea.

Does anyone know why Liberty "wiggles" between Central and Central Parkway? That has irrationally bothered me for a long time.

Anyone know what's going on with the Heberle Lofts?

Connectivity concerns aside, that is one pretty cool looking building. I was hoping those panels would be some sort of innovative, lightweight concrete pre-cast, but the article makes it sound like they will be metal. Good job MSA Design.

https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/buildings/historic-conservation/historic-conservation-board/august-19-2019-staff-report-and-attachments/ Take a look at 1725 Elm... who would rather have windows in their closet over windows in your bathroom? Seems like an easy switch.

Its siting seems very odd, pushed to the back of the lot. Next time I see Buddy LaRosa at the gym, I'm going to ask, pretty please, if he would move this one shop out of the way, so that this building could be where it should be, at the intersection of Madison and Wasson Way. Not a fan of the architecture.

I think the future will regret tearing this building down and not renovating or restoring it. I say this, first, as someone who thinks architecture tells a story of humanity, second, not as a preservationist but as an environmentalist. It is incredibly wasteful to tear down a 51 year old building.

This can be done well... Philadelphia is a terrible example of a piss-stenched convention center underbelly. Look, instead, at the Washington State Convention Center. It does not suffer as the Philadelphia Convention Center does. https://goo.gl/maps/HM9UTELRSLaK5KFc7

I went by yesterday. She gone.

@Ucgrad2015 do you have a link to where you are reading the letters? I don't see them in the packet I'm looking at.

Atrium skylight, center:

Could have sworn I saw a ticketed ($25 a pop) preview tour event sponsored by Walnut Hills Redevelopment Foundation come up in one of my social media feeds recently. Can't seem to find it now, though.

It's good to hear that 3CDC is offering up some sort of land transfer agreement. People like growing their own food in close proximity to their home. Within their own neighborhood. Nobody who rents a plot in a community garden in OTR is going out to Goshen to tend to their veggies.