Chas Wiederhold

Mt. Adams should do what other declining neighborhoods do and open up some low rent art gallery/studio spaces.

Welcome off the sidelines, jack. The only way I see development jumping I-75 is some climate catastrophe leading to the resettling of millions of displaced Americans. Yes... Queensgate would be renamed once more: New Miami.

Living downtown/OTR has been critical for me not owning a car for the past 9 years. I pray for some more Zipcars to be added to the Cincinnati fleet (and I've stated it in every survey Zipcar has me fill out). I'd also like to see Car2go. It was not successful in Columbus but I like to think that I would use it so much that it would be successful in Cincinnati.

Sorry for the tinfoil hat, but could this be part of some type of long game? DOTE could be proposing an alternative for Dorchester as it intersects Reading, I-71, and Gilbert? That's not a great intersection as it is.

I just google image search "manhole in sidewalk" and there are plenty of examples. I refuse to let that be the reason they do not put liberty on a diet.

Responding to another thread about this... Converting existing Class-A-B-C(D-E-F-G...) Office into Residential or Hotel is the ONLY way Cincinnati will ever get a new office tower without some out-of-cincinnati corporation moving their HQ's to town. There are way more buildings that should be converted to Residential or Hotel. Textile, Carew, PNC, Cincinnati Bell, that awesome art deco tower at Race and Ogden (name?), all of Hamilton County's downtown buildings except for the Courthouse.

Places a chip on: Hamilton County builds a garage with mixed use development above on Elm and Race, and, a really unique market facing mixed use development surrounding the outdoor stalls on Hazen and Fenwick Alleys. The existing Findlay Park is paved over during the construction to provide temporary Findlay Market parking. While the new development is being built, the city conducts a community engagement process much like the one that was used for Ziegler Park. New garage and development opens, and then the park goes under construction. speculation =/= endorsement

Cincinnati Bell and the parking garage across the street do a tremendous job of sucking the life out of this part of downtown. Hoping that these hotel developments may push the Shillito project forward and continue to move west. Another potential catalyst for this part of downtown is a two-way protected bike lane connecting Central Parkway to the Ohio River Trail. I think Randy Simes proposed this idea a while ago and I think about it all the time, living off Elm and walking and biking to my gym on 4th almost daily.

I want to advocate for some design solutions here like... building the "Future Development." I'm pretty sure that a 6-story development the entire span of Central Parkway from Liberty to Ezzard Charles would GREATLY reduce the dB's, both low and high frequency, in Music Hall. On top of this, there would be an opportunity to add density along a corridor with access to 10 bus lines (1, 6, 16, 20, 21, 46, 49, 64, 67, 78), north and south lines of the Streetcar, and a protected bike lane ALL within 2 blocks. Not only that, but to edale's point on "what about the neighbors" (like me, who lives directly across CP from the stadium site), the Future Development would do what so many in the block between Elm and CP want: block the stadium from view in OTR. I don't disagree, there are MUCH better ways to make a project happen. Still waiting and hoping for a developer to come to Cincinnati who isn't afraid of community input, or rather, knows that community input makes a project BETTER. Wow.

I want to advocate for some design solutions here like... building the "Future Development." I'm pretty sure that a 6-story development the entire span of Central Parkway from Liberty to Ezzard Charles would GREATLY reduce the dB's, both low and high frequency, in Music Hall. On top of this, there would be an opportunity to add density along a corridor with access to 10 bus lines (1, 6, 16, 20, 21, 46, 49, 64, 67, 78), north and south lines of the Streetcar, and a protected bike lane ALL within 2 blocks.

Just so you know, I get a little depressed every time you post and it's not a new drone aerial of the site.

That was the most absurd twitter rant.

They own a quarter circle at the corner where the art bike rack is, but the remainder of the lot is owned by "Jackson Street Interests LLC"

The massing might *look* like Deaconess, but it you look at page 26 of this document, it very clearly shows the building footprints are not the same. She gone. http://res.cloudinary.com/courbanize-production/image/upload/v1/information_plans/gwe4m77dcl7ze043kw7u

I just reached out to a pal of mine who is very involved in CUF Community Council and CHCURC. He told me it's all coming down. He begged them to keep it, but, in his words "no dice." I'm guessing they will halfheartedly reincorporate the medallions into the new building. If I had to place a bet: they are going to make molds from these and then create some sort of cast stone replicas and scatter them through the new development. Kind of like what you see in the development on short vine in how they reincorporated elements from the school they tore down to build the thing where the over-lit Cock and Bull and Taste of Belgium are.

Not putting the casino in the Terrace Plaza was a huge missed opportunity.

So, you're going to send these graphics to a city council member, right?

The Art Academy owns 1217-1225 Walnut Street. That's a 9,000 SF site. If they built as tall as the building they are remodeling, they could add somewhere around 54,000 SF. Their existing property might be around 120,000 SF. So, on their existing site they could accommodate ~174,000 SF. That's not insignificant. As a comparison, the entire DAA-Alms-Aronoff-Wolfson complex is 295,000 SF. As for housing the students, I feel like they could build a dormitory or lease out a building anywhere two blocks from the streetcar and justify it as student housing.

It would appear as if demolition has begun on the west side of the building: https://local12.com/news/local/crews-demolish-the-former-deaconess-hospital-site?fbclid=IwAR0A1OSQoYE_GE_bLxVc7AhjXpQ9NN5MiKStgQ23u2Lg7VAMiERrBmGx1-k While walking to the bus stop on Friday I noticed crews extracting the stone medallions from the facade on the east side of the building. I suppose we can expect to see them reincorporated in the new building. I don’t have confidence that the reincorporation will be tastefully done.

Old St. Mary's lot would be a great location for this. Now that you mention it, the lot at 12th and Clay would also be perfect. The lot at Jackson and 13th would be good. And Jackson and 12th. Each of those lots is around 5,000 SF. The 12th and Hawthorne Food Truck lot in Portland is around 10,000 SF.

I've never been to Austin but I lived in Portland, OR for a little while. Just thinking about WHERE this would be successful... Quick look at a map makes me think the block bound by Vine, 7th, Main, and 8th has the parking lots this idea needs if it's going to be anything like the Alder St. Food Park. However, with this one, and the others in downtown Portland, I always felt like the sidewalks had a thin layer of the biological stew of a kitchen or bar floor after a busy night. (https://goo.gl/maps/8PtpDYeAJUK2) I would prefer something more like what is at 12th and Hawthorne (https://goo.gl/maps/cCGNPgtxTNF2). Greener. Dedicated outdoor seating. Party lights strung from poles. Fun signs. If more people lived and worked around the American Sign Museum, that'd have a great vibe.

I saw a large group of people in the brewery space earlier this week in the evening. They were being led by Brian Jackson on what I could speculate was a project update tour for Model Group or Mortar or both, all and more.

And there was much rejoicing.

Until the Mod's create a separate thread for "Fantastic Smells and Where to Find them: Cincinnati" I'd like to list some of my least favorite smelling places that I experience on my way to the Little Miami Bike Trail from downtown: 1) Caraustar's cardboard recycling plant on Wooster... smells like hot moist stale paper pulp on a good day. 2) Municipal Sewer on Kellogg... well, you can guess what it smells like and the potency and potential for you to be gassed to death while biking on the Carrel St trail is determined by temperature, wind direction, and how good of a week Cincinnati's chili parlors have had.

I'm not reading between the lines here. What is the implication of this?